Time-Split Accuracy - Text 4
This principle made it possible to save time and by 1914 was clearly taken up by the industry, by both John Randolph Bray and Raoul Barré. Under the cover of a rhythmic principle, the most important contribution of McCay’s “split-system” was to create a new form of profitable production: it made it possible to re-use drawings, but also to produce what would later be called “key frames” (McCay used the term “extremes”), which were completed by intervals, or “in-betweens,” meaning the intermediate phases between the beginning and end of a movement. Obviously, these in-betweens were not created by the animator, but rather by practitioners of a new trade, the inbetweeners, who gradually appeared in the 1910s and rounded out a varied group of assistants tasked with carrying out repetitive gestures devoid of any creativity.
