Speech de maria Victoria do Passages 1 do ALL Stella Maris.

1. Cartoons

2. The beginning
• Silent film until
nowadays.
• Émile Reynaud:
praxinoscope.
• First cartoon:
Fantasmagorie -
Émile Courtet.
• 1910: Without colors
and for adults.
• Sounds before colors.

3. From 1920 until
1960

4. Felix the Cat
• Frist popular character.
• Successful
• Decline at 1928 ( cartoons with sounds)
• Back for the TV: 1953 (Long legs and a magic bag of
tricks)

5. Mickey Mouse
• Mortimer
• Plane Crazy (silent) and
Steamboat Willie (first
with sounds and music) :
1928
• Anthropomorphism
• Clothes: tribute
to Demolay.

6. Betty Boop
• Jewish immigrant with a
sexy image
• Queen of the cartoons in
30’s.
• Inspired in jazz.
• Censured (Disney times):
1938
• Appearance with Felix the
Cat (comics):1984

7. Popeye the Sailor
• Popeye = Pop Eye.
• Stronger with spinach
• Characters were inspired.

8. Tom and Jerry
• Criated by Hanna-Barbera
• Awards
• Sadistic tendencies
• Polemics
• Inspiration for “The
Simpsons”.

9. From 1960 until nowadays.

10. The Flintstones
• Hanna-Barbera.
• 300 million
spectators in
80 countries.
• Prehistory’s family.
• Almost 30 minutes.
• Anachronism.

11. Scooby Doo
• “Who's Ssssscared?” –
Very scary.
• Changes
• “Strangers in the Night”
– Frank Sinatra.
• Considered the best of
cartoons.

12. The Simpsons
• Satire of american’s
families (sitcom).
• More than 20 Emmy’s.
• Almost 500 episodes.
• Creatives openings.
• Neologisms
• Hollywood Walk of
Fame
• Black humor.
• Censored at Venezuela.

13. Rugrats
• Babies’ adventures.
• Metaphors literally
• Only Angelica talks.
• Rumor.

14. SpongeBob SquarePants
• Created by a marine
biologist.
• Bikini Bottom: inspired in
Seattle.
• Affects attention and
learning
• Squilliam Fancyson’s
suicide

15. Courage the Cowardly Dog
• Adopted
• Lives in Nowhere, Kansas.
• Creppy criatures (ironic).
• Area 51.
• Not very childish
• Refers to “The Exorcist” and “Thriller” by
Michael Jackson

16. Pokémon
• Created by Satoshi
Tajiri and Ken
Sugimori.
• Mark at pop culture.
• Started with games.
• Criticized by religions.
• Cruelty to animals.

17. The Grim Adventures of Billy and
Mandy
• Sarcastic, ironic.
• Grim Reaper lost a bet.
• Mandy: evil, grumpy and
without feelings.
• Billy: fool, stupid and happy.
• “Smile... tomorrow will be
worst.”
• Refers to other produtions
(Harry Potter, Dragon Ball,
Lord Byron)