File: How Animated Cartoons Are Made (1919).webm
Author: John Randolph Bray, Wallace Carlson
Publisher: Bray Productions
Year: 1919
PD: PD/US|1978
Note: Wallace Carlson, an animator for Bray Studios, demonstrates how cel animation was done for the early cartoons of the silent era.
Cat: Cartoons, Documentary film
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{{c|{{cursive|''{{smaller|Goldwyn}}-Bray-{{smaller|Pictographs}}''}}<br>{{x-smaller|The Magazine on the Screen}}<br><br><br>{{Box|{{smaller|HOW ANIMATED<br>CARTOONS ARE MADE.}}<br>{{xx-smaller|''by''}}<br>{{smaller|Wallace Carlson<br>of the Bray Studios}}<br><br>{{xx-smaller|''Process Patented by Bray-Hurd Process Co.''}}}}<br><br>{{Box|{{xx-smaller|PUBLISHED BY}}<br>{{x-smaller|THE BRAY STUDIOS, INC.}}<br>{{xx-smaller|COPYRIGHT 1919}}}}}}
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00:17
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This is Mr. Wallace Carlson. He'll show you through the Bray Studios.
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00:29
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{{c|"The first thing to do is to get an O.K. on the scenario."}}
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00:47
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{{c|{{smaller|J.R.BRAY<br>PRIVATE}}}}
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00:50
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{{c|"Do you mind waiting here a few moments while I see Mr. Bray? Thank you."}}
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01:18
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{{c|He says, "It's great. But it needs a little refinement."}}
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01:46
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{{c|"Scenes number forty-one and forty-two are the simplest, so we'll do them first."}}
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01:57
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{{smaller|[...] acts.<br><br>Scene No. 41:- Dudd finds himself in trouble and Mamie suggests a way out.<br><br>Scene No. 42:- Dudd's dog suddenly goes mad and unwittingly spoils the match.<br><br>Scene No. 43:- Realizing that he is no better off-Dudd decides to visit his friend, the village Peanut [...]}}
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02:43
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{{c|"We've got to get Dud into the picture. This is how I do it."}}
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03:09
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{{c|"This is how we'll make him talk."}}
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03:31
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{{c|"By placing the heads one by one on Dud's shoulders, he will appear to be talking."}}
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04:00
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{{c|"The faster this is done, the more realistic the effect."}}
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04:08
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{{c|{{smaller|GEE! I JUST BUSTED A WINDOW! GOSH — I HOPE I DON'T GET PINCHED}}}}
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04:23
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{{c|"Now to make the dog mad."}}
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04:29
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{{smaller|[...] acts.<br><br>Scene No. 41:- Dudd finds himself in trouble and Mamie suggests a way out.<br><br>Scene No. 42:- Dudd's dog suddenly goes mad and unwittingly spoils the match.<br><br>Scene No. 43:- Realizing that he is no better off-Dudd decides to visit his friend, the village Peanut [...]}}
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04:51
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{{c|{{smaller|IS OO UM'S LOVEY OODLES?}}}}
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04:55
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{{c|"Naturally, the effect would be this."}}
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05:16
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{{c|"After all the necessary drawings are made——"}}
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05:50
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{{c|"We put them under the camera to be photographed."}}
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06:14
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{{c|"Every sixteenth turn of the handle produces a long foot of cartoon{{bar|2}}nearly always."}}
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06:44
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{{c|Forty-eight hours later.}}
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07:07
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{{c|"After the film is developed and printed, the cartoon is projected for criticism."}}
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07:30
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{{c|{{smaller|GEE! I JUST BUSTED A WINDOW! GOSH — I HOPE I DON'T GET PINCHED}}}}
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07:41
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{{c|{{smaller|NEVER MIND DUD!}}}}
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07:48
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{{c|{{smaller|TH' COP WHAT'S ON THIS BEAT IS GONNA MARRY OUR SERVANT}}}}
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08:04
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{{c|{{smaller|IS OO UM'S LOVEY OODLES?}}}}
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08:16
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{{c|{{smaller|'''LIGHT'''}}}}
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08:18
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{{c|{{smaller|A HICKORY '''LIMB''' AS I LIVE!}}}}
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08:50
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{{c|"STOP."}}
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08:58
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{{c|"A woman with a wooden leg doesn't run that way."}}
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09:16
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{{c|"All right, we'll fix that."}}
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09:33
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{{c|"Just as soon as we correct that 'run' and do the other sixty-two scenes, we'll be glad to have you see the picture."}}
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