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During World War II, animation became a common medium for propaganda. The US government contracted its best studios to work for the war effort. To instruct service personnel about all kinds of military subjects and to boost morale, Warner Bros. was contracted for several shorts and the special animated series Private Snafu.
The pictures are evenly spaced radially around a disc, with small rectangular apertures at the rim of the disc. The animation could be viewed through the slits of the spinning disc in front of a mirror. It was invented in November or December 1832 by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and almost simultaneously by the Austrian Simon von Stampfer ...
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
In 1961, a 49-second vector animation of a car traveling up a planned highway at 110 km/h (70 mph) was created at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology on the BESK computer. The short animation was broadcast on November 9, 1961, on national television. [3] [4] Simulation of a Two-Gyro Gravity-Gradient Attitude Control System: 1963
Long before modern animation began, audiences around the world were captivated by the magic of moving characters. For centuries, master artists and craftsmen have brought puppets, automatons, shadow puppets, and fantastical lanterns to life, inspiring the imagination through physically manipulated wonders.
Reynaud mentioned the possibility of projecting the images in his 1877 patent, but did not complete his praxinoscope projection device until 1880. [59] [60] 1878 – Charles-Émile Reynaud received a honourable mention at the 1878 Exposition Universelle for his praxinoscope. He started production on the device and was able to quit his teaching ...
The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (1st ed.). Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1-880656-64-7. Clements, Jonathan and Barry Ip (2012) "The Shadow Staff: Japanese Animators in the Toho Aviation Education Materials Production Office 1939–1945" in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7(2) 189–204. Drazen, Patrick (2003).
Only animation finished in 1930; not released with a soundtrack until 1937 1935: The New Gulliver: The first released puppet-animated feature. Includes scenes of animation combined with live-action footage 1931: Feature-length sound film: Peludópolis: Now considered lost 1932: Filmed in three-strip Technicolor: Flowers and Trees: Short film 1937