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[rone]

wacky_hijinx shared this YouTube clip of a Little Nemo animation that, despite being nearly 100 years old, is pretty damn awesome.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Winsor McCay was awe-inspiring even when what he was drawing was a stupid editorial-page cartoon (http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/mccay.htm).

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Winsor McCay was pretty awesome.

I really like Gertie the Dinosaur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4), too...

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Having spent the last couple days at a conference on a/v media preservation and digitization, I'm curious what material this animation is on and how it got on to youtube.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

IIRC, McCay drew this and Gertie frame by frame on paper (he must have kicked himself a few years later when animation on cels was developed-- notice on Gertie how everything including all the backgrounds was redrawn for every damn frame). The color version was hand colored by McCay on the frames of the motion picture film-- not mass produced at the time, we're just fortunate that the personal color version that McCay used as part of his appearances on Vaudeville survived.

These came out on VHS back in the 1980s.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if the part of this with the moving funhouse-mirror distortions had been done using some sort of anamorphic optical technique. I suppose he could have also been hand-reproducing a drawing with a superimposed grid, onto a regularly distorted grid. Knowing McCay's work, it's clear that a technique simply being incredibly labor-intensive would not be a deal-breaker.

[epileptikitty.livejournal.com]

Was this color work on primitive film at the time? It looks it. Actual tintable color film has been around forever, filming onto it was the breakthrough in the late '30s.

The coloring does look original. At that time this type of Sunday comic was done for one paper only, not syndicated. McKay and the plant supervisor stayed up all Saturday night monitoring the colors during the print runs. This is why they are so beautiful: the readers got it that gorgeous in print.

great catch

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

thanxs.