Performance, Page 2 - Winsor McCay "The Originator and Inventor" still
Bug Vaudeville
Winsor McCay humbly claims to have invented animation in the opening title sequence for Bug Vaudeville (1921). The career of Winsor “Silas” McCay spanned the rise of the movies, the birth of American animation, and its rationalization as an industry. A talented artist, gifted performer, and tireless self-promoter, McCay began working in the 1880s, and after a few years designing posters and programs for dime museums, circuses, and traveling shows, McCay became a newspaper sketch artist—in part because of his skill at drawing the unusual and grotesque, and also because he could draw incredibly quickly and accurately.
By the dawn of the twentieth century, he had established himself as a newspaper cartoonist, first through editorial cartoons and then through Sunday cartoon series such as Little Sammy Sneeze (1904-1906), Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend(1904-1911, 1913), and Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905-1914). Dreams was so popular that it became a stage show, and then in 1906 was interpreted on film by Edwin S.Porter.
Winsor McCay humbly claims to have invented animation in the opening title sequence for Bug Vaudeville (1921). The career of Winsor “Silas” McCay spanned the rise of the movies, the birth of American animation, and its rationalization as an industry. A talented artist, gifted performer, and tireless self-promoter, McCay began working in the 1880s, and after a few years designing posters and programs for dime museums, circuses, and traveling shows, McCay became a newspaper sketch artist—in part because of his skill at drawing the unusual and grotesque, and also because he could draw incredibly quickly and accurately.
By the dawn of the twentieth century, he had established himself as a newspaper cartoonist, first through editorial cartoons and then through Sunday cartoon series such as Little Sammy Sneeze (1904-1906), Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend(1904-1911, 1913), and Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905-1914). Dreams was so popular that it became a stage show, and then in 1906 was interpreted on film by Edwin S.Porter.
Bug Vaudeville depicts a sleepy man observing as bugs perform a series of tricks upon a vaudeville stage. The set featuring bodily contortions, a pair of bugs performing a acrobatic dance, a boxing match among other tricks, with each performances separated by title cards as we watch the man watch the show.
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