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Animation
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Also Known As Cartoons
Moving Image
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Moving images created frame by frame rather than photographed continuously, from hand-drawn cartoons through stop motion to computer-generated imagery. Animation grew alongside live-action film, produced the first fully synthetic feature-length worlds, and now underlies visual effects across every screen medium.
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Origin Year1906 marks J. Stuart Blackton's Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, commonly cited as the first animated film on standard film stock; Emile Reynaud projected hand-drawn moving pictures with his Theatre Optique from 1892. OriginHand-drawn animation for the cinema is usually dated to 1906, when J. Stuart Blackton's Humorous Phases of Funny Faces became the oldest surviving film of its kind. 1 Place of OriginBrooklyn, New York, United States 1 Primary FormatA filmmaking technique in which pictures are created or manipulated and then played in sequence to create the illusion of moving images. 1 Typical DistributionShown as short films, feature films and television series, and increasingly circulated as animated GIFs and other moving-image media. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Wikimedia FoundationHistory of animation, Standard picture film sectionQuote, History of animation, Standard picture film section
It was not until 1906 that proper animated films appeared in cinemas.
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Wikimedia FoundationJ. Stuart Blackton sectionQuote, J. Stuart Blackton section
Blackton's 1906 film Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is often regarded as the oldest known hand-drawn animation on standard film.
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Wikimedia FoundationVitagraph Studios, Founding sectionQuote, Vitagraph Studios, Founding section
It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company.
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Wikimedia FoundationAnimation, lead sectionQuote, Animation, lead section
Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby pictures are created or manipulated and then played in sequence to create the illusion of moving images.
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Wikimedia FoundationAnimation, General overview sectionQuote, Animation, General overview section
An animated cartoon, or simply a cartoon, is an animated film.
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Wikimedia FoundationMedia Entries: Praxinoscope, Lead sectionView the Source Encyclopedia Britannica
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