Gertie on Tour
About Gertie on Tour
Winsor McCay started a sequel to Gertie the Dinosaur and then dropped it. In the footage that survives, Gertie is in the present. She plays with a trolley, then sleeps and dreams she is dancing among other dinosaurs.
Cast & crew
More about Gertie on Tour
Around 1921 McCay drew a second Gertie film and abandoned it. Planned scenes had her bouncing on the Brooklyn Bridge, trying to eat the Washington Monument, and wading at Atlantic City. He left concept sketches and two minutes of film. It was not finished or released.
Themes
Making
McCay stopped after a short stretch of drawings. The rest of the tour exists as sketches.
Preservation
McCay abandoned the film. Two minutes survive, with a copy from the Library of Congress Origins of American Animation collection.
Notes
- The surviving piece is the sequel to Gertie the Dinosaur (1914).
- McCay produced it himself.
- A Library of Congress copy, from the Origins of American Animation collection, is the source of the file on Wikimedia Commons.
- The planned bridge, monument, and shore scenes are not in the surviving footage.
Scenes
- Gertie plays with a trolley.
- She dreams she is dancing in a crowd of dinosaurs.
Influenced by
- Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Winsor McCay (1921) Gertie on Tour.webm)
