![]() ![]() How, then, can we explain the popularity of the first animated cartoons in the mid-1910s when trick films had almost disappeared? How can we account for the popularity of a variety of ‘trick films’ -animated drawings - precisely when these same trick films had almost ceased to exist? This article addresses these issues by looking at the process by which a major shift occurred in the way we look at the earliest animated drawings. Analysis of discourses on the first animated cartoons - such as the critical and publicity discourses found in trade papers - reveals that these films were seen like any other trick films, not as a distinct type. ![]() ![]() "By abandoning a linear understanding of film history, the author revisits animated film history by placing its emergence within the lineage of trick films. ![]()
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