Winsor McCay















Gertie the Dinosaur
Gerti the Dinosaur was the first animated film with a star and a story line. Mccay gave his character Gertie personality and emotions by adding such tiny details as tears dripping.

He gave her slightly wild boisterous nature as she attacks jumbow the mamouth by throwing him into the lake after being told not to harm him by maccay like a parent commanding there child.

To produce gertie McCy drew 10'000 imagies on to rice paper and then mounted them on cardboard, MaCcay was then able to flip through the drawing to check through his work.

In 1914 in Chicargo McCay greeted an audience for gerties first premiere standind alogside the
screen. After explaing how he hadproduced the animated film, he introduced Gertie as "the only dinosaur in captivity" he cracked his whip and the film began.


Little Nemo

Was the first animated film to feature established new paper comic strip stars. The storyline begins in a regular film style where McCay and his friends make a wager where MaCcay must make his drawing move in an animated film. McCay is then shown doing so and ends with a viewing of his film, this features the characters from his comic strip little nemo which showed believable weight, dimention and motion, as well as personality and life.