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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.
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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.
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Felix was the leading character of a series of short cartoons and became the first real ‘star’ of the animated silent film era.
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the first animated film to both popularize Mickey and to be fully scored.
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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.
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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.
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The original King Kong which in its time was the most advanced and convincing stop motion animated characters seen.
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First ever full length animated feature film - this movie made Walt Disney one of the worlds most innovative storytellers.
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First prime-time animated show, the couple Fred and Wilma were the first married couple ever to be shown in bed together on TV.
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Jurassic Park mixed animatronics, stop-motion and CGI to create the most photo-realistic animated creatures ever before seen on screen
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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.
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"Chicken Little" becomes the first computer-animated film to be released in 3D.
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James Cameron's groundbreaking "Avatar" is the first film to feature a fully computer-generated 3D photorealistic world.
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This movie was re-created using very realistic CGI techniques where images look real but does not feature any actual animals.
