Animation Timeline

By RabbitKing236

  • First use of Animation

    First use of Animation in film making, this was first used by Georges Méliès in Paris and J. Stuart Blackton in New York for a magical effect in a live action film.

  • The first animation studio

    In 1914, Raoul Barré and Bill Nolan built the first studio devoted to animated films.

  • The Invention of 'Cels'

    Until 1914, animators were limited to simple line drawings and animations because they were unable to create complex scenes because they would have to redraw the whole scene every time. With the invention of Earl Hurd's Cels (transparent sheets of celluloid or acetate), this invention allowed each part of the animation to be drawn separately, without constantly redrawing everything every time, allowing things like the background to be kept the same.

  • Walt Disney Animating

    Walt Disney opens a studio in California that was dedicated to animated film making. They made various different movies such as Steamboat Willie (1928), Flowers and Trees—which won the first Oscar for Cartoon Short Subject in 1931/32—Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and The Lion King (1994). These films were displayed in 24 frames per second.