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__ Timeline of Animation __ __ 1824: __ Peter presented his paper ‘The persistence of vision with regard to the moving objects’ to the British Royal Society.

__ 1831: __ Dr Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows. Behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed the synchronization of the windows with the images created an animated effect.

__ 1887: __ Thomas Edison started his research work into motion pictures.

__ 1889: __ Thomas Edison announced his creation of the kinetoscope. This projected a fifty foot length of film in approximately thirteen seconds.

__ 1895: __ Louis and Augustine Lumiere issued a patent for a device called cinematograph capable of projecting moving objects.

__ 1906: __ J. Stuart Blackton made the first animated film which he called “Humorous phases of funny faces.” His method was to draw comical faces on a blackboard and film them. He would stop the film, erase one face to draw another, and then film the newly drawn face.

1911: Winsor McCay produced an animation sequence using his comic strip character “Little Nemo.”

1914: Winsor McCay produced a cartoon called ‘Gertie, The trained dinosaur.’ This amazingly consisted of 10,000 drawings.

1926: The first feature-length animated film called "El Apostol" is created in Argentina.

__ 1923: __ Walt and Roy Disney found Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.

1927: Warner Brothers released "The Jazz Singer" which introduced combined sound and images.

1928: Walt Disney created the first cartoon with synchronized sound called "Steam Boat Willy".

1945: Harry Smith produced animation by drawing directly onto film.

1988: Willow uses morphing to transform images in to a live action film.

1993: Jurassic Park use of CG for realistic living creatures.

1995: Toy Story first full-length 3D CG feature film.

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