Monday, February 16, 2009

Sound From Ps3 To Mitsubishi

1.1" The School of American film-animation "

between comics and animation there is a strong correlation not only be similar to transposition characteristics: even if two artistic expressions are independent of each other, you may notice a common technique of 'image, a stylization of the characters and stories of a similar tone.
From the early years of the century comics in America appeared in colors such as newspaper supplements and information policy: it is thought they were used as political trust by publishing their own newspapers to sell more especially in cities experiencing rapid growth. Once
characters acquired a reputation, and therefore a discreet levels of customer satisfaction, it was easier to be able to succeed offers as moving images.
One of the first people to have a resounding success was "Happy Hooligan", known to us as "Fortunate", created from the pen of Frederick Burr Opper in 1900 and published for the comics section of newspapers in New York and San Francisco, published in Italy since 1910 by the "Corriere dei Piccoli".


"Happy Hooligan" by Frederick Burr Opper, 1900

In this abundant production of animated drawings of characters supplies all the major film production of the time committed themselves to create their own section dedicated to the production of animated series, with hundreds of artists at work: the case of Edison , Vitagraph and the International Film Service. Moreover, even
"Krazy Kat" by George Herriman ,
"Felix the Cat", known as the Italian "My Mao", created by Pat Sullivan in 1917, before the death of the author , which occurred in 1933, managed to produce well ninety-nine films;

"Krazy Kat" by George Herriman
but also "Popeye the Sailor", created by the hand of Elzie Crisler Segar in 1929, or strongman "Popeye" was a character who had a hit in the thirties. One of the more interesting things was that the fame achieved by the character of "Popeye" like eating spinach, made in America to increase sales of this vegetable during the Depression, it was enough to see Segar lasoddisfazione made a huge statue of "Popeye" in Crystal City, Texas.
"Popeye the Sailor" by Elzie Crisler Segar, 1929
Last but not least "Mut and Jeff" the dazed couple of buddies of Bud Fisher.
In May 1928 "Mickey Mouse", created by Walt Disney , debuted at Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles the film with the short "Plane Crazy", which lasts six minutes. That evening the same Disney gave a dollar to the organist of the movie because it accompanies the cartoon. Usually it was something that happened with silent films, because the sound appeared only a few years later. This first cartoon greatly amused the audience and the character was immediately a great success.
On November 18, 1928 marks an important date for "Mickey Mouse" Walt Disney submit to the Colony Theater New York episode "Steamboat Willie".

"Steamboat Willie" by Walt Disney 1928

After only six months of frantic work by the debut of "Plane Crazy" cleverly managed to synchronize the character, a talking mouse, with the music. Four years later, in 1932, Walt Disney received a special Oscar for its original character, who became the star of more than one hundred fifty thousand cartoons and comics translated into over twenty languages.
The direct rival Disney, the Fleischer brothers in 1921 founded the film Out of the Inkwell Inc. for the construction of cartoons including the important production of the animated adventures of "Popeye the Sailor" between 1933 and 1957. In 1931 comes from the pen of Max Fleischer "Betty Boop" in the same year that appears on all screens in the world with the episodes from the title of "Betty Coed". Betty Boop particularly successful: after the success of the animated episodes was decided to incorporate the sexy heroine first paper also proving equally successful.



"Betty Boop" by Max Fleischer, 1931


In the Thirties the advent of sound and color soon revolutionized the animation is crafting a quality product in the evolution of the technique on an artistic level.
The United States was the first to develop new technologies and use them heavily, so that the thirties are for the period of greatest American design and development which will draw the rest of the world.
E 'in this period as new animation figures such as Walter Lantz , illustrator and cartoonist, author of the successful series of "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character created in collaboration with Disney when they worked together with the" Universal ".

"Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" by Walter Lantz

when Disney abandoned the studio losing the rights, Lantz decided to create a character similar and so was born "Oswald." Lantz in 1953 opened his own studio and continued his career working for advertising and as an animator creating several characters including, the most successful "Woody Woodpecker" (Picchiarello) since early forties.

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