History of Animation

A thaumatrope was introduced it is a simple toy with a small disk with different pictures on each side; a bird in a cage, and is attached to two pieces of strings which was suppose to make motion animation outside a screen

John Barnes Linnett patented the first flip book

Reynaud created the Praxinoscope

Theater Optique was created

The common flip book were early animation devices that produced an illusion of movement from a series of sequential drawings, animation did not develop further until the advent of motion picture film and cinematography in the 1890s

the first animation in public, Pauvre Pierrot, at the Musée Grévin in Paris.

The cinematographer was a projector, printer, and camera in one machine that allowed moving pictures to be shown successfully on a screen which was invented by history's earliest film makers, Auguste and Louis Lumière

more than 500,000 people had attended these screenings

The first film that was recorded on standard picture film and included animated sequences was the 1900 Enchanted Drawing

In Europe, the French artist, Émile Cohl, created the first animated film using what came to be known as traditional animation creation methods