Tully Scott
10/9/06
Mrs. Yunker
Broadcast Video
Animation: Where it began and where it is today
The first examples of trying to capture motion into a drawing can be found in Paleolithic cave paintings. Early man drew animals that had multiple legs, clearly attempting to depict a sense of motion. Shadow Puppetry was also an animation ancestor found in Indonesia around 900 A.D. Shadow puppetry involved an animated puppet called Wayang, which put on shows for poorer audiences. The first animated film was created by Frenchman Émile Reynaud. He invented the praxinoscope, an animation system using loops of 12 pictures that played a slideshow. On October 28, 1892 at a museum in France, he exhibited animations consisting of loops of about 500 frames. He used a system similar in principle to a modern film projector. The first animation on standard picture film was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton in 1906. It featured a cartoonist drawing faces on a......
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