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Phenakistoscope
The phenakistoscope was an early animation device that was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. -
Zoetrope
The zoetrope concept was suggested in 1834 by William George Horner, and from the 1860s marketed as the zoetrope. It operates on the same principle as the phenakistoscope. It was a cylindrical spinning device with several frames of animation printed on a paper strip placed around the interior circumference. There are vertical slits around the sides through which an observer can view the moving images on the opposite side when the cylinder spins. As it spins the material between the viewing slits -
Flip Book
The first flip book was patented in 1868 by John Barnes Linnett as the kineograph. A flip book is just a book with particularly springy pages that have an animated series of images printed near the unbound edge. A viewer bends the pages back and then rapidly releases them one at a time so that each image viewed springs out of view to momentarily reveal the next image just before it does the same. -
First Film Camera
The date of the first movie camera is unknown, but the one made by Louis Le Prince was definately one of the first. He used a single lens camera and Eastmans paper film. He was not granted a patent for his single lens camera due to an interfering patent. He was granted a patent for his 16 lens camera that combined a motion picture camera with a projector -
Stop Motion animation
Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton were the first people to use stop motion animation in 1898 when they created The Humpty Dumpty Circus. -
Sherlock Holmes Baffled
Arthur Marvin was the first person to use Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character in a short feature film. Since the show includes a detective it is also considered the first detective film recorded. The show has a running time of 30 seconds. -
Emilie Cohl Releases Fantasmagorie
This film was released in 1908 and was considered one of the first fully animated films ever made. It was made using 700 drawings and had a running time of only 2 minutes. -
Betty Boop Introduced
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. Actual date unknown. -
Elbert Tuganov Founds Puppet Animation Division
After his staff grew to 20, it was decided that puppets would make their way into his studio. He made a number of films for both adults and children. -
Animation scripting language created
In 1972. Edwin Catmull developed an animation scripting language for his PhD at university. The created test footage by animating his left hand with smooth shading. This was used in a Hollywood film 4 years later. Catmull moved on to become the president of Disney and Pixar. -
Jurassic Park
In 1993 Jurassic park became the first ever live-action film which included photo-realistic computer animated creatures, the computer animated creatures were dinasours. In addition to this in this time period computers were being used at every level of film making, Another example of a film that can be used is Toy Story this was the first longest computer created animation film. -
Toy Story Begins
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 (computer-generated imagery) basically meaning, it was made 100% on the computer.
