Gertie The Dinosaur

Duration: 12

Genre: Animation Short Comedy

Year Published: 1914

Creator: Creative Film Society

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Winsor Z. McCay bets with some other drawers [George McManus, Thomas A. "Tad" Dorgan, Roy L. McCardell and Tom Powers], who can't believe that he's able to draw a dinosaur. So he draws a big friendly herbivore named Gertie. Then he gets into his own picture. Gertie walks through the picture, eats a tree, meets her creator, and takes him carefully on her back for a ride"--Internet movie database, March 31, 2003.

Complete Record: , This is considered the first film to feature the animation of a well-known cartoon character. It was also the first film to be animated by a world famous cartoonist. In the live action section, George McManus (originator of Bringing Up Father) bets Winsor McCay that he cannot animate a cartooned dinosaur. The resulting animation features the playful Gertie who responds to McCay's demands through the use of intertitles. , , Winsor Z. McCay bets with some other drawers [George McManus, Thomas A. "Tad" Dorgan, Roy L. McCardell and Tom Powers], who can't believe that he's able to draw a dinosaur. So he draws a big friendly herbivore named Gertie. Then he gets into his own picture. Gertie walks through the picture, eats a tree, meets her creator, and takes him carefully on her back for a ride"--Internet movie database, March 31, 2003.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.