History WesternAnimation / GertieTheDinosaur

* HollywoodPrehistory: Gertie lives in a landscape of barren rocks inhabited by herself, a woolly mammoth, and an assorted of {{Prehistoric Monster}}s more similar to medieval dragons than anything else.

* DomesticatedDinosaurs: Gertie is essentially a sauropod that acts like a trained elephant.

* OneMillionBC: Gertie lives in a landscape of barren rocks inhabited by herself, a woolly mammoth, and an assorted of {{Prehistoric Monster}}s more similar to medieval dragons than anything else.

* TropeMaker: For ''animation as a whole''. Animated cartoons had been made before then, but Gertie was the very first animated cartoon character with a distinct personality. "Gertie" was also (says Wiki/TheOtherWiki) "the first film to use animation techniques such as keyframes, registration marks, tracing paper, the Mutoscope action viewer, and animation loops."

* StockDinosaurs:
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McManus George McManus]] calls Gertie a "dinosaurus"; she appears to be an Apatosaurus or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropod something similar]]. It was once believed that there was a dinosaur called ''Dinosaurus'', but it's now called ''Plateosaurus'', and looked somewhat like Gertie.
** [[AnachronismStew A woolly mammoth shows up as well]].

[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]] has also made a little tribute to Gertie, via a [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/blergy/4389431669/ life-sized replica of her]] serving as an ice cream parlor in Disney's Hollywood Studios.

* OneMillionBC: Gertie lives in a landscape of barren rocks inhabited by herself, a woolly mammoth, and an assorted of {{Prehistoric Monster}}s more similar to medieval dragons than anything else.

%%* BlackHoleBelly: But her size doesn't increase.

** [[AnacrhonismStew A woolly mammoth shows up as well]].

* BigEater / ExtremeOmnivore: Gertie eats a pumpkin, a tree (roots and all) ''bigger than she is'', and a ''rock''. She also sucks a lake completely dry.
* BlackHoleBelly: But her size doesn't increase.

* DomesticatedDinosaurs: Gertie, who's essentially a sauropod that acts like a trained elephant.
* FramingDevice: Seems pretty pointless, although maybe more necessary to 1914 moviegoers that hadn't seen a lot of cartoons.

* GiantFlyer: A four-winged monster flies by and startles Gertie.

* LineBoil: Evident on the background, which had to be retraced on every frame. [=McCay=] felt it made the whole image seem alive.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Possibly the earliest example -- Winsor himself would actually appear on screen with Gertie.
** The vaudeville show also took this [[LogicalExtreme about as far as it could go]]--that is, Winsor himself, ''live on stage'', interacting with the cartoon.
* SeaMonster: Irritates Gertie early in the animation.

** [[OneMillionBC A woolly mammoth shows up as well]].

The short (well, the non-{{vaudeville}} version) starts off with Winsor visiting a museum with several of his fellow cartoonists, making a bet that he can "[[WeDoTheImpossible make the dinosaurs live again by a series of hand-drawn cartoons]]." Winsor and his assistants promptly begin work on the cartoon, showing it to the cartoonists six months later. The animation then shows Gertie herself, going about activities such as eating a pumpkin that Winsor throws to her, or throwing a woolly mammoth into a nearby lake (he counters by squirting her, which she doesn't take well).