Animation Flashcards
(126 cards)
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What is Rule 7 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
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All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme corporation
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Who created Filmstudie and when?
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Hans Richter - 1926
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What was Disneys first original character?
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Oswald the lucky rabbit
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What was Disneys first cartoon with color and when?
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Flowers and Trees - 1932
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Who was Earl Hurd, when and where did he live and what was he famous for?
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American Animator - 1880-1949 - developing the process of cel animation with John Randolph Bray
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Who created The Dinosaur and the Missing Link and when?
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Willis O’Brien - 1915
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Who created The Lost World and when?
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Willis O’Brien - 1925
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Who created Lichtspiel: Opus 3
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Walter Ruttmann - 1924
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Who created Cockaboody and when?
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John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1973
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Who created Puss gets the Boot (Tom & Jerry) and when?
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William Hanna & Joseph Barbera - 1940
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Who was James Stuart Blackton, when and where did he live?
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He was one of the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation and is considered a father of American animation. - 1875-1941 USA
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What is Rule 2 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
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No outside force can harm the coyote - only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products
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Who created Composition 224 and when?
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Wassily Kandinsky - 1920
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What was special about Three Little Pigs?
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It won an Academy Award for best animated short film
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What are the tricks/techniques that Georges Méliés is famous for?
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Dolly, Model Shot, Storyboard/Concept Art, Dissolve, Stop Motion, Superimposition & Stage Machinery, Split Screen, Pyrotechnics & Matte Painting
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What is Rule 9 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
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The coyote is always more humilated than harmed by his failures
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Who created Allegretto and when?
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Oskar Fischinger - 1936-1943
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Who created A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature and when?
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John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1966
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Who created Little Nemo in Slumberland and when?
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Winsor McCay - 1905-1911
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Who created Neighbours and when?
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Norman McLaren - 1952
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Who created The Nose and when?
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Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff - 1963
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Who created The Enchanted Drawing and when?
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James Stuart Blackton - 1900
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Who created Colored Rhythm and when?
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Léopold Survage - 1913
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Who created Motion Painting No 1 and when?
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Oskar Fischinger - 1947
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Who were the Fleischer Brothers and when did they live?
Max Fleischer 1883-1972 - Dave Fleischer 1894-1979
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What was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon with sound and when?
Steamboat Willie - 1928
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Who created the PegBar Chart?
Raoul Barré
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Who invented the Thaumatrope and when?
John Ayrton Paris - 1824
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Who created The Man with the Rubber Head and when?
Georges Méliés - 1901
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Who said "Film does not yet exist - just a perverse anomaly of literature! The absolute film signifies the foundation of cinematic art. Film needs no audience. Film needs artists! The absolute film opens your eyes for the first time to what the camera is, can be, and wants. Object, meaning and plot are comfortable concessions to the after-dinner nap in the orchestra seats. Wake up finally!". When?
Hans Richter - 1926
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Who created The Hole and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1962
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Who created Gertie the Dinosaur and when?
Winsor McCay - 1914
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Who created The Sleeping Beauty and when?
Lotte Reiniger - 1954
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Who was John Randolph Bray, when and where did he live and what was he famous for?
American businessman - 1879-1978 - one of the first that distributed the labour of the animation process (more skilled -\> key poses, assistants -\> inbetweens)
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Who created Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and when?
Winsor McCay - 1904-1925
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Who created L'Oréal - Constance and when?
Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff - 1958
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Who created Rhythmus 21 and when?
Hans Richter - 1921
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Who created Looney Tunes?
Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon
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Who created the Mr Magoo theatrical shorts and when?
UPA (United Productions of America) - 1949-1959
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Who created Radio Dynamics and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1942
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Who created A Puppet Drama and when?
Émile Cohl - 1908
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What is Rule 4 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
No dialogue ever, except "BEEP-BEEP!"
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What was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon and when?
Plane Crazy - 1928
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When did Disney create Mickey Mouse?
1928
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What was Eadweard Muybridge famous for? And when did he live?
Pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. "The horse in motion". - 1830-1904
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How does limited animation reduce the production workload and costs?
Reducing the overall number of drawings, repeatedly using the same keyposes and sequences, extensive recaps of previous segments and episodes, low detail designs which allow very reduced (facial) animation, splitting up a character in different layers and only animating parts, making characters perfectly symmetrical to allow for cel reversal, using "smear animation", replacing animation by camera techniques suggesting movement, strong emphasis on voice acting
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Who created Lichtspiel: Opus 1 and when?
Walter Ruttmann - 1921
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Who created Esso - The Sap of Earth and when?
Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff - 1955
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Who created Tarantella and when?
Mary Ellen Bute - 1940
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Who created Of Starts and Men and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1961
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When was the Walt Disney Company founded and what was it first name?
1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
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Who created The Hat and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1964
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Who were the Directors of Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon?
Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Frank Tashlin, Maurice Noble, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising
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Who created Le Merle - The Blackbird and when?
Norman McLaren - 1958
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What is Rule 8 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
Whenever possible, make gravity the coyote's greates enemy
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Who created The Dot and The Line and when?
Chuck Jones - 1965
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When did Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon produce Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
1949 - 1955
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Who created "Muratti Privat" Promotion and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1934
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When did Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon produce Sylvester?
1945 - 1953
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Who created Tusalava and when?
Len Lye - 1929
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What was special about Steamboat Willie?
It was the first cartoon with synchronized sound
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Who created A Trip to the Moon and when?
Georges Méliés - 1902
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What is Rule 3 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
The coyote could stop anytime - if he were not a fanatic (Repeat: "A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.")
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Who created Composition A and when?
Piet Mondrian - 1923
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Who created The Grashopper and the Ant and when?
Lotte Reiniger - 1954
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Who created Humorous Phases of Funny Faces and when?
James Stuart Blackton - 1906
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By whome and when was Silly Symphony created?
Walt Disney - 1929
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Who created The Sinking of the Lusitania and when?
Winsor McCay - 1918
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Who created Gerald McBoing-Boing and when?
UPA (United Productions of America) - 1950
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When did Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon produce Speedy Gonzales?
1953 - 1955
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Who created the Animated Matches and when?
Arthur Melbourne-Cooper - 1899
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What are other films from Disney during the golden age, when were they released?
Pinocchio 1940, Fantasia 1940, Dumbo 1941, Bambi 1942
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What was Disneys first Show and when?
Alice's Wonderland - 1923
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Who look did it take to produce Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and what years?
3 years - 1934-1937
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What was Disneys first feature length film and when?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1937
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Who created Rhythm in Light and when?
Mary Ellen Bute - 1934
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What was the first cartoon with Porky Pig and who directed it and when?
I haven't got a Hat - Friz Freleng - 1935
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Who created Dots and when?
Norman McLaren - 1940
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Who invented the Praxinoscope and when?
Émile Reynaud - 1877
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Who was the first major Looney Tunes start?
Porky Pig
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Who was Lotte Reiniger and what was she famous for? When did she live?
She was a german film director and famous for being the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation - 1899-1981
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Who are some of the famous characters that got introduced through Looney Tunes?
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote
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Who created How a Mosquito operates and when?
Winsor McCay - 1912
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Who created Fantasmagorie and when?
Émile Cohl - 1908
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Who created The Winner (Excelsior Tyre Advertisment) and when?
Walter Ruttmann & Julius Pinschewer - 1922
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Who created the first Kinetograph/Kinetoscope?
Thomas Alva Edison
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Who created A Puppet's Nightmare and when?
Émile Cohl - 1908
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What coloring technique did Disney use for Flowers and Trees?
Technicolor
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What is Rule 1 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
The Road Runner cannot harm the coyote except by going "BEEP-BEEP!"
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Who created Diagonal Symphony and when?
Viking Eggeling - 1924
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Who invented Rotoscoping and when?
Max Fleischer - 1914
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Who created Circles and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1833/1834
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In wich cartoons did Bux Bunny and Elmer Fudd first appear and when?
A Wild Hare (Merrie Melodies) - 1949
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Who was Willis O'Brien, when and where did he live?
He was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer. - 1886-1962 USA
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What are some important Hanna-Barbera cartoons?
The Flintstones, The Yogi Bear Show, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Smurfs
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What was Arthur Melbourne-Cooper famous for, when and where did he live?
His pioneering work in stop-motion animation. - 1874-1961 UK
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In which cartoon was Daffy Duck introduced and when
Porky's Duck Hunt - 1937
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Who was Winsor McCay, when and where did he live?
He was a cartoonist and animator. - 1869-1934 USA
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Who created Study No 7 and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1931
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Who created Popeye the Sailor?
Fleischer Brothers
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What is Rule 6 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters - the southwest american desert
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Who created the Dreams of Toyland and when?
Arthur Melbourne-Cooper - 1908
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What is Rule 5 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
The road runner must stay on the road - otherwise, logically, he would not be called road runner
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Who created Rainbow Dance and when?
Len Lye - 1936
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Who created Three Little Pigs and when?
Disney - 1933
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Who created Felix the Cat?
Otto Messmer or Pat Sullivan
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Who created Betty Boop?
Fleischer Brothers
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Who invented the Phenakistiscope and when?
Joseph Plateau - 1833
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What film was the first to use special effects? By whom and when was that film?
The Execution of Mary Stuart - Alfred C. Clark - 1895
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Who is the so called "Father of the Animated Cartoon", when and where did he live?
Émile Cohl - 1857-1938 France
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Who created the 1941 Superman?
Fleischer Brothers
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Who created The Adventures of Prince Achmed and when?
Lotte Reiniger - 1926
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Who created Mood Contrasts and when?
Mary Ellen Bute - 1953
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Who was Bud Fisher and what was he famous for?
He was a cartoonist in the USA and famous for his Mutt and Jeff comic strips that later got turned into animated short films.
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Who created Night on Bald Mountain and when?
Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff - 1933
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What was Georges Méliés famous for, when and where did he live?
Use of special effects and pioneering work in stop-motion. - 1861-1938 France
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Who created Free Radicals and when?
Len Lye - 1958
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Who said "I will animate my painting, I will give it movement, I will introduce rhythm into the concrete action of my abstract painting, born of my interior life; my instrument will be the cinematographic film, this true symbol of accumulated movement. It will execute the 'scores' of my visions, corresponding to my state of mind in its successive phases. I am creating a new visual art in time, that of colored rhtythm and of rhythmic color."
Léopold Survage
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Who created Everybody rides the Carousel and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1976
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Who created the first Single Lens Camera?
Louis Le Prince
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Whoe created the first Kodak Box Camera and when?
George Eastman - 1888
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Who created Begone Dull Care and when?
Norman McLaren - 1949
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Who created Color Flight and when?
Len Lye - 1938
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Who created Col. Heeza Liar?
John Randolph Bray
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Who created Moonbird and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1959
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Who created the first real world photo and when?
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - 1826/1827
