Friday 16 October 2015

Animated Cartoons

Animated Cartoons:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;


Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs was best known for the worlds first full-length animation feature and one of the first animation that Walt Disney created during his career. 


The film was featured by Walt Disney on December 21, 1937 and released in theatres by the RKO Radio Pictures on February 8th, 1938. In America Snow white was the first achieved animation featured. which included a beautiful girl called Snow White, Seven Dwarfs named; Doc, Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, Brighton, Happy and Bashful and of cause they prince Charming and Evil Queen. It was also classed as the most successful motion picture of the year of 1938.

Fleischer Brothers;

The Fleischer brother Max (July 19, 1889 - Sept 11, 1972) and Dave (July 14, 1894 0 June 15,1979) where american and are famous for creating two of the famous animation characters. Betty Boop and Popeye.


The brothers were known as Walt Disney's greatest Rivals. In 1921 Max and Dave opened their own studio and the studio soon entered the sound era in 1929 which was in order to compete with Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928). From animations like Betty Boop the Fleischer Brothers cartoons where best known for urban, gritty, dark and mainly obsessed with and death. 

In 1939 the bothers started working on a few animations to catch up with Walt Disney as he was extremely popular with snow white. It was called Gulliver's Travels.



During their career the brother worked on various projects. For example after returning to New York Max started working on different bray projects including some like the very early theatrical Koko films. Also the brothers were also known for partening up with different people like Lee DeForest where they worked n cartoon using sound. The cartoon was named 'My old Kentucky house' which was released in 1926. The cartoon was created two years before one of Walt Disney's famous cartoons 'Steamboat Willie'.

In 1929 the Fleischer Brothers studio made a major agreement with another famous animation company 'Paramount' who would distribute all of their films. It was the same year that the studio originally found its name.

Years later in 1941 the brothers finally decided to create one of the best known superheroes which is still around to day 'Superman'. Superman was nominated for the Academy Award and was and still is featured as one of the top 50 greatest cartoons of the time.

After all these years the Fleischer Brothers Studio is still alive because of some of the legend cartoons like Betty Boop and Superman and still will be in years to come.




References;

The Disney Wiki. (n/a). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Available: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs. 

The Fleischer Studios. (n/a). History. Available: http://www.fleischerstudios.com/history.html.

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