TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF STEAMBOAT WILLIE What is the weirdest cartoon you can find from the classical…

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TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF STEAMBOAT WILLIE

What is the weirdest cartoon you can find from the classical era? What makes it weird, exactly?

Select one classical cartoon not seen in class (1895-1950) from Disney, Fleischer, MGM, Walter Lantz or another cartoon studio and write a close textual analysis of its visual style and comedic approach in response to this question. The only references you can use is “Maureen Furniss A New History of Animation. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2016”

Length: 5 pages double spaces

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 film  animation  Cartoon

Here is the list：

Fantasmagorie (Emile Cohl 1908, 2’’);

Gertie the Dinosaur (Windsor McKay 1914, 12’’);

The Cameraman’s Revenge (Lareslas Starewich 1912, 13’’);

Cartoon Factory (Max Fleischer 1927, 8’’);

Balloonland (Ub Iwerks 1935, 7’’) Lichtspiel:

Opus 1 (Walter Ruttman 1921, 10’’);

Color Box (Len Lye 1935, 3’’);

Allegretto (Oskar Fischinger 1938, 3’’);

Spirals (Oskar Fischinger 1924-26, 6’’);

Wax Experiments (Oskar Fischinger 1927);

Seelische Konstruktionen (Oskar Fischinger 1927, 7’’);

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger 1926, 67’’)

Mickey Mouse: Steamboat Willie (1928, 8’’),

The Band Concert (1935, 9’’),

Clock Cleaners (1937, 9’’),

The Brave Little Tailor (1938, 9’’)

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