history

By Waterdude1234
  • 2001 BCE

    2000ekr

    2000ekr
    Ancient Egyptians painted or carved scenes onto surfaces, these showed characters in slightly altered positions, suggesting movement.
  • 30 BCE

    30,000 ekr

    Prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France, depicted animals in multiple positions to give the illusion of motion as light from torches flickered.

  • 1659

    1659
    Descriptions of mechanical slides for the magic lantern begin. These involved extra pieces of glass that could be moved by hand.

  • 1700

    1700
    Christiaan Huygens begins to develop the magic lantern which projects images from glass slides.

  • 1824

    1824
    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.

  • 1832

    1832
    Eadweard Muybridge projects moving images onto a screen. Zoopraxiscope: Developed by Muybridge to project moving images.

  • 1880

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

  • 1898

    Joseph Plateau develops the Phenakistoscope, which is a series of evenly spaced images painted onto a rotating disc.

  • 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

    1906
    Eadweard Muybridge projects moving images onto a screen. Zoopraxiscope: Developed by Muybridge to project moving images

  • 1910

    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 adjusted.

  • 1925

    1925
    Animator Willis O'Brien works on "The Lost World". The film mixed stop-motion animation with live action.