History of Animation

 John Randolph Bray John Randolph Bray was an American animator that was born in 1879 in Detroit, Michigan  (Google Search, 2022). Bray began his artistic career in 1900 as an artist for a newspaper, called the Detroit Evening News, then moved on to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1903, and quickly began selling his cartoons to magazines (Library of Congress, 1999 & Furniss, 2016, p. 43). He eventually got interested in animation after watching other animated films and began producing his own, which helped further the advancement of animation (LOC, 1999). Bray’s first film, called “The Artist’s Dream”, is the first of his 968 producer credits and was released in 1913 on June 12 th , six months before he introduces Colonel Heeza Liar (IMDb, 2022). “The Artist’s Dream” is a film that combines live action cinematography with animation. The film starts off with Bray asking his friend for his opinion on the animation and gets told that the dog is too stiff and that it was...