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The Magic Lantern made by Christiaan Huygens
The Magic lantern was one of the earliest forms of projectors. Used to project onto a flat surface to evoke a sense of the supernatural. Accredited to Christiaan Huygens or Athanasius Kircher.
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Thaumatrope
A simple toy that illustrated the persistence of vision. Flipped at a high enough speed would make the illusion of a merged picture.
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Phenakistoscope
It was invented by two people at the same time, by Joesph Plateau and Simon von Stampfer.IMages are evenly spaced and there are slits to look through to see the illusion.
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Zoetrope (1834) created by William G Horner
It was made by William George Horner, who sold it as the Zoetrope, a machine much like the phenakistoscope. Yet this one let multiple people use it at once.
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Flip Book
First made by John Barnes Linnett, and also known as the kineograph, the flip book is pretty simple. There is a set of papers that are overlapped with drawings similar but in a movement.
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Praxinoscope
The first projected animation film in public was Pauvre Pierrot at the Musée Grévin in Paris by Charles-Émile Reynaud,
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Felix the Cat is the first cartoon to be marketed. Created by Otto Messmer
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Walt Disney's first breakthrough is with Steamboat Willie
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Color television was introduced to the US Market in 1951
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. The first fully computer-animated feature film was Pixar's Toy Story (1995)
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