100 years since animation began

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While randomly searching for interesting information on the internet, I learned something that I thought I should share because it seems to be a forgotten piece of history. In 1908, Emile Cohl went to work on the very first animated cartoon. He worked on it from March to May of 1908, a century ago he was working on this.

Here it is. Enjoy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAObel8yIE[/youtube]

That is possibly the strangest cartoon I've ever seen

This is actually the oldest animation, its a 5200-year-old bowl discovered from a burial site in Iran’s Burnt City
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/March2008/04-03.htm

Can't have an animation tribute without Gertie the Dinosaur.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4[/youtube]

This was originally presented on a stage, where the narrator would talk to Gertie and throw her things before stepping off-stage and onto the screen.

Well if you want to get that technical about it, oldest surviving discovered example of animation. Though the earliest attempts at portraying motion in a drawing are evident in cave paintings. I wasn't intending to go all semantic on this, though.

Although it's good I looked at the semantics, because further research has lead me to discover that the one I posted is the oldest "fully animated cartoon." There are earlier examples of partially animated films using stop action photography. Such as this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYDmH2B9XJw[/youtube]

wikipedia was fairly deficient in saying what is actually the first film with animation although it sounds like it actually started in the 1890's. Oops. These are still really interesting cartoons. The guy who does Gertie the dinosaur is a very good artist, the effort he put into drawing that is very evident. Good to see someone else on this planet actually likes things like that.