Process & Production: Gertie The Dinosaur

Gertie The Dinosaur was created in 1914 by the American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. With Gertie being considered to be the first ever animation to ever feature a dinosaur, probably played a small part in influencing how we thought cartoon dinosaurs looked.
In the process of creating Gertie, McCay required the help of one of his neighbours, John Fitzsimmons, who assisted McCay in tracing the backgrounds of an eye-watering ten thousand images onto rice paper and then mounted them onto cardboard to be processed and was the height of animation technology at the time.
Gertie The Dinosaur was a huge revolutionary change in the way animation was created.