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Prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France, depicted animals in multiple positions to give the ilusion of motion as light from torches flickered. -
Ancient Egyptians painted or carved scenes onto surfaces, these showed characters in slightly altered positions, suggesting movement. -
Christiaan Huygens begins to develop the magic lantern which projects images from glass slides. -
Descriptions of mechanical slides for the məgic lantemn begin. These involved extra pieces of glass that could be moved by hand -
John Ayrton Paris invents the Thaumatope Based on theory of persistence of vision. This theory has now been rejected. -
Joseph Plateau develops the Phenakistosc ope, which is a series of evenly spaced images, painted onto a rotating disc. -
Eadweard Muybridge projects moving images onto screen. Zoopraxiscope: Developed by Muybridge to project moving images. -
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. -
Arthur Melbourne Cooper makes "Matches an Appeaľ". -
James Stuart Blackton makes 'Humorous Phases of Funny Faces'. He used stop-motion and cut out. -
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 adjusted. -
Animater Willis O'Brien works on 'The Lost World", The film mixed stop- motion animation with live action.