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peter roget
Peter Roget presented his paper 'The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects' to the British Royal Society. -
Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau
Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows; behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed, the synchronization of the windows with the images created an animated effect. -
Zeotrope
The zoetrope was a hollow drum that housed images on long interchangeable
strips that spin and made the images appear to move. -
Flip Book
The flip-book, also known as the kineograph, reached a wide audience and is credited
with inspiring early animators more than the machines developed in this era. -
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic gathering of animals in motion. -
Celluloid
A man named H.W. Goodwin invented a celluloid film which could hold images. It was made of gum cotton and gum camphor. -
Praxinscope
A man in France named Emil Reynaud opened a theatre using an invention called the Praxinoscope. It used turning mirrors to reflect images and produce a 10 to 15 minute "moving picture." -
Thomas Edison
Using the celluloid film developed by H.W. Goodwin, Edison was able to produce moving film pictures on the wall. The film moved over a series of wheels to produce the pictures. -
Sound is Captured
Using a magnetic recording device, sound was recorded for the first time. Animation enthusiasts would latch onto the technology. -
First short Film
A man named James Stuart Blackton used animation techniques to produce a short film. It documented the drawing process of characters, without ever showing the artist; this made it seem that the drawings simply appeared.
