"Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation" provides the first comprehensively detailed history and critique of cinema animation world wide. It is the long-awaited English language edition of a work that has already been acclaimed as a classic work of scholarship in its French and Italian editions on the marvellous and exciting subject of animated cinema. The account opens in France in 1888, when Emile Reynaud invented the the tre optique. His work with moving painted images pre-dates the first public presentation of moving images by Edison in the US in 1894 (Kinetoscopes Edison) and the first public projection of moving cinematographic images by the Lumiere brothers in France in 1895. The book then moves on to offer an historical account of all aspects of animation - both short and full-length films, directors, show business, cultural influences, trends, investments, production companies, TV series, computer animation and other technical developments. The book is divided according to the major filmmakers and national cinemas. All regions of the world are covered in this lavishly illustrated, authoritative and encyclopaedic account. "Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation" covers over 70 countries, 2,000 animators, 3,000 films and contains a great deal of information which has never before been published.
