Animation History

  • Cinema

    Cinema

    The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the lumiere brothers in Paris. At first films were very short and sometimes a few minutes or less
  • First Television

    First Television

    One of the First mechanical televisions used rotating disk with holes arranged in a spiral pattern
  • First Animation with color

    First Animation with color

    A cartoon segment in the feature film King of jazz made by Walter Lantz and bill Nolan, was the first animation presented in two-strip technicolor
  • Steamboat Willie

    Steamboat Willie

    Was the first animated work with sound on picture
  • Adding sound

    Adding sound

    The first attempts to add synchronized sound to projected pictures used phonographic cylinders or disc.the first feature length movie incorporating synchronized dialogue The jazz singer.
  • The Golden age of American Animation

    During what many consider to be the "Golden Age" of animation, theatrical cartoons became inintegal part of popular culture.these years are defined by the rise of Walt Disney
  • Tom and Jerry

    Tom and Jerry

    These was a short comedy film and was the first cartoon to feature a cat and a mouse with very little sound
  • snow White

    snow White

    snow White is the first film in color and sound that was a full length movie
  • looney toons

    looney toons

    looney tunes was one of the first cartoons to ever have color
  • Flintstones

    Flintstones

    This was the first cartoon on tv it was also the first cartoon to have color and sound on the tv
  • Toy Story

    Toy Story

    It was the first computer generated cartoon movie
  • For the birds

    For the birds

    One of the best short animated film that won a academy award