Animation History 3: Animation before the golden age

Animation before disney was dull. And i'm not saying that i like disney, quite the opposite, however i will discuss that in a separate blog post. The reason i feel animation before disney was dull is because of the lack of the 12 principles, so most of the animation runs in a very uncanny way that seems too smooth. Furthermore animations were long winded and extremely simple, meaning old animations don't keep my attention very well.

One of the best examples of these things i find irritating all condensed into one little irritating ball is the animation of the sinking of the Lusitania animation.

The American patriotic and propaganda feel of the animation is the first thing that irritates me as art in order to convert people to a particular viewpoint goes against my morals, but the most irritating thing is that it takes 12 minutes to tell people that a lot of people got killed in this tragedy, that's over 27000 frames, which seems like a lot of work. Furthermore the soundtrack is repetitive and annoying which as i have discovered from some of the work produced by my peers can have a devastating effect on how people perceive the animation. The actual animation of the boat is very well done but only needed to last for about a minute. I do not like this era of animation.