Little Nemo is a 1911 silent animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. One of the earliest animated films, it was McCay’s first, and featured characters from his comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. Inspired by flip books his son brought home, McCay came to see the potential of the animated film medium. The short’s four thousand drawings on rice paper were shot at Vitagraph Studios under James Stuart Blackton’s supervision.
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Little Nemo is a 1911 silent animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. One of the earliest animated films, it was McCay’s first, and featured characters from his comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. Inspired by flip books his son brought home, McCay came to see the potential of the animated film medium. He claimed to be the first to make such films, though James Stuart Blackton and Émile Cohl were among those who preceded him. The short’s four thousand drawings on rice paper were shot at Vitagraph Studios under Blackton’s supervision. Most of the film’s running time is made up of a live-action sequence in which McCay bets his colleagues that he can make drawings that move. He wins the bet with four minutes of animation in which the characters perform, interact, and metamorphose to McCay’s whim. The film’s success led McCay to devote more time to animation, and he followed up with How a Mosquito Operates in 1912 and his best-known film, Gertie the Dinosaur, in 1914.
The strip has seen a number of other adaptations, including a joint American-Japanese feature-length film in 1989, with contributions by Ray Bradbury, Chris Columbus, and Moebius. McCay: The Dream Master was a 1990 video game adaptation of the comic strip, and the 1989 film was the first time the film was released on video in the U.S. and the first release in Japan. It was released in the UK and Australia in 1998. It has been released in Australia and the UK in 2009, and in Europe in 2010. It is available on DVD and Blu-ray. The U.K. release is scheduled to be released in December 2013. It will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD in the United States on December 14, 2013, as well as in Europe and Australia on December 15, 2013.
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