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Thaumatrope (1824)
Thaumatrope is simple toy with a small disk with different pictures on each side; a bird in a cage, and is attached to two pieces of strings. -
Phenakistoscope (1832)
One of the first examples of animation. Used to give the allusion that the pictures were moving. -
Kineograph (1868)
The common flip book were early animation devices that produced an illusion of movement from a series of sequential drawings, animation did not develop further until the advent of motion picture film and cinematography in the 1890s. -
Praxinoscope (1877)
The Praxinoscope is a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. -
Cinématographe
projector, printer, and camera in one machine that allowed moving pictures to be shown successfully on a screen which was invented by history's earliest film makers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, in 1894. -
Fantasmagorie
Fantasmagorie is a 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. -
The Beautiful Lukanida (1912)
First puppet animated film -
Enchanted Drawing (1900)
The Enchanted Drawing is a 1900 silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It is best known for containing the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film, which has led Blackton to be considered the father of American animation.
