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	Gertie the Dinosaur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 short animated film by Winsor McCay that inspired many generations of animators to bring their cartoons to life.
		McCay, through intertitles, tells Gertie to come out and bow, and continues through the same interaction as in the vaudeville show (although the "apple" that McCay throws to her is now referred to as a pumpkin, which was more appropriate for the size of Gertie's mouth).
		Gertie the Dinosaur was produced before the introduction of later time-saving techniques such as cel animation.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Gertie_the_Dinosaur (1154 words)

	Dinosaur - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, new evidence of dinosaurs in chilly temperate climates and scientific analysis of the blood-vessel structures within dinosaur bone, have opened the possibility that some dinosaurs were endothermic, regulating their body temperature by internal biological methods.
		Large dinosaurs would presumably have faced the same situation: their size would dictate that they lost heat relatively slowly to the surrounding air, and so could have been what are called bulk endotherms, animals that are warmer than their environments through sheer size rather than any special adaptations like those of birds and mammals.
		Dinosaur fossils have been known about for millennia, though their true nature was not recognised; the Chinese considered them to be dragon bones, while Europeans believed them to be the remains of giants and other creatures killed by the Great Flood.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Dinosaur (2597 words)

	Gertie the Dinosaur
		Gertie the Dinosaur is the masterpiece of early animation.
		Gertie is the improvement and development of McCay's animation experiments in his first two films, Little Nemo and The Story of a Mosquito.
		Gertie raised her left leg, devoured a tree stump, became distracted by a sea serpent, lay down and rolled over, tossed a passing elephant into the lake, cried like a child when scolded, and caught a pumpkin supposedly tossed to her by McCay.
	www.filmreference.com /Films-Fr-Go/Gertie-the-Dinosaur.html (831 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Gertie the Dinosaur
		Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated film short that inspired a generation of animators to bring their cartoons to life.
		In the story, cartoonist Winsor McCay bets other artists that he can't bring a dinosaur to life.
		He draws Gertie, who comes to life, and then he steps into the cartoon himself.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ge/Gertie_the_Dinosaur (105 words)

	Self-referential movies: Gertie the Dinosaur
		He would begin the Gertie show with a lecture on how the film was created, draw Gertie on a large pad before the audience's eyes, and then segue into the projected film, which he would interact with.
		He would give Gertie orders as though she were a live trained elephant, throw a pumpkin toward the screen for Gertie to catch, and later seem to climb into the film and onto Gertie's back (the real McCay disappeared behind the screen and an animated on-screen "McCay" took his place).
		Gertie the Dinosaur exemplifies the dual fascination of most films of that era--they are both technological marvels and narrative entertainments.
	www.movies-seivom.org /Gertie_the_Dinosaur.html (796 words)

	Gertie The Dinosaur at The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette
		Gertie the Dinosaur was the world's first and most important animated dinosaur.
		Read her story at the Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette.
		McCay took the bet, and Gertie -- the world's first animated dinosaur -- found her way from McCay's pen to the motion picture screen, and from there into history.
	www.dinosaur.org /Gertie.htm (227 words)

	Gertie the Dinosaur
		Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated film short that inspired a generation of animators to bring their cartoons to life.
		In the story, cartoonist Winsor McCay bets other artists that he can't bring a dinosaur to life.
		He draws Gertie, who comes to life, and then he steps into the cartoon himself.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/Gertie_the_Dinosaur.html (100 words)

	The Lost World: Gertie the Dinosaur
		Gertie is, however, heralded as the first animated character, preceeding such luminaries as Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop.
		It ends with Gertie falling asleep and dreaming of the day when she was the life of the party, dancing amongst a group of brontosaurs.
		But a Gertie ice cream counter in a celebration of Hollywood is a nice tribute, after all, Gertie the Dinosaur is a watershed in the art of cinema.
	silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com /TheLostWorld/LWGERTIE.html (1033 words)

	DINOSAUR movie reviewed
		A special problem with the Disney dinosaurs is that since they talk, their faces have to have a softness and flexibility that is not appropriate.
		The iguanodon was one of the first dinosaurs discovered, named, and studied in the early nineteenth century, and I believe it was the first dinosaur for which a complete skeleton was found.
		No matter which portrayals of dinosaurs you prefer, it’s interesting to remember that when the first iguanodon fossils were found, their spiked thumbs were so unlike anything ever before seen on an animal that they were drawn with horns.
	www.peanut.org /mike/text/Dinomovi.htm (1254 words)

	Reviews of 'Winsor McCay - The Master Edition'
		Gertie is so cute, sweet, and charming, like a big lumbering dinosaur who nevertheless has the mind of an impish little kid.
		Gertie the Dinosaur, McCay's best-known creation, was originally part of McCay's vaudeville act and is the star of two animations on this DVD.
		He also credibly gave his creations weight, such as when Gertie is taking a drink out of the lake and the bank realistically crumbles beneath her tremedous girth.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/B0001UZWNY.html (1210 words)

	PREHISTORIC DINOSAURS EXTINCTION THE MESOZOIC JURASSIC AND CRETACEOUS PERIODS CONSERVATION AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
		Dinosaur fossils have been known about for millennia, though their true nature was not recognised; the Chinese considered them to be dragon bones, while Europeans believed them to be the remains of giants and other creatures killed by the Great Flood.
		Dinosaurs occupy a vaunted niche in the public mind; the very word conjures up images of gargantuan, now-defunct beasts that ruled the Earth long ago, holding a reign of terror for some 160 million years, and then mysteriously vanishing with only their titanic bones as evidence of their existence.
		Dinosaurs are a specific subgroup of the archosaurs, a group that includes crocodiles and birds, whereas mammoths and mastodons are mammals.
	www.solarnavigator.net /archaeology/dinosaurs.htm (6376 words)

	Dinosaur Park
		In 1999, the operators of Dinosaur Park took advantage of their piece of this terrain to populate the area with a collection of immobile prehistoric creatures cast by local artisans.
		Gertie would have been a meat eater, and on the smallish side for dinosaurs.
		The dinosaurs around the park look much like Gertie and her contemporary, the similar though larger Herrerasaurus found in South America, and the larger still Allosaurus which came much later.
	www.doney.net /aroundaz/route66/dinosaurpark.htm (636 words)

	Dinosaur (Movie): Winsor Mccay
		Even before McCay had shown the world the true potential of the animated cartoon in his landmark film "Gertie the Dinosaur" (1914), the first animation studios were already around, trying to exploit the medium for what they could.
		Raoul Barre' opened the first animation house in 1913, and within five years a new industry was born as more and more studios began to pop up around the New York metropolitan area.
		For wider distribution, McCay turned his Gertie the Dinosaur into a one-reel film which frames the animated sequence with a live-action story.
	www.lycos.com /info/dinosaur-movie--winsor-mccay.html (326 words)

	The Films of Winsor McCay
		Gertie in "modern" New York City is very funny in the brief snippets that survive: one can only imagine what the entire film was like.
		Gertie is utterly charming and deserving of its reputation as the first great animated film.
		There were other animated films before Gertie, but Gertie herself was the first great character to be defined by moving drawings, the spiritual godmother of Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, and all the rest.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/7309/mccay.html (1217 words)

	Gertie
		Gertie, a brontosaur, emerges from a cave, eats a rock and a tree, and bows to the audience.
		She does, looks at a sea serpent, is supposed to raise her left foot, is called a "bad girl," eats a pumpkin, finally raises the left foot, and eats a stump.
		Jumbo, a relatively small elephant meanders by; Gertie flings him into the lake, gets sprayed when he returns with a trunk full of water, and rests on her side.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/gertie.html (472 words)

	Gertie the Dinosaur - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
		Gertie the Dinosaur is popularly believed to be the first animated film.
		Once they'd seen Gertie on the screen, they were ready to believe animation was for real.
		In November of that year, Gertie the Dinosaur was released to theaters, and the whole country had the opportunity to be amazed at McCay's inventiveness and craftsmanship.
	www.toonopedia.com /gertie.htm (423 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF GERTIE THE DINOSAUR
		In Febuary of 1914, "Gertie the Dinosaur" debuted in Chicago as part of McCay's vaudeville act.
		McCay cracks his whip, and commands Gertie to bow to the audience, and to raise her foot.
		As the act proceeds, Gertie continues to be distracted from obeying McCay.
	www.vegalleries.com /old_site/gerthistory.html (850 words)

	Winsor McCay
		McCay decided to animate a Dinosaur to prove that his drawings were moving.
		The apple appears on the screen, and Gertie catches it in her mouth.
		Gertie becomes thirsty from all of her activities, and decides to take a drink from the lake.
	facweb.cs.depaul.edu /sgrais/winsor_mccay.htm (792 words)

	ORIGINAL PRODUCTION ARTWORK FROM WINSOR McCAY'S GERTIE THE DINOSAUR (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gertie sees the audience, and begins to emerge from her hiding place.
		Gertie makes her way to the foreground, and eyeing a tree decides to have a little snack.
		Gertie is distracted by a sea monster rising out of the lake.
	vegalleries.com /gertieart.html (505 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Gertie the Dinosaur
		Though Gertie was not the first cartoon character to come alive on screen, she might as well have been.
		He chose a dinosaur as his character because the animal was long extinct and no one could claim that the artist was employing trickery to make her move.
		Gertie "obeyed" his commands, cried when he reprimanded her, ate the snacks he tossed her, and playfully teased her trainer.
	www.findarticles.com /g1epc/tov/2419100502/p1/article.jhtml (792 words)

	The Lost World: Early Dinosaur Cinema
		Fending off dinosaurs of various types, from lizards in frills to life-sized paper mache, he also defends the women from the tribe of the villainous Monkeywalk.
		Gertie returned to the silver screen in 1921's Gertie on Tour, where she ran amok in the modern world.
		Joining Gertie in the world of traditional animation would be a 1919 silhouette animation entitled Adam Raises Cain and two 1925 shorts, The Bonehead Age and Felix Triffles With Time, a Felix the Cat short.
	silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com /TheLostWorld/LWEARLYDINO.html (2073 words)

	Dinosaur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Set 65 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period, "Dinosaur" follows the adventures of an Iguanodon named Aladar, who is separated from his own species as a hatchling and raised on an island paradise by a clan of Lemurs.
		Bringing "Dinosaur" to the screen required 3.2 million processing hours and the film's total elements occupied 45 terabytes of disc space (the equivalent of 45 million megabytes) or 70,000 CD-ROMs worth of information with 100 million individual files.
		A computerized camera rig known as the "Dino-cam" was used on certain complex shots to approximate the dinosaurs' POV and allow the filmmakers the precision that they needed to add in the characters and effects.
	www.cineworld.co.uk /films/dinosaur.fhtml (900 words)

	Dinosaur Gertie's at MGM Studios Disney World
		Gertie is very significant to MGM, Walt Disney Company and the entire film industry, because the seamless fluidity of the animation made people in the business stand up and take notice.
		That fuzzy white line outlining Gertie's neck is a fountain in Echo Lake, part of the hub at the end of Hollywood Boulevard.
		The lake and fountain near Gertie is probably deliberate as well, because one of her tricks was to drink an entire lake and then spit it all out.
	www.pansophist.com /dinogrt.htm (281 words)

	Superelectric: As She Sleeps She Dreams of Other Days When She was the Life of the Party (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gertie is one of the earliest pieces of animation, a film composed of roughly ten thousand individually drawn frames, done by Winsor McCay with the assistance of John A. Fitzsimmons.
		The film itself presents an amiable dinosaur named Gertie, a fl and white line drawing of no small charm, who interacts with a basic prehistoric environment, snacking on trees, drinking from a lake, and even dancing on her hind legs.
		Gertie's presentation as a film was far different from what we expect from a movie these days.
	similarselection.org /superelectric/mt-test/001340.html (626 words)

	The History of Gertie
		Gertie was not the first animated motion picture, nor was McCay the first animator.
		However, McCay and Gertie were the first to demonstrate the enormous potential of the medium, and together they inspired an entire generation of animators.
		Gertie was the crowning achievement in his career as an animator, incorporating naturalistic movements of objects, animals and even an animated self-caricature.
	www.patmedia.net /kdnathan/Index/xGertie/history.htm (540 words)

	ORIGINAL PRODUCTION ARTWORK FROM WINSOR McCAY'S GERTIE THE DINOSAUR
		Gertie sees the audience, and begins to emerge from her hiding place.
		Gertie makes her way to the foreground, and eyeing a tree decides to have a little snack.
		Gertie is distracted by a sea monster rising out of the lake.
	www.vegalleries.com /old_site/gertieart.html (505 words)

	Dinosaur
		A dinosaur egg is stolen from its nest and passed along by various birds, animals and other predators each hoping to eat it.
		Although "Dinosaur" intentionally veers from scientific fact in certain aspects of its storytelling, the filmmakers turned to several leading authorities in the world of paleontology and spent considerable time researching their leading dinosaurs to ensure a high degree of accuracy and authenticity in portraying the movement of the characters.
		The word "dinosaur" derives from Latin and is literally translated as "terrible lizard." It was first coined in 1842 by noted British paleontologist Sir Richard Owen, who used the word "Dinosauria" to represent the fossil remains of several extinct giants.
	www.binzouman.com /dvd/details/624.html (2717 words)

	Documentation for Gertie, Interrupted (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following a meteoric rise to fame, Gertie was forgotten to all but the most astute historians in the art of animation.
		Gertie has starred in two previous movies, Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) and Gertie on Tour (1921).
		All Gertie dancing scenes and the throwing of the mech are adapted from the original movies.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /graphics/Courses/cs-838-2002/Students/freytag/ProjectTwo/Documentation/ProjectTwoMain.html (248 words)

	Gertie - studioscentral.com
		Gertie the Dinosaur was released in 1914 and was one of the first animated characters, a creation of Winsor McCay, and it made the entertainment industry in Hollywood take notice of her and animation in general as a legitimate possibility for entertainment.
		Gertie wasn't the first cartoon but it was McCay's efforts that gave the animated film very lifelike movements and through his innovations, Winsor McCay became generally regarded as the father of the animated cartoon.
		It should also be noted that using Gertie as the exterior to an ice cream shop is paying tribute to the architectual style known as "California Crazy", which was popular in the 1930's and was designed to attract the attention of potential customers in a big way by using these larger-than-life buildings.
	www.studioscentral.com /column/why9.html (456 words)

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