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List Of Animated Feature Films Before 1940
A list of animated feature films released prior to 1940. Key: References External links Animated films from 1915 to 1939 listed in the IMDb {{DEFAULTSORT:Animated films 1930 1910 Events January * January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military. * January 8 – By the Treaty of Punakha, t ... 1910s in animation 1920s in animation 1930s in animation Lists of 1910s films by genre Lists of 1920s films by genre Lists of 1930s films by genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinto Colvig
Vance DeBar Colvig Sr. (September 11, 1892 – October 3, 1967), known professionally as Pinto Colvig, was an American voice actor, cartoonist, and circus and vaudeville performer whose schtick was playing the clarinet off-key while mugging. Colvig was the original performer of the Disney characters Goofy and Pluto, as well as Bozo the Clown and Bluto in ''Popeye''. In 1993, he was posthumously made a Disney Legend for his contributions to Walt Disney Films, including ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and ''Fun and Fancy Free''. Early life Colvig was born Vance DeBar Colvig in Jacksonville, Oregon, the youngest of seven children of William Mason "Judge" Colvig (1845–1936) and his wife, Adelaide ( Birdseye) Colvig (1856–1912). William Colvig was a pioneer, an attorney and a distinguished Oregonian; he was never actually a judge. Pinto attended but did not graduate from Medford High School. Pinto was accepted and attended, sporadically from 1910 to 1913, Oregon State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosfilm
Mosfilm (, ''Mosfil’m'' , initialism and portmanteau of Moscow Films) is a film studio in Moscow which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production '' Dersu Uzala'' () and '' War and Peace'' (). History The Moscow film production company with studio facilities was established in November 1920 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of Goskino, the USSR's film monopoly. The first movie filmed by Mosfilm was ''On the Wings Skyward'' (directed by Boris Mikhin). In 1927, the construction of a new film studio complex began on Potylikha Street (renamed to Mosfilmovskaya Street in 1939) in Sparrow Hills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Diehl
Diehl Film, otherwise known as Diehl Bros. Film or the Diehl Brothers, was a filmmaking business organized by brothers , , and . Technique The Diehl brothers were filmmakers in Munich who were known for their stop motion fairy-tale movies and their most famous character, a hedgehog named Mecki. Mecki's popularity in Germany created licensing deals for the filmmakers and the character's success and popularity has been compared to Mickey Mouse. The work of the brothers has included silhouette, stop motion, and puppet techniques. They made cartoons, "cultural films", and advertisement films as well as television shows. Hermann Diehl designed and carved puppets for the enterprise. Their studio was in the Gräfelfing neighborhood. Filmography * The Seven Ravens (1937) *Storming of a Medieval City Circa 1350 *The Race Between the Hare and the Hedgehog (1938) *Dornröschen (circa 1942) *''Der Flaschenteufe'' (1952, adaptation of ''The Bottle Imp "The Bottle Imp" is an 1891 sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seven Ravens (film)
''The Seven Ravens'' () is a German stop motion-animated fairy tale film directed by the Diehl brothers ( Diehl Film). It was released in Germany on 2 December 1937. The film is notable for being an animated feature film based on a Grimm brothers' fairy tale of the same name, premiering only a few weeks before Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. In that respect it is often cited as one of the first animated feature films. Plot A jester greets the audience and requests that they relax and enjoy the story of ''The Seven Ravens''. During springtime, a peasant girl is fetching water from the village well when she overhears some neighbours gossiping about her, blaming her for the loss of her brothers. Having grown up believing she is her parents' only child, the girl runs home and asks her mother if she does have any siblings; the girl's mother reluctantly confesses to having had seven other children before her, all of them boys. When the girl's father comes home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technicolor
Technicolor is a family of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black-and-white films running through a special camera (3-strip Technicolor or Process 4) started in the early 1930s and continued through to the mid-1950s, when the 3-strip camera was replaced by a standard camera loaded with single-strip "monopack" color negative film. Technicolor Laboratories were still able to produce Technicolor prints by creating three black-and-white matrices from the Eastmancolor negative (Process 5). Process 4 was the second major color process, after Britain's Kinemacolor (used between 1909 and 1915), and the most widely used color process in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Technicolor's #Process 4: Development and introduction, three-color process became known and cele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hand (animator)
David Dodd Hand (January 23, 1900 – October 11, 1986) was an American animator and animation filmmaker known for his work at Walt Disney Productions. He worked on numerous Disney shorts during the 1930s and eventually became supervising director on the animated features ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and ''Bambi''. Biography Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Hand began his animation career working on Max Fleischer's '' Out of the Inkwell'' cartoons throughout the 1920s. He joined the Disney studio in 1930 during a major drive by Disney to recruit from the best of animating talent. Hand immediately made his mark as an animator. By 1932 he was regarded as one of the studio's top animators (despite some complaints that his work was "too mechanical") and had become a close friend of Disney himself. Hand's organizational skills made Disney select him to be the studio's third director after Burt Gillett and Wilfred Jackson. He made his directorial debut for the company with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred Jackson
Wilfred Emmons Jackson (January 24, 1906 – August 7, 1988) was an American animator, arranger, musical arranger and film director, director best known for his work with The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Productions. Jackson joined Walt Disney Productions in 1928 as a volunteer washing Cel, animation cels. He was soon promoted to an animator and was instrumental in developing the Mickey Mousing technique, which synchronized the music and action for ''Steamboat Willie'' (1928). He was then made the director for the ''Mickey Mouse'' and ''Silly Symphonies'' cartoon series, of which he directed the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Academy Award-winning short films: ''The Tortoise and the Hare (film), The Tortoise and the Hare'' (1935), ''The Country Cousin'' (1936), and ''The Old Mill'' (1937). His feature film directorial debut was ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937). Jackson next worked as a sequence director for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Gillett
Burton F. Gillett (October 15, 1891 – December 28, 1971) was a Film director, director of animation, animated films. He is noted for his Silly Symphonies work for Walt Disney Pictures, Disney, particularly the 1932 short film ''Flowers and Trees'' and the 1933 short film ''Three Little Pigs (film), Three Little Pigs'', both of which were awarded the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and both of which were selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Early life He was born in Elmira, New York. His animation career started around 1916 when he was employed by the International Film Service, an early animation studio under the ownership of William Randolph Hearst and the supervision of Gregory La Cava. The studio had been formed in 1915 and first employed experienced animators Frank Moser (artist), Frank Moser and Bill Nolan (animator), William Nolan. Within a year the veterans had been joined by several new recruits. Gillett was probably recruited along with notab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award Review Of Walt Disney Cartoons
''Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons'' is an American animated package film released in the United States on May 19, 1937, for a limited time to help promote the upcoming release of ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. It was a collection of five Oscar-winning ''Silly Symphonies'' shorts, bridged together with title cards and a narrator.The Academy Award Review Of Walt Disney Cartoons SF078-0070 accessed on 25 May 2009. Like '''', each of the cartoons had been released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislas Starevich
Ladislas Starevich (, ; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film '' The Beautiful Leukanida'' (1912). He also used dead insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Following the Russian Revolution, Starevich settled in France. Early career Władysław Starewicz was born in Moscow to ethnic PolishRay Harryhausen. Tony Dalton. ''A Century of Model Animation: From Méliès to Aardman''. 2008. Watson-Guptill. p. 44. parents from present-day Lithuania. His father, Aleksander Starewicz, was from Surviliškis near Kėdainiai and his mother, Antonina Legęcka, from Kaunas. Both belonged to lesser nobility and were in hiding after the failed January Uprising against the Tsarist Russian domination. Due to his mother's death, he was raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then the capital of Kaunas Governorate within the Russian Empire. He attended Gymnasium in Dorpat (today Tart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of The Fox
''The Tale of the Fox'' (, , ) was stop-motion animation pioneer Ladislas Starevich's first fully animated feature film. The film is based on the tales of Renard the Fox. Although the animation was finished in Paris after an 18-month period (1929–1930), there were major problems with adding a soundtrack to the film. Finally, funding was given for a German soundtrack by the UFA—Goethe had written a classic version of the Renard legend—and this version had its premiere in Berlin in April 1937. Released eight months before Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', it is the world's sixth-ever animated feature film (and the third surviving animated film, as well as the second to use puppet animation, following ''The New Gulliver'' from the USSR). The film was released in France with a French language soundtrack in 1941; this is the version which is currently available on DVD. Plot In the kingdom of animals, the fox Renard is used to tricking and fooling everyone. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
