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where he projected films that had been drawn directly on transparent celluloid
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were making animated films composed entirely of drawings.
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Soon studios in New York, California and elsewhere were producing short films that screened in theaters before the main feature.
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Ub Iwerks, and other animators formed a company that would dominate animation for many years.
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Steamboat Willie (1928), the first cartoon to synchronize sound with movement,
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The first American feature-length animated film received a Special Academy Award for significant screen innovation.
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More than half a century later, the Walt Disney Company was still breaking new ground: 1991’s Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Picture alongside four live-action films
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The first feature-length computer-animated film, which the Academy honoured with a special award to its creator John Lasseter.
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After this mark many more companies formed and continued to create animations.
