American cartoons презентация

The history of American cartoons started in 1914. Earlier, in 1906, James Stuart Blackton had made some experiments drawing moving pictures. But he couldn’t create a full cartoon character with it’s own feelings and emotions…

Only Winsor Mccay could do that. In 1914 cinemas showed his film “Gertie the Dinosaur”. It was a comedy about two friends who made a bet. One of them (Mccay played him) was sure that it’s possible to make brontosaurus alive. So he drew a cartoon about this animal and won his bet. This “cartoon in a film” was a first American cartoon with a unique character

Felix the cat was the first famous character of the American multiplication. It was a black-white cat with human’s arms and legs. First he was showed in the mute “Feline Follies” cartoon.

Felix was a hero of a lot of strange, surrealistic and funny situation. In all of cartoons he faces with unfriendly world. He becomes a winner because of his good luck and ability to make a good plan in a short time. Some people called him “Cartoon’s Charlie Chaplin”

In 1928 Felix faced with his main concurrent, who had to become the most famous cartoon hero. Walt Disney drew a cartoon “Steamboat Willie”. It was the first sounded cartoon in American history

“Steamboat” had a very important detail: a sound. If Pat Sullivan – the Felix’s “father” – was concentrated only in a hero and his adventures, Disney added a new character: a music, which helped to understand feelings and emotions of a steamboat team and make a cartoon more alive.

“Steamboat Willie” was the first cartoon of Disney’s golden era. After that world saw a lot of cartoons about Mickey, his friends and other people and animals. All of them had a lot of music, the real difference between “good” and “bad” heroes and a happy-end.

The Disney's version of a legend about the Ratcather from Hameln can show the typical Cartoon of this era. The mayor and the Ratcather are communicating using only songs, the face of the Mayor (who is a main antihero) is very unpleasant. Moreover, at the end Ratcather lead children to the happy country of sweets, not to cave in mountains as in original

In the middle of century American Multiplication born new heroes. They were more cynic, impudent and, maybe, violent, than Disney’s characters, but more clever. They could analyze situation and win not because good luck, but because their mind. The most famous characters of this time was Bugs Bunny (warner Brothers)

Woody Woodpecker was similar enough with Bugs Bunny. Both of them were harmful, bothersome and clever. On the other hand, Woody was less calm and more happy, crazy and cheerful.

The first full-length cartoon of Walt Disney was «Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs». Before that world saw full-length cartoon, but in these films was absence of sound and color picture. All of us know famous story about Snow White, which was work of Brothers Grimm. When Disney was a child, he was seen short silent cartoon about Snow White. This film was inspired young genius.

What is secret of success of that cartoon? It was innovation in cinematic art. We each know that famous plot from childhood, so talk about it not necessary.

Full-length cartoons of Disney often name «family films». Sympathy not only young viewers, but their parents pulverize fawn from the film «Bambi». In June 2008, the American Film Institute presented a list of its "10 Top 10"—the best ten films in each of ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Bambi placed third in animation.

Famous «Tom and Jerry» is an American animated series of short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It centers on a rivalry between its two title characters, Tom, a cat, and Jerry, a mouse, and many recurring characters, based around slapstick comedy.

The cartoons about cat and mouse are known for some of the most violent cartoon gags ever devised in theatrical animation such as Tom using everything from axes, hammers, firearms, firecrackers, explosives, traps and poison to kill Jerry. Because of this, Tom and Jerry has often been criticized as excessively violent. Despite the frequent violence, there is no blood or gore in any scene

Another famous cartoon that film production company is «Scooby-Doo». Each of these episodes features Scooby and the four teenage members of Mystery, Inc., Fred, Shaggy, Daphne and Velma, arriving at a location in the Mystery Machine, a van painted with psychedelic colors and flower power imagery. This film started development of detective cartoons.

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated epic musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, released by Walt Disney Pictures and saved Disney’s traditions. It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film, and the fifth animated film produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in «the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress» as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Themes, which show this cartoon, is very important either for children or for adults

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition. Since its debut on December 17, 1989, 637 episodes of «The Simpsons» have been broadcast. Its 29th season began on October 1, 2017. It is the longest-running American sitcom

Beavis and Butt-Head is an American adult animated sitcom. The show centers on two socially incompetent teenage delinquents, Beavis and Butt-Head (both voiced by Judge), who go to school at Highland High in Highland, Texas. They have no apparent adult supervision at home, are dim-witted, under-educated and barely literate. Both lack any empathy or moral scruples, even regarding each other. They will usually deem things they encounter as "cool" if they are associated with heavy metal, violence, sex, destruction or the macabre

In these cartoons important and classical themes gave away. They was created for mass market, so there are we can see low-level animation and humor.

After that appeared new high level in animated cartoon in «Pixar Animation Studios». All of us know cartoons of this animation studio: «Toy Story», «Monsters, Inc.», «Finding Nemo», The Incredibles, «Cars», «Ratatouille», «WALL-E», «Up», «Сoco» etc.
We can see new themes about love, friendship, help, kindness, death, family values, morals, inside beauty of human, happiness and etc.

Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated buddy comedy adventure film. The directorial debut of John Lasseter, Toy Story was the first feature-length computer-animated film and the first feature film produced by Pixar. The website's critical consensus reads, "Entertaining as it is innovative, Toy Story reinvigorated animation while heralding the arrival of Pixar as a family-friendly force to be reckoned with."

The last film of «Pixar» is “Coco”. This film shake to the core. Very pleasant, instructive and warm cartoon. The story follows a 12-year-old boy named Miguel Rivera who is accidentally transported to the land of the dead, where he seeks the help of his deceased musician great-great-grandfather to return him to his family among the living. The concept for Coco is based on the Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead. The website's critical consensus reads, "Coco's rich visual pleasures are matched by a thoughtful narrative that takes a family-friendly—and deeply affecting—approach to questions of culture, family, life, and death." It was the site's highest-rated animated film and ninth highest-rated wide release of 2017

American multiplication had a long history from “Gertie” to era of Pixar. Thanks to Disney’s full length cartoons today they became more kind and full of feelings. On the other hand, today we can see a trend to make money from multiplication. The most popular “Pixar” cartoons are made by one scheme (lonely hero is meeting real friends). Other popular cartoons as Simpsons or South Park are very cynic, violent and sarcastic: they are playing on a market of adults. The golden era of Disney was a time of the most kind, emotionally hard and deep cartoons. This trend was continuing some time after Disney’s death, but later cartoons became more typical and humoristic because of asking of market