Existing comment:
(84) Gertie the dinosaur standing on a cliff edge looking at a mastodon, tracing, ca. 1980, from 1914 drawing.
Ink on rice paper.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsc-02839, LC-USZC4-9477 (84)
Pioneering animator Winsor McCay (1869- 1934) used this line drawing for the scene in which Gertie encounters a woolly mammoth in the first commercially successful animated film, Gertie the Dinosaur. McCay first presented his animated dinosaur as part of a vaudeville act in which he stood on a stage and introduced Gertie, who then "walked out" on a movie screen. He asked her to perform tricks and she complied. Audiences, unaccustomed to film, often thought Gertie was real. |