Early British Animation From Page and Stage to Cinema Screens /

• Main Author: Cook, Malcolm (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Animated films.; Motion pictures-Great Britain.; Arts.; Animation.; British Cinema and TV.

This book is the first history of British animated cartoons, from the earliest period of cinema in the 1890s up to the late 1920s. In this period cartoonists and performers from earlier traditions of print and stage entertainment came to film to expand their artistic practice, bringing with them a r...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Early British Animation
• 2. Alternative artists' films
• 3. The lightning cartoon: animation from music hall to cinema
• 4. Perception, modernism, and modernity
• 5. The First World War: British animated cartoons and their international contexts
• 6. The 'primitive' appeal of cartooning and animation
• 7. Primitive animation: British animated cartoons in the 1920s
• 8. British Animation, talkies, and the 1927 Cinematograph Films Act.