Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay, 1914)

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DO NOT WANT!

I think its the first animation to include an elemnet of live-action. Not the first actual animation. However i think that the drawn version of Gertie herself is among the first wide-spread american cartoon characters.

I know it isn't the first cartoon.  McCay himself had made at least one earlier one. Listen to what I am saying: Most Americans had still not seen a cartoon at the time this came out. It doesn't mean cartoons didn't already exist. It means most Americans had still never seen one.

This cartoon is retarded. Dinosaurs cant eat no rocks.

@MrAdmiralsnackbar Actualy they found that grass eaters ate rocks to grind the plants in their stomach.

But they cant eat giant boulders!

Huh. guess they cant.But still. Its a cartoon.

I notice this has a Cartoon Network logo on this. Well, I'd rather watch this on Cartoon Network than the stuff they have and had on these last few years. And certainly the CN Real stuff.

Mind-Blown.

i read that he also drew every background over again with each new piece of paper. you really do have to suffer for art!