The best known, and most enduring export from this formative period is Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat, whose Felix in Hollywood (1923) is the only short from this era to appear on Jerry Beck’s canonical list of “The 50 Greatest Cartoons”. ![]() The emergence of Bray Productions in 1914 marks the beginning of this period, and a style emerged and matured which ran for roughly 14 years before being replaced with rubber hose animation – if Steamboat Willie (1928), with its rubberized limbs and synchronized sound is to be taken as the beginning of the next period. ![]() I will begin with the observation that there is no standardized name with a widely accepted currency to describe the prevailing style which began with the inception of studio animation.
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