Growing up I enjoyed watching cartoons from the past. I used to watch two discs with over 300 different cartoons on them over and over. My favorite being Hunky and Spunky, which was about a mother donkey and her son who always seemed to get into trouble. Some cartoons on these discs were in color with sound, meanwhile others were not. This means most of the cartoons were most likely made sometime in the 1930's. My reason behind this is because during the 1930's cartoon making drastically changed starting out in 1928 with Disney's Steamboat Willie being the first cartoon with synchronized sound.Ward Kimball had said 'You have no idea of the impact that having these drawings suddenly speak and make noises had on audiences at that time.
People when crazy over it'. The next monumental change in animation was in 1932 where Disney once again changed the game by creating Flowers and Trees. Flowers and Trees was the first full color cartoon. The new age of cartoons had come where all sorts of new characters were created such as Tom and Jerry, Betty Boop, Donald Duck and Goofy. These characters even live on today some episodes still playing on TV and others have had many different generations of cartoon making.
To create these cartoons the artists would use cel-animation. The technique was the dominant
form of animation in cinema until the advent of computer animation. When using cel-animation you would need to draw every frame of the animation to create a completed product. A great representative of this type of animation is Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, being
the world's first fully-animated feature-length film. Being a financial and critical success it gave birth to the 'Golden Age' of animation. As you know animation has changed a lot since then but I still appreciate the roots all animation has come from and how it has developed today. Although, this is not the type of animation I plan on creating, the hard-work and time consuming art of cel-animation very much fascinates me.
