Initiation of animation

Traditionally, animation is considered a separate part of screen film industry. It rejoices no less demand than feature or documental films, bringing substantial profit. It started to develop a bit later than general screen film industry.

The foundation was laid in 1905 by Edwin Porter in "How Jones lost his roll", "The whole damn family and the dam dog". This date is regarded as the date of establishment of all modern animation.

In fact, both of them were ordinary screen films with the only difference that the letters moved at random on the display to form certain words. It was achieved due to the exposing film one frame at a run. It made letters "jump" all over screen what produced a cosmic effect on the audience later on.

This phenomenon was called "single frame animation" what was reduced to just "animation" afterwards. Within the nearest time, animation grew to be a worthy competitor of the main screen film business activity.

In 1906, Albert Smith and James Blackton got down to experimenting with "moving letters" but changed them for moving poses of cartoon drawings of people what proved to be even funnier. In fact, it was mere moving of scraps of human figures between the exposures but the effect was never-before-seen and it summoned millions as a result. The film was called "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces".

These both events are deemed to be the foundation of all modern animation. Judging by the return that it brings, present-day animation is a very lucrative enterprise.