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Winsor McCay

Pioneer of animation and master of the comic strip.

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Winsor McCay

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His exact birth date is uncertain, as no birth record exists and he himself gave conflicting accounts.[1] He completed ten animated films between 1911 and 1921.[2]

Making and release

McCay's first animated short starred his Little Nemo characters and used four thousand drawings on mulberry paper.[3] His next film, How a Mosquito Operates, was based on a Dream of the Rarebit Fiend episode and completed in January 1912. Gertie the Dinosaur debuted in February 1914 as part of McCay's vaudeville act.[4] He refused to patent this system, and animator John Randolph Bray later patented many of McCay's techniques.[5] McCay was sued by Bray in 1914 but the lawsuit was unsuccessful, and McCay may have countersued.[5]

Hearst pressured McCay to reduce his vaudeville appearances and by February 1917 had him give up vaudeville entirely.[4]

What the cited sources add

The Herald was considered to have the highest quality color printing of any newspaper at the time, using the Ben Day process for color.[6] In his vaudeville routine The Seven Ages of Man, McCay would sketch two faces and then show them gradually aging.[7]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Winsor McCay" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2018, p. 28; Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Winsor McCay" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Beckerman 2003, p. 18–19; Harvey 1994, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Winsor McCay" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canemaker 2005, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Winsor McCay" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Winsor McCay" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Winsor McCay" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Harvey 1994, p. 21; Crafton 1993, p. 97; Harvey 1994, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Winsor McCay" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Stabile Harrison 2003, p. 3; Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21; Canemaker 2005, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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