Animation History 5: The television age

With the introduction the TV, broadcasters began to demand large quantities of programming on low budgets. This eventually lead to the fall of quality feature animations which were replaced by cheap mass produced shorts. Though this may sound like a bad thing at first, this lead to many cult classics that we know today such as the flintstones, bugs bunny etc.
Despite the mass produced nature of the animation industry in this era, this didn't stop the development of animation as art with pieces such as Mothlight by Stan Barkhage.

A film where brakhage stuck insect and plant parts to film.
This era also started the beginning of notable animators such as Ray Harryhausen, a stop motion animator that mostly used this method of animation to create movable mythical creatures. A collection of his work can be seen in this video below.

In japan 1963 Astroboy was created. It told a story of a robot Pinocchio, however the style of animation lead onto the popular genre of animation known as anime to be born.
Though the golden age of animation had ended, development of animation was still at an all time high. This earned this time of history as the silver age of animation.