The Early Development of Animation Film

Since the film was found, film animation technique used for visual effects such as explosions, missile production, and much more. The first fully animated film was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906). It was produced by an American cartoonist in newspapers, J. Stuart Blackton. This film describes the cartoonist who was drawing the face on the blackboard.

In Europe, a short animated film, phantasmagoria (1908) by Emile Cohl in France, was seen as one of the oldest cartoon. Meanwhile, the first full-length animated film, El Apostol (1917) by Quirino Cristiani, an animator from Argentina.

The first stop-motion, 3-D 'cartoons were grasshoppers and ant (1911) and a cameraman for Revenge (1911), by animator from the Soviet era, Wladislaw Starewicz. Then, animated films developed very rapidly in all countries of the world from Asia, Europe to America.

The first sign of animation, which was very influential and successful Gertie, Gertie the Dinosaur in Brontosaurus (1914). This movie contains 10,000 frames of images. Winsor McCay was the author, a popular entertainer for the New York Herald.

Next few years, Felix, the cat Otto Messmer, first appeared in cat Follies (1919) and Musical Mews (1919). Then this cat superstar appeared in hundreds of movies in the coming years. This cat was seen as the first animated character to be a successful product.

Last Life (1928) was seen as the last animated film Felix, with his popularity, which was due to the presence of noise and technologies to compete with a superstar shellacking of Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse. Meanwhile, Walt Disney at the time they were successful comics series with Alice and Oswald Rabbit.