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History of Animation
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Peter Roget
Peter Roget presents his paper on persistence of vision in regards to motion to the BRS in London -
Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau
Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows; behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed, the synchronization of the windows with the images created an animated effect. -
Eadweard Murybridge
Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic gathering of animals in motion -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison started his research work into motion pictures. -
George Eastman
George Eastman began the manufacture of photographic film strips using a nitro-cellulose base. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison announced his creation of the kinetoscope which projected a 50ft length of film in approximately 13 seconds. -
Emile Reynaud
Emile Renynaud, combining his earlier invention of the praxinoscope with a projector, opens the Theatre Optique in the Musee Grevin. It displays an animation of images painted on long strips of celluloid.