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During the beginnings of the silent film era, the central location of the U.S. motion picture industry had not yet relocated to Hollywood. In the period before the major studios relocated to Los Angeles (beginning with Carl Laemmle's consolidation of Universal Pictures), most motion picture studios were located in New York City.
- J. Stuart Blackton, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, 1906
- Winsor McCay, Gertie the Dinosaur,1914, The sinking of the Lusitania, 1918, Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, 1921
- John Randolph Bray who later claimed to have invented some of McCay's techniques
- Willis O'Brien, The Dinosaur and the Missing Link, 1915, The Lost World, 1925 (stop-motion animation)
- Otto Messmer and the first cartoon superstar Felix the Cat, 1919
- Max Fleischer and Koko the Clown, 1919 and the invention of the rotoscope
- Paul Terry and Aesop's Film Fables, 1921-1929
- Van Beuren Studios which released Paul Terry's films before Terry set up his own studio in 1929
- Walt Disney's first cartoons: Laugh-o-Grams, Alice Comedies , Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse
- Other significant series: Heeza Liar, Mutt and Jeff, Krazy Kat, Bobby Bumps
- Other significant studios: Barré Studio, Bray Productions, Barré-Bowers Studio, International Film Service
- Significant distributors of animated films: Margaret J. Winkler, Charles Mintz, Educational Pictures, Red Seal Pictures, Bijou Films
- Also, Charles Bowers was a comedian and animator who made many bizarre films in the 1920s combining stop-motion animation and comedy. Many of them have been lost, but some have been recently released on DVD.
Gertie on Tour
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