A History of Animation

By nancy pacheco

  • Feluix The Cat

    Feluix The Cat
    -Felix was the first character from animation to attain a level of popularity sufficient to draw movie audiences.
    -Pat Sullivan, owner of the Felix character

  • Steamboat Willie

    Steamboat Willie
    -The film is also notable for being one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound
    -American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
    -It was produced in black-and-white by the Walt Disney Studios and released by Celebrity Productions.
    -The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse

  • Donald Duck

    Donald Duck
    -well known for hes voice
    -Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and irritable personality.
    -His distinctive voice was created by Clarence Nash
    -Donald Duck rose to fame with his comedic roles in animated cartoons
    -Donald's first appearance was in The Wise Little Hen

  • Tweety

    Tweety
    -Tweety is male
    -in the animated series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, and in the film-short Bad Ol' Putty Tat tries to trick Tweety using a fake female bird
    -On the other hand, a 1951 cartoon was entitled "Ain't She Tweet." Also, his species is ambiguous; although originally and often portrayed as a young canary

  • Bambi

    Bambi
    -For the movie, Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi's species into a white-tailed deer from his original species of roe deer, since roe deer
    -the best ten films in each of ten classic American film genres

  • 101 Dalmations

    101 Dalmations
    -It is the first Disney animated feature that is presumed to take place in the year it was made
    -based on the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith

  • Winnie the Pooh

    Winnie the Pooh
    -is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne
    -became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.
    -The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner

  • The Lion King

    The Lion King
    -The story takes place in a kingdom of lions in Africa, and was influenced by the biblical tales of Joseph and Moses, and the Shakespeare plays Hamlet and Macbeth.

  • Mulan

    Mulan
    -American animated musical action-comedy-drama film directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook -Mulan was the first of three features produced primarily at the Disney animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida

  • Cars

    Cars
    -is Pixar's final, independently-produced motion picture before its purchase by Disney. Set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles
    -It was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film