What was THE FIRST CARTOON?

Question

I'd really like to know and see hwat it was like. Thanks

Answer 1

It was either felix the cat or an early almost unrecognisable mickey mouse

Answer 2

I always thought it was Gertie the Dinosaur, but it looks like the following:
Animation in the United States of America
During the beginnings of the silent film era, the central location of the U.S. motion picture industry had not yet relocated to Hollywood. In the period before the major studios relocated to Los Angeles (beginning with Carl Laemmle's consolidation of Universal Pictures), most motion picture studios were located in New York City.

J. Stuart Blackton, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, 1906
Winsor McCay, Gertie the Dinosaur,1914, The sinking of the Lusitania, 1918, Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, 1921
Willis O'Brien, The Dinosaur and the Missing Link, 1915, The Lost World, 1925 (stop-motion animation)
Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat, 1919
Max Fleischer and Koko the Clown, 1919
Paul Terry and Aesop's Film Fables,1921
Walt Disney's first cartoons: Laugh-o-Grams, Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Other signicant series: Heeza Liar, Mutt and Jeff, Krazy Kat, Bobby Bumps
Other significant studios: Barré Studio, Bray Productions, Barré-Bowers Studio, International Film Service
Significant distributors of animated films: Margaret J. Winkler, Charles Mintz, Educational Pictures, Red Seal Pictures, Bijou Films
Also, Charles Bowers was a comedian and animator who made many bizarre films in the 1920s combining stop-motion animation and comedy. Many of them have been lost, but some have been recently released on DVD.

Answer 3

The first cartoon wasn't Steam boat willy, the first wasn't Felix the cat. The very first ever Cartoon was a three part cartoon titled the life of the ant, the life of the bird and the life of the frog. It was released it 1890 in America (two years before the Frenchman Émile Reynard) and was of very poor quality, it was originally meant to be a whole series of cartoons following the life of lots of different animals each film was a mere two minutes long and the artist behind it weren't used to drawing and inking so many of the same picture over and over. It was comedy based and was the influence which cause Walt himself to start doodling.

Answer 4

The first animated film was created by frenchman Émile Reynaud, inventor of the praxinoscope, an animation system using loops of 12 pictures. On October 28, 1892 at Musée Grévin in Paris, France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation

Answer 5

I would imagine that ACTUALLY, the first cartoon occured somewhere in ancient Greece or Rome... a sketch of an offensive King or leader on the back wall of a pub.

Note that the HBO series Rome showed NUMEROUS examples of this.

OR is there an as yet undiscovered cave painting in France or the Yugoslavia drawn by "Gorg" of his friend "OooK" tripping during the Mammoth Mammoth hunt, and sticking his spear in someones backside ??? I think THAT would qualify.

Answer 6

well the first disney cartoon was steamboat willie but I don't know about the oldest cartoon. Probably some tom and jerry or felix cartoon. Though there were these really old cartoons about these crows and they were called heckle and jackal these were like from the turn of the century so it could be them.

Answer 7

The Romans created the first animation. Its something like a lampshade with a 5" piece of metal sticking out of the top. Holes would be cut in it, and directly across from it would be a series of pictures that would appear to move when spun.

Answer 8

The first animated cartoon (in the traditional sense, i.e. on film) was "Fantasmagorie" by the French director Émile Cohl. Released in 1908.

One of the very first successful animated cartoons was "Gertie the Dinosaur" by Winsor McKay. It is considered the first example of true character animation.

Answer 9

Mickey Mouse. Fairly sure Walt Disney came up with the idea while travelling.

Answer 10

Micky Mouse in Steam Boat Willie,