1910s-1930s
1917 The Apostle, El Apóstol (Argentina), the world’s first animated feature film, by Quirino Cristiani (70 min) 1918 Without a Trace, Sin dejar rastros (Argentina) 1926 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Die Abenteuer des...
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Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. Originally, pre-recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and...
Definition of animated feature films
In order to qualify for this list, films must be over 40 minutes long and have animation in at least 75% of their running time, or have at least 40 minutes of animation in...
Examples of rotoscoping
A list of works that were produced using rotoscoping. in animated films: Snow White (1933 cartoon) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The 1940s Superman cartoons Yellow Submarine Wizards The Lord of the Rings...
Asia
History of Chinese animation 1922 first animation in a commercial Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter 1926 first animation to showcase technology Uproar in the Studio and acknowledge Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan as pioneers. 1941 Princess...
North and South America
North and South America History of Argentinian animation World’s first two feature-length animated films and first film with sound by Quirino Cristiani[1];Quirio Cristiani’s page (Spanish) History of Canadian animation Early Work Contributions of the...
Europe
Animation before film in 20th century. History of Czech animation Puppet animation, Jiřà Trnka, the Poetic animation school Catalogue of Czech animation Czech animation homepage History of Estonian animation 1931 – The Adventures of...
Film animation
The history of film animation began in the 1890s with the earliest days of silent like films and continues through the present day. The first animated film was created by Charles-Émile Reynaud, inventor of...
The Earliest form of Animation
The first examples of trying to capture motion into a drawing can already be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to depict a...
Animation camera
An animation camera manufactured by Crass, Berlin, in 1957. An animation camera, a type of rostrum camera, is a movie camera specially adapted for frame-by-frame shooting animation or stop motion. It consists...
