Study Task 2 - Reading and Understanding Texts

for this task, I read the following books as a starting point. I have collected the key dates to use as a starting point for my research. Online Sauces where also used to supplement and fill gaps in the timelines.   This has been arranged into an aesthetically pleasing timeline poster. 

Anime: A History

Animation: A World History vol 1

Illusion of life

The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention

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(In case you couldn't read my hand writing because it was too small i wrote everything down)

American Animation Timeline 

• 1906 Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton is widely regarded as one of the first animated cartoons

• 1908 Fantasmagorie is the first animated film using hand-drawn animation

• 1914  Gertie the Dinosaur was the first animation to use inbetweening and keyframing and looping animation  

• rotoscope technique was invented by animator Max Fleischer in 1915

• 1919 Felix the Cat

• 1928 Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon to have sound matched with the animation.

• 1932 Flowers and Trees, a Silly Symphonies, For the first time, Won an Academy Award for the best cartoon.

• 1937 snow white it was the first animated feature-length film ever

• Fantasia 1940

• Make Mine Music 1946

• Melody Time 1948

• Cinderella 1950

• 1960 The Flintstones. It was the first animated cartoon series.

• The Jungle Book 1967

• Tron 1982, included an early form of CGI animation.

• pixar 1986

• 1988  Who Framed Roger Rabbit

• Beauty and the Beast  1991

• Toy Story the first feature-length film to be animated entirely in 3D 1995

• Tarzan 1999 used deep canvas

• Treasure Planet 2002 deep canvas, CGI. and traditional

• 2009 Avatar the first “3D” (did Toy Story not do 3D first???)  live action film

• Spiderman into the Spider-verse 2019

Japanese Animation Timeline

Japanese animation could have possibly been around for longer than Western animation. However, most Japanese animated films were destroyed in WWI and WWII. In addition to this, the Japanese film industry used to repurpose the old film reels and use them for newer material, effectively destroying the original film once it had had its run. It is because of this that this timeline remains incomplete, because the films that were created between the gaps, could not be found.

• in 1923, there was an earthquake in Japan. This meant that the anime industry was forced to start from scratch because lots of celluloid film reel was destroyed.

• Ofuji Noburo created The Thief of Baguda Castle (1926), this film was the first to make its presence felt outside of Japan.

• The first full-length theatrical film in the history of Japanese anime was a propagandist film designed to lift morale and commitment to the war effort. It was entitled Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (1945).

• In 1956, Toei Animation was created. Okawa Hiroshi's intentions were to become the Disney of the East (which is interesting, because Hayao Miyazaki came from Toei Animation to form Studio Ghibli, which is now considered to be the Japanese equivalent of Disney).

• In 1963, Fuji Television broadcast a 30-minute television series, Tetsuwan Atomu, otherwise known as Astro Boy. 

• In 1970, Tetsuwan Atomu was dubbed into English, as Astro Boy.

• In 1976, 3,000 leagues In Search of Mother was broadcast.

• In 1980, Astro Boy, the colour television series was broadcast.

• 1985, Studio Ghibli was founded.

• During 1986 - 1989, the anime, Dragon Ball was broadcast.

• In the 1990s, American studios began to dub and sub anime.

• In 1995, Sailor Moon was broadcast.  it became the original blueprint for the magical girl show.

• 1996, Pokemon came to Nintendo

• 1997, Pokemon was adapted into an anime.

• In 2001 spirited away

• In 2003, Disney acquired the rights to dub Ghibli films from Japanese into English.

• 2013, Miyazaki announced that he was retiring

Technology/ Social Media Timeline

• 1969 the first switched network was created by linking 4 current nodes in Utah

• 1972 the first program devoted to email was introduced

• 1976 queen Elizabeth sends out an email

• 1981 csnet is released to 56 computers allowing them to network without the government's involvement.

• 1983 domain name system was created

• 1990 a hypertext system is developed

• 1991 the world wide web becomes public

• 1995 NSF sells domain names for £50

• 1997 six degrees the first social media network is launched

• 1998 Netscape releases code for navigator

• 1999 wifi becomes standard

• 2001 blackberry releases the first phone with wifi

• 2003 myspace

• 2004 facebook is created

• 2005 youtube is created

• 2006 twitter

• 2010 Instagram

Summery of Peer Group Review

• The design was fun and interesting

• I didn't really analyse the texts

• It was easy to follow. 

• The writing could have been clearer.