If Cartoons from the 30s-40s-50s is called the "Golden Age" then whats the term for 60s-70s 'toons?
If Cartoons from the 30s-40s-50s is called the "Golden Age" then whats the term for 60s-70s 'toons?
If Cartoons from the 30s-40s-50s is called the "Golden Age" then whats the term for 60s-70s 'toons?
Silver?
Silver age is referring to the 90s to 2000s from what i recall.
Correct.
It's the Silver Age because it was on the silver screen, aka the television. It was the era that TV really became a fixture of American life
>silver screen
the silver screen refers to early motion picture screens, not television. call it the boob tube era and you might be a little closer.
Correct me if im wrong but doesn't Silver age refers to the 90s and 2000s because alot of cartoons were being made with effort and for something other than selling toys making it similar to the golden age but not quite?
Generally "The Dark Age" or "The UPA Era" depending on who you're talking to.
Do people even care about UPA? Their historical significance seems astroturfed.
IRL Hanna Barbera was making the stuff people watched in the 60s and 70s
Keyphrase being "depending on who you're talking to". If you know, you know.
I don't get it, elaborate.
United Picture Artists established the limited animation style that would later be perfected by Hannah Barbara in the 1970s. UPA made a Popeye series as well as the first Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon.
Shit.
Industrial age
Whys that? Is it called that because of all the mass produced HB stuff?
Pretty much with little competition after the big players couldn’t do anymore theatrical shorts, filmation and ruby spears were also competitive during this period and most the cartoons were highly forgettable spin off’s or one-shot shows trying to recapture the success of scooby-doo many of which trying to recycle the original concept idea for scooby-doo though very few people know these exist now. On the bright side live action programming we’re in their heights and the muppet show was a thing
The golden age technically ended in 1967 following the closure of the theatrical paramount, mgm, and Warner animation studios for good, Disney and Walter lantz at that point were making animation for television, this period is referred to as the dark age
The "oh shit we don't have the money to keep doing this" era.
'60s is Silver age. '70s-early '80s is shit and Mid and late '80s is renaissance and '90s to early 2000s is revival.
Hanna Barbera age XD
Dark age. Everything from the 60s on from every studio is garbage. Disney, WB, MGM, you name it, it’s shit. God, those daffy and speedy cartoons are the worst.
the yellow submarine movie wasn't that bad
Yeah there definitely was some good stuff that came from this period
Come to think about it, I mostly know american cartoons from that era (and some french stuff Asterisk and Obelisk's 12 labours)
Were there cartoons being made by other countries?
I mean, I know Japan was doing anime, but anyone else?
>but anyone else?
the soviet union and eastern block made a lot of animation, first thing that comes to mind are the political ones that got banned like glass harmonica but even their TV animation like nu pogodi was at least fluidly animated compared to hanna-barbera and filmation. i saw this video about it and most of it was news to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0OQIraSHqs
most of it is available online with MTL'd subtitles if you're interested, you'd probably want to watch the later stuff as that's the most interesting material from a technical and story perspective
If only Jucika has her own animated cartoon
god please my life would be complete
Yeah
I'm mostly referring to theatrical shorts and TV cartoons. There are some exceptions, but they are pretty sparse.
I like Sword and the Stone, but you can't really say it looks good. Xerox era Disney was pretty bad.
At least I can get 4k blurays of 35mm scans of the classics now.
Yeah its odd how when you look at animation from 70s the only thing that doesn't resemble a hannah barbera show is disney stuff.
We're in the dark age right now.
A new dark age. Hopefully it gives birth to an age of indie success.
Sword in the stone was pretty good, but then again it was a serious disney film and not exactly a "Toon"
Late 60s to mid 80s is generally considered the dark age of animation.
Late 80s to the turn of the century was the Renaissance.
that's mostly just true for disney though, there was good animation being made in other countries and other studios but it wasn't disney leading the pack
50s-60s is modern style
Donald really is a feet gay, isn't he?