"By definition, the line between the educational and documentary film is a thin one, if it is even there at all. Educational shorts as a whole are an interesting type of film; their purpose is obviously to teach, but one could argue that is the purpose of a documentary film is as well.
The task of defining documentary animated film is a slippery one. There are many pieces of work that could be considered documentary even though they don’t fit neatly into a dictionary definition of the term"
Noell Wolfgram Evans
In considering Animated documentary i felt that i have to look at every aspect of it, even instructional animated films are technically within the realms of animated documentary. The early films of JR Bray are important in the history of animation & documentary and blur the line between the two, they are created to inform as much as entertain. Just because they are not in considered within the Modus Operandi of Minstream film-making does'nt mean they arent worth considering in my research into the history and techniques of Animated Documentary.
J.R.Bray
John Randolph Bray (25 August 1879, Detroit - 10 October 1978, Bridgeport, Connecticut) produced the first animation film in color The Debut of Thomas Cat (1920) Bray Productions produced over 500 films between 1913 and 1937, mostly animation films and documentary shorts. Overall he produced well over 1000 films.
He visited Winsor McCay during his production of Gertie the Dinosaur and claimed to be a journalist writing an article about animation. McCay was very open about the techniques that he developed and showed all the details to Bray. John Randolph Bray later patented many of McCay's methods and tried to sue him.
Bray started the Jam Handy Organization, which began as a Chicago-Detroit division of Bray Studios, to service the auto industry's need for industrial films. Jam Handy made several thousand industrial and sponsored animated films and tens of thousands of filmstrips
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