Photography
Early Film
Optical Illusions
Animation
More Animation
100
The exposure time for Niépce's first photogaph in 1826-27.
What is 8 hours?
100
Known as the American Father of Film, his first motion picture film in 1894 was titled, The Sneeze.
Who is Thomas Alva Edison
100
In the 1860s, William Lincoln refined a cylindrical optical toy that brought images to life and called it this, or the Wheel of Life.
What is the Zoetrope?
100
His film studio invented the multi-plane camera allowing for realistic camera movement in animation.
Who is Walt Disney?
100
This is the subject of La Maison ensorcelée (1906), an early trick film that uses stop motion for special effects.
What is a haunted house?
200
This is the essential technology that gave cameras the ability to freeze motion and in turn take enough quick photos in succession to make motion pictures.
What is the mechanical shutter?
200
In his oft-referenced 1902 film, the magician, actor, and director, Georges Méliès, takes the audience here.
What is a Trip to the Moon or Le Voyage dans la Lune.
200
The Thaumatrope (1826) or “wonder turner” is a toy based on the way images are retained by our brain, a phenomenon otherwise known as this.
What is persistence of vision?
200
His photogaphic explorations of animal locomotion laid the foundation for frame-by-frame animation.
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Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
200
In 1928, this was the first animated film with synchronized sound.
What is Disney's Steamboat Willie?
300
The chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey influenced this famous dada artist, specifically his Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
300
These French motion picture pioneers were the first to project a film at a public screening. The subject of the film was their own employees leaving at the end of the workday.
Who are the Lumiére Brothers?
300
The result of our brain’s desire to see relationships between consecutive images, assuming movement between two static images when shown in quick succession.
What is Beta Movement?
300
The decade in which Emile Cohl produced Fantasmagorie, known as the first example of traditional hand-drawn animation.
What is 1900s or 1908?
300
Patented in 1914, these transparent sheets reduced the need to redraw background images and sped up the animation process.
What are animation cels or celluloid?