The History of Animation

By taylor_kendall

  • The zoetrope was created

    The zoetrope was created
    The zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. The inventor was William Horner who was a British mathematician.
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  • The Praxinoscope was invented

    The Praxinoscope was invented
    The praxinoscope used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered. It was invented by Charles-Émile Reynaud in France, 1877.
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  • The First Movie Camera was Created

    The First Movie Camera was Created
    The very first patented film camera was designed in England by Frenchman Louis Le Prince in 1888 which he used to shoot the first sequences of moving film in the world, including the Roundhay Garden Scene and Leeds Bridge. Roundhay Garden was shot at 12 frame/s and Leeds Bridge at 20 frame/s.
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  • Sound is Captured

    Sound is Captured
    Magnetic recording was demonstrated in principle as early as 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen in his telegraphone. Magnetic wire recording, and its successor, magnetic tape recording, involve the use of a magnetized medium which moves with a constant speed past a recording head.link text
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  • The Enchanted Drawing

    The Enchanted Drawing
    The Enchanted drawing is a silent film and stop motion created by J. Stuart Blackton who is considered the father of American animation. Blackton became so infatuated with the technology that he soon founded the American Vitagraph Company and began producing films, debuting with The Enchanted Drawing in 1900.
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  • Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

    Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
    Created by James Stuart Blackton, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film. In the cartoon, animated hand-drawn scenes appear on a chalkboard, in the beginning he uses live action to draw the first couple lines then uses stop motion to complete the pictures.
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  • Gertie the Dinosaur

    Gertie the Dinosaur
    Gertie the Dinosaur was created by Winsor McCay who was an American cartoonist and animator. He first used the film infront of live audiences as a part of his vaudevelli act. Gertie was the first film to use animation techniques such as keyframes, registration marks and tracing paper.
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  • Disney was created

    Disney was created
    Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, and established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and theme parks.
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  • Steamboat Willie

    Steamboat Willie
    Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Celebrity Productions. It is the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound. It was also the debut of Mickey mouse and Minnie.
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  • The First Animation With Color

    The First Animation With Color
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film.
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  • The multiplane camera

    The multiplane camera
    The multiplane camera is a special motion picture camera used in animation that moves a number of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another. This creates a three-dimensional effect, although it is not actually stereoscopic. The most famous multiplane camera was invented by William Garity for the Walt Disney Studios.
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