The First Circus (1921)
Two animations by Tony Sarg: one an untitled film critiquing the Prohibition of the 20s via the medium of drunk monkeys, the other a series of humorous scenes depic…more
Animation
Humorous Phases Of Funny Faces (1906)
A short animation created by Anglo-American film producer James Stuart Blackton which proved hugely influential in the development of animated films in America….more
The Centaurs, a Fragment (1921)
The only surviving fragment of Winsor McCay’s now lost The Centaurs, produced in 1921 by Rialto Productions….more
Mary and Gretel (1917)
A fairy brings two dolls to life, part of a short lived stop-motion puppet series by animator Howard S. Moss, described as Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of E…more
Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (1908)
An animated film by French caricaturist, cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn animation, and considered by many fil…more
Just Imagine (1947)
Film using stop animation shows the character “Tommy Telephone” (the AT&T advertising “spokescreature” at the time) making a telephone by assembling 433 sep…more
Clay animations of Jospeh Sunn (1926)
From the Prelinger Archive – two early clay animations (The Penwiper and Green Pastures) by pioneering Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn from San Fransisco. T…more
Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly (1919)
Max Fleischer (1883–1972) was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated character…more
Gulliver’s Travels (1939)
1939 cel-animated Technicolor feature film directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios, based upon the Lilliputian adventures of …more
The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
From Edison films catalog: “Upon a large sheet of white paper a cartoonist is seen at work rapidly sketching the portrait of an elderly gentleman of most comical …more
Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932)
Minnie the Moocher defined Betty’s character as a teenager of a modern era, at odds with the old world ways of her parents. In the cartoon, after a disagreement w…more
Gertie The Dinosaur (1914)
Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 American animated short film by Winsor McCay. Although not the first animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon …more