Dec 19, 2025 · The first film-based animation was made by J. Stuart Blackton, whose Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906 launched a successful series of animated films for New York’s pioneering …

Walt Disney was an American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of animated cartoon films and as the creator of such cartoon characters as Mickey Mouse …

The Prince of Egypt, a Biblical epic, was mostly made with traditional cel (or cell) animation technology, but the talking-insect story Antz was an early product of computer-generated animation.

The first film-based animation was made by J. Stuart Blackton, whose Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906 launched a successful series of animated films for New York’s pioneering Vitagraph …

Dec 11, 2025 · The Disney studio also began making full-length animation romances, such as Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), and Peter Pan (1953), and produced low-budget, live-action …

Dec 19, 2025 · The evolution of animation in Eastern Europe was impeded by World War II, but several countries—in particular Poland, Hungary, and Romania—became world leaders in the field by the …

The Frenchman Émile Reynaud in 1876 adapted the principle into a form that could be projected before a theatrical audience. Reynaud became not only animation’s first entrepreneur but, with his …

Learn about this topic in these articles: animated films In animation: Early history …entertainment, discovered the principle of persistence of vision. If drawings of the stages of an action were shown in …

In animation: Early history …Plateau in 1832, was the phenakistoscope, a spinning cardboard disk that created the illusion of movement when viewed in a mirror.

Animation developed in early cinema through the works of other animators such as Émile Cohl in France, Wladyslaw Starewicz in Russia, and Winsor McCay in the United States. McCay’s Gertie the …