# Gertie the Dinosaur

Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 American animated short film by Winsor McCay. Although not the first animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The film was also the first to be created using keyframe animation. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, and was named #6 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time in a 1994 survey of animators and cartoon historians by Jerry Beck.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1914
- Runtime: 13 min
- By: Winsor McCay
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gertie_the_Dinosaur.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Winsor McCay
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/12476037?play=1)