History of Animation

Already since the days of pre-history, mankind has been able to create images that depict motion. Evident since the discovery of wall paintings found in caves in Spain and France that experts say was made 30,000 years ago. Paintings that depict animal movements that are running, with a painted picture foot until you see 6-8 foot piles. 

Important discoveries in 1644 occurred in the animated film world, with the discovery of the Magic Lantern by Athanasius Kircher, who represents the embryo of a camera projector. Pieter Van Musschenbroek German was the first to create animated images in 1736 by using a tool named Thaumatrope. This tool is like an optical toy in the form of a rotating cylinder which has essentially objects that make up a particular figure when seen through the holes provided. From these findings, emerging and developing other similar tools, such as Fantascope, Phenakistiscope, Zeotrope and Tachyscope to grow until the invention of Thomas Alva Edison who successfully combines a recorder and photography into a single unit in 1889. The projector is made Thomas Alva Edison Kinetoscope named. 

Film animation in the form of a picture began to develop since entering in 1900. 1907, J Stuart Blackton of American animated film entitled Humorous Phases of Funny Faces. A year later (1908) appears Phantasmagoria made by Emile Cohl of France. Successively later Winson McKay an American artist to make an animated film Little Nemo and Gertie, The Trained Dinosaur more successful than the first film. In 1911 Ladislav Starevick make films with the first stop motion techniques, while the length animated film was first made by Lotte Reineger from Germany under the title Die Abenteuer des Prinz Achmets in 1926. 

By 1928, Mickey Mouse was born by Walt Disney Studios in the U.S. is still with the black and white. Development of color animated film begins with the film Three Little Pigs by Walt Disney. While the story length animated film made in 1937 with the title of Snow White and the Seven Dwarts.
1940 to 1950 show the animators, animators who fought against the naturalist style of Walt Disney, like Hanna Barbera, Tex Avery, Walter Lantz and Charles Jones. However, the phenomenon of sophistication of Walt Disney with his cell animation has spread throughout the world. The existence of the innovations in the game camera, sound, color, motion effects and techniques to make successful in attracting many lovers of Disney animated films to see animated films he made.

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