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no date The Daedaleum ("daedalum") or Wheel of the Devil is invented by mathematician William George Horner (1786-1837). A strip of paper with drawings is placed inside a rotating drum. The upper edge of the drum has slots through which the drawings are viewed. This device became very popular 30 years later when it was marketed as the zoetrope or Wheel of Life by William F. Lincoln in the United States. W.G. Horner, "On the Properties of the Daedaleum, A New Instrument of Optical Illusion", Philosophical Magazine, vol. IV, pp.36-41. (Great Britain) |
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1844 | 1844 | 1844 | 1844 | 1844 | ||||||
December Emile Reynaud (Charles-Émile Reynaud) (December 8, 1844-January 9, 1918) (director, animator, producer, inventor) born in Montreuil-sous-Bois. (France) |
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1853 | 1853 | 1853 | 1853 | 1853 | ||||||
no date Franz von Uchatius develops a method of projecting phenakistoscope images as a series of slides. This is the first form of projected animation. (Austria-Hungary [Austria]) Ludwig Döbler buys von Uchatius' device and demonstrates it throughout Europe. (Austria-Hungary [Austria]) |
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1857 | 1857 | 1857 | 1857 | 1857 | ||||||
January Emile Cohl (émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet) (January 4, 1857–January 20, 1938) (animator, director) born in Paris. (France) |
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April William Lincoln applies for a patent for the zoetrope. This was another device that displayed successive images on a length of paper viewed through the slits of a spinning drum. |
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September Winsor McCay (Zenis Winsor McKay) (September 26, 1867-July 26, 1934) (animator, director, producer) born near Woodstock, Ontario. (Canada) There is no definite birth record for McCay. He said he was born as late as 1871 in Spring Lake, Michigan (United States), but this was probably to make him seem younger than his wife. |
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no date O'Galop (1867-January 12, 1946) (Marius Rossillon) (director) born in Lyon. (France) |
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1868 | 1868 | 1868 | 1868 | 1868 | ||||||
July Hy Mayer (Henry Mayer) (1868-September 27, 1954) (director, animator, writer, producer) born in Worms-am-Rhein. (Germany) |
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September John Barnes Linnett patents the kineograph (also known as a flip book, paper is bound on one side so that images that have been placed on the different leaves can be animated when the pages are flipped). (Great Britain) |
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1869 | 1869 | 1869 | 1869 | 1869 | ||||||
July Walter R. Booth (July 12, 1869-1938) (animator, director) born in Worster. (Great Britain) |
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1874 | 1874 | 1874 | 1874 | 1874 | ||||||
January Raoul Barré (January 29, 1874-May 21, 1932) (director, producer, animator) born in Montreal, Quebec. (Canada) |
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April Arthur Melbourne-Cooper (director, animator, producer) born in St. Albans. (Great Britain) |
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January James Blackton (James S. Blackton, James Stuart Blackton) (animator, director, producer) born in Sheffield. (Great Britain) |
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1876 | 1876 | 1876 | 1876 | 1876 | ||||||
July Anson Dyer (Ernest John Anson Dyer( (July 18, 1876-February 22, 1962) (director, writer, animator, producer) born in Brighton, West Sussex. (Great Britain) |
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June Charles Bowers (Charley Bowers, Charles Raymond Bowers) (June 7, 1877-November 26, 1946) (producer, director, writer, animator) born in Cresco, Iowa. |
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December Emile Reynaud patents the praxinoscope. This used mirrors to reflect images from a zoetrope type device so that a larger number of people could view them. (France) |
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August John R. Bray (John Randolph Bray) (producer, inventor, animator, director) born in Detroit, Michigan. |
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