This early animation effort from J.R. Bray Studios, New York, is a tight little five minute cartoon about a boy and his eventful day at school. Nothing really fantastic going on here, except that there were essentially no rules 95 years ago (as of this writing), and these guys were structuring what animation would become.
It's just black and white, pen and ink drawings with character words spoken in little bubbles, which is a method taken from print comics, where it is still used today. As simple as these early cartoons were, the animation is far better than the crude style of today's South Park cartoons.
Thank you TCM, for bringing these little known wonders to our TV screens.
It's just black and white, pen and ink drawings with character words spoken in little bubbles, which is a method taken from print comics, where it is still used today. As simple as these early cartoons were, the animation is far better than the crude style of today's South Park cartoons.
Thank you TCM, for bringing these little known wonders to our TV screens.