Interesting link (thanks!)... And a "Woot!" despite the rest of this. *hehe*
(Formatting glitches... I hates it! Heh)
But I can't help reading into the caveats they use, too... the first "American animation", the first "sequential drawings of characters acting and reacting to each other". "Stop motion animation" becomes "stop motion ... techniques related to animation". So, for instance, the "Humpty Dumpty Circus" of toy animals and acrobats (stop-motion before 1900) isn't "animation"? His drawn characters came before drawn balls and lines and other early tests?
I find it hard to simply apply "first animation" to it.
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(Formatting glitches... I hates it! Heh)
But I can't help reading into the caveats they use, too... the first "American animation", the first "sequential drawings of characters acting and reacting to each other". "Stop motion animation" becomes "stop motion ... techniques related to animation". So, for instance, the "Humpty Dumpty Circus" of toy animals and acrobats (stop-motion before 1900) isn't "animation"? His drawn characters came before drawn balls and lines and other early tests?
I find it hard to simply apply "first animation" to it.
Okay, so I'm a geek. ^_^