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The first feature length animatied film in America. Created by Walt Disney Studios Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a box office hit and was the first of many films that brought animation into mainstream culture.
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Bugs bunny makes his debut on screen, though he wasn't named until 1941.
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Tom and Jerry first appear in the Oscar-nominated short film Puss Gets the Boot
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Mr. Bug Goes to Town is released
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The stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen makes the title character in Mighty Joe Young using his techniques.
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Ed Catmull and Fred Parke were two University of Utah graduates who created the first computer generated animation of a hand and facial expressions respectively.
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Computer-generated images are used for the first time in a brief shot within Westworld.
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Industrial Light & Magic was a revolutionary special-effects company founded by George Lucas.
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Tron was the first film were computer generated images were used extensivley throguhout.
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Luxo Jr. was the first computer-animated short to recieve an Academy Award nomination
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John Lasseter at Pixar publishes a paper describing traditional animation principles titled Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation and uses Luxo Jr. and Andre and Wally B as examples.
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Beauty and the Beast was the first fully animated film to recieve and Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
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Jurrasic Park was the first live-action film to reature photo-realistic computer-animated creatures.
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Toy story was the first full-length computer animated feature film and marked the start of Pixar's long line of noteable animated films.