History Of Animation

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  • Flip Book Animation

    Flip Book Animation
    The first Flip Book animation was created by John Barnes Linnett. It was patented under the name kineograph.

  • Creation of the Praxinoscope

    Creation of the Praxinoscope
    he praxinoscope was invented in 1877 by Charles- Emile Reynaud. It was made using strips of picture around the inside of a circle, and a set of mirrors on the other circle inside the original. If the wheel is turned the image appears to be moving.
    The praxinoscope is the successor of the zoetrope.

  • Motion Picture Camera

    Motion Picture Camera
    Although the date for the first motion picture camera is unknown, the one made by Louis Le Prince was definitely one of the first.

  • Stop Motion Animation

    Stop Motion Animation
    Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton were the first people to use stop motion animation in 1898 when they created the Humpty Dumpty Circus.

  • Sherlock Holmes Baffled

    Sherlock Holmes Baffled
    Arthur Marvin was the first person to use Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective character in a short feature film. Since the show includes a detective a detective it is also considered the the first detective film recorded. The show has a running time of 30 seconds.

  • Gertie the Dinosaur

    Gertie the Dinosaur
    Gertie the Dinosaur was made by Winsor McCay
    Made using keyframe animation
    Running time of 12 minutes
    Considered first cartoon with a character having an appealing personality
    Actual date unknown..

  • Disney Bros. Cartoon Studio Opens

    Disney Bros. Cartoon Studio Opens
    Founded by Walt and Roy Disney
    During “silent era”
    Creation of the Alice Comedies

  • Betty Boop Introduced

    Betty Boop Introduced
    Betty Boop made her first appearance in 1930 in a cartoon called Dizzy Dishes.
    She was created by Max Fleischer with help from various animators.
    The Film series was produced by Fleischer Studios and then released by Paramount Pictures.

  • The Smurfs

    The Smurfs
    Pierre Culliford introduced the Smurfs in a comic strip in a Belgian magazine, Spiror. Later it was translated into English and was made into a children’s cartoon by the Hanna-Barbera Productions info.

  • Nyan Cat

    Nyan Cat
    Nyan Cat is the name of a YouTube video, uploaded in April 2011, which became an Internet meme. The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon cat with the body of a Pop-Tart, flying through space, and leaving a rainbow trail behind it