Tuesday 27 January 2015

Timeline of stop motion animation

100BC- Ding Han 

1834- Zoetrope- William Horner

1895- Lumiere Bros- Cinematograph

1896- George Meliere- A Trip To The Moon

1902- Thomas Edison sort film Fun In A Bakary Shop.

1911- Miese Kinooperata this film was made by Wladyslaw Starewicz

1917- El Apóstol was a spanish stop motion animation film using cutout animation. Cutout animation is flat characters, props and background cut from things like paper, card and even plastic. It was directed by Quirino cristiani.


1935- "The New Gulliver" was a Russian cartoon. It was the first to make extensive use of puppet animation. The cartoon was directed by Aleksandr Ptushko.

1937- The Tale Of The Fox was a french animation film and it lasted around 65 minutes. The plot was an early snow white but the difference was the film featured a loin and there were no dwarfs again the technique used was puppet animation. Irene Starevich and Ladislas Starevich directed the film together.

1937- The Seven Ravens was a german stop motion animation about an old classical myth in Germany, it was directed by the by the Diehl brothers Ferdinand Diehl and Hermann Diehl. 

1945- Handling Ships was one of the first stop motion pictures ever made by the UK. The film shown people being recruited for the royal navy. This also was one of the first animations to ever win an award at Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The film was directed by Alan Crick, the first film to use technicolour also.

1947- The Crab With The Golden Claws featured a character that we all know and love today he was called TinTin and the film was based around him taking an adventure. This was produced in Belgian by Claude Misonne, his technique was wooden puppets like most early animations.

1947- The Czech Year it was the first feature film ever to be directed by Jifi Trnka and it went on to winning a many awards. This film was one of the first animated films to ever come from Czechoslovakia.

1947- Adventures of Esparadrapo was a sixty minute animated film.

1949- This is when we first seen Alice In Wonderland and it was first shown to audiences in France in 1949. Like most animations of the time it used puppets to tell the story also it was the first film ever to use live actors in certain scenes. The film is directed by Dallas Bower. However, there is another version of Alice In Wonderland it was produced by Disney.









1949- The Emperor's Nightingale was directed by the same person who i directed The Czech Year this was his second animation film he had created and this featured dubbed sound for the film.

1950- Prince Bayaya was the tired animation film from Czechoslovakia it was based around a prince who livid in his castle. There isn't much information on this animation film apart from it was made by using puppets.

1953- The Treasure Of Bird Island again not much i could find on this animation. All i could find out is that it used cutout technique.

1954- Hansel & Gretel: An Opera Fantasy its based around two kids who go wondering in a forest and find a house made of candy but there is a witch who lives there and she tries to kill Handsel and Gretel. This was the first animated film for the US, it was very successful in its time but its a lot like Alice In Wonderland there was two version of the film Michael Myerberg and Tommy Wirkola we are focusing on the Michael Myerberg version. He used puppet animation techniques and it was on of the longest animations of its time coming in at 72 minutes long.

















1958- Beloved Beauty was an Russian produced film following the story line of a king and  queen in there castle, the film was created by using puppet figures. The directer of this film is Vladimir Degtyaryov.

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