Line #17 WesternAnimation/LittleNemo

Context WesternAnimation / LittleNemo

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3	''Little Nemo'' is a 1911 short film directed by cartoonist and animation pioneer Creator/WinsorMcCay.
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5	By 1911 [=McCay=] was a veteran cartoonist with newspaper comic strips such as ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' and ''ComicStrip/DreamOfTheRarebitFiend''. Meanwhile, a man named J. Stuart Blackton had been making some of the earliest examples of animated films, both in StopMotion (''Film/TheHauntedHotel''), and animated drawings (''Humorous Phases of Funny Faces''). In 1911, the two worked together on an animated adaptation of [=McCay=]'s ''Little Nemo'' comic, producing what might be the first AnimatedAdaptation of all time.
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7	More than half of the completed film is actually live action. It begins with a scripted sequence in which [=McCay=] meets with some of his friends, and bets them that he can make a 4000-frame animated short film. The next scene shows [=McCay=] and his assistants working in the studio. Next, [=McCay=] gathers his friends together to show them the film. The movie then concludes with by far the most famous part, [=McCay=]'s animated short, which he made by hand-drawing 4000 images on rice paper. The images were photographed by Blackton.
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12	* AnimatedAdaptation: It might be the very first one.
13	* TheBet: [=McCay=] is challenged by his friends to make a four-thousand frame animated cartoon, within one month. He does so. The animated portion takes up the final quarter of the 10-minute film.
14	* DerangedAnimation: The animation is quite surreal, with characters stretching and shrinking, materializing out of random lines, etc. [=McCay=] is demonstrating potential of the art form.
15	* LineBoil: Present, as one might expect for a hand-drawn cartoon.
16	* MediumAwareness: One of the characters in the animated short draws another character, which he then interacts with.
17	* MediumBlending: A combination of live-action and animation. The first part is a live-action film detailing the making of the cartoon, and the last part is the finished cartoon.
18	* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: The actual title of the film is "Winsor [=McCay=]: The Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics". It is almost universally referred to simply as ''Little Nemo''.
19	* SmokyGentlemensClub: Where [=McCay=] and his friends are hanging out when they make the bet, and where he shows them the finished cartoon.
20	* SplashOfColor: The cartoon characters are hand-colored.

Context WesternAnimation / LittleNemo