History of Animation - Quiz I

Stuff I think I need to know for the first quiz of the class

Edward Muybridge

1877 horse sequence

Emile Reynaud

1888 optical theater

Thomas Edison

1889, Kinetograph, Kinetoscope

Kinetograph

Sideways camera for group viewing

Kinetoscope

Movie box for individual use

Lumiere Brothers

1895, First film projection

James S. Blackton

1906, American, First animated cartoon, chalk

Katsudo Shashin

1907, first anime

Emile Cohl

1908, French, ink on paper

Ladislav Starewicz

1912, Russian, Stop motion bugs

Windsor McCay

1914, American, Gertie the Dinosaur, first character animation, pencil on cardstock

Felix the Cat

1919, First cartoon character

Pat Sullivan

Animator of Felix the Cat

Bray Studio

First studio

Jun’ichi Kouchi

Japanese, The Dull Sword

Walther Ruttman

1921, German, Lightplay, abstract film, oil on glass

Amadee Van Bueren

Aesop’s Fables

Fleicher Brothers Studio

1921, Out of the Inkwell, Koko the Clown, Tantalizing Fly

Joseph Sunn

1926, Chinese-American, oldest surviving clay animation

Helena Smith Dayton

Mid 1910s, first clay animation

Disney Brothers

1923, Alice’s Wonderland

Lotte Reinger

1926, German, Adventures of Prince Achmed, Paper cutouts

Thaumatrope

Cardstock on string (first)

Phenakistoscope

Spinning wheel viewed through slits, reflected in mirror (second)

Zoetrope

Images inside a carousel spun and viewed from slits on the outside

Praxinoscope

A zoetrope with mirrors on the inside instead of slits to view through (final)