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Emile Reynaud invented the praxinoscope, an animation device. The praxinoscope used a strip of pictures and mirros placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. Reynaud opened a theatre in France using this device.
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Thomas Edison and William Dickson invented the kinetoscope. This animation device allowed you to view through a peephole and see pictures moving. In 1894, the kinetoscope was publicly exhibited on Broadway, New York.
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Emíle Cohl animated the first film known as Fantasmagorie. The animation consisted of more than 700 drawings shot onto negative film. Fantasmagorie became known as the first stop-motion animated cartoon
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Walt Disney created Steamboat Willie, the first animated film to be released with synchronized sound. The animation, starring Mickey Mouse, was a huge sensation and kicked off Walt Disney's career.
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King Kong is considered to be one of the greatest animated films of all time.It included the most advanced stop-motion animated characters seen yet. This was an evolution in animation history.
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Snow white was the first ever full length animated feature film, created by Walt Disney. The popularity of the animation has led to its being re-released theatrically many times, until its home video release in the 1990s. Snow White is still popular today, 82 years later!
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This movie mixed animatronics, stop motion, and CGI to create the most animated-realistic dinosaurs. The visual effects studio took a year to create only 4 minutes of computer generated dinosaurs.
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Lord of the Rings and Avatar are two of the earliest movies to use motion capture and CGI. A fully computer generated character could appear alongside actors making it feel so real. This was a big step in animation history.
