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First flip-book animation by John Barnes Linett, patented under the name Kineograph.
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Invented in 1877 by Charles Emile Reynaud, made using strips of paper inside a circle with a set of mirrors set inside the circle inside the original.
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J. Stuart Blackton directs Humorous phases of Funny Faces,one of the first films to use stop motion.
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Emile Cohl releases Fantasmagorie- first fully animated film ever, taking more than 700 drawings and has a running time of about 2 minutes.
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Gertie the Dinosaur was made by Winsor McCay using keyframe animation. Had running time of 12 minutes and considered the 1st cartoon with a character with an appealing personality.
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1st Disney film featuring Alice, with a runtime of 12 minutes and 29 seconds.
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Disney and Ub Iwerks present Skeleton Symphony.
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First introduced by Van Beuren in a short film called ' Wot a Night". Later, the characters were reworked into the familliar Cat an' Mouse in 1940 by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna.
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Became the first full-length Animated movie. The first to be produced in full Color and the first to be produced by Walt Disney.
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Released as Future Splash animator in May 1996, bought by MacroMedia in Dec. 1996, later became Macromedia Flash 1.0 then Adobe Flash in 2005.
