GREAT ANIMATIONS

Early animation

Stuart Blackton
The Enchanted drawing , USA, 1906
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYDmH2B9XJw

Emile Cohl
Fantasmogorie, France, 1908
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1d28X0lkJ4

Winsor McCay

Gertie the Dinosaur , 1914)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4

Winsor McCay

How a Mosquito Operates [1912]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvzAJouHh7k

Lotte Reiniger  
Cinderella (Aschenputtel), Germany (1922)
Siluet animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kku75vGDD_0

Early Walt Disney

Silly symphony - the skeleton dance 1929 disney short

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q
clip from Betty Boop's Snow 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1j7uhwDGsc
Hells bells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-qilruZCE
Egyptian Melodies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBk3jwNSteo

Harry Smith
Mirror animation, 1957
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yghe3A2wANo

Norman McLaren 

A Phantasy in Colors, 1949 

Painted on raw film 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Wp96uG-N8
Lines vertical, 1960
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnbavAYULUU

Yuri Norstein
Seasons, Russian
Puppet animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnvuw29Tc28&list=PL99E7D96992C5062F

Contemporary animation

Don Hertzfeld
The Animation show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZzKAZODy2c

David Shriegley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNl_Hy27cWQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gSbqgzG2aM&feature=related

Blu
http://www.vimeo.com/6555161

Markus Vater
http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/shudder.htm
http://vimeo.com/9068959

Avish Khebrehzadeh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MTPSQYPZmo