Early British Animation: From Page and Stage to Cinema Screens

by Malcolm Cook

Book Overview

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 range of techniques and ideas that shaped the development of British animation. These were commercial rather than avant-garde artists, but they nevertheless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030087875
• ISBN13: 9783030087876
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"