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Invention of the Zoetrope circa
A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. Created by William Horner. -
The Praxinoscope
Created by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1877. The Praxinoscope used a strip of pictures that was placed around the inner part of a spinning cylinder. If someone looked in the mirrors they would see a rapid succession of images created by the motion, with a less distorted and brighter image than the Zoetrope had. -
Gertie the Dinosaur
One of the first popular animations created by McCray. -
El Apostol
First ever Feature-Film created in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani. This film was 70 minutes long. In total is had 58,000 frames. -
Oh Mabel
First ever film with synchronized sound included. Created by Dave Fleisher. -
King of Jazz
3 minute feature-film made by Walter Lantz. First ever technicolor film. -
Popeye
Fleisher Studios created this along with Betty Boop. -
Fantasia
Disney's second ever film produced after Snow White. This film was made with stereophonic sound for the first time. -
Lady and the Tramp
First animation made in widescreen format by Walt Disney. This was Disney's 15th feature film production. -
101 Dalmation
The first ever feature film made with exerography process which replaces hand inking of each frame. It had a budget of 4 million at the time but made 215 million. -
Abra Cadabra
First ever film produced in stereoscopic 3D. It was 83 minutes long and was created by Alex Stitt. -
Jurassic Park
Use of CG to create living creatures. -
Toy Story
First every fully computer animated film by Disney Pixar. It made 361 million dollars. -
Wizards and Giants
First film ever animated in the vector package Adobe Flash. By Amime Studios, ran for 83 minutes long. -
Toy story 3
First film to make $1,000,000,000 world wide. Had 7.1 surround sound and was the first film to do so. It was nominated for 5 academy awards.
