Animation History: Silent Pioneers

1892 - theatre Optique - Emile Reynaud
*1st animated film viewable by the public
*Reynaud created the "Praxinoscope" in 1877 and theatre opatique in 1889

zoescope --------------> praxinoscope------------------->theatre opatique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAUA6pg_EXk

1906 - Humorous Phases of Funny Faces - James Stuart Blackton
*chalk line effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGh6maN4l2I

1907 - Lightning sketches -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe7HSnZotbU

1908 - Fantasmagorie - Emile Cohl
*considered the 1st fully made animated film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAObel8yIE

1909 - Princess Nicotine - James Stuart Blackton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzvmZAzCF0M

1911 - Little Nemo - Winsor McCay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOGEwx0NfQ

1914 - Gertie the Dinosaur - Winsor McCay
*1st cartoon character with personality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4

1918 - Sinking of the Lucitania - Winsor McCay
*1st documentary animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN-KdPBhyjc

1919 - Feline Frolics - Otto Mesmer
*1st Felix the cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbX-BeSY_18

1920 - Perpetual Motion - Max & Dave Fleischer
*invented rotoscope to catch live action

*character's name is Koko the clown
*1919 Tantalizing Fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-K67eHDKpc

1927 - The Lunch Hound - Walter Lantz & Clyde Geronimi

Animation History: Walt Disney

1920 - Laugh-O-Grams - Walt Disney
*Walt's 1st Studio in Kansas
*stories based on contempory twist on fairy tales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaknqmbT99c

1923 - Alice's Wonderland - Walt Disney
*live action + animaytion. But later on, animation gradually took over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H58meqbp5Ps

1927 - Trolley Troubles - Walt Disney/ Ub Iwerks
*1st Walt cartoon character: Oswald the Rabbit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsSmbqH2Yvk

1928 - Steamboat Willie - Disney/ Ub Iwerks
1st sound integrated cartoon (sound + novelty)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4

1929 - Plane Crazy - Disney/ Ub Iwerks
Mickey Sounded cartoon. Release to public earlier than Stemboat Willie
*music by Carl Stalling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZPzHg0h80

1932 - Flowers and Trees
*1st animation in full three-color Technicolor ( not like Little Nemo, hand painted)
*Disney's first Academy Awards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTuIb7BIFqk

1933 - Three Little Pigs - Burt Gillett
*1st cartoon has theme song (hit song, "Who's afraid of Big Bad Wolf")
*Depression- Era
*1st "personality animation", each characters had its own distinctive personality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmyx4p6QXM

1935 - Band Concert
1st colored Mickey Mouse cartoon
(other cartoon had colors, but this is the 1st "colored Mouse")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IErXg5kBXXg

1937 - The Old Mill - Wilfred Jackson
*preparation, test film for Snow White
*created effects for natural environment(wind, water, smoke...)
*1st to use multiplane camera to create illusion of spatial depth and movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMwa3ZwTwyA

1937 - Snow White - David Hand
*developed story in 1934
*1st feature animation
*1937 premiered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niwn2pOEno

1938 - The Brave Little Tailor - Bill Roberts
Mickey was overthrown by other characters, (Donald Duck, Goofy)
Walt Disney tried to make Mickey a well-know hero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcjwLyVOi30