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UPA and TV

It was the involvement of United Productions of America (UPA) that helped to the birth of unique minimalist style of animation. This can seen from the cartoons that they had produced. The kind of animation that they made was different from what Disney had done. Some examples are “Gerald Mcboing-boing” (1950) and “Rooty Toot Toot” (1951)

Furthermore, propaganda animation was also widely used and it was different from other animation by its’ artistic kind of expression to the people. The propaganda animation will always show in a darker background, a more mature style of illustration and the messenge of the animation was not express directly for the young children to understand.

It was later in the 40s when animation made a major shift to TV. It helped in not only saving lots of money and ensured a time delivery of animation. From what I have learnt for this week, it was the influence of the movement of society that changed the style of animation that people have always produced. It was the effect of propaganda and the UPA that pushed the animation to a wider range for the public to watch.

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It's all about Disney...

It’s really all about Disney.

In week two, I was introduced to Walt Disney. Not saying that I have not watch a single one of them, but rather I was introduced to the history of Walt Disney. Way in the 1923, Walt Disney and with the help of Ub Iwerk, made their first two cartoons, “Alice comedies” and “Osward the Lucky Rabbit.”

Alice comedies was a mixture of live-action and animated cartoon produced by Ub Iwerk and Walt Disney. The cartoon was simple and funny. It tells the story of how Alice and her cat, Julius won over their opponents in a hot air-balloon competition. However, one controversy about this cartoon was the design of the cat, Julius. Julius, the cat resemble exactly like the cat in Felix the cat. This can also be seem in the latter stage of Walt Disney’s cartoons where they recreated the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit into Mickey Mouse.

From the techinques of how people in the past creating the cartoon were different from what we are watching now. Cartoons in the late 20s used many bubble dialogues in the show expressing sounds like “boo”, “boom” and even talking. These expressions can be seems in cartoons like the Alice comedies and even in Mickey Mouse series.

Color cartoon was later introduced to the world. It was by the use of Technicolor to create these color cartoons. Disney made their first color cartoon, Flowers and Trees in the 1931. Follow by the Three Little Pigs in 1933 and their first Mickey Mouse film in color cartoon in 1935.

From this part of the stage, we can see how cartoons has evolved from a black and white film to the usage of technology by adding colors to it. This has not only show that the world is changing, but the technology at that time was also advanced enough to bring the cartoons to a higher quality. People no longer needed to imagine the color of the cartoons, but was catered to them with the use of Technicolor after the early 30s.

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