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The Enchanted Drawing
Silent film by J. Stuart Blackton, some call him the father of animation. His silent film shot in New Jersey was the first animated sequence on film ever. -
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Another creation from J. Stuart Blackton, this was the first animation recorded on standard picture film. Humorous Phases begins with an artist drawing portraits on a blackboard in chalk, before they begin to animate and interact with each other. -
Felix the Cat
Felix was the leading character of a series of short cartoons and became the first real ‘star’ of the animated silent film era. -
Steamboat Willie
the first animated film to both popularize Mickey and to be fully scored. -
Dizzy Dishes
it’s the first cartoon in which Betty Boop appears. Although not as we know her… Back then, she was some kind of terrifying dog-human hybrid. -
Flowers and Trees
We’ve left the black and white era behind us, this is part of Disney’s Silly Symphonies series, and was the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Short. -
King Kong
The original King Kong which in its time was the most advanced and convincing stop motion animated characters seen. -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
First ever full length animated feature film - this movie made Walt Disney one of the worlds most innovative storytellers. -
The Flintstones
First prime-time animated show, the couple Fred and Wilma were the first married couple ever to be shown in bed together on TV. -
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park mixed animatronics, stop-motion and CGI to create the most photo-realistic animated creatures ever before seen on screen -
Toy Story
Pixar came out with the first entirely computer generated feature film. It had full model articulation and motion-control coding to bring Andy’s toys to life, a real breakthrough in 3D animation which secured Pixar’s position as the studio to beat. -
Chicken Little
"Chicken Little" becomes the first computer-animated film to be released in 3D. -
Avatar
James Cameron's groundbreaking "Avatar" is the first film to feature a fully computer-generated 3D photorealistic world. -
Lion King (2019)
This movie was re-created using very realistic CGI techniques where images look real but does not feature any actual animals.
