History Main / RogerRabbitEffect

* Disney used this for decades, starting with the [[AliceComedies "Alice"]] series, which started in 1923, and kept right on going through ''The Reluctant Dragon'', ''So Dear To My Heart'', the eternally un-re-released ''SongOfTheSouth'', ''MaryPoppins'', ''BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', and ''[=~Pete's Dragon~=]''. They're still using it today.

* {{Winsor McCay}}'s animated short, ''GertieTheDinosaur'', despite being one of the oldest animated films, successfully used this trope in ''live performances''. [=McCay=] set up a projector on a vaudeville stage and interacted with the animated Gertie, commanding her to do tricks, tossing her an [[strike: apple]] pumpkin (he palmed the real one while she caught an animated one), and ending the show by ''climbing into her mouth and being carried away''. All this in 1914, making the trope OlderThanRadio. Sheesh!

* {{Winsor McCay}}'s animated short, ''Gertie the Dinosaur'', despite being one of the oldest animated films, successfully used this trope in ''live performances''. [=McCay=] set up a projector on a vaudeville stage and interacted with the animated Gertie, commanding her to do tricks, tossing her an apple (he palmed the real one while she caught an animated one), and ending the show by ''climbing into her mouth and being carried away''. All this in 1914, making the trope OlderThanRadio. Sheesh!

A subtrope of MediumBlending, and an extended version of {{Rotoscoping}}. See also AnimatedActors and RefugeeFromTVLand.

* It's not so much a commercial, but a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWDXbLxSCsQ 1991 PSA encouraging children to read]] starring [[AnAmericanTail Fievel Mousekewitz]] was aired after a showing of ''{{ET}}''. Fievel suddenly appears in the live-action home of a family that just finished watching the aforementioned movie. The animation was cheaply lifted straight out of ''An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', and what Fievel is saying doesn't even match up with his mouth movements.

* Tony the Tiger frequently hangs out with live-action kids.
** Not just him; many other kids' cereal mascots do this.

* The Don Knotts vehicle ''The Incredible Mr. Limpet'' has a bit of this.

* The ''StarWars'' prequels, anyone? How could anyone forget the atrocity that is Jar-Jar Binks?
** Not an example, Jar-Jar is SerkisFolk.

* As ''GertieTheDinosaur'' was originally a ''vaudiville'' act, it fits here. It also provides possibly the MostTriumphantExample, since it was a man performing ''live on stage'' with a cartoon character.

* In march of 1959 Cambria Productions came up with the show {{Clutch Cargo}}, which used the then cutting edge idea of combining animated characters with live-action mouths superimposed onto their faces, called "Syncro-Vox", this show had the distinction of horrifying it's target audience and inducing more childhood nightmares than {{H R Giger}} could ever dream of.

* In ''Pumuckl'', the titular animated kobold interacts with humans who are played by real actors.

* It's not so much a commercial, but a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWDXbLxSCsQ 1991 PSA encouraging children to read]] was aired after a showing of ''{{ET}}'' starring [[AnAmericanTail Fievel Mousekewitz]], who suddenly appears in the live-action home of a family that just finished watching the aforementioned movie. The animation was cheaply lifted straight out of ''An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', and what Fievel is saying doesn't even match up with his mouth movements.

* It's not so much a commercial, but a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWDXbLxSCsQ 1991 PSA encouraging children to read]] was aired after a showing of {{ET}} starring [[AnAmericanTail Fievel Mousekewitz]], who suddenly appears in the live-action home of a family that just finished watching ''E.T''. The animation was cheaply lifted straight out of ''An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', and what Fievel is saying doesn't even match up with his mouth movements.

* The GEICO spots featuring the talking CGI gecko.
** To be honest, since the gecko is photorealistic, it's assumed he is a flesh and blood character, like Garfield or Scooby-Doo in their film appearances.

* Disney used this for decades, starting with the [[AliceComedies "Alice"]] series, which started in 1923, and kept right on going through ''TheReluctantDragon'', the eternally un-re-released ''SongOfTheSouth'', ''MaryPoppins'', ''BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', and ''[=~Pete's Dragon~=]''. They're still using it today.

* Back in 1968, Hanna-Barbera released a short-lived series called ''The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', which featured live-action actors as Huck, Tom Sawyer, and Becky Thatcher, being pursued through various cartoon ''milieux'' by an animated Injun Joe.

In march of 1959 Cambria Productions came up with the show {{Clutch Cargo}}, which used the then cutting edge idea of combining animated characters with live-action mouths superimposed onto their faces, called "Syncro-Vox", this show had the distinction of horrifying it's target audience and inducing more childhood nightmares than {{H R Giger}} could ever dream of.

-->[=McCay=] would stand on stage in front of a projection screen, dressed in a tuxedo and wielding a whip. He would call Gertie, who appeared from behind some rocks. He then instructed her to perform various tricks, similar to a circus act. He would appear to toss a prop apple to her — McCay palmed the apple while Gertie caught an animated copy of it...

[[WhoFramedRogerRabbit http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Judgedoom.png]]

* Many of {{Tex Avery}}'s cartoons used live action. "TV of Tomorrow" has live action for all the televised images. "Who Dood It?" starts with an onscreen presenter introducing a murder mystery, and in the end the murderer is unmasked and revealed to be [[spoiler:the very same presenter]]. "Señor Droopy" ends with Droopy sitting on the lap of '50s actress Lina Romay.

* The Don Knotts vehicle ''The Incredible Mr. Limpet''.