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The first photograph was taken in france by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
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A man named H.W. Goodwin invented a celluloid film which could hold images. It was made of gum cotton and gum camphor.
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A man in France named Emil Reynaud opened a theatre using an invention called the Praxinoscope. It used turning mirrors to reflect images and produce a 10 to 15 minute "moving picture."
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Using the celluloid film developed by H.W. Goodwin, Edison was able to produce moving film pictures on the wall. The film moved over a series of wheels to produce the pictures.
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Using a magnetic recording device, sound was recorded for the first time.
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A man named James Stuart Blackton used animation techniques to produce a short film. It documented the drawing process of characters, without ever showing the artist; this made it seem that the drawings simply appeared.
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A Frenchman name Emile Cohl produced a film called "Fantasmagorie."
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A man named John Bray developed and patented a streamlined process for creating animated films. He tried, unsuccessfully, to force other companies to use his designs.
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A man named Otto Messmer, who had been working in animation for a few years, created a character named Felix the Cat. Felix was very successful and even ended up including dolls and watches.
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Twenty-year-old Walt Disney began his first animation film studio called Laugh-O-Grams.
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Walt Disney didn't give up on making animated films. In 1928 he released a short film called Steamboat Willie featuring Mickey Mouse and using sound for the first time
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Looney Tunes was supposed to be a spin off on the Silly Symphonies produced by Disney. It soon took on a life of its own and became very popular.
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Walt Disney developed the use of 3-strip Technicolor animation. In 1935, Len Lye created a method of painting directly on film strips; he used it in his animated film "Color Box."
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Walt Disney produced the first ever full-length animated film. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a major hit.
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At the University of Utah, and man named Ed Catmull developed a method of creating computer generated movies. It used scripting language.
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Apple computer company produced a method for creating 3-D films, and in 1995 Toy Story was released as the first full-length 3-D film.
