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30,000 BCE
Painting
Prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France, depicted animals in multiple positions to give the illusion of motion as light from torches flickered -
20,000 BCE
Egyptians
Ancient Egyptians painted or carved scenes onto surfaces, these showed characters in slightly altered positions, suggesting movement -
glass
Christiaan Huygens begins to develop the magic lantern which projects images from glass slides. -
mechanical slides
Descriptions of mechanical slides for the magic lantern begin. These involved extra pieces of glass that could be moved by hand. -
theory
John Ayrton Paris invents the Thaumatope Based on theory of persistence. of vision. This theory has now been rejected. -
rotating disc
Joseph Plateau develops the Phenakistosc ope, which is a series of evenly spaced images, painted onto a rotating disc. -
screen
Eadweard Muybridge projects moving images onto screen. Zoopraxiscope: Developed by Muybridge to project moving images. -
circus
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. -
clown
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-out animation
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. -
film
Animator Willis O'Brien works on The Lost World'. The film mixed stop- motion animation with live action. -
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