Week 1: Important Names

• Eadweard Muybridge - Eadweard Muybridge was born in England, but mostly worked in America. He is nown as the 'father of the motion picture' for his study, The Horse In Motion (1882), regarded by many as the first ever moving picture.

• Emile Cohl - Emile Cohl was a French caricaturist and animator. His animated film Fantasmagorie (1908) is one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn animation, and considered by many film historians to be the very first animated cartoon. 

• Walt Disney - Walt Disney is best known as an American cartoonist and film maker, and creator of the iconic cartoon character Mickey Mouse. Once sound came into film, his animated short Steamboat Willie, with Walt as the voice of Mickey Mouse, became an instant hit sensation, and the start of a long and iconic career for Disney.

• Winsor McCay- Winsor McCay was an American animator, born in Canada, who first started as a newspaper cartoonist. He began to experiment with stage acts in which he created and would interact with his own animated cartoons, the most famous of which being Gertie the Dinosaur (1914).  

• Georges Melies - Georges Melies was a French illusionist and filmmaker. His most famous film A Trip To The Moon (1902) combines real life action with stop motion photography to create trick visual effects.