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animation

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movement created through a series of drawings

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magic lantern

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1645, four components: box, light source, curved mirror, lens

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persistence of vision

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1824, explained why our eyes perceive movement in static images; after image effect: image carries over in our brains, passive phenomenon, myth

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short-range apparent motion

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the illusion of animation

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kinograph

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1868, flip book

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zoetrope

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cylinder with slits that spins

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kinetoscope

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1894, invented by Thomas Edison, a way to view 13 seconds of celluloid film, shown in nickelodeon galleries

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vitoscope

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1895, early film projector, Thomas Armant

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chalk talks and lightning sketches

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James Stuart Blackton, metamorphic drawings on a vaudeville stage.

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“Living Blackboard”

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Emile Cohl, Fantasmagorie, first animated cartoon, drawn on rice-paper and photographed with negative process

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Little Nemo in Slumberland

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1911, WInsor McCay comics, changed layout of traditional comic, became first animated American cartoon

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mutascope

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Winsor McCay, used to check movement; giant roladex;

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cycling

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reusing sequences of drawings instead of redrawing them to save time

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peg system

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used to align animators’ drawings, each animator’s desk had pegs in same place

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rotoscope

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allowed animators to trace an image frame by frame, later seen as a crutch

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Felix the Cat

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919 Otto Messmer; financially and artistically successful; fine art background, cartoon foreground; studied body language of Charlie Chaplin to give Felix personalized body movements

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Laugh-O-Gram Films

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first shorts animated by Walt Disney; gave Walt local publicity

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Alice Comedies

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1924-1927; series of shorts featuring a live action girl in an animated world; signed 1 year contract with MJ Winkler

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model sheet

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broke characters down into components; used as a guide; Walt saw these as a crutch

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

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1927; first character designed by Ub and Walt collectively; Walt lost rights to Oswald when he left Charles Mintz

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Nine Old Men

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Walt Disney’s core animators; Les Clark

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The Jazz Singer

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1927, First sound film

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exposure sheet

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Details dialog and music; each line equals one frame; every 4 frames something corresponded with the music; used in Steamboat Willie

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Silly Symphonies

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1929; based on music, story is secondary; entirely new experience for the audience; training ground for artists to experiment

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storyboard
1931; invented by Web Smith; 4x8 bulletin board; allowed edits to be made before animation began
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inspirational sketch artist
artists that were hired to create artwork to capture the feel of the current production; used during entire process
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Émile Reynaud
Inventor of praxinoscope
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Eadweard Muybridge
hired by Stanford to photograph horses; author of Locomotion of Animals/Humans
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George Eastman
Inventor of celluloid
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Louis and Auguste Lumière
Invented the movie projector
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James Stuart Blackton
Father of Animation, first American Cartoon, “Numerous Phases of Humorous Faces”
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Emile Cohl
First animated cartoon, “Fantasmagorie,” The Living Blackboard
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Winsor McCay
Little Nemo in Slumberland, Gertie the Dinosaur
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Max and David Fleischer
Out of the Inkwell Studios, owned Betty Boop and Popeye
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Otto Messmer
Created Felix the Cat, didn’t take credit
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Pat Sullivan
Distributed Felix, took credit as creator
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Charlie Chaplin
Silent Era actor, Little Tramp character
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Roy Disney
Walt’s brother, managed business aspects of studio
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Buster Keaton
another actor, pantomime
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Ub Iwerks
Best animator of his time, first of Walt’s hired animators, action animator, The Skeleton Dance
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M.J. Winkler
distributor for the Alice series
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Rollin “Ham” Hamilton
first animator hired by Disney, Alice series
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Charles Mintz
Winkler’s husband, butted heads with Disney, annoyed Disney to the point of selling him the rights to Oswald
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Leslie “Les” Clark
animator, debut in The Skeleton Dance, benefitted from life drawing classes
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Pat Powers
Distributed Mickey
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Norman “Fergie” Ferguson
Animator, acting animator, Wolf in Three Little Pigs
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Carl Stalling
composer for The Skeleton Dance
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Don Graham
Taught night classes at Disney Studios
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Webb Smith
Invented the storyboard
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Albert Hurter
animator, one of the oldest on staff, rheumatic heart disease, classically trained in European art
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Dick Lundy
Animator, drew dance sequence of Three Little Pigs
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Fred Moore
Animator, did character animation in Three Little Pigs
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Art Babbitt
Animator, did remaining scenes in Three Little Pigs, developed Goofy
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The Locomotion of Animals Date
1899
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The Locomotion of Humans | Walt Disney born
1901
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Numerous Phases of Humourous Faces - animator - year
James Stuart Blackton 1906 First American Film
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Fantasmagorie - animator - Year
Emile Cohl 1908 First Cartoon
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Little Nemo in Slumberland - animator - year
Winsor McCay 1911 First American Cartoon
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Gertie the Dinosaur - animator - year
Winsor McCay | 1914
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Alice’s Wonderland - animator - year
Disney Brother's Studio | 1923
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Trolley Troubles - -
Walt Disney Studio | 1927
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Plane Crazy - -
Ub Iwerks | 1928
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Story continuity sketches for Tall Timber (aka Northwoods | -date
1927 | sketch
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Steamboat Willie - -
Ub Iwerks, Les Clark, Wilfred Jackson | 1928
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Skeleton Dance - -
Ub Iwerks and Les Clark | 1929
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Flowers and the Trees - -
Walt Disney Studio/ Albert Hurter | 1932
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Three Little Pigs - -
Dick Lundee, Fred Moore, Art Babette, Norman “Fergie” Ferguson 1933
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Carl Lutz
Wrote Animated Cartoon

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