the history of animation

  • thaumatrope created by John Ayerton

    A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one due to the persistence of vision. information is from wikipedia.
  • photography invented by Joseph Niepce

    photography invented by Joseph Niepce
    His trials with lithography led to what Niépce later termed heliography and resulted in the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, which he produced in 1826 or 1827.
  • phenakistoscope created by Joseph Plateau

    phenakistoscope created by Joseph Plateau
    The phenakistoscope (also spelled phenakistiscope or phenakitiscope) was an early animation device that used the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. this information was read from wikipedia .
  • zoetrope created by willian horner

    zoetrope created by willian horner
    A zoetrope created by william horner is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. information found in wikipedia .
  • praxinoscope created by Charlis Reynaud

    praxinoscope created by Charlis Reynaud
    A band of pictures is placed inside a shallow outer cylinder, so that each picture is reflected by the inner set of mirrors. The number of mirrors is equal to the number of pictures, and the images of the pictures are viewed in the mirrors. When the outer cylinder rotates, the quick succession of reflected pictures gives the illusion of a moving picture.
  • kinetograph and kinetoscope created by Thomas Edison

    kinetograph and kinetoscope created by Thomas Edison
    the kinetograph was an innovative motion picture camera with rapid intermittent, or stop-and-go, film movement, to photograph movies.The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device.
  • workers leaving the factory produced by Louis Lumière

    workers leaving the factory produced by Louis Lumière
    Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon, also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film
  • workers leaving the factory produced by Louis Lumière

    workers leaving the factory produced by Louis Lumière
    Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon, also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film and is considered as the first motion picture.