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Animation history

  • animation introduce

    animation introduce
    The first Flip Book animation appeared in September 1868 and it was patented by John Barnes Linnett, he patented it under the name kineograph.
  • praxinoscope

    praxinoscope
    The praxinoscope was invented in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. It was made by using strips of picture around the inside of a circle, and a set of mirrors on another circle inside the original. If the wheel is turned the image appears to be moving. The praxinoscope is the successor of the zoetrope. Info
  • One of the First Motion Picture Film Cameras Made

    One of the First Motion Picture Film Cameras Made
    Although the date of the first movie camera is unknown the one made by Louis Le Prince was definately one of the first. He used a single lens camera and Eastmans paper film. He was not granted a patent for his single lens camera due to an interfering patent. He was granted a patent for his 16 lens camera that combined a motion picture camera with a projector Info
  • Stop motion Animation

    Stop motion Animation
    Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton were the first people to use stop motion animation in 1898 when they created The Humpty Dumpty Circus.
  • Sherlock Homes Baffled

    Sherlock Homes Baffled
    Arthur Marvin was the first person to use Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character in a short feature film. Since the show includes a detective it is also considered the first detective film recorded. The show has a running time of 30 seconds.
  • J. stuart Blackton

    J. stuart Blackton
    He made a short animated film. This was one of the first films that used stop-motion. It is a silent film that was produced by J. Stuart Blackton in 1906.
  • Émile Cohl Releases Fantasmagorie

    Émile Cohl Releases Fantasmagorie
    This film was released in 1908 and was considered one of the first fully animated films ever made. It was made using 700 drawings and had a running time of only 2 minutes
  • betty boop is introduced

    betty boop is introduced
    Betty Boop made her first appearance in 1930 in a cartoon called Dizzy Dishes. She was created by Max Fleischer with help from various animators. The film series was produced by Fleischer Studios and then released by Paramount Pictures. Info (actual date unknown)
  • tom and jerry first installment

    tom and jerry first installment
    Tom and Jerry were first introduced in 1931 by Van Beuren in a short film called Wot a Night, lasting 8 minutes and 19 seconds. The series only lasted 2 years. In 1940 Joseph Barbera and William Hanna re-created the series using a cat and a mouse. Info
  • Smurfs

    Smurfs
    Pierre Culliford introduced the Smurfs first in a comic strip in a Belgian magazine, Spirou. Later it was translated into English and was made into a childrens cartoon by the Hanna-Barbera Productions