The Early Development of Animation Film

Since the cinema was found, the film-makers haveSoviet, Wladislaw Starewicz. Then, animation movies
used animation technique to produce visual effect likedeveloped very fast to all countries in the world from
explosion, rocket, and many more. The first fullAsia, Europe, up to America.
animation film was Humorous Phases of Funny FacesThe first character of animation that was very
(1906). It was produced by a cartoonist of Americaninfluential and successful was Gertie, a Brontosaurus in
newspaper, J. Stuart Blackton. This film described aGertie the Dinosaur (1914). This film contained 10.000
cartoonist that was drawing a face on the blackboard.frames of pictures. Its creator was Winsor McCay, a
In Europe, a short animation film, Fantasmagorie (1908)popular animator for New York Herald.
by Emile Cohl from France was noted as one of theSeveral next years, Felix, a cat by Otto Messmer,
oldest animation movie. Meanwhile, the first longappeared for the first time in Feline Follies (1919) and
animation movie was El Apostol (1917) by QuirinoMusical Mews (1919). Then, this superstar cat appeared
Cristiani, the animator from Argentina.in hundred movies in the following years. This cat was
The first stop-motion "3-D" animation movies werenoted as the first animation character that was
The Grasshopper and the Ant (1911) and Thesuccessful to become merchandise.
Cameraman's Revenge (1911) by an animator from