Animation 1960s and 1970's

Scooby Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series Scooby Doo Where are you?, was created for Hanna Barbara Productions. By writers Joe Rugby and Ken Spears in 1969. The series featured four teenagers Fred, Daphne  Velma and Shaggy, and their talking brown Great Dane named Scooby Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.

Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it moved to  ABC aired the show until cancelling it in 1986, and presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children, A pup named Scooby Doo from 1988 until 1991. 

Postman Pat

Postman Pat is a British Stop motion animation TV series for children, first produced by Woodland Animation. It is aimed at pre-school children, and concerns the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the fictional village of Greendale.

Postman Pat′s first 13-episode series was screened on BBC1 in 1981. John Cunlife wrote the original treatment and scripts, and it was directed by animator Ivor Wood who also worked on The Magic Roundabout, Paddington Bear and The Herbs. Following the success of the first series, and several TV specials in between, a second series of 13 episodes was produced by the same crew in 1996

Bagpuss

Bagpuss is a UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate from 12 February 1974 to 7 May 1974 through their company Smallfilms. The title character was "an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams".Although only 13 episodes were made, it remains fondly remembered, and was frequently repeated in the UK for 13 years.In 1999 Bagpuss topped a BBC poll for the UK's favourite children's TV programme.

Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by  William Hanna and Joseph Barbera  for, centering on a rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse  Jerry whose chases include Slapstick Comdey. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote, produced, and directed 114 Tom and Jerry Shorts at MGM Cartoon Studios in Hollywood from 1940 to 1957. The original series is notable for having won seven Academy Awards. A longtime television staple, Tom and Jerry has a worldwide audience and has been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema.

The Clangers

Clangers is a British Stop Motion Animation Tv Series of short stories about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and in, a small blue planet (quite similar to, but not intended to be, the Moon). They speak in whistles, and eat green soup supplied by the Soup Dragon. The programmes were originally broadcast by the BBC in 1969–1972.

The series was made by Smallfilms the company set up by Oliver Postgate (writer, animator and narrator) and Peter Firmain (modelmaker and illustrator). Firmin designed the characters, and his wife knitted and "dressed" the Clangers. The music, often part of the story, was by Vernon Elliot

Animation 1930's-1950's

 

Snow White

Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 animated film produced by Walt Disney it is the first full-length animated feature and the earliest in the Walt Disney Classics series. It involved over 1000 drawings, and this film alone set up Walt Disney’s animation empire.

Betty Boop

Betty Boop is animated character created by Max Fleischer she originally appeared in the talkertoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Flecshier Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. Despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more demure, she became one of the best-known and popular cartoon characters in the world.

Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for, centering on a rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse Jerry whose chases include Slapstick Comdey. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote, produced, and directed 114 Tom and Jerry Shorts at MGM Cartoon Studios in Hollywood from 1940 to 1957. The original series is notable for having won seven Academy Awards. A longtime television staple, Tom and Jerry has a worldwide audience and has been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema.

 

Stop Motion Animation

George Melles

Georges Melles, was a french filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use hand painted colour in his work. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician".Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the moon and The impossible voyage .Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. 

A Trip to the Moon released in the UK initially as Trip to the Moon, is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Melles. it follows a group of astronomers who travel to the moon in a cannon-propelled spaceship, explore the moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites and return in a splashdown to Earth with a captive Selenite in tow.

Winsor McCay

Zenas Winsor McCay  was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo and the animated film Gertie the Dinasour . For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of Rarebit Friend.

Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor Macay. Nemo was originally the protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo . The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by his awakening in the final panel. The strip is considered McCay's masterpiece for its experiments with the form of the comics page, its use of color, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels, perspective, architectural and other detail.