Timeline on Animation

1832: Joseph Plateau – Invented the Phenakistoscope

1834: William Horner – Invented the Zoetrope

1879: Eadweard Muybridge – Took the first sequential photographs of
moving images

1885: Hannibal Goodwin – Invented transparent celluloid flexible film

1895: Lumiere Brothers – Invented the first movie camera and the
projector

1899: Arthur Melbourne Cooper – Made the first ever animated film
“Matches - An Appeal”

1906: James Stuart Blackton – Made his first animated film:
“Humorous Phases of funny faces”

(James Stuart Blackton is known as the father of American animation)

1914: Winsor Z McCay – Created the first ever animated cartoon character “Gertie the Dinosaur”

1914/1915: John Bray & Earl Hurd – Invented and patented Cel Animation

1936: U B Iwerks & Walt Disney – Invented the multiplane camera

1937: Walt Disney – Produced the first full length animated colour feature film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”

1995: Pixar – Produced the first totally computer animated feature film “Toy Story”