Some track the origin of stop motion back to 1896, when Georges Méliès' camera jammed. When the film was developed, it showed objects magically disappearing on screen.
It is thought that the first stop-motion animated short was 1898's The Humpty Dumpty Circus, by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith. This animation was made using Thomas Edison's Vitascope. Sadly, the film has been lost, but other works of theirs survived.
http://www.focusfeatures.com/article/a_short_history_of_stop_motion
And here's a brilliant little stop motion about the history of stop motion:
According to the above video, it is thought that the first animated films were by Emile Cohl, of France, in 1908
Fantasmagorie, 1908
The Puppet's Nightmare (Le Cauchemar de Fantoche), 1908
However, as mentioned above, it was J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith who made the first animations. Thomas Edison (yes, the man who invented the lightbulb) had invented one of the earliest film projectors, the Vitascope. Blackton and Smith set up the American Vitagraph Company, and began producing their own pictures.
Here are a couple of the earliest animations, released by The Thomas Edison company.
Fun in a Bakery Shop, 1902
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
I found another great early animation, this time from Europe, from Ladislaw Starewicz (or Vladislav Starevich, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Владислав Александрович Старевич) who was born in Russia to Polish parents. He is known as a Russian, Lithuanian and French stop-motion animator, notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film. He famously used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films.
The Cameraman's Revenge, 1912
In the same year, 1912, one of the first clay animation movies was released to great critical acclaim. It was called 'Modelling Extraordinary', by Walter R Booth.
In 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, started experimenting with clay stop motion. She released her first film in 1917, Romeo and Juliet.
According to the above video, it is thought that the first animated films were by Emile Cohl, of France, in 1908
Fantasmagorie, 1908
The Puppet's Nightmare (Le Cauchemar de Fantoche), 1908
However, as mentioned above, it was J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith who made the first animations. Thomas Edison (yes, the man who invented the lightbulb) had invented one of the earliest film projectors, the Vitascope. Blackton and Smith set up the American Vitagraph Company, and began producing their own pictures.
Here are a couple of the earliest animations, released by The Thomas Edison company.
Fun in a Bakery Shop, 1902
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
I found another great early animation, this time from Europe, from Ladislaw Starewicz (or Vladislav Starevich, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Владислав Александрович Старевич) who was born in Russia to Polish parents. He is known as a Russian, Lithuanian and French stop-motion animator, notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film. He famously used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films.
The Cameraman's Revenge, 1912
In the same year, 1912, one of the first clay animation movies was released to great critical acclaim. It was called 'Modelling Extraordinary', by Walter R Booth.
In 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, started experimenting with clay stop motion. She released her first film in 1917, Romeo and Juliet.
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