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