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[Gertie on tour--excerpts] / - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Gertie on tour--excerpts] / - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Summary

Gertie is a dinosaur who lives in present times. She encounters a train and dreams of being the life of the party in her time.
Copyright: no reg.
Additional animators, John McCay, John Fitzsimmons.
Main and end titles and parts of film lacking.
Duration: 1:22 at 24 fps.
Summary from J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress.
On reel with: [The centaurs--excerpts].
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1912-1939; Library of Congress video collection, v. 3, Origins of American animation, 1900-1921; McIntire, J. Silent animated films at the Library of Congress, 1995; M/B/RS preliminary catalog card; Big cartoon database WWW site, viewed March 30, 2012.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.

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Date

01/01/1921
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Contributors

McCay, Winsor, direction, production, animation.
McCay, John, animation.
Fitzsimmons, John A., animation.
Rialto Productions.
AFI/Cinémathèque canadienne Collection (Library of Congress)
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Source

Library of Congress
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Copyright info

Public Domain

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