The history of animation

  • Thaumatrope

    Thaumatrope
    this device was created in 1827 by english physiscian john ayerton paris wich was two difrent drawings on each side of a plat disk when the disk is spun the image mergase into one.
  • zoetrope

    this device was created in 1843 by william horner who originally called it the Deadalum (the wheel of the devil). Later it was named the zoetrope or wheel of life .
  • motion pictures in america

    Americas premier inventor Thomas Alva Edison , developed a motion picture camera (The kinetograph) and aprojector (The kinetoscope) in 1891.
  • birth of narrative films

    the edison 1902 film ''Fun in the bakery shop'' was an early example of a movie special effects
  • winsor mccay

    He worked for a newspaper as a cartoonist . in 1912 he animated ''how a mosquito operates ''. in 1914 he brought ''Gerite the dinousaur'' to life in animated films.
  • otto messmer ''Felix the cat ''

    Motto messmer created '' Felix the cat '' in 1919 for the pat sullivan studios.
    he was sponsored by studion and would be seen again ,and was exposed to audiences across the country.
  • silent movie era

    A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, mime and title cards. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone sys
  • ''steam boat willie''

    in 1929 Disney was on of the first to use sound with the release of ''steam boat willie ''.
  • first animated movie

    The studio produced its first feature-length animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 and as of 2014 has produced a total of 54 feature films.
  • the golden age

    The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud.