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4,800 | Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
Placeholder image
### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,801 | Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. | sentence | Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,802 | As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once. | sentence | Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,803 | Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out! | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
Placeholder image
### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,804 | Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration! | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
Placeholder image
### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,805 | Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. | sentence | Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration! | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,806 | Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration! | sentence | Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration! | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,807 | This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde… | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,808 | This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. | sentence | This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde… | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,809 | I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. | sentence | This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde… | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,810 | Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,811 | Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. | sentence | Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,812 | Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. | sentence | Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,813 | This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing. | sentence | Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,814 | From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
Placeholder image
### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,815 | From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. | sentence | From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,816 | Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other. | sentence | From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,817 | The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
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London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
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4,818 | The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. | sentence | The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,819 | These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look. | sentence | The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,820 | In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
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Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
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4,821 | In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. | sentence | In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,822 | It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. | sentence | In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,823 | He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset. | sentence | In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,824 | Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of... | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,825 | Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. | sentence | Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of... | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,826 | This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of... | sentence | Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of... | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,827 | We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
Placeholder image
### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,828 | We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. | sentence | We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,829 | For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack. | sentence | We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,830 | This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
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Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,831 | The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,832 | The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. | sentence | The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,833 | The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! | sentence | The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,834 | It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey. | sentence | The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,835 | With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
Placeholder image
### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,836 | Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
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Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,837 | Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,838 | Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. | sentence | Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,839 | It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award. | sentence | Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,840 | The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that… | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,841 | The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. | sentence | The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that… | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,842 | Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that… | sentence | The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that… | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,843 | A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing. | paragraph | #### Reviews
# A History of Animation
Snowhite
#### 30,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.
#### Early motion in art
Roll your sleeves up people, we’re gonna need to grab a trowel and jump into a trench before we get to animation as we know it today.
Early examples of motion in art can be found by examining archaeological artifacts. One of the most well-known (and perhaps the oldest) is the Shahr-E Sukhteh, a bronze-age bowl showing a hungry goat jumping up for leaves in a sequence of changing ‘frames’ around the outside of the bowl.
Whilst not strictly animation, this shows that early artists were depicting movement using a series of similar individual images.
#### 1600 - 1877
#### Animation before film
Around the era of The Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, some folk were getting pretty sick with just looking at a bit of pottery or a bunch of arranged pictures to represent motion. Lucky for them, new technology and the spread of machinery made possible devices that could successfully display ‘moving’ images for their entertainment and delight.
Nowadays we might call these sort of things optical illusions - even at the time they were seen as a bit of a novelty. Regardless, they were instrumental in developing animation as we know it, so here’s a little rundown of the most broadly-used devices during this era:
#### 1603
#### The Magic Lantern
You can probably tell just by looking at this one that it’s an early example of a projector. Light would be shined through a thin picture and projected out of the lens on the front in order to cast an image on a flat surface. The animation part would come in thanks to moving components that were used to overlay two images where one would slide about or rotate to show movement on a second, static image.
A big part of the magic lantern’s history is phantasmagoria: where its projections were used as a way to trick people into thinking they were witnessing something supernatural. Just don’t rub it and expect the Genie to come out of this thing.
#### 1824
#### Thaumatrope
You can make your own thaumatrope at home, all you need is a bit of card and some string. Draw an image on each side which relate to each other, it could be a tree trunk on one side and a bunch of leaves on the other or a horse on one side and a rider on the other. Then just attach a piece of string to each side and twizzle them, spinning the card and creating the illusion that the images are overlapping.
Now that my Blue Peter moment is over I’m not gonna sugarcoat this: a thaumatrope is just a toy really. The main reason I’m mentioning them is because they were mass-produced and brought the idea behind animation (the persistence of vision) into the homes of thousands.
#### 1831
#### Phenakistoscope
This is where it gets a bit more interesting; the frame rate might be atrocious but here’s a proper animation device capable of displaying the illusion of movement. These were disks with images around the outside which, when spun, appeared to move when viewed using a mirror because your eye would detect each individual image in the sequence as happening one after the other.
#### 1834
#### Zoetrope
Take a phenakistoscope and stick it inside a rotating drum and you pretty much have a zoetrope. As the cylinder spins, the viewing slits become a pseudo shutter, eliminating the need for a mirror and allowing multiple viewers at once.
Charlie talked about these a little bit in last week’s 8 Great Facts About Animation journal post because Disney and Studio Ghibli have amazing, massive modern day versions of these, go and check them out!
#### 1868
#### Flip book
Nope, this isn’t something fancy, just a regular flip book with each page showing a different, slightly altered image. Like the Thaumatrope, flip books were instrumental in the history of animation because they reached such a wide audience, with many early animated film makers citing their humble flip books as their inspiration!
This is something that you animators out there may have been given as a task to make by a particularly bohemian teacher. Me? I just spent the majority of the time I was supposed to be learning about algebra making a flip book of two stick people having a fight out of my maths textbook. Sorry, Mr Hinde…
#### 1877
#### Praxinoscope
Last up before the invention of film took animation by storm was this amalgamation of the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and magic lantern. Images inside a drum were rotated and then viewed in an interior mirror before being projected onto a flat surface. This made it possible for whole audiences to view the effect of the animation and eliminated the shaky, unstable sequencing.
#### Traditional Animation
#### 1900 - 1930
#### The Silent Era
From here we get into what we now recognise as true animation, that is, animated images on picture film. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton from 1906 which showed a range of characters in a portrait style whose appearance would change as they interacted with each other.
The next big hitter from this period was Émile Cohl’s 1908 film Fantasmagorie, considered by many to be the first animated cartoon. These films were created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look.
In 1914, Winsor McCay unleashed Gertie the Dinosaur upon the world. It’s pretty impressive looking back at it today, especially considering that McCay personally drew almost 10,000 pictures by hand for this sequence. He would screen Gertie whilst he performed on stage as part of his vaudeville act which culminated in him mounting Gertie and riding her majestically into the sunset.
Also in 1914, cel animation was patented at John Bray Studios by Earl Hurd. This involved animating moving objects on transparent celluloid sheets, which pretty much standardised how animation was created for the next few decades and paved the for the huge mainstream success of...
#### 1923
#### Walt Disney & Warner Bros.
We’re all pretty familiar with how the ol’ animation yarn goes from here. For those of you living under a hefty rock, Disney’s first breakthrough was 1928’s Steamboat Willie, where shorts-wearing mouse and global animation icon Mickey Mouse was first made popular thanks largely to Steamboat being the first cartoon that included a fully post-produced soundtrack.
#### 1930s - 1950s
#### The Golden Age of Animation
This is when Warner Bros. really get going as a punchy, slapstick competitor to Disney and these two studios along with MGM and Fleischer help the transition of animation from a peripheral entertainment to an integral part of western mainstream popular culture.
#### 1937
#### Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The first animated feature-length film to be created entirely by hand-drawn animation. The blush on Snow’s cheeks was real rouge that some of the women at the studio would add during production in order to make her look more genuine! It took over 1.5 million cells to animate this beast too, crikey.
#### 1950s - 1980s
#### The Television Era
With the introduction of colour television to the mass market in 1951 in America, everyone’s eyes were becoming square pretty swiftly; a new home here for animation was inevitable.
Some of the most iconic cartoons of all time were created in this period using ‘limited animation’, a practice whereby you reuse backgrounds and cels frequently in order to churn out a greater volume of shows.
#### 1958
#### The Huckleberry Hound Show
Created by Hanna-Barbera, this was the first half-hour television show consisting entirely of animation. It was first of the kind and is often hailed as legitimising the concept of animation produced specifically for television; in 1960 it was even recognised with an Emmy Award.
The only mountain left for the animation to climb in order for it to be seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium was for it to nab a primetime spot. Good thing that a certain palaeolithic family came along and achieved just that…
So there you have it, how animation has been interpreted throughout history and the ways in which it developed to become a dominating cultural force.
Have you got any old animations that you love and I didn’t mention? Give us a shout over on Twitter @fudgeanimation or facebook.com/fudgeanimation
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### Charlie
#### Digital Marketing.
A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing.
### Ready to start your story?
### Get In Touch
### London
4th Floor, 86-90 Paul Street,
London EC2A 4NE United Kingdom
### Farnham
21b East Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7SD United Kingdom
© Fudge Animation Studios Ltd 2023 | article | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,844 | A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. | sentence | A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,845 | Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing. | sentence | A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Charlie is responsible for Fudge’s digital marketing as well as driving content strategy for the studio and our clients. Charlie has a wealth of digital marketing experience and has a particular passion and flair for social content marketing. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | A History of Animation - Fudge Animation Studios | https://www.fudgeanimation.com/journal/a-history-of-animation |
4,846 | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | title | تاريخ فن الأنميشن | query | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,847 | The animation industry has grown to become an absolute behemoth in the world of cinema. | sentence | The animation industry has grown to become an absolute behemoth in the world of cinema. Despite the immense teams and years of effort required for modern animated films, they reign as the most lucrative genre, boasting a remarkable 52% gross profit margin since 2004, leaving the second-most profitable genre, action, at 48% in the dust. Of course, when anyone thinks of the history and growth of animation, they think of Disney, a legacy that is nothing short of iconic. Walt Disney’s pioneering spirit and commitment to innovation revolutionized the animation industry from its first-ever feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to timeless classics like The Lion King, Frozen, and Moana that continue to captivate audiences of all ages. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,848 | Despite the immense teams and years of effort required for modern animated films, they reign as the most lucrative genre, boasting a remarkable 52% gross profit margin since 2004, leaving the second-most profitable genre, action, at 48% in the dust. | sentence | The animation industry has grown to become an absolute behemoth in the world of cinema. Despite the immense teams and years of effort required for modern animated films, they reign as the most lucrative genre, boasting a remarkable 52% gross profit margin since 2004, leaving the second-most profitable genre, action, at 48% in the dust. Of course, when anyone thinks of the history and growth of animation, they think of Disney, a legacy that is nothing short of iconic. Walt Disney’s pioneering spirit and commitment to innovation revolutionized the animation industry from its first-ever feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to timeless classics like The Lion King, Frozen, and Moana that continue to captivate audiences of all ages. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,849 | Of course, when anyone thinks of the history and growth of animation, they think of Disney, a legacy that is nothing short of iconic. | sentence | The animation industry has grown to become an absolute behemoth in the world of cinema. Despite the immense teams and years of effort required for modern animated films, they reign as the most lucrative genre, boasting a remarkable 52% gross profit margin since 2004, leaving the second-most profitable genre, action, at 48% in the dust. Of course, when anyone thinks of the history and growth of animation, they think of Disney, a legacy that is nothing short of iconic. Walt Disney’s pioneering spirit and commitment to innovation revolutionized the animation industry from its first-ever feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to timeless classics like The Lion King, Frozen, and Moana that continue to captivate audiences of all ages. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,850 | Walt Disney’s pioneering spirit and commitment to innovation revolutionized the animation industry from its first-ever feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to timeless classics like The Lion King, Frozen, and Moana that continue to captivate audiences of all ages. | sentence | The animation industry has grown to become an absolute behemoth in the world of cinema. Despite the immense teams and years of effort required for modern animated films, they reign as the most lucrative genre, boasting a remarkable 52% gross profit margin since 2004, leaving the second-most profitable genre, action, at 48% in the dust. Of course, when anyone thinks of the history and growth of animation, they think of Disney, a legacy that is nothing short of iconic. Walt Disney’s pioneering spirit and commitment to innovation revolutionized the animation industry from its first-ever feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to timeless classics like The Lion King, Frozen, and Moana that continue to captivate audiences of all ages. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,851 | Of course, animation wasn’t always a multi-million dollar affair. | sentence | Of course, animation wasn’t always a multi-million dollar affair. Only a century before 3D animation schools rose to help people study the craft, there were pioneers out there trying to figure out how to get it started. It’s hard to define what the first-ever animation was, as it depends entirely on what is classified as an animation. Given that animation, at its heart, is simply the act of creating the illusion of movement through still images, you could argue that the craft began hundreds of thousands of years ago. We’re all familiar with the stereotypical cave painting imagery, which usually depicts hunting in motion. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,852 | Only a century before 3D animation schools rose to help people study the craft, there were pioneers out there trying to figure out how to get it started. | sentence | Of course, animation wasn’t always a multi-million dollar affair. Only a century before 3D animation schools rose to help people study the craft, there were pioneers out there trying to figure out how to get it started. It’s hard to define what the first-ever animation was, as it depends entirely on what is classified as an animation. Given that animation, at its heart, is simply the act of creating the illusion of movement through still images, you could argue that the craft began hundreds of thousands of years ago. We’re all familiar with the stereotypical cave painting imagery, which usually depicts hunting in motion. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,853 | It’s hard to define what the first-ever animation was, as it depends entirely on what is classified as an animation. | sentence | Of course, animation wasn’t always a multi-million dollar affair. Only a century before 3D animation schools rose to help people study the craft, there were pioneers out there trying to figure out how to get it started. It’s hard to define what the first-ever animation was, as it depends entirely on what is classified as an animation. Given that animation, at its heart, is simply the act of creating the illusion of movement through still images, you could argue that the craft began hundreds of thousands of years ago. We’re all familiar with the stereotypical cave painting imagery, which usually depicts hunting in motion. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,854 | Given that animation, at its heart, is simply the act of creating the illusion of movement through still images, you could argue that the craft began hundreds of thousands of years ago. | sentence | Of course, animation wasn’t always a multi-million dollar affair. Only a century before 3D animation schools rose to help people study the craft, there were pioneers out there trying to figure out how to get it started. It’s hard to define what the first-ever animation was, as it depends entirely on what is classified as an animation. Given that animation, at its heart, is simply the act of creating the illusion of movement through still images, you could argue that the craft began hundreds of thousands of years ago. We’re all familiar with the stereotypical cave painting imagery, which usually depicts hunting in motion. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,855 | We’re all familiar with the stereotypical cave painting imagery, which usually depicts hunting in motion. | sentence | Of course, animation wasn’t always a multi-million dollar affair. Only a century before 3D animation schools rose to help people study the craft, there were pioneers out there trying to figure out how to get it started. It’s hard to define what the first-ever animation was, as it depends entirely on what is classified as an animation. Given that animation, at its heart, is simply the act of creating the illusion of movement through still images, you could argue that the craft began hundreds of thousands of years ago. We’re all familiar with the stereotypical cave painting imagery, which usually depicts hunting in motion. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,856 | Even if we’re talking about the first-ever animation in the era of film, though, we’ve still got a problem: are we including only drawn images? | sentence | Even if we’re talking about the first-ever animation in the era of film, though, we’ve still got a problem: are we including only drawn images? Stop motion? Animations that only featured a few frames? Let’s skip ahead and look at the first verifiable animated feature-length film… although that may be a little tricky since no surviving copies exist. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,857 | Let’s skip ahead and look at the first verifiable animated feature-length film… although that may be a little tricky since no surviving copies exist. | sentence | Even if we’re talking about the first-ever animation in the era of film, though, we’ve still got a problem: are we including only drawn images? Stop motion? Animations that only featured a few frames? Let’s skip ahead and look at the first verifiable animated feature-length film… although that may be a little tricky since no surviving copies exist. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,858 | After several visual storytellers began creating animated shorts in the early 20th century (1914’s Gertie the Dinosaur is a notable example), the first feature-length animation created using traditional methods was entitled El Apóstol. | sentence | After several visual storytellers began creating animated shorts in the early 20th century (1914’s Gertie the Dinosaur is a notable example), the first feature-length animation created using traditional methods was entitled El Apóstol. Released in 1917 to a South American audience, the 70-minute long movie – running at an impressive 14 frames per second – is the first commercially profitable animated movie ever made. According to those who saw it, the political satire was exceedingly good. However, those who didn’t catch it the first time will never have the chance to find out since the film’s only copy was unfortunately destroyed in a fire. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,859 | Released in 1917 to a South American audience, the 70-minute long movie – running at an impressive 14 frames per second – is the first commercially profitable animated movie ever made. | sentence | After several visual storytellers began creating animated shorts in the early 20th century (1914’s Gertie the Dinosaur is a notable example), the first feature-length animation created using traditional methods was entitled El Apóstol. Released in 1917 to a South American audience, the 70-minute long movie – running at an impressive 14 frames per second – is the first commercially profitable animated movie ever made. According to those who saw it, the political satire was exceedingly good. However, those who didn’t catch it the first time will never have the chance to find out since the film’s only copy was unfortunately destroyed in a fire. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,860 | According to those who saw it, the political satire was exceedingly good. | sentence | After several visual storytellers began creating animated shorts in the early 20th century (1914’s Gertie the Dinosaur is a notable example), the first feature-length animation created using traditional methods was entitled El Apóstol. Released in 1917 to a South American audience, the 70-minute long movie – running at an impressive 14 frames per second – is the first commercially profitable animated movie ever made. According to those who saw it, the political satire was exceedingly good. However, those who didn’t catch it the first time will never have the chance to find out since the film’s only copy was unfortunately destroyed in a fire. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,861 | However, those who didn’t catch it the first time will never have the chance to find out since the film’s only copy was unfortunately destroyed in a fire. | sentence | After several visual storytellers began creating animated shorts in the early 20th century (1914’s Gertie the Dinosaur is a notable example), the first feature-length animation created using traditional methods was entitled El Apóstol. Released in 1917 to a South American audience, the 70-minute long movie – running at an impressive 14 frames per second – is the first commercially profitable animated movie ever made. According to those who saw it, the political satire was exceedingly good. However, those who didn’t catch it the first time will never have the chance to find out since the film’s only copy was unfortunately destroyed in a fire. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,862 | More experimental animation techniques were developed over the next decade (including methods like rotoscoping), producing some hit-and-miss results. | sentence | More experimental animation techniques were developed over the next decade (including methods like rotoscoping), producing some hit-and-miss results. It was the opening of a small studio in Los Angeles, however, that changed the game forever. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,863 | It was the opening of a small studio in Los Angeles, however, that changed the game forever. | sentence | More experimental animation techniques were developed over the next decade (including methods like rotoscoping), producing some hit-and-miss results. It was the opening of a small studio in Los Angeles, however, that changed the game forever. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,864 | With more innovations and notable works over the 20th century (and beyond) than we could ever hope to list here, Disney’s studio and tumultuous history set a precedent for the entire animation industry. | sentence | With more innovations and notable works over the 20th century (and beyond) than we could ever hope to list here, Disney’s studio and tumultuous history set a precedent for the entire animation industry. Disney Studios also inspired the popular 12 principles of animation, which many animators swear by today. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,865 | Disney Studios also inspired the popular 12 principles of animation, which many animators swear by today. | sentence | With more innovations and notable works over the 20th century (and beyond) than we could ever hope to list here, Disney’s studio and tumultuous history set a precedent for the entire animation industry. Disney Studios also inspired the popular 12 principles of animation, which many animators swear by today. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,866 | Interestingly, Pinto Colvig, famously known as the voice of Disney’s Goofy, was an extremely talented illustrator and is reputed to have made the very first animated feature film himself a couple of years before El Apóstol, but this is now impossible to verify. | sentence | Interestingly, Pinto Colvig, famously known as the voice of Disney’s Goofy, was an extremely talented illustrator and is reputed to have made the very first animated feature film himself a couple of years before El Apóstol, but this is now impossible to verify. As a result, some commenters point to the 1937 release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the first feature-length animated film since it was entirely hand-drawn and isn’t classified as a ‘lost movie.’ | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,867 | As a result, some commenters point to the 1937 release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the first feature-length animated film since it was entirely hand-drawn and isn’t classified as a ‘lost movie.’ | sentence | Interestingly, Pinto Colvig, famously known as the voice of Disney’s Goofy, was an extremely talented illustrator and is reputed to have made the very first animated feature film himself a couple of years before El Apóstol, but this is now impossible to verify. As a result, some commenters point to the 1937 release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the first feature-length animated film since it was entirely hand-drawn and isn’t classified as a ‘lost movie.’ | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,868 | In the 1940s, Disney shaped animation history with releases such as Fantasia (1940) and Pinocchio (1940). | sentence | In the 1940s, Disney shaped animation history with releases such as Fantasia (1940) and Pinocchio (1940). Fantasia pushed the boundaries of animation by marrying classical music with stunning visuals, while Pinocchio showcased the studio’s ability to infuse profound emotional depth into storytelling. Pinocchio still inspires visual storytellers today, such as Guillermo Del Toro. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,869 | Fantasia pushed the boundaries of animation by marrying classical music with stunning visuals, while Pinocchio showcased the studio’s ability to infuse profound emotional depth into storytelling. | sentence | In the 1940s, Disney shaped animation history with releases such as Fantasia (1940) and Pinocchio (1940). Fantasia pushed the boundaries of animation by marrying classical music with stunning visuals, while Pinocchio showcased the studio’s ability to infuse profound emotional depth into storytelling. Pinocchio still inspires visual storytellers today, such as Guillermo Del Toro. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,870 | Pinocchio still inspires visual storytellers today, such as Guillermo Del Toro. | sentence | In the 1940s, Disney shaped animation history with releases such as Fantasia (1940) and Pinocchio (1940). Fantasia pushed the boundaries of animation by marrying classical music with stunning visuals, while Pinocchio showcased the studio’s ability to infuse profound emotional depth into storytelling. Pinocchio still inspires visual storytellers today, such as Guillermo Del Toro. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,871 | In 2022, Guillermo del Toro released his version of the Pinnochio (in collaboration with Netflix.) | sentence | In 2022, Guillermo del Toro released his version of the Pinnochio (in collaboration with Netflix.) The film was created using stop motion, resulting in a gothic fairy tale feel that took over 60 crew members and 1000 days to create. (Also, a big shout out to Tony Candelaria (NYFA Los Angeles), who worked on Del Toro’s Pinocchio!) | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,872 | The film was created using stop motion, resulting in a gothic fairy tale feel that took over 60 crew members and 1000 days to create. | sentence | In 2022, Guillermo del Toro released his version of the Pinnochio (in collaboration with Netflix.) The film was created using stop motion, resulting in a gothic fairy tale feel that took over 60 crew members and 1000 days to create. (Also, a big shout out to Tony Candelaria (NYFA Los Angeles), who worked on Del Toro’s Pinocchio!) | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,873 | (Also, a big shout out to Tony Candelaria (NYFA Los Angeles), who worked on Del Toro’s Pinocchio!) | sentence | In 2022, Guillermo del Toro released his version of the Pinnochio (in collaboration with Netflix.) The film was created using stop motion, resulting in a gothic fairy tale feel that took over 60 crew members and 1000 days to create. (Also, a big shout out to Tony Candelaria (NYFA Los Angeles), who worked on Del Toro’s Pinocchio!) | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,874 | In the 1950s, Disney animation entered a renaissance period, marked by releasing iconic classics like Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). | sentence | In the 1950s, Disney animation entered a renaissance period, marked by releasing iconic classics like Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). Alice in Wonderland (based on a novel written by Lewis Carroll) and Peter Pan (based on the play by J.M. Barrie titled “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”) whisked audiences away to magical worlds, showing the studio’s ability to adapt novels and plays into imaginative films. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,875 | Alice in Wonderland (based on a novel written by Lewis Carroll) and Peter Pan (based on the play by J.M. | sentence | In the 1950s, Disney animation entered a renaissance period, marked by releasing iconic classics like Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). Alice in Wonderland (based on a novel written by Lewis Carroll) and Peter Pan (based on the play by J.M. Barrie titled “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”) whisked audiences away to magical worlds, showing the studio’s ability to adapt novels and plays into imaginative films. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,876 | Barrie titled “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”) whisked audiences away to magical worlds, showing the studio’s ability to adapt novels and plays into imaginative films. | sentence | In the 1950s, Disney animation entered a renaissance period, marked by releasing iconic classics like Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). Alice in Wonderland (based on a novel written by Lewis Carroll) and Peter Pan (based on the play by J.M. Barrie titled “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”) whisked audiences away to magical worlds, showing the studio’s ability to adapt novels and plays into imaginative films. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,877 | The 1960s were a pivotal decade for Disney animation, marked by the release of several enduring classics, including 101 Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). | sentence | The 1960s were a pivotal decade for Disney animation, marked by the release of several enduring classics, including 101 Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). The Sword in the Stone followed the young King Arthur’s adventures and is celebrated for its charming and comical take on the Arthurian legend. 101 Dalmatians introduced a new, more economical animation style, employing Xerox technology for the first time and featuring the unforgettable villain Cruella de Vil. 101 Dalmations also inspired remakes and adaptations, including the 1996 and 2000 live-action versions starring NYFA Guest Speaker Glenn Close as de Vil. Close also executive produced Cruella (2021) starring Emma Stone. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,878 | The Sword in the Stone followed the young King Arthur’s adventures and is celebrated for its charming and comical take on the Arthurian legend. | sentence | The 1960s were a pivotal decade for Disney animation, marked by the release of several enduring classics, including 101 Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). The Sword in the Stone followed the young King Arthur’s adventures and is celebrated for its charming and comical take on the Arthurian legend. 101 Dalmatians introduced a new, more economical animation style, employing Xerox technology for the first time and featuring the unforgettable villain Cruella de Vil. 101 Dalmations also inspired remakes and adaptations, including the 1996 and 2000 live-action versions starring NYFA Guest Speaker Glenn Close as de Vil. Close also executive produced Cruella (2021) starring Emma Stone. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,879 | 101 Dalmatians introduced a new, more economical animation style, employing Xerox technology for the first time and featuring the unforgettable villain Cruella de Vil. | sentence | The 1960s were a pivotal decade for Disney animation, marked by the release of several enduring classics, including 101 Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). The Sword in the Stone followed the young King Arthur’s adventures and is celebrated for its charming and comical take on the Arthurian legend. 101 Dalmatians introduced a new, more economical animation style, employing Xerox technology for the first time and featuring the unforgettable villain Cruella de Vil. 101 Dalmations also inspired remakes and adaptations, including the 1996 and 2000 live-action versions starring NYFA Guest Speaker Glenn Close as de Vil. Close also executive produced Cruella (2021) starring Emma Stone. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,880 | 101 Dalmations also inspired remakes and adaptations, including the 1996 and 2000 live-action versions starring NYFA Guest Speaker Glenn Close as de Vil. | sentence | The 1960s were a pivotal decade for Disney animation, marked by the release of several enduring classics, including 101 Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). The Sword in the Stone followed the young King Arthur’s adventures and is celebrated for its charming and comical take on the Arthurian legend. 101 Dalmatians introduced a new, more economical animation style, employing Xerox technology for the first time and featuring the unforgettable villain Cruella de Vil. 101 Dalmations also inspired remakes and adaptations, including the 1996 and 2000 live-action versions starring NYFA Guest Speaker Glenn Close as de Vil. Close also executive produced Cruella (2021) starring Emma Stone. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,881 | Close also executive produced Cruella (2021) starring Emma Stone. | sentence | The 1960s were a pivotal decade for Disney animation, marked by the release of several enduring classics, including 101 Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). The Sword in the Stone followed the young King Arthur’s adventures and is celebrated for its charming and comical take on the Arthurian legend. 101 Dalmatians introduced a new, more economical animation style, employing Xerox technology for the first time and featuring the unforgettable villain Cruella de Vil. 101 Dalmations also inspired remakes and adaptations, including the 1996 and 2000 live-action versions starring NYFA Guest Speaker Glenn Close as de Vil. Close also executive produced Cruella (2021) starring Emma Stone. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,882 | Disney animation in the 1970s was marked by both successes and challenges. | sentence | Disney animation in the 1970s was marked by both successes and challenges. The decade saw the release of classics like The Aristocats (1970) and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), which maintained the studio’s signature charm. Winnie the Pooh, which entered the public domain in 2022, already has an adaptation in the form of a horror film, Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey (2023). | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,883 | The decade saw the release of classics like The Aristocats (1970) and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), which maintained the studio’s signature charm. | sentence | Disney animation in the 1970s was marked by both successes and challenges. The decade saw the release of classics like The Aristocats (1970) and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), which maintained the studio’s signature charm. Winnie the Pooh, which entered the public domain in 2022, already has an adaptation in the form of a horror film, Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey (2023). | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,884 | Winnie the Pooh, which entered the public domain in 2022, already has an adaptation in the form of a horror film, Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey (2023). | sentence | Disney animation in the 1970s was marked by both successes and challenges. The decade saw the release of classics like The Aristocats (1970) and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), which maintained the studio’s signature charm. Winnie the Pooh, which entered the public domain in 2022, already has an adaptation in the form of a horror film, Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey (2023). | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,885 | The 1980s marked a transformative era for Disney animation, characterized as the “Disney Renaissance.” | sentence | The 1980s marked a transformative era for Disney animation, characterized as the “Disney Renaissance.” The decade witnessed the release of the iconic The Little Mermaid (1989), which heralded Disney’s triumphant return to musical storytelling and set the stage for multiple spin-offs of the story for years to come, including the recent musical live-action starring Halle Berry. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,886 | The decade witnessed the release of the iconic The Little Mermaid (1989), which heralded Disney’s triumphant return to musical storytelling and set the stage for multiple spin-offs of the story for years to come, including the recent musical live-action starring Halle Berry. | sentence | The 1980s marked a transformative era for Disney animation, characterized as the “Disney Renaissance.” The decade witnessed the release of the iconic The Little Mermaid (1989), which heralded Disney’s triumphant return to musical storytelling and set the stage for multiple spin-offs of the story for years to come, including the recent musical live-action starring Halle Berry. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,887 | The Black Cauldron (1985) is a Disney animated film notable for its darker and more experimental tone, straying from Disney’s typical storytelling style. | sentence | The Black Cauldron (1985) is a Disney animated film notable for its darker and more experimental tone, straying from Disney’s typical storytelling style. Based on “The Chronicles of Prydain” by Lloyd Alexander, the movie features a young man named Taran on a quest to prevent the evil Horned King from using a powerful, magical cauldron for nefarious purposes. The film has gained a cult following and is appreciated for its unique, adventurous narrative. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,888 | Based on “The Chronicles of Prydain” by Lloyd Alexander, the movie features a young man named Taran on a quest to prevent the evil Horned King from using a powerful, magical cauldron for nefarious purposes. | sentence | The Black Cauldron (1985) is a Disney animated film notable for its darker and more experimental tone, straying from Disney’s typical storytelling style. Based on “The Chronicles of Prydain” by Lloyd Alexander, the movie features a young man named Taran on a quest to prevent the evil Horned King from using a powerful, magical cauldron for nefarious purposes. The film has gained a cult following and is appreciated for its unique, adventurous narrative. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,889 | The film has gained a cult following and is appreciated for its unique, adventurous narrative. | sentence | The Black Cauldron (1985) is a Disney animated film notable for its darker and more experimental tone, straying from Disney’s typical storytelling style. Based on “The Chronicles of Prydain” by Lloyd Alexander, the movie features a young man named Taran on a quest to prevent the evil Horned King from using a powerful, magical cauldron for nefarious purposes. The film has gained a cult following and is appreciated for its unique, adventurous narrative. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,890 | Disney’s string of critically acclaimed films in the 1990s included Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), and Hercules (1997), some of their most beloved animated classics. | sentence | Disney’s string of critically acclaimed films in the 1990s included Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), and Hercules (1997), some of their most beloved animated classics. The period also included a sequel to The Rescuers (1977), which starred filmmaking icons including Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart. The Rescuers Down Under (1990) follows the brave mouse duo, Bernard and Bianca, as they venture to the Australian outback to rescue a young boy named Cody and a rare golden eagle from the clutches of a ruthless poacher. The film was an early animated depiction of Australia, which is becoming one of the hottest filmmaking industries. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,891 | The period also included a sequel to The Rescuers (1977), which starred filmmaking icons including Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart. | sentence | Disney’s string of critically acclaimed films in the 1990s included Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), and Hercules (1997), some of their most beloved animated classics. The period also included a sequel to The Rescuers (1977), which starred filmmaking icons including Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart. The Rescuers Down Under (1990) follows the brave mouse duo, Bernard and Bianca, as they venture to the Australian outback to rescue a young boy named Cody and a rare golden eagle from the clutches of a ruthless poacher. The film was an early animated depiction of Australia, which is becoming one of the hottest filmmaking industries. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,892 | The Rescuers Down Under (1990) follows the brave mouse duo, Bernard and Bianca, as they venture to the Australian outback to rescue a young boy named Cody and a rare golden eagle from the clutches of a ruthless poacher. | sentence | Disney’s string of critically acclaimed films in the 1990s included Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), and Hercules (1997), some of their most beloved animated classics. The period also included a sequel to The Rescuers (1977), which starred filmmaking icons including Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart. The Rescuers Down Under (1990) follows the brave mouse duo, Bernard and Bianca, as they venture to the Australian outback to rescue a young boy named Cody and a rare golden eagle from the clutches of a ruthless poacher. The film was an early animated depiction of Australia, which is becoming one of the hottest filmmaking industries. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,893 | The film was an early animated depiction of Australia, which is becoming one of the hottest filmmaking industries. | sentence | Disney’s string of critically acclaimed films in the 1990s included Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), and Hercules (1997), some of their most beloved animated classics. The period also included a sequel to The Rescuers (1977), which starred filmmaking icons including Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart. The Rescuers Down Under (1990) follows the brave mouse duo, Bernard and Bianca, as they venture to the Australian outback to rescue a young boy named Cody and a rare golden eagle from the clutches of a ruthless poacher. The film was an early animated depiction of Australia, which is becoming one of the hottest filmmaking industries. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,894 | In the 2000s to 2010s, Disney animation experienced a revival marked by highly successful films. | sentence | In the 2000s to 2010s, Disney animation experienced a revival marked by highly successful films. This era began with The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), leading to hits such as Ratatouille (2007) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) is a unique and comedic departure from Disney’s traditional animated fare, where Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama. The film’s irreverent humor and quirky characters have earned it a dedicated fan base that still makes TikToks inspired by some of its best scenes. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,895 | This era began with The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), leading to hits such as Ratatouille (2007) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). | sentence | In the 2000s to 2010s, Disney animation experienced a revival marked by highly successful films. This era began with The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), leading to hits such as Ratatouille (2007) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) is a unique and comedic departure from Disney’s traditional animated fare, where Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama. The film’s irreverent humor and quirky characters have earned it a dedicated fan base that still makes TikToks inspired by some of its best scenes. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,896 | The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) is a unique and comedic departure from Disney’s traditional animated fare, where Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama. | sentence | In the 2000s to 2010s, Disney animation experienced a revival marked by highly successful films. This era began with The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), leading to hits such as Ratatouille (2007) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) is a unique and comedic departure from Disney’s traditional animated fare, where Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama. The film’s irreverent humor and quirky characters have earned it a dedicated fan base that still makes TikToks inspired by some of its best scenes. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,897 | The film’s irreverent humor and quirky characters have earned it a dedicated fan base that still makes TikToks inspired by some of its best scenes. | sentence | In the 2000s to 2010s, Disney animation experienced a revival marked by highly successful films. This era began with The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), leading to hits such as Ratatouille (2007) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) is a unique and comedic departure from Disney’s traditional animated fare, where Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama. The film’s irreverent humor and quirky characters have earned it a dedicated fan base that still makes TikToks inspired by some of its best scenes. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,898 | The Princess and the Frog (2009) marked the studio’s return to traditional hand-drawn animation. | sentence | The Princess and the Frog (2009) marked the studio’s return to traditional hand-drawn animation. Set in New Orleans, it tells the story of Tiana, a hardworking woman who, with the help of a prince turned into a frog, embarks on a magical and musical journey to break a curse and fulfill her dreams. Notably, Tiana was the first Black Disney princess, providing necessary representation for audiences. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
4,899 | Set in New Orleans, it tells the story of Tiana, a hardworking woman who, with the help of a prince turned into a frog, embarks on a magical and musical journey to break a curse and fulfill her dreams. | sentence | The Princess and the Frog (2009) marked the studio’s return to traditional hand-drawn animation. Set in New Orleans, it tells the story of Tiana, a hardworking woman who, with the help of a prince turned into a frog, embarks on a magical and musical journey to break a curse and fulfill her dreams. Notably, Tiana was the first Black Disney princess, providing necessary representation for audiences. | paragraph | Arabic | ar | The History of Animation: Celebrating Disney's 100 Years of Stories | https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/quick-history-animation/ |
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