Animations - 1930-50s

There are loads of different animators back in the day between the years of 1930s-50s, one of the main animators was called:

• Norman Maclaren

He made animations which had a abstract style to it for instance shapes that moved with the music which meant every beat or big sound a piece of abstract animation would move or animate to it.

This was a piece of abstract animation called neighbours, it was about two neighbours fighting over a flower with a series of different animations, video animation, stop motion animation and still photo animation. All these different animations were used to create the amazing piece of animation which is still very famous to date.

• Max Fleischer

Max Fleischer was also an animator/film director and producer, he was most famous for animations such as betty boop, popeye and spiderman as he brought them kind of animations to the movie screen and was also an inventor which meant that he was also famous for inventing numerous technological inventions such as the rotoscope, here is an example of my favourite animation he has made:

The reason why i have chosen this kind of animation is because i like the way it transitions from Popeye being in real life and walking from real life in the page of the book and showing the animation through the book page which is pretty unique and original at the time, and that's what really caught my attention compared to other animations as these animations are really smooth.

• Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry was a animation based series which came out in the 1940's and was made by two men called William Hanna and Joseph Babera making a series based on a rivalry between a mouse and a cat and throughout each episode of this series it always has some mischievous pranks on both the mouse and the cat but mainly on the cat as the cat usually is the one who gets angry first and chases the mouse.

I really loved tom and jerry as a kid and thought that it was a really good choice of animation to pick as its very smooth and enjoyable to watch at any age and really the overall animation from which were made by William and Joseph are really smooth and has brought a way of rivalry animations based on two characters.

• Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a animation cartoon series which started off in the year 1930's and is still getting made to this current day, as looney tunes overall is a very popular animation based cartoon series as it is associated with a company called "Warner Bros"

I picked looney tunes as the other choice of animation as both looney tunes and tom and jerry are very popular all over europe and are still getting made to this current day and still have come up with so many different ideas and not just repeated some ideas which were made back between 1930s to the 1950s and still are continuing to make original ideas to date.