LEADER 00000ngm 2200373Ka 4500 001 50172202 005 20020715 TAPE OCLC0715: 0166 007 mr ba--dnnartnnac------ 008 020716s1934 xxu008 maeng d 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 020716 Addid: OCL Moddate: 081014 Modid: CJS 035 (PFA-FILM)9709 035 GLADN184896928 040 CUY|cCUY 090 |b1604-01-4216 245 00 Gertie the dinosaur|h[motion picture] /|ccreated by Winsor McCay. 257 United States. 260 United States :|bBlackhawk Films,|c[1934?] 300 1 reel of 1 (8 min.) (293 ft.) :|bsi., b&w ;|c16 mm. |3print. 500 Credits taken from print. 506 PFA 1604-01-4216. Restricted: Not for research use. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 520 "In the early years of the century, Winsor McCay was a cartoonist for the 'New York American' and creator of the comic strip, 'Little Nemo.' McCay was also well-known on the vaudeville stage and was a featured act in the early years of the New York Palace. The act was built around his cartoon sketches." (8.5-19.5 ft.) -- A hand draws a dinosaur in white on a black background. (19.6-42 ft.) -- "McCay's 'Gertie the Dinosaur,' done in 1909, may or may not have been absolutely the first animated cartoon, but it was the first of any consequence. Its animation is what today's artists call 'limited,' that is, the drawings change the position of the characters only intermittenly. It is said that 10,000 separate drawings were required for Gertie. Cartoons, by the 1920's, set a faster and more expensive standard with many characters on the screen, all moving in practically every frame. Thus, a Disney cartoon made a quarter of a century after Gertie would rquire many times over the number of individual drawings. Ironically, because of high production costs today, most cartoons have cut back to the limited animation style of 1909's 'Gertie the Dinosaur.'" (43-67 ft.) -- Gertie emerges from the water and sways back and forth. It turns to look at a teradactyl flying by, 520 tosses a coconut on its nose, eats the coconut, winks, stands on its hind legs, and ties its neck in a knot. When a monkey climbs the coconut tree, the dinosaur bites the trunk in half and eats it. The monkey narrowly escapes death, but the dinosaur picks it up in its mouth, swings it around, and tosses it into the water. Gertie then subjects the remainder of the tree to the same treatment. A mammoth drinking water struggles with a sea monster that pulls on its trunk. After watching their struggle, the dinosaur throws rocks at the mammoth. A man in tails appears and is about to bow to the audience, but Gertie removes him from the scene and bows to the audience instead. (68-288 ft). 546 Silent with English intertitles. 590 PFA 1604-01-4216. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last checked: July 8, 2002, slightly scratched. 600 10 McCay, Winsor. 650 0 Animated films. 650 0 Animation (Cinematography) 650 0 Caricatures and cartoons. 655 7 Shorts.|2mim 655 7 Animation.|2mim 655 7 Educational/cultural works.|2mim 690 Silent films. 700 1 McCay, Winsor. 710 2 Blackhawk Films. 935 GLADN184896928 941 0 PFA 1604-01-4216. Originally assigned acc. no. 1604-01- 2967, until someone mistakenly assigned Blind cobra the same number; reassigned to 1604-01-4216 8/88--blue card. 948 PFA 1604-01-4216. Restricted: Not for research use. 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140928 994 01|bCUY