The real Gertie is NOT 100 but probably 100,000,000!

Dan Piepenbring, The Paris Review, November 4 2014:

“A century ago, well before Jurassic Park or The Land Before Time or even plain old moribund Godzilla, cinema’s preeminent dinosaur was Gertie, a colorless, potentially narcoleptic herbivore, species indeterminate, fond of dancing and casting elephants into the sea. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) was one of the first animated films; it pioneered key-frame animation, a technique in which a story’s major positions were drawn first and the intervening frames were filled in afterward…”

Artist: Zenas Winsor McCay (c. 1867–1871 – July 26, 1934)