Animatsioon

  • 1659

    Christian Huygens begins to develop the magic lantern
    which proiects images from glass
    slides.
  • 1700

    Descriptions of mechanical slides for the magic lantern begin. These involved extra pieces of glass that could be moved by hand.
  • 1824

    John Ayrton
    Paris invents the
    Thaumatope
    Based on theory of persistence of vision.
    This theory has now been rejected.
  • 1832

    Joseph
    Plateau develops the Phenakistosc ope, which is a series of evenly spaced images, painted onto a rotating disc.
  • 1880

    Eadweard
    Muybridge projects moving images onto screen.
    Zoopraxiscope:
    Developed by Muybridge to project moving images.
  • 1898

    J. Stuart
    Blackton and
    Albert E.
    Smith make
    The Humpty
    Dumpty
    Circus.
    This was the first use of stop motion but the film is now lost.
  • 1899

    Arthur Melbourne
    Cooper makes
    'Matches an
    Appeal'.
  • 1906

    James Stuart
    Blackton makes 'Humorous Phases
    of Funny Faces'. He used stop-
    motion and cut out.
  • 1910

    Emile Cohl makes the first cut-out animation, 'En Route' -this is entirely cut
    outs. Cohl used this technique to save time as the cut out shapes could
    be adiusted.
  • 1925

    Animator Willis ~'Brien works on The Lost
    World'. The film mixed stop- motion animation with live
    action.
  • 2000BC

    Ancient Egyptians painted or carved scenes onto surfaces, these showed characters in slightly altered positions, suggesting
    movement.