How a Mosquito Operates (1912) Winsor McCay animation
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- [from Wikipedia] How a Mosquito Operates (1912), also known as The Story of a Mosquito, is a silent animated film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. The second of McCay's animated films, it is about a giant mosquito who torments a sleeping man. The short is one of the earliest examples of animation and is noted for the high technical quality of its naturalistic animation, considered far ahead of its contemporaries. McCay followed this film up in 1914 with his best-known animated work, Gertie the Dinosaur.
McCay had a reputation for technical dexterity in his cartooning, displayed most famously in the children's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905--1911). Beginning in 1906, he displayed his abilities in chalk talks before live audiences on the vaudeville circuit. After seeing flip books that his son Bob brought home, McCay delved into the infant art of film animation. He finished his first film (Little Nemo) in 1911, and incorporated it into his vaudeville act. McCay followed Little Nemo's success with How a Mosquito Operates, in which a mosquito preys on a sleeping man; the mosquito's abdomen swells as it draws blood until it explodes. The technical quality of McCay's animation was unmatched until Walt Disney's feature films appeared in the 1930s.
Literally every possibility was open to them. No ideas already taken. And they are like "Yeah a mosquito torturing some dude."
Must have been an eternal problem that even back then they were already so bothered by it that they took it as a subject for animation.
I mean, it's very relatable.
So? What's your point?
From wikipedia;
" The Detroit Times described audiences laughing until they cried, and "[going] home feeling that [they] had seen one of the best programs" in the theater's history. "
wait until they have to see skibidi toilet. thats a masterpice (im joking in case you didnt get that
I think this is still very well-made. The reason it looks uncanny to a lot of people is because many of the things we take for granted in animation weren't there yet, and we notice their absence even if we can't put our finger on it.
The most notable being the lack of animation cels, which weren't invented until 1915. EVERY frame was completely redrawn by hand, background and all (which is why the lines look unsteady).
Reversing the footage was also used a lot to cut down on the amount of re-drawing, which can make the movements feel mechanical.
And techniques like Squash & Stretch would only be popularized by later studios.
If we were in a theater audience in 1912 watching this, it wouldn't feel nearly as off-putting.
Thank you for the info. I love animation history.
The whole time, I kept thinking the mosquito was going to give him a lobotomy, but at 4:33, the mosquito goes bigger and just teabags the dude.
That's one big mosquito.
Considering the time that this was animated, this is excellent animation.
I am absolutely obsessed with old animations but this is scary
This actually teaches a good lesson about greed. If you get too greedy, you will self-destruct.
Hard to believe this is 111 years old
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I honestly am pretty unnerved by this video. Kinda disturbing. That having been said, thank you for posting it.
I’m glad you said that, K2, it made me very uneasy but I can’t say why and the music irritated me. I found that I was scratching my self!🤣
As for me the most disturbing part is that many actions are on repeat.
You're not the only one disturbed by it... especially after it greedily consumed all that blood. I truly couldn't wait for its butt to POP!
2:20 thats the creepiest face i have ever seen
kind of weird to think that almost everybody that was alive when this was made are already dead 😳
Literally everybody, you'd think...
@@JohnnyProctor9 As of this writing (March 23, 2023), based on what I was able to find, there's about 51 people left who were born before this cartoon was made (A few more out there could be possible, but the total couldn't be more than 75), and the oldest of them was four years old at the time.
@@LendriMujina - Wow, people sure are living long these days...like Dick Van Dyke!
I don't get the point of your comment. All people will die lol.
@@LendriMujinathe oldest person was born in 1907
I'm glad the mosquito didn't stick its thingy in his eye
For such an old cartoon, this has a distinct Mike Judge feel.
How do you mean?
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Great efforts by one of the masters of animation ,Winsor McCay ...
That big bastard makes me feel so uncomfortable, and yes, I am talking about the mosquito.
I feel horrified
Don't know why but I feel this is accurate when compared to real mosquitoes
6:08 it's just waked
3:30-6:08 sleeping
My favorite part 6:08-6:09
1:11 omg the line weight
No preliminary sketches, just straight on through animation.
The animation actually looks fluid
I am highly creeped out
It’s obviously intentionally triggering a highly traumatic event response - even though this guy could draw anything - he hadn’t developed the principles of animation because he was so early in its development breaking ground
damn 1912 was so laggy im glad new servers were added
Old is gold
wonderful to see his animations. My son and I studied "little nemo".
No mosquitos or humans were harmed during the making of this short animation.
ok thats creepy, i trully appreciate the time taken to draw this! But its really creepy how it portrayes people in 1910s 😨😨😨, Its like so long ago - they all dead...
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2:14 blood begins
4:39 20 whole seconds of this thing flying around. xD McCay, you show-off!
That's one giant ass mosquito
très belle animation, merci beaucoup pour le video ;)
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It's such a fabulous achievement!
Everyone is commenting that this video is somewhat creepy. I don't think it is creepy... I think the creepiest thing is the topic.
Edit: I commented this a year ago and I have no idea what I meant. I guess I was probably referring to the creepiness of parasitism. A creature that can only survive by taking from others.
The mosquito Is sucking blood out of the man it is verry unsettling
@@connorbetancourt5605 That's what mosquitos do...
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@@Mountainlion118 What?
It's so creepy yet so interesting
that was cool!
That's one fat mosquito
I'm uncomfortable
Alyson The Aly ... the idea entirely.
R.i.p. mosquito ????-1912
1912 movie I love this movie
Lol, mosquito was drunk to suck to much blood and explodes because gluttony.
What about the abnormal size of the mosquito it’s as big as the door
Esta animación es perturbadora, pero a la vez artística
Anyone knows why the frames keep being repeated? What was the technology limitation that caused this?
Repeating frames is called looping and it is still used in animation. Saves effort.
i am so interested best cartoon in my opinion but kinda creepy ngl lol
Essa é a animação mais bizarra, assustadora, macabra, desconfortável e paranóica que eu já vi
Foi criada por um dos pioneiros da animação Winsor McCay, ele criou outras obras além dessa que chegou a ser uma das animações mais assistidas da época, porém as outras animações dele não eram tão bizarras assim, apesar de naquela época a maioria das animações serem bizarras pro dias atuais.
remember the old days .
how do you find this creepy, i thought it was funny and entertaining
What an uncomfortable topic for such animation talent. Why?
What is the name of the music composed? And the composer?
Probably this music is just for this cartoon
before we profected animated anthropomorphism
5:13
Nightmare fuel
From that to 3d there is a greeeat distance
far superior to anything thats done today including cgi.....
imagine thinking that was true lol
@@wolfboyft I used to run home from school to watch this cartoon. Said No One. 🙄
While I understand the sentiment I don't fully agree. There are a lot of things that can be done in 3D that can't be done in 2D and vice versa, both have their strengths and flaws and I don't think it's fair to discount CGI entirely, because there have been plenty of great cartoons and movies made with the medium.
Looks like a flipbook...
The animation is amazing, but that music is god awful i absolutely hate it.
Does anybody know why the just randomly loop certain bits?
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Well this is simply inaccurate.
Ty Hardel, You're quite right there. Everybody knows mosquitos wear bowler hats, not toppers.
@@MrAronRobinsonI saw one wearing a fedora, but it flew away before I could get a photo for the Smithsonian.
Here because of that popular cartoons video
The mosquito is s big as the man's head 🤔
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Guysssss this vid man woah
I’m so high
Agreed, my dear friend who also suffered watching this.
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What song is playing?
This was before film was invented, wasn't it?
This is a film
I want to see an edit with all the lazy repeating/reversed animation removed.
It's hardly lazy when you're in the middle of creating one of the first cartoons ever. This is from 1912.
@@KaoticOrder I wasn't suggesting that I wished it had been edited back in 1912.
Mosquito explodes at the end. What does that mean? Did the critter finally get wacked and splattered as commonly happens? I don't they self destruct on their own.
It got greedy and kept drinking while it was already so bloated that it was struggling to move. Its body couldn't hold any more.
Who is watchin in 2021
People were easily entertained.
She should have quit while she was a-head.
Whoelse is here because of Mr. Enter
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Is not dead is 6:08
so so old film and so bored