Animation Magnets
Description: In 1914, cartoonist Windor McKay caused a sensation with his vaudeville act, wherein he would "command" Gertie, an animated brontosaur-like creature, to perform tricks, vanishing from the room and appearing in the film itself at the conclusion. Gertie was hugely influential on an entire generation of animators and today is enshrined at Disney's Hollywood Studios in the form of an ice cream shop.
Description: Show your love of traditional hand-drawn animation with this acme animation peg bar. All true animation fans will get the reference- this is the peg bar that registers all the drawings in animation so that all the drawings stay in alignment. It has been used since the start of traditional animation, throughout the golden years until current time.
Description: Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage; Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. 'The Wild Planet') is a 1973 French-language experimental independent adult animated science fiction art film. The movie was an international co-production between companies from France and Czechoslovakia. The allegorical story, about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them animals, is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul. Fantastic Planet was the first animated movie to be rated PG in the US, and as such, many kids were inadvertently taken to see the film, only to be left with nightmares from some of the more complex topics and related visuals.
Description: Arthur is a Canadian-American animated educational television series for children ages 4 to 8, created by Cookie Jar Group (formerly known as Cinar) and WGBH for PBS. The show is set in the fictional American city of Elwood City, and revolves around the lives of eight-year-old Arthur Read, an anthropomorphic aardvark, his friends and family, and their daily interactions with each other.
