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Phenakitstoscope
Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to look at a rotating disk containing small windows. Behind the windows was another disk that contained a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed, it gave the images an animated effect. -
Flip book
A flip book is just a book with pages that have an animated series of images printed near the edge. A viewer bends the pages back and then rapidly releases them one at a time so that each image viewed springs out of view to momentarily reveal the next image just before it does the same. -
Cinematograph
Louis and Augustine Lumiere designed a device called a cinematograph, this was capable of projecting moving pictures making them appear animated. -
The first animated film
J. Stuart Blackton made the first animated film which he called "Humorous phases of funny faces." His method was to draw comical faces on a blackboard and film them. He would stop the film, erase one face to draw another, and then film the newly drawn face. The Ôstop-motionÕ provided a starting effect as the facial expressions changed be fore the viewerÕs eyes. -
Walt Disney
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Steam boat Willy
Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound called "Steam Boat Willy".
