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History of Animation
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Updated:
22 Nov 2018
The evolution of Animated Drawing to Present Day Digital Animation over history.
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Events
Invention of the Magic Lantern
Invention of the Phenakistoscope
Invention of the Zoetrope
Praxinoscope: The First Animated Projection
First Public Screening of Animation
Bray Studios founded
The Father of Animation: J. Stuart Blackton
"Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" - First entirely animated film
"Fantasmagorie" - First Hand-Drawn Animated Film
Vitagraph Studios
"The Humpy Dumpty Circus" - First Stop-Motion Film
Winsor McCay Influences
Kinemacolor Process
Technicolor Process (1916-1932)
"Fiddlesticks" - First Animated Film in Technicolor (2-strip)
Felix the Cat debut
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. founded
Walt Disney Studios founded
Mickey Mouse debut
Betty Boop debut
The Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code)
"Flowers and Trees" - First Three-Strip Technicolor Film
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" - Walt Disney Studios First Animated Feature Film
"How Hollywood Censors Its Animated Characters" - Look Magazine
Death of Walt Disney
"Futureworld" Early Use of Computer Animation
Hanna-Barbera founded
"The Huckeberry Hound Show"
Cartoon Network founded
Nickelodeon founded
"The Flintstones" - First Animated Series on TV
"Toy Story" and CGI
Pixar Animation Studios founded
"Genesis Effect" - First Completely Computer Animated Sequence
Theorist: Max Wertheimer Phi Phenomenon
Theorist: Suzanne Buchan Pervasive Animation
Theorist: Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechnical Reproduction
Theorist: Frederic Wertham Seduction of the Innocent
Periods
Early Beginning's of Animation (1603-1650 approx.)
The Silent Era (1900-1930)
The Golden Age of American Animation (1920s-1960s)
The Rise of Computer Animation (1970-2000s)
The Television Era (1950s-1960s)
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