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Peter Roget presented his paper 'The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects' to the British Royal Society.
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Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows; behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed, the synchronization of the windows with the images created an animated effect.
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Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic gathering of animals in motion.
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Thomas Edison announced his creation of the kinetoscope which projected a 50ft length of film in approximately 13 seconds.
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Emile Renynaud, combining his earlier invention of the praxinoscope with a projector, opens the Theatre Optique in the Musee Grevin. It displays an animation of images painted on long strips of celluloid.
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Louis and Augustine Lumiere issued a patent for a device called a cinematograph capable of projecting moving pictures.
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J. Stuart Blackton made the first animated film which he called "Humorous phases of funny faces." His method was to draw comical faces on a blackboard and film them. He would stop the film, erase one face to draw another, and then film the newly drawn face. The Ôstop-motionÕ provided a starting effect as the facial expressions changed be fore the viewerÕs eyes.
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John R Bray applies for a patent on numerous techniques for animation. One of the most revolutionary being the process of printing the backgrounds of the animation.
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Winsor McCay produced a cartoon called "Gertie, The Trained Dinosaur" which amazingly consisted of 10,000 drawings.
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Pat Sullivan created an American cartoon "Felix the Cat."
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Walt and Roy Disney found Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.
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Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound called "Steam Boat Willie".
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Disney productions brought upon the first ever full-length animated film with sound and color
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University of Utah, Fred Parke creates first computer generated facial animation. >Ref: F. Parke, "Computer Generated Animation of Faces", Proceedings of the ACM National Conference, 1972. (In the SIGGRAPH 98 Seminal Graphics collection.)
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Tron, MAGI, movie with CG premise
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Jurassic Park use of CG for realistic living creatures
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Toy Story first full-length 3D CG feature film
