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How a Mosquito Operates

  • 1912
  • Not Rated
  • 6 Min.
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How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
Handgezeichnete AnimationAnimationsfilmKomödieKurzThriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake ... Alles lesenA hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.

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    6springfieldrental

    First Cartoon With Personality

    Previous to animator Winsor McCay's January 1912 release of "How A Mosquito Operates,' film animation shorts were made up of a series of simple line drawings of nondescript objects or forms of people morphing into alternate shapes. One exception was McCay's 1911's "Little Nemo," where the New York Herald/New York American newspaper comic strip artist had produced the first cartoon of a character gleaned from his "Little Nemo In Slumberland" work. "Little Nemo" showcased the Nemo character going through a series of movements.

    His "How a Mosquito Operates" takes an episode from his comic strip "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" and personalized a mosquito in his quest for drawing blood out of a human. This became cinema's first cartoon that reflects a personality where an insect adopts human traits in its pursuit for a never-ending source of blood nutriments.

    McCay made 6,000 drawings on rice paper for this six-minute film. The artist relied on simple black-on-white etchings without a concern for background details. Cel animation, which would make backgrounds fully realized, would come later. To save time and lengthen the time of the movie, McCay looped his drawings in repeated action in several spots.

    McCay must have had a heart attack when, during a raging snowstorm in December when he finished all his drawings for the cartoon, he hired a driver in a horse-drawn cab carriage to take his work to Vitagraph Studios to laboriously photograph the etchings onto film. The taxi never arrived at the New York City studios and disappeared for a few days. City police informed McCay after a heart-wrenching wait they found the taxi with all his drawings, untouched, inside the cab with the horses detached from the carriage three miles away. The bundle of drawings took McCay nine months of meticulous work.

    Front-ending "How A Mosquito Operates" cartoon, now lost, was similar to "Little Nemo," a live-action sequence where McCay and his daughter are pestered by mosquitos at their New Jersey summer home. They seek out a college professor who speaks insect language, who tells them to draw how the mosquito does his work on humans. The animation we see is the one McCay shows the professor for his interpretation.
    3mickeythechamp

    Incredible for it´s time, underwhelming today

    Okay, this one is really tough to rate and review. Let´s start by acknowledge why it´s great, important, and good. Winsor McCay is one of the pioneers of animation. Without him and work like this short, animation would not be where it is today. Surely another like him would emerge eventually, but here we are. The animation is cool to look at and McCay clearly had a style to his drawings, but I most say I find the short too long for what it is. It´s repetitive and it´s nature is a bit in east and west. I´m personally not a fan and wont revisit it anytime soon but acknowledging the importance might make you feel different about it.

    A hungry mosquito sucks the blood of a sleeping man.

    The animation is simple but looks really nice. It has a style to it that I can´t tell was intentionally scary or looks exactly like McCay wanted it. It´s a really nightmarish looking animation that is pure nightmarefuel. The mosquito looks scary enough, but the man looks so horrifying. This is not helped by the over-the-top actions of the mosquito that makes the act of sucking blood look so extreme and unpleasant. Again, I have no idea if that was the intentional feelings McCay wanted to Conway, but here we are.

    While the animation has a style to it it´s still really primitive and there is so much repetition to what happens. The mosquito dose the same action three or four times in a row and for a short that is 6 minutes it feels so much longer because of it. While it looks and works fine, I think it could have conveyed what it wanted in less runtime. There just isn't a lot to it and the primitive nature hasn't aged it well. I forgive it for the primitive state though since it was groundbreaking for the time.

    The music is also a bit tone shifting all throughout. It´s also disturbing yet triumphant when the mosquito gets´s to suck blood and I'm not sure if it´s the hero of villain of the story.

    While once again, I´ll acknowledge the importance of McCay´s work it´s not something I´m drawn too. I find it too scary, simple, repetitive and while groundbreaking for it´s time, it´s a bit lackluster and not that impactful today. While it´s fine I find it a bit to boring to really want to watch it again.
    8austex23

    Beautiful, weird and funny

    Like all of Winsor McKay's cartoons, this little mosquito fable uses his incredible artistic talent to its fullest and contains a surprising amount of wit for such a simple, short subject. Like his newspaper cartoons, McKay's animated films are distinctive in their art and humor, but the animated films are especially interesting because they lie at the very root of cartoons. Gags that are still being used today appear in this little gem. The collected works that contains Mosquito provides an amazing insight into a brand new art form that had unbounded possibilities in the early 1900s, possibilities that arguably are still unfolding today.
    10Rodrigo_Amaro

    Simple, Funny and still good to watch on any occasion

    I must thank the great Britanic film director Mike Leigh for including this animated film between his Top 10 films of all time otherwise I wouldn't know about it and see how cool this is. And the strangest thing is that is quite rare you see a film director or a actor quoting a animation as one of his favorites films.

    Why "How a Mosquito Operates" is so fascinating? It's simplicity, originality and the way it was made makes this animation one of the most interesting ever made. Released in 1912 (yes, on the same year the Titanic sank) this short animated film tells in a very charming and funny way the story of a hunger mosquito that flies away into the apartment of a man only to suck his blood. This situation probably happened to everybody, we are sleeping or trying to sleep and then a mosquito appears bugging us, biting us, flying all around. So here's a film that present us a simple story yet very funny to watch.

    The techniques employed here are very good, making this film very good to look at even today in a sophisticated era whose animated films have the best techniques, the most interesting stories and all of that. The way the story was told was incredibly original, using comical effects (the mosquito doesn't fly to get into the apartment, he climbs the door and enters into a passage, very funny moment) and believe me it's great for educational purposes. If a kid asks you how and why a mosquito operates instead of telling a boring and long conversation about the issue show to the kid this animation. It will present some education and laughs at the same time.

    Director and creator of "How a Mosquito Operates" (AKA "The Story of a Mosquito") Winsor McCay made a wonderful job here. So everyone here's another must see film. 10/10
    7Hitchcoc

    Early Animation

    Mosquitoes are a bane to everyone. This little 1012 piece shows us the workings of just such a little bugger. He set his sights on a big guy who is trying to sleep. He is patient and enterprising. But he gorges himself and the results are pretty interesting. A reasonably good little film, astounding for the time in cinema history.

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 8. Januar 1912 (Vereinigte Staaten)
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      • Englisch
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      • Winsor McCay and His Jersey Skeeters
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