2. 1906 Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton released
in 1906.
The film moves at 20 frames per second.
It features a cartoonist drawing faces on a chalkboard, and the faces coming to life. It is
generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film
Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 American animated short film by Winsor
McCay
Was named #6 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time in a 1994
It was the first cartoon to feature a character with an
1914 appealing personality
3. Koko the Clown was an animated character created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer
The series was very popular and in 1921
The character originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope
1921
Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent
film era
Felix one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film
history
1923 Felix was the first character from animation to attain a level
of popularity sufficient to draw movie audiences
4. 1928
Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse
The film is also notable for being one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound
King Kong is a Pre-Code 1933 fantasy monster adventure
film co-directed by Merian C.
The film tells of a gigantic island-dwelling apeman creature called Kong
who dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman
In 1991, the film was deemed "culturally, historically and
aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected
for preservation in the National Film Registry.
1933
5. 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American
animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by
the Brothers Grimm
It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion
picture history, as well as the first animated feature film
produced in America,
The first in the Walt Disney Animated Classics canon
Tom and Jerry is an American series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William
Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Jerry has a worldwide audience that consists of children, teenagers and adults
been recognized as one of the most famous and longest-lived rivalries in American cinema
1940
6. 1992
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the
Comedy Central television network.
Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal satirical
and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics.
In the 2004 documentary The 100 Greatest Cartoons, South Park was placed at #3
Corpse Bride, often promoted as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, is a 2005 stop-motion-
animated fantasy musical film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton.
The film was nominated in the 78th Academy Awards for
Best Animated Feature
It was shot with a battery of Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital
2005 SLRs, rather than the 35mm film cameras used for Burton's
previous stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 â December 15, 1966) was an American
film producer, director, screenwriter, voice
actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon,and philanthropist, well-
known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century.
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer
and a popular showman, as well as an
innovator in animation and theme park
design. He and his staff created some of the
world's most well-known fictional characters
including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney
himself provided the original voice. During his
lifetime he received four honorary Academy
Awards and won twenty-two Academy
Awards from a total of fifty-nine
nominations, including a record four in one
year, giving him more awards and
nominations than any other individual in
history.
The corporation is now known as The Walt
Disney Company and had an annual revenue
of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010
financial year
9. Ămile Cohl (January 4, 1857, Paris â
January 20, 1938), born Ămile Eugène
Jean Louis Courtet, was a French
caricaturist of the largely forgotten
Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and
animator called "The Father of the
Animated Cartoon" and "The Oldest
Parisian".
By 1907, the 50-year-old Ămile Cohl,
like everyone else in Paris, had become
aware of motion pictures. Cohl made
over 250 films between 1908 and 1923,
working for Gaumont, Ăclair (including
a spell in America), PathĂŠ and others.
10. Winsor McCay (September 26, 1869 â July
26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and
animator.
A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early
animated films far outshone the work of his
contemporaries, and set a standard followed
by Walt Disney and others in later decades.
His two best-known creations are the
newspaper comic strip Little Nemo in
Slumberland, which ran from 1905â1914 and
1924â1927, and the animated cartoon Gertie
the Dinosaur, which he created in 1914.
His comic strip work has influenced
generations of artists, including creators such
as William Joyce, AndrĂŠ LeBlanc, Moebius,
Maurice Sendak, Chris Ware and Bill
Watterson.
11. Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 â September 11, 1972) was an American
animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated
cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such
animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and
Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of
technological innovations.
12. Eadweard J. Muybridge (9
April 1830 â 8 May 1904) was
an English photographer who
spent much of his life in the
United States. He is known for
his pioneering work on animal
locomotion which used multiple
cameras to capture motion, and
his zoopraxiscope, a device for
projecting motion pictures that
pre-dated the flexible perforated
film strip.
13. Ray Harryhausen (born Raymond
Frederick Harryhausen on June 29, 1920
in Los Angeles, California) is an American
film producer and special effects creator.
He created a brand of stop-motion model
animation known as "Dynamation."
Among his most notable works are his
animation on Mighty Joe Young (with
pioneer Willis O'Brien, which won the
Academy Award for special effects)
(1949), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad(his first
colour film) and Jason and the
Argonauts, featuring a famous sword
fight against seven skeleton warriors.
14. Stephen and Timothy Quay (born June 17, 1947 in
Norristown, Pennsylvania) are American identical twin brothers better
known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-
motion animators. They are the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play The Chairs.
The Quay Brothers reside and work in
England, having moved there in 1969 to study
at the Royal College of Art, London after
studying illustration at the Philadelphia
College of Art, now the University of the Arts
in Philadelphia. In England they made their
first short films, which no longer exist after
the only print was irreparably damaged. They
spent some time in the Netherlands in the
1970s and then returned to England where
they teamed up with another Royal College
student, Keith Griffiths, who produced all of
their films. The trio formed Koninck Studios in
1980, which is currently based in
Southwark, south London.
15. Timothy William "Tim" Burton(born
August 25, 1958) is an American film
director, film producer, writer and artist.
He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such
as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The
Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy
Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and for blockbusters
such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman
Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, 9 and Alice in Wonderland, his
most recent film, that was the second highest-
grossing film of 2010 as well as the ninth highest-
grossing film of all time.
16. Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as
Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is
a British animation studio based in Bristol,
United Kingdom. The studio is known for
films made using stop-motion clay
animation techniques, particularly those
featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and
Gromit. However, it successfully entered
the computer animation market with
Flushed Away.
17. Pixar Animation Studios, is an American computer
animation film studio based in Emeryville, California.
The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven
Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among
many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have
made over $6.3 billion worldwide.It is best known for its
CGI-animated feature films created with PhotoRealistic
RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-
standard RenderMan image-rendering application
programming interface used to generate high-quality
images.
18. Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (born
22 November 1940) is an American-
born British screenwriter, film director,
animator, actor and member of the
Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is
also known for directing several films,
including Brazil (1985), The Adventures
of Baron Munchausen (1988), The
Fisher King (1991), and 12 Monkeys
(1995). The only "Python" not born in
Britain, he took British citizenship in
1968.
19. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros.
Pictures or simply Warner Bros. (though the name was occasionally
given in full form as Warner Brothers during the company's early
years), is an American producer of film and television entertainment.
One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with
its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York, New York.
Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner
Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation,
Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com, and DC Comics.
Warner owns half of The CW Television Network.
