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Invented by Sir David Brewster, was a tube using two mirrors that reflect multiple images of colored pieces of glass.
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Peter Mark Roget published "Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects that presented the idea that a succession of still images could create the appearance of motion (not an exact date).
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The thaumotrope was invented. It was a disk with two sides to it, so when it flipped it seemed as though the one animation was something else (not an exact date).
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This machine, created by Joseph Plateau, produced an illusion of movement by allowing the person looking at it to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows; however, behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed, the synchronization of the windows with the images created an animated effect (not an exact date).
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The first flipbook animation appeared in September 1868. It was patented by James Barnes Linnett.
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Eadweard Muybridge began to gather photos of animals putting them in motion to animate them (not an exact date).
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The praxinoscope, invented in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud, was made by using strips of picture around the inside of a circle, and a set of mirrors on another circle inside the original. When the wheel turned, it seemes as though the images would move (not an exact date).
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Thomas Edison began his research on motion pictures (not an exact date).
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Gearge East invented the first hand-held box camera (not an exact date).
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The age of the movie camera and projector begins (not an exact date).
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The first film depicting white figures on a black background was produced by France Emile Cohl (not an exact date).
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Walt Disney creates his first animated short called 'Little Red Riding Hood' (not an exact date).
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Gertie the Dinosaur was produced by Windsor McCay (not an exact date).
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John Bray patents rotoscoping which was developed by Max Fleischer (not an exact date).
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Pat Sullivan created an American cartoon called "Felix the Cat" (not an exact date).
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The first colored cartoon, John Randolph Bray's The Debut of Thomas Cat, was released (not an exact date).
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Walt Disney created Oswald shortly before coming up with Mickey and Minnie Mouse (not an exact date).
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The character Mickey Mouse was introduced and voiced by Walt Disney in 1928. He first debuted in 'Plane Crazy'. The first Micky Mouse cartoon with sound was 'Steamboat Willie'.
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Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound.
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Betty Boop's first appearance was in 1930 when she was in a cartoon called 'Dizzy Dishes'. Created by Max Fleischer and various animators, the film series was produced by Fleischer Studios and then was released by Paramount Pictures (actual date unknown).
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This animation features several stop-motion animated characters (not an exact date).
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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. The release of Snow White was at a cost of $1.5 million.
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This was the first full-length animated musical (not an exact date).
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Walt Disney's creation of Bambi was released (not an exact date).
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Willow uses morphing in live action film (not an exact date).
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Beauty and the Beast becomes the first fully animated film to recieve an Oscar nomination for Best Picture (not an exact date).
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Realistic living creatures.
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The first full-length Toy Story movie.
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The Oscars created a category entitiled "Best Animated Film", with Shrek the first movie to win this award (not an exact date).
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The Polar Express becomes the first fully-animated film to use motion capture technology to render all of its characters (not an exact date).
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Created by Aardman animations, these characters were brought alive by Nick Park using modelling clay and wire and then animated using stop motion animation (not an exact date).
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