History of Re-Animation

The Rabbit of Seville released in 1950 by Warner Brothers is an excellent example of the cartoon brilliance of Chuck Jones. Since the dawn of animation there have been two distinct "genetic lineages" of animation the artistic (most often abstract) side exemplified by Oskar Fischinger and Lye and the comic slap stick for the masses side represented by Bray Studios, Warner Brothers, and Walt Disney. In the Rabbit of Seville Chuck Jones is able to bring the two together in an almost seamless merging to created a brilliant example of both and bring artistic musical representation to the general masses. Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd perform their typical antics but in an symphony of cartoony silliness that both satisfied the antic craving child in you and the intellectual side at the same time. While retaining the symphonic artisticness Chuck Jones can still deliver comic punches with the barest of character expressions and movements showing how he has truly mastered the medium....

The Old Mill a Walt Disney Studios animation by Wilfred Jackson that was released in 1937 is an excellent example of just how far Walt Disney had progressed since Steamboat Willy. It's use of water color backgrounds and cel animation is an excellent example of the pioneering techniques that would be the standard of Walt Disney feature animated movies that would fuel the "golden age" of animation. Virtually every element that defined the signature Walt Disney product is in the animation, the storytelling and application of human emotion to animals such as fear, contentment, without over humanizing them would be used in all of their animated movies and is a common trope about Disney princesses. Gone on the over the top noodling of the actions of the characters and the unrealistic qualities of the initial animations just ten years prior. This is a studio that is coming of age and is confident about its techniques with the animation almost challenging others to try equ...