Tech By VinFinn23 1800 First animation machines created 1892 Émile Reynaud opens the Théâtre Optique 1914 Raoul Barré and Bill Nolan opened the first animation studio in New York 1917 Brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, creators of Betty Boop, patented the rotoscope in 1917 1923 Walt and Roy Disney, Ub Iwerks, and other animators formed a company that would dominate animation for many years 1928 The Disney studio produced Steamboat Willie , the first cartoon to synchronise sound with movement 1930 Trick-Films created 1932 the short three-color Technicolor film Flowers and Trees, which won the first Oscar for animation. 1938 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first American feature-length animated film, received a Special Academy Award for significant screen innovation 1940 George Pal’s Puppetoons represented one of the few examples of commercial animation using three-dimensional materials