History of animation

The Magic Lantern (1650)

The magic lantern was a translucent oil painting including a lens and a simple candle or an oil lamp. In a dark room the image will magically appear on a flat surface as the light will projecting it through. It was the first animation project ever to start the world of animation.

  Thaumatrape 

A device invented in 1825. It involved a disk with tow images on each side so as you turned it around or made it spin it looked like a mini animated short story etc.  It both combined into one picture. 

It made it look like that object was just inside the other or over.

John Ayrton Paris.was the inventor 

Zoetrope 

William George Horner invented the first ever Zoetrope after the Thaumatrape in he 1834.

A Zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices which was made to produce the illusion of motion animation (motion pictures)by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs as they role around. The images appear when a light us shine apron it it, it reflects through. 

Flip book

A flip book or a flick book is a book with series of images drawn, printed or copied. that change slowly from one page to the next. You can speed it up to make the pace faster etc. When the pictures appear the animate acting out motions telling  story. It will look like a mini animated film on paper. 

The first animated Flip book was made in September 1868 It was first made by John Barnes Linnett. This was under the name moving image. 

Kinetoscope 

 Thomas A. Edison and William Dickson of the United States in 1891

this ks a strip of film that was passed rapidly between a lens and an electric light bulb while the viewer peered through a peephole so it also reflected through to reach the viewer. 

This was also an early attempt by the two to create a sound- film system. 

Cinematographe

In February 13 1895, Louis and Auguste ( Lumiere brothers) presented the first cinematographe.  

Their Cinématographe combined a camera for recording the movement as well as that a printer and, when connected to a magic lantern, a projector. About the same size of an ordinary hand held still camera, the Cinématographe differed from the Kinetoscope in many ways such as the size and the weight of it. 

Qouted from - earlycinema.com-

http://www.earlycinema.com/technology/cinematographe.html

Was said that, Lumière brothers used 35mm film but unlike Edison opted for a film speed of 16 fps as opposed to the 46 fps chosen by Edison.

The silent era of animation 

In 1900 the silent er became something new for the viewers. 

Its an early mainstream animation known to man lasting from the early 1900s.till the 1920s

Emile Cohl also known as the father of animated cartoon. 

A short stop-motion animation was produced in 1908 by Albert E smith and J. Stuart Blackton called The Humpty Dumpty made by stop motion which is a technique in which real objects are moved around in the time between their images being recorded.
This included Gertie the Dinosaur invented in 1914. However, the first big cartoon star was Felix the Cat in 1919. 
which then came Koko the clown and Bimbo the dog.
In early 1923, animator Walt Disney created a short film entitled Alice's wonderland, which featured actress Virginia Davis interacting with animated characters.

Disney 

Disney was founded in October 1923 by Walt Disney and Roy. o Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon studios. 
The company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio, then Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1986.


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