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Work In Progress
Charles- Emile Reynaud was the one to invent the Praxinoscope in France. It was operating with a middle cylinder, and a strip of paper showing 12 frames of animation, and as it rotated it would show a single object in motion. -
It All Began
A celluloid film made of impades was. It was held together with gum cotton and gum camphor.
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Edison's Creation
A film of pictures could be produced on the wall thanks to Edison. The film moved over a series of wheels to produce the pictures. Though it was only able to produced from the celluloid film made in 1887. -
Fantasmagorie
Made by Emile Cohl it was a collection of traditional hand drawn images that depict a man and a clown. The story is that they encounter many objects that transform in front of them. It is also questioned to be the first animated film. -
Gertie Takes The Stage
Winsor McCay is known as “The Father of American Cartoons" he created Gertie a dinosaur. After he created precise animation McCay made it appear as though he was interacting with Gertie. An example of this is McCay would throw an apple behind the screen and a cartoon apple would appear for Gertie to catch. -
Felix
A cartoon cat created in the silent film period. Designed by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer in 1919. At the time he was the most popular since he could make his tail into basic tools like a shovel. -
The Silent Era Becomes Quiet
During this time films were still silent. Until Steamboat Willie by Disney broke this barrier.
Even though Mickey did’t speak his whistling satisfied the audience. -
The Apple
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was the first full-lengthed animated film to come out. It by no surprise was produced by Walt Disney Inc. Running at 1 hour and 23 minutes it grossed an amount of $66,596,803. -
The Plot Unfolds
The animators were promised payment bonuses for staying late into the night to work. However when the time came and the film had a major payday the animators didn’t see a penny. Instead the funds were used to create a new studio in Burbank leaving the animators to rally into the Screen Cartoonists Guild and strike back against Disney. Lasting more than two months The white House had to intervene. This resulted in the end of the strike, on-screen credit, and salary was doubled for 40-hour weeks. -
Popping Out
Created by John Lasseter it was the first feature-length film to be entirely computer-animated.
