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The First animated TV Christmas Special Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol: Television special 1964: First feature film based on a television show: Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! 1966 The First animated TV Halloween Special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Television special 1969: First animated feature deemed to be X-rated: A Thousand and One Nights
The 90s are sometimes referred to as the "Renaissance Age of Animation" for animation as a whole, including both theatrical animated films and cartoon TV series. Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) (the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture ), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994) successively broke box ...
First movie shot completely on a green screen using digitally scanned images as backgrounds. Olocoons: First CGI-animated series to use Cel-shaded designs and backgrounds mixed with 2-D elements. Shrek 2: First feature film to use global illumination. [45] Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: First movie with all-CGI backgrounds and live ...
1983 – He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Golgo 13: The Professional, The Wind in the Willows, Crusher Joe, Inspector Gadget, Henry's Cat, Abra Cadabra, The Biskitts, Rock & Rule (first animated feature film to use computer graphics), Katy, Fire and Ice, Mrs. Pepperpot (TV series ...
Fritz the Cat was the first animated film to receive an X rating from the MPAA, and is the highest grossing independent animated film of all time. [16] With the success of his second film, Heavy Traffic, Bakshi became the first person in the animation industry since Walt Disney to have two financially successful films released back-to-back. [18]
Animation also began on television during this period with Crusader Rabbit (the first animated series broadcast in 1948) and early versions of Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959), both from Jay Ward Productions. [11] The rise of television animation is often considered to be a factor that hastened the golden age's end. [1]
John Barnes Linnett patented the first flip book in 1868 as the kineograph. [42] [43] A flip book is a small book with relatively springy pages, each having one in a series of animation images located near its unbound edge. The user bends all of the pages back, normally with the thumb, then by a gradual motion of the hand allows them to spring ...
Combines live-action with animation; Ptushko's last foray into animation. July 1, 1939 () Gulliver's Travels: United States: Dave Fleischer: Fleischer Studios: Traditional: The first American Technicolor animated feature film not to be made by Disney. Also first Technicolor animated feature film made in World War II.