GButler History of Animation Timeline

  • Invention of the Zoetrope circa

    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

    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

    Gertie the Dinosaur

    One of the first popular animations created by McCray.
  • El Apostol

    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

    King of Jazz

    3 minute feature-film made by Walter Lantz. First ever technicolor film.
  • Popeye

    Popeye

    Fleisher Studios created this along with Betty Boop.
  • Fantasia

    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

    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

    Abra Cadabra

    First ever film produced in stereoscopic 3D. It was 83 minutes long and was created by Alex Stitt.
  • Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park

    Use of CG to create living creatures.
  • Toy Story

    Toy Story

    First every fully computer animated film by Disney Pixar. It made 361 million dollars.
  • Wizards and Giants

    Wizards and Giants

    First film ever animated in the vector package Adobe Flash. By Amime Studios, ran for 83 minutes long.
  • Toy story 3

    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.