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Winsor McCay (Little Nemo)
McCay is considered the father of "true" animation.
His 1911 film, Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics, or Little Nemo contains two minutes of pure animation using sequential hand illustration in a novel way.
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Georges Méliès (The Prolific Egg)
Georges Méliès was the first cinemagician for his early use of special effects in cinema.
In 1902, he appeared in one of his own films, l'oeuf du sorcier (The Prolific Egg). The groundbreaking exploration of scale, multiplication, and transitions truly sealed his reputation as a "...
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The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
British filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton is credited with creating the first animation in America. He was the first to use stop-motion as a storytelling technique.
In The Enchanted Drawing, Blackton sketches a face, cigars, and a bottle of wine, then "removes" these last drawings as r...
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The Story of Fantasmagorie (1908)
Émile Cohl is the father of the animated cartoon. In 1907, Cohl was hired as a scenarist by Gaumont to generate one-page story ideas for movies.
Between February and May 1908, Cohl created Fantasmagorie, the ...
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Muybridge: Waltzing couple (1893)
The animal locomotion studies of Eadweard J. Muybridge are among the earliest visual experiments in creating an illusion of motion. The "persistence of vision" principle laid the foundation for later forms of videography.
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Although it is not a necessity, copywriting can help convey messages in an interesting and persuasive way. Using copywriting can also increase the attractiveness of your writing and also make readers curious about the film you are reviewing. It doesn't matter whether the film is good or not, if y...
Johann Sebastian Bach: Early Life
- Born in 1685 in Germany, Bach was in a dynasty of musicians, though his mother and father died before he turned ten.
- Even as an orphan, he got into what he loved, starting with organ music as a court musician, composing for church services.
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