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Peter Mark Roget published "Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects." This book presented the idea that still pictures can still create motion .
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Thomas Edison began his research on motion pictures
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Louis Le Prince created the first movie camara
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The age of the movie camera and projector begins
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The first film depicting white figures on a black background was produced by France Emile Cohl.
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Gertie the Dinosaur was produced by Windsor McCay
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John Bray patents rotoscoping which was developed by Max Fleischer
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Pat Sullivan created an American cartoon called "Felix the Cat"
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The first colored cartoon, John Randolph Bray's The Debut of Thomas Cat, was released
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Alice's Wonderland was the first Disney film featuring Alice. It was a black and white, silent film with a running time of 12 minutes and 29 seconds.
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Mickey Mouse was introduced and voiced by Walt Disney in 1928 after he lost his character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Mickey's first debut was in Plane Crazy. The first Mickey cartoon with sound was Steamboat Willie.
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Betty Boop made her first appearance in 1930 in a cartoon called Dizzy Dishes. She was created by Max Fleischer with help from various animators. The film series was produced by Fleischer Studios and then released by Paramount Pictures.
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In 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became the first full-length animated movie. It was also the first produced in full colour and the first to be produced by Walt Disney.
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Pierre Culliford introduced the Smurfs first in a comic strip in a Belgian magazine, Spirou. Later it was translated into English and was made into a childrens cartoon by the Hanna-Barbera Productions
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is the first of 6 films in the Star Wars film series. It was written and directed by George Lucas. It relied heavily on the computer for its special effects but in the end came out with impressive results.
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Toy Story was released in 1995 by Disney/Pixar. It was the first Disney/Pixar film made, as well as the first feature film made entirely with CGI basically meaning, it was made 100% on the computer.
