The long history of animated movies
Picture is copied from Dan-Dare.Org.
Do you know (or maybe love) Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, or Popeye? How about Felix the Cat, or Woody Woodpecker? Betty Boop perhaps? One thing for sure: they’re all very old and famous animation characters – but not just for kids.
Again, according to Wikipedia, the history of animation has begun since a very long time ago actually. It has been found in the Greek era, during the Persian era, and even believed already started when some paleolithic men drew their cave paintings.
But the first recognised animated feature film was El Apostol, created by Quirino Cristiani from Argentina. Since then, there has been lots of development on this genre, including the raise of studios like Disney, MGM, Warner Bros, Hanna-Barbera etc, who produced masses of animation movies.
Lately, people would probably more familiar with modern animated movies such as the Lion King, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Bee Movies, Ratatouille, or even one of this year’s hits, Kung Fu Panda. And there are surely more to come, since this kind of genre seems to be loved by so many people.
The Academy Awards has its own appreciation toward the movies, at least since 2001 in a more specific way. Also, in some other film festival, this genre is included quite regularly, and even has its own session of screening. The recent Sydney Film Festival for example, also has them. I’ve wrote a bit about it on one of my other blog’s entries.
Lastly, for list of some greatest animation movies, check out Digital Dream Door.
