Editing Gertie the Dinosaur (section)

=== Synopsis ===
The frisky, childlike Gertie appears from a cave after being called by her master McCay, eating a boulder and a tree on the way. The whip-wielding McCay orders her to do tricks like raising her foot or bowing to the audience. After being distracted by a sea serpent, Gertie nips back at her master. McCay scolds Gertie for this, which makes her cry, and he subsequently placates her with a pumpkin.{{efn|In the original vaudeville version, McCay used an apple rather than a pumpkin.{{sfn|Baker|2012|p=7}}}} Gertie eats the leftover tree trunk, and tosses a [[mammoth]] named Jumbo into the lake; when Jumbo teases her by spraying her with water, she hurls a boulder at it as it swims away. After a flying lizard catches Gertie's attention, she quenches her thirst by draining the lake. McCay then has her carry him offstage while he bows to the audience.{{sfn|Canemaker|2005|pp=175–177}}

In the live-action [[framing story]] added for later distribution, McCay and friends suffer a flat tire in front of the [[American Museum of Natural History]]. They enter the museum and, while viewing a ''Brontosaurus'' skeleton, McCay wagers a dinner that he can bring a dinosaur to life with his animation skills. The animation process and its "10,000 drawings, each a little different from the one preceding it" is put on display,{{efn|David Nathan and Donald Crafton find the number 10,000 suspect, as that number of frames at 16 frames per second would result in 11 minutes of animation; extent copies of the theatrical version of the film, of which only one brief scene is known to be missing, have only seven minutes of animation. Taking cycling into account, even 11 minutes is a conservative estimate.{{sfn|Nathan|Crafton|2013|p=40}}}}{{sfn|Crafton|1993|p=113}} with humorous scenes of mountains of paper, some of which an assistant drops.{{sfn|Thomas|Penz|2003|p=25}} When the film is finished, the friends gather to view it in a restaurant.{{sfn|Crafton|1993|p=113}}