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PIONEERS
Simon von
Stampfer
Joseph Plateau
William Horner
Emile Reynaud
Eadweard
Muybridge
And others
SIMON VON STAMPFER
Born October 26th 1792
Austrian mathematician
Benedictine Monastery of Kremsmunster
Stroboscopic discs
JOSEPH PLATEAU
Born October 14th 1801
Belgian physicist
Ill through trauma
Blinded during an experiment
Phenakistoscope
WILLIAM HORNER
Born sometime in 1786
British mathematician
Established a school
Horner’s Method
Zoetrope
EMILE REYNAUD
Born December 8th 1844
French science teacher
Created animated cartoons
Praxinoscope
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE
Born April 9th 1830
English photographer
Changed his name
Spent much of his time in America
Zoopraxiscope
THOMAS EDISON
Born February 11th 1847
Famous American
inventor
First to apply principles
of ‘mass production’
Great influence on the
first motion picture
camera
THE LUMIERE BROS
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
Born October 19th 1962 and
October 5th 1964
History’s earliest filmmakers
Influenced by Emile Reynaud
Refused to sell their cameras to
other filmmakers
GEORGE PAL
Born, Gyorgy Pal Marczinsak,
February 1st 1908
Hungarian-born American
animator
Immigrated at 32 to work for
Paramount Pictures
Famous for his work with sci-fi
and fantasy
HENRY SELICK
Born November 30th 1952
American stop-motion director
Interested in animation from
young age
Nominated for a Student
Academy Award whilst studying
Worked for Disney
TIM BURTON
Born August 25 1958
America director,
writer and artist
Influenced by Edgar
Allen Poe and Alfred
Hitchcock “My films are like strange children”
CORALINE
2009 children’s horror,
directed by Henry Selick
Novel by Neil Gaiman
450 workers
150 sets
Similarities to Burton’s
work
CORPSE BRIDE
2005 film, directed by Tim Burton
Shot with Canon EOS-1D Mark II
digital SLRs
Created for Helena Bonham Carter
Jewish folklore
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
1993, Selick and Burton
film
Based on a poem
Over a decade to come to
life
227 puppets
400+ heads
FRANKENWEENIE
Upcoming 2012 film
Parody
200 puppets used
Human hair
Release date
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