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THE PHENAKISTOSCOPE
Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope. Plateau used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle.It showed the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. -
STOP MOTION
An animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a fast sequence. The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph's The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1897). Others example include chicken run and Paranorman. -
Silent age
The earliest age of mainstream animation known to man, lasting from the early 1900s to the late 1920s with the rise of sound technology.The earliest known/existing cartoon as we know it is the 1908 French short film Phantasmagorie by Emile Cohl . while there were many experiments with stop motion and drawn pictures earlier, most famously J. Stuart Blackton's The Enchanted Drawing, but this was apparently the first one to rely entirely on genuine hand drawn animation. -
THE ENCHANTED DRAWING
The Enchanted Drawing is a 1900 silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton.It is best known for containing the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film. he draws objects that become three- dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.This is less animation and more stop-motion or a trick film. -
LITTLE NEMO
Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. McCay demonstrated his mastery of linear perspective in scenes such as when the dragon disappears smoothly into the distance.The film's positive reception motivated McCay to hand-color each of the 35mm frames of the originally black-and-white film. The film was based off his comics. -
CEL
cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation.it allows some parts of each frame to be repeated from frame to frame, thus saving labor. The invention of the technique is generally attributed to Earl Hurd, who patented the process in 1914. Films like Gertie the dinosaur, Snow White and the seven drawfs, and Dumbo was made by this technique. -
GERTIE THE DINOSAUR
Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. Gertie the Dinosaur was drawn with black ink on white rice paper.Gertie the Dinosaur was the very first dinosaur to be on the big screen. -
CUT-OUT ANIMATIONS
Cutout animation is a form of stop-motion animation using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. The world's earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani."South Park," was originally made using physical paper cut-out -
STEAMBOAT WILLIE
Animated short film was directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by Walt Disney Studios.It was the first Mickey Mouse film released and the first cartoon with synchronized sound. The recording session for Steamboat Willie. -
GOLDEN AGE OF ANIMATION
The Golden Age of Animation is well known for introducing many characters whose popularity endures to this day. This includes Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, and many more..It began with the U.S. animation that began with the advent of sound cartoons in 1928 and continued until around 1969 when theatrical animated shorts began losing to the new medium of television animation. -
WALT DISNEY AND WARNER BROS
The Walt Disney Company started in 1923 . It was there that Walt Disney, and his brother Roy, produced a series of animated films such as silent Alice Comedies short films the all-animated Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and producing cartoons starring a new character named Mickey Mouse.The Warner animation division was founded in 1933 as Leon Schlesinger Productions, an independent company which produced the popular Looney Tunes ,Merrie Melodies,and Animaniacs -
THE DARK AGE OF ANIMATION
in the late 1950s and lasting until the mid-80s. Its start coincided with the Fall of the Studio System in Hollywood. The theatrical short slowly died off, and cartoons moved to television. the primary target audience for cartoons became children. -
BOUNCY BALL
The bouncy ball was patented in 1966 by a California chemist named Norman Stingley. He compressed various scraps of synthetic rubber together under about 3500 pounds per square inch of pressure.
