Tag: first dinosaur to be on the big screen

In February 1914, McCay released “Gertie the Dinosaur” on the vaudeville circuit. Winsor McCay and his assistant John A. Fitzsimmons (who traced the backgrounds) made more than 10,000 drawings which they inked on rice paper and mounted on cardboard. By mounting them on cardboard, McCay was able to flip the drawings through a primitive machine to…