Timeline Research 1969: The Clangers

The Clangers was a stop motion animation that was aired by the BBC from 1969 to 1972, the story was about a family of mice that on the moon but when they spoke they didn’t speak in English but a language called squeekish. The Series was created by a animation company called Smallfilms which was founded by Oliver Postgate who was the animator, writer and director of the series. The character where design by Oliver while his Wife, while his wife created them and knitted them their clothing. This is consider another successful attempt at Stop motion animation which made the characters that are known as the Clangers seem really realistic and this style of animation create a majority of humor of the cartoon. This is classed as animation and cartoon.

Timeline Research 1963: The Magic Roundabout

The Magic Roundabout is a french animation that was first aired in 1963 and then aired again in English in Britain on 18th of October 1965. The people responsible for creating The Magic Roundabout or Le Manège enchanté were Ivor and Josaine Wood, the English version of the Magic Roundabout bared no relation to the original story line of the French version. The animation style used for the actual animation was stop motion animation this was used for the french animation and the footage was reused for the English version the only difference between the two is the language the characters talk in. The series had a total of 407 episodes but only half of them where aired in English. I believe that this was one of the very first suceessful attempt at stop motion animation during the twentieth century due to the fact that style of animation was considered not proper animation at the time, The magic roundabout could also be considered the starting point ofr all stop motion cartoons and animation that have been created thus so far. This is consider as entertainment and cartoon.

Timeline Research 1960: The Flintstones

A 1960’s animated Televised animated Cartoon that is about a family of cavemen that go through an average family life each day but often a twist happens sometime later within each of the episodes. The first episode was aired on September 30th 1960 and was produced by the company Hanna-Barbera. What made the Flintstone’s so popular was due to the fact that it was modern day life set during the stone age and this success lasted for thirty years until a rival company produced another cartoon that is The Simpsons.I believe that the Flintstones was one of the marking points in animation history due to the fact that a wide range of animation have been based the Flintstones since they first aired such as the The Simpson and Futurama. This is classed under entertainment and historical.