History of animation

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The first examples of trying to capture motion into a drawing can already be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting depicting a sense of motion.

The history of film animation begins with the earliest days of silent films and continues through the present day.

The first animated cartoon was created by frenchman Émile Reynaud, inventor of the praxinoscope, an animation system using loops of 12 pictures. On October 28, 1892 at Musée Grévin in Paris, France he exhibited animations consisting of loops of about 500 frames, using his théatre optique system - similar in principle to a modern film projector.

The first animated cartoon on standard picture film was Fantasmagorie by the French director Émile Courtet (also called Émile Cohl), projected for the first time on August 17, 1908 at 'Théâtre du Gymnase', in Paris.

The first puppet animated film was The Beautiful Lukanida (1910) by the Polish Director Wladyslaw Starewicz (Ladislas Starevich).

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (produced in Technicolor) is generally considered as the first animated feature, even though feature-length animation had been produced before: the very first was El Apóstol (1917) from Argentine Quirino Cristiani, shown in Argentina. A notable early feature was The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) from German Lotte Reiniger and French/Hungarian Berthold Bartosch. These two early examples were black and white and silent.