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  • Flipbook Animation

    Flipbook Animation
    First flip-book animation by John Barnes Linett, patented under the name Kineograph.

  • Praxinoscope

    Praxinoscope
    Invented in 1877 by Charles Emile Reynaud, made using strips of paper inside a circle with a set of mirrors set inside the circle inside the original.

  • Funny Faces

    Funny Faces
    J. Stuart Blackton directs Humorous phases of Funny Faces,one of the first films to use stop motion.

  • Fantasmagorie

    Fantasmagorie
    Emile Cohl releases Fantasmagorie- first fully animated film ever, taking more than 700 drawings and has a running time of about 2 minutes.

  • Gertie the Dinosaur

    Gertie the Dinosaur
    Gertie the Dinosaur was made by Winsor McCay using keyframe animation. Had running time of 12 minutes and considered the 1st cartoon with a character with an appealing personality.

  • Alice's Wonderland

    Alice's Wonderland
    1st Disney film featuring Alice, with a runtime of 12 minutes and 29 seconds.

  • Skeleton Symphony

    Skeleton Symphony
    Disney and Ub Iwerks present Skeleton Symphony.

  • Tom and Jerry

    Tom and Jerry
    First introduced by Van Beuren in a short film called ' Wot a Night". Later, the characters were reworked into the familliar Cat an' Mouse in 1940 by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna.

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
    Became the first full-length Animated movie. The first to be produced in full Color and the first to be produced by Walt Disney.

  • Future Splash Animator Released

    Future Splash Animator Released
    Released as Future Splash animator in May 1996, bought by MacroMedia in Dec. 1996, later became Macromedia Flash 1.0 then Adobe Flash in 2005.