McCay was perhaps the greatest draftsman in an era full of them. He is the first animator who could make you forget you were watching a cartoon. He gave drawings personality. Gertie is real!

Really impressive, considering the time period. Sure, it has unnecessary buildup and the animation tends to repeat itself, but whatever man. Seeing a dinosaur throw a mammoth into a lake makes up for any flaws.

Considering how early this was made, it's really hard to fault. I feel sorry for Jumbo, though.

Given it's age, it's actually very impressive and I feel it's aged better than many other filsm from this period. It has charm, and personality, and the animation isn't even that shoddy. But God damn, that score just gets so grating by the end, and face it, it's about twice as long as it needs to be.

... and then they went out and beat up a bunch of working class people for sport.

Pretty cool and cute. The ending is so awesome

It's really important in terms of the development of animation, and Gertie can be cute. But that was brought down by the fact that it feels like one of the longest 12-minutes ever.

This was probably blowing people's mind grapes in 1914, and rightfully so.

Still fun.

An interesting look at the start of hand-drawn animation.

Innovating, for sure, but could easily afford to be just a little shorter. It gets frustruating at moments.

A difficult film to appreciate today, as it was never intended to stand alone but was used by McCay as part of a live act. The whole show was recreated by the Disney Studios as part of "The Tricks of Our Trade" episode of the DISNEYLAND TV series, and there you finally get a feeling for what it must have been like to see this ground-breaking animation event as it was intended to be seen.

An amazing technical achievement for the time. All fans of illustration, comics, and animation absolutely must see this magnum opus from the first great practitioner of the form.

Interesting as a piece of history, and kind of cute, but rather crude, like so many films -- animated and otherwise -- that are this old. After all, in those days they were just learning how to make movies. My favorite part is where Gertie swallows the boulder. Talk about gallstones

Awesome! Much better than some of the Disney of the early years animation-wise.

100 years ago animated features actually featured animation

Holy crap, was this guy good, for one of the first animators in history that is!

For it's time, it's great, but it's far too long. Too much time is spent with nothing happening. Has unsurprisingly not really passed the test of time. Interesting to see though.

Gertie's pretty cute, but also a little bit creepy. All in all, a pretty entertaining short.

Interesting.

Pretty adorable, and McCay totally fooled me.

It's about as primitive as animation can get, and yet, it still holds up today. It's still cute, it's still funny, and you can't help but admire the sheer amount of effort McCay put into his work, and all on his own.