1950s - 1960s First Computer Animation "Animal Farm" (1 Jan 1950 Jahr – 1 Jan 1960 Jahr)

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John Whitney Sr. was widely recognised as one of the fathers of computer animation, being an American animator, composer and inventor creating the first ever computer animation. In the 1950s, Whitney would build his first analogue computer that he converted from a World War II M-5 anti-aircraft gun director to create a complex drawing machine that could be used like a giant spirograph, he used mathematics to control the device to produce precise lines and shapes

He would use his device to create sequences for television programs and commercials, later he would animate the opening title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo with the help of graphic designer Saul Bass, this was considered to be one of the first live-action films to use computer animation.

Animal Farm” (1954) is an animated adaptation of the allegorical novel of the same name written by George Orwell and was published in 1945 in England. It's a story about a group of farm animals that rebel against their owner in hopes to create a society where animals can be free and equal. However, the rebellion is betrayed and left in a worse state than before. The book and the film was an allegory for the current tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War, “Animal Farm” symbolizing Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule.

“Animal Farm” was actually funded by the CIA and bought the rights to it.“Animal Farm” was produced as a propaganda film and was a part of their anti-Stalin and anti-Soviet Union propaganda strategy.

The production employed 80 animators to work on the film and was directed by both John Halas and Joy Batchelor. The animation historian Brain Sibley claims that the team responsible wasn’t aware of the source of the initial funding of the project.

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