Rotoscope
gave animators the ability to trace directly over film footage
The Rotoscope
The rotoscope, invented by Max Fleischer in 1915, gave animators the ability to trace directly over film footage. This, in turn, allowed them to translate the movements of a real person into that an animated character. One favorite rotoscope performer was the great Cab Calloway, whose amazing dance moves were captured in a number of early animations including Minnie the Moocher (1931) and The Old Man of the Mountain (1933). Fleischer had first debuted the rotoscope’s capabilities in 1918, by filming his brother dancing on a roof in a clown suit. The result was Out of the Inkwell featuring Koko the Clown.
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Great entry. The tattoo is amazing.
In Office Hours today you gave the syntax for linking to a text fragment, and I found the browser extension for that. [https://web.dev/text-fragments/] But it didn't work for me on my substack article. Have you made it work on substack? I thought maybe it has been disabled here.