Film and animation history

Film and animation history 1905-1915

James Stewart Blackton USA/UK

interviewed Thomas Edison, drew Edison's portrait, got a job as a cameraman and animator with Edison.

Blackton created what is claimed to be the first animation


Emile Cole (france)

Challenge convention, held art for people who couldn't draw.

Cohl took his ideology into animation

also created what is considered the first animated film,

Understood anything can happen in cartoons, laid the path for dysney


Ladislaw Starewicz (Russia)

Famus for making insects into stop motion removing their legs reattaching them with wax to make them pose for annimation



Martin Thorton (UK)

Combination of stop motion and live action

created colour animation


Windsor McCay (USA)

self toght, first classical annimator

realistic use of perspective



Griffith 1908-1913 created 450

Self promotion, know for innovation that was not true.

sense of speed and pacing, used deeper use of close ups cross-cutting use of fade-outs

created different genres, Gangster films, Westerns, Comedy, and Romance

Known as a racist.

Birth of a Nation - Released in 1915 with a running time of 2 and a half hours. Well debated films