Godfathers of Animation + 1900s - 1930s

George Mellies

A trip to the Moon

Born 8th december 1861. Died 21st January 1938.

He was a French film maker who accidentally learn how to trick the brain into thinking objects were moving when they were not. He did this by stopping his camera and then starting to film again after moving objects around. Also known as the 'Stop trick'.








Winsor McCay

Born September 26 1869. Died July 26 1934.

Gentie The Dinosaur 

He was an American Cartoonist and an Animator. He is known for his famous comic strip called Little Nemo that started in 1905. He also made Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914. 











Lotte Reiniger 

Cinderella

Born June 2nd 1899. Died June 19th 1981.

She was a German Animator and film Director. She used cut outs to create her animations rather than drawing her animations through cel animation.

Persistence of vision is an early version of animation were many still images that are slightly different to each other are placed in sequence which trick the brain into thinking it is a moving image. 

One of the early uses of persistence of vision is a "Zoetrope".

This image shows how you use the Zeotrope followed by an image of what the image would look like to you.

Zeotrope

What an image would look like inside the
 Zeotrope when moving

Kinetoscope 

The user would look into the devise and it would run a strip of still images to create the persistence of vision. The strip of images are what today would look like stop motion animation taken by cameras and put onto computers.

Strip that is found inside.

This is one of the first examples of a kinetoscope 

Mutoscope

Here is how a Mutoscope would of looked like to the user.