"Gertie the Dinosaur" was arguably Winsor McCay's greatest achievement, and a watershed in the history of animation. Nobody bettered it for 20 years.

100 years ago today, one of the first major pieces of animation, Winsor McCay's "Gertie the Dinosaur," debuted.

Lumière Festival: ’Gertie the Dinosaur,’ ‘Professor Balthazar’ Reanimated After Restorations Lumière Festival focuses restoration panel on a legendary early American animation gem,and a ...

However, Gertie has been around since the early 1900s. Gertie the Dinosaur was created by newspaper cartoonist Winsor McCay. McCay is considered by many to be a pioneer in early animation.

McCay, with his masterpieces Gertie the Dinosaur and later The Sinking of the Lusitania, had indeed set the bar for artistic excellence very high.But art was not all that was at stake in these ...

This Gertie the Dinosaur and tuxedoed Winsor McCay garage kit is especially appropriate in 2014, the 100th anniversary of McCay’s seminal animated film.

Winsor McCay created the animated character Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914. Due to Walt Disney’s respect and appreciation for the animation work McCay did on Gertie the Dinosaur, ...

View Winsor McCay Gertie the Dinosaur Gertie and Winsor McCay Animation Drawing Original Art Sequence of 3 (Winsor McKay By McCay Winsor; newspaper editorial cartoonist, and for his lauded comic strip ...

Even more so than The Lost World, cinema owes a great debt to Gertie the Dinosaur. Running just 12 minutes, 1914’s Gertie short was one of the first animated films in history and a brilliant ...

Gertie The Dinosaur is one of the earliest examples of an animated dinosaur appearing in a movie, if you class 13 minutes and 51 seconds as sufficient enough to count. In it, we see a bunch of ...