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File: How Animated Cartoons Are Made (1919).webm
Author: John Randolph Bray, Wallace Carlson
Publisher: Bray Productions
Year: 1919
PD: PD/US|1978
Note: Wallace Carlson, an animator for Bray Studios, demonstrates how cel animation was done for the early cartoons of the silent era.
Cat: Cartoons, Documentary film
00:02
The Magazine on the Screen
HOW ANIMATED
CARTOONS ARE MADE.
by
Wallace Carlson
of the Bray Studios
Process Patented by Bray-Hurd Process Co.
PUBLISHED BY
THE BRAY STUDIOS, INC.
COPYRIGHT 1919
00:17
This is Mr. Wallace Carlson. He'll show you through the Bray Studios.
00:29
"The first thing to do is to get an O.K. on the scenario."
00:47
J.R.BRAY
PRIVATE
00:50
"Do you mind waiting here a few moments while I see Mr. Bray? Thank you."
01:18
He says, "It's great. But it needs a little refinement."
01:46
"Scenes number forty-one and forty-two are the simplest, so we'll do them first."
01:57
[...] acts.
Scene No. 41:- Dudd finds himself in trouble and Mamie suggests a way out.
Scene No. 42:- Dudd's dog suddenly goes mad and unwittingly spoils the match.
Scene No. 43:- Realizing that he is no better off-Dudd decides to visit his friend, the village Peanut [...]
02:43
"We've got to get Dud into the picture. This is how I do it."
03:09
"This is how we'll make him talk."
03:31
"By placing the heads one by one on Dud's shoulders, he will appear to be talking."
04:00
"The faster this is done, the more realistic the effect."
04:08
GEE! I JUST BUSTED A WINDOW! GOSH — I HOPE I DON'T GET PINCHED
04:23
"Now to make the dog mad."
04:29
[...] acts.
Scene No. 41:- Dudd finds himself in trouble and Mamie suggests a way out.
Scene No. 42:- Dudd's dog suddenly goes mad and unwittingly spoils the match.
Scene No. 43:- Realizing that he is no better off-Dudd decides to visit his friend, the village Peanut [...]
04:51
IS OO UM'S LOVEY OODLES?
04:55
"Naturally, the effect would be this."
05:16
"After all the necessary drawings are made——"
05:50
"We put them under the camera to be photographed."
06:14
"Every sixteenth turn of the handle produces a long foot of cartoonnearly always."
06:44
Forty-eight hours later.
07:07
"After the film is developed and printed, the cartoon is projected for criticism."
07:30
GEE! I JUST BUSTED A WINDOW! GOSH — I HOPE I DON'T GET PINCHED
07:41
NEVER MIND DUD!
07:48
TH' COP WHAT'S ON THIS BEAT IS GONNA MARRY OUR SERVANT
08:04
IS OO UM'S LOVEY OODLES?
08:16
LIGHT
08:18
A HICKORY LIMB AS I LIVE!
08:50
"STOP."
08:58
"A woman with a wooden leg doesn't run that way."
09:16
"All right, we'll fix that."
09:33
"Just as soon as we correct that 'run' and do the other sixty-two scenes, we'll be glad to have you see the picture."