![]() Osamu Tezuka adapted and simplified many Disney animation techniques to reduce the costs and number of frames in the production. The success of Disney's 1937 feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influenced Japanese animators. Animation allowed artists to create any characters and settings. ![]() The lack of Western-looking actors, for example, made it next to impossible to shoot films set in Europe, America, or fantasy worlds that do not naturally involve Japan. Unlike America, the live-action industry in Japan remained a small market and suffered from budgeting, location, and casting restrictions. īy the 1930s, animation became an alternative format of storytelling compared to the underdeveloped live-action industry in Japan. The oldest known anime is in 1907, a three second clip of a sailor boy. The history of anime begins at the start of the 20th century, when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that were being explored in France, Germany, the United States, and Russia. ![]() ![]() Screenshot from Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (1944), the first feature-length anime film. ![]()
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