Season 1, Episode 1: Space Pilot 3000
Original Air Date —28 March 1999 On New Year's Eve 1999, Pizza Delivery boy Philip J. Fry accidentally falls into a cryogenic chamber and is frozen for 1,000 years. Finally unfrozen, he explores New New York, meets his new best friend (a kleptomaniacal robot named Bender) and goes to work for his great-great-great great-grand-nephew's space delivery business.

by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAObel8yIE
• Emile Cohl created the first fully animated film,
Fantasmagorie (1908), and in the process lifted cartoons out of the realm of trick films and started them on the path toward animated features. The two minute film Fantasmagorie (alternatively, in English: A Fantasy, Black and White, or Metamorphosis) is made up on approximately 700 double-exposed drawings, using what is known as a "chalk-line effect", a technique probably borrowed from early animator James Stuart Blackton.

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kcSp2ej2S00&feature=related
• New York Herald comic-strip animator and sketch artist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) produced a string of comic strips from 1904 1911, his three best being Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend, Little Sammy Sneeze, and Little Nemo in Slumberland (from October 15, 1905 to July 23, 1911). Although McCay wasn't the first to create a cartoon animation, he nonetheless helped to define the new industry. He was the first to establish the technical method of animating graphics. His first animation attempt used the popular characters from his comic strip (and became part of his own vaudeville act): Little Nemo in Slumberland (1911) (with 4,000 hand-drawn frames), followed by How a Mosquito Operates (1912) (with 6,000 frames).

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hwV oFQsiOA&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4 C3355476B4&index=7 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=36gqBo USJ4M&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4C3 355476B4&index=0

• Walter McCay first prominent, successful and realistic cartoon character or star was a brontosaurus named Gertie in Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) (with 10,000 drawings, backgrounds included), again presented as part of his act. In fact, McCay created the "interactive" illusion of walking into the animation by first disappearing behind the screen, reappearing on-screen!, stepping on Gertie's mouth, and then climbing onto Gertie's back for a ride - an astonishing feat! It was the earliest example of combined 'live action' and animation, and the first "interactive" animated cartoon. Some consider it the first successful, fully animated cartoon - it premiered in February 1914 at the Palace Theatre in Chicago.

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC0Sb6pLvI
• Wladyslaw Starewicz' childhood passion for
entomology led his career: he began producing short documentaries in Moscow around 1909-1910, beginning with a documentary about insects in Lithuania. In his spare time, he experimented with stop-action films using beetles, which he articulated by wiring the legs to the thorax with sealing wax! This, of course, led to his big breakthrough, released by the Van Kanjonkov Studio of Moscow: "The Battle of the Stag Beetles", the first puppet-animated film.

• The little-known but pioneering, oldest-surviving feature length animated film that can be verified (with silhouette animation techniques and color tinting) was released by German film-maker and avante-garde artist Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (aka Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) (1926, Germ.), based on the stories from the Arabian Nights. Reiniger's achievement is often brushed aside, due to the fact that the animations were silhouetted, used paper cut-outs, and they were done in Germany. And the rarely-seen prints that exist have lost much of their original quality. However, the film was very innovative -- it used multi plane camera techniques and experimented with wax and sand on the film stock.

• • UGOKIE-KO-RI-NO-TATEHIKI(1933) (Moving picture -Fox and Asian racoon's cheats each other) Director: Ikuo Oishi In the temple that became ruins, the fox that disguises as the samurai does the fight of magic with Asian racoon's parent and child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGvGMa 2RFg

• • Holló Jankó
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=na9Kn MZv3Rk&feature=related
• "Holló Jankó" (also known as Janko Raven) from the animated series "Magyar Népmesék" (Hungarian Folktales).

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q_JVga VDDfI&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4C33 55476B4&index=16
• Experimental animated film, telling the story of Janko, the musician.

• Czechoslovak animator extraordinaire, Jan has been making intensely bizarre films since the mid-'60s. Most of his work is a mix between 3-D stop-motion animation, puppets and live-action, but it can involve any mix of the above. His stories are eerie, delightful, and surreal. His actors include real people, machines, socks, clay figures, antique dolls, pencil sharpeners, and skeletons or stuffed corpses of animals, among other things. His sets are usually decaying Czech buildings or landscapes, decorated with waste of the industrial age: rotting furniture, rusty nails, sawdust, oily screws, and the like.

• BAGPUSS EP1 PT1 (A tribute to oliver
postgate)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6GgxHoqUho
• Pre CGI, this saggy, old cloth cat first appeared in the shop window in 1974. Through a series of sepia photographs we were told the story of a little girl named Emily who owned a shop where lost items were placed in the window, in front of Emily's favourite stuffed toy, Bagpuss

• • Creature Comforts
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AAd kfiamU&feature=PlayList&p=AF3847178 8E4BF63&index=1
• • Politicians debate the war in Iraq
(Creature comforts) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6N_tns vmeAo

• • Naruto Manga 433 • [HQ English]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUH C61xZlGQ

• • toy story 2 videos bloopers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWcl gyyIfUs

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgeI ZyrIM0