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H.W Goodwin created a celluloid film that could hold pictures out of cheap materials
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Thomas Edison used Goodwin's celluloid film and enabled it to play images, moving through with help from film wheels
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Magnetic recording devices, that copied sound through a single wire, became popular and was used to accompany early videos
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James Stuart Blackton, the American founder of early film company Vitagraph, drew characters that were photoed and played consecutively to provide an 'illusion' that everything was moving
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Emile Cohl created a movie called Fantasmagorie that was the first official animated movie, a popular hit in the time
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Windsor McCay was an American cartoonist reowned for his cartoon strip Little Nemo. He made Gertie the Dinosaur, an animated clip that was generally longer than other's made at the time (around 15 minutes).
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Walt Disney made his first film studio called Laugh-o-Grams, a fail at the time but a common name within society now.
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The disney animated segment Silly Symphonies showcased certain charcaters, now commonly know as the Looney Tunes bunch.
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Walt Disney didn't give up, producing several short animated films until he produced the first ever full-length animated film, the hit Snow White.
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As animation became more popular within society, it gave birth to the renowned characters that we have today such as Tom, Jerry and Mighty Mouse
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3 dimensional animation was introduced to the world, Toy Story becoming the first ever 3-D animated film using the technology.