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First Animated Film
The first animated projection (screening) was created in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud, who was a French science teacher. Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and the Théâtre Optique in December 1888. On 28 October 1892, he projected the first animation in public, Pauvre Pierrot, at the Musée Grévin in Paris. This film is also notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. His films were not photographed, but drawn directly onto the transparent strip. In 1900, more t -
Hand Colored Frame by frame lil Nemo
In 1911, McCay made a short film of it which remains the first great landmark in animation history. Hand-coloured frame by frame, the animation lasts only two minutes and is silent, but it shows off his remarkable characters and hallucinatory style to dazzling effect. McCay went on to make such memorable films as Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) and The Flying House (1921). -
Father of animation FIrst film
Winsor McCay, the father of animation, started out as a newspaper strip cartoonist. His most famous creation was Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905), a vividly colourful and surreal art nouveau strip about the dream-world adventures of an over-imaginative boy. -
first Real Cartoon Animated
In the early 20th century, theaters were already showing animated films on the big screen, but the characters were usually no more than spokesdrawings for various advertisers. That is, until Winsor McCay drew his way onto the scene in 1914. The legendary cartoonist, who'd earlier become famous with his classic comic strip, "Little Nemo," believed that animated characters could hold an audience's attention without the help of a sales pitch. With that in mind, McCay created the groundbreaking fi -
First Sound Animated film
However the Fleischers used a De Forest sound system and the sound was not completely synchronized with the film. Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse was the first to use a click track during the recording session, which produced better synchronism. -
First Censored animated film/Show
During the early days of animation, Disney's studio wasn't the only one having trouble defining its characters' personalities. Max Fleischer (creator of Popeye) also had a giant hit on his hands with the seductive, garter-wearing flapper Betty Boop. However, some theater managers began reporting that their conservative audiences found the pint-size coquette too risqué, and in 1935, Betty became the first cartoon character to be censored by the Hays Office. Forced to make a change, Fleischer res -
first Animated color film
In 1937, Disney created the first sound and color animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The name "animated cartoon" is generally not used when referring to full-length animated productions, since the term more or less implies a "short." -
Bringing animation back to mainstream
Still going after nearly 25 years, the Simpsons canged the face of animated television and television itself. Deeply satirical and witty, the Simpsons, created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company, dragged animation back into the mainstream consciousness of the world. It has spawned numerous imitators and follow-ups, including Futurama, Family Guy and King of the Hill. -
Ending staleness of Animated Musical films
By the Eighties, Disney's formula had grown stale; their films had come to resemble creaky musicals. Animation itself was thought to be finished – until the emergence of a new wave of films in the Nineties.
It began with Beauty and the Beast (1991), the only animated feature ever to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, and Aladdin (1992), but The Lion King topped them all, earning nearly half a billion dollars and becoming the most successful animated film of all time. Basically a rewrite of H -
First Fully Generated Computer generated Short Film
With Luxo Jr (1986), Pixar founder John Lasseter made the first fully computer-generated short film. With Toy Story, he applied the process to a feature, and became the most influential animator in the world today. It was an amazing debut, an era-defining landmark that didn't just raise the technical bar, but also stood out for its storytelling, characterisation and emotional powe
