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diagram explaining frame rates.)
Edward James Muggeridge was born on the 9th of April 1830 and died on
the 8th of May 1904.
At the age of 20, Edward immigrated to America, first to New York as a
bookseller, and then to San Francisco. He returned to England in 1861 and
took up professional photography, learning the wet-plate collodion
process. In 1877 1878 Edward used multiple cameras to capture motion
in stop motion photographs and his zoepraxiscope, a device that projected
motion picture that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strips used in
cinematography in 1880 Edward entered the University of Pennsylvania,
producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion,
capturing what the human eye could not distinguish as separate
movements. He gave his later years giving public lectures and
demonstrations of his photography and early motion picture sequences.
George Pal was born on the 1st of February 1908 and died on the 2nd of
May 1980.
Developers of animation:
Willis OBrien: Willis was born on the 2nd of March 1886 and
died on the 8th of November 1962, he died aged 76.
Willis was an American motion picture pioneer who created
some of the best-known images in cinema history; some of
these films include the lost world made in 1925, King Kong
made in 1933 and mighty joe young made in 1949 he won
the 1950 Academy award for best visual effects for the film
mighty king joe.
Other films Willis made include the dinosaur and the missing
link: A prehistoric tragedy which was made in 1915, R.F.D
10,000 B.C. was made in 1916 and Prehistoric Poultry which was made in
1916. (The image to the right is the cover for the film Mighty king Joe).
Ray Harryhausen: Ray was born on the 29th of June 1920 and died on the
7th of May 2013 aged 92, he was active from 1939 to 2002, in this time he
was an American visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a
form of stop-motion model animation known as Dynamation.
Jan Svankmajer: Jan was born on the 4th of September 1934 and is 82
years old. Jan is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several
media. Jan is a self-labelled surrealist known for his animations
and features, he has greatly influenced other artists such as
Terry Gilliam and Brother Quay and many others.
Some of the popular films/work by Jan include: Greedy guts
which was made in 2000, Alice which was made in 1988,
Lesson Faust which was made in 1994 and Lunacy which was
made in 2005 Jan directed all of the films specified here.
Jan began making short films in 1964 and continued to work on
the medium for over 20 years. His first feature length film was
made with Lewis Carrolls which was Alice in wonderland in
1988. (Image to the right is the film cover of Alice in wonderland from
1988).
design for their work on the play the chairs. (The image to the right is of
one of the Quay brothers film covers).
Tim burton:
Tim Burton was born on the 25th of August 1958. Tim burton is
known for his dark, gothic and quirky fantasy films, an example
of these are Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissor hands (1990), a
nightmare before Christmas (1993), sleepy hollow (1999),
Sweeny Todd: the demon barber of fleet street (2007), Alice in
wonderland (2010) and many other films which has made over
$1 billion.
Tim Burton also directed Batman in 1989 played by Michael
Keaton and Jack Nicholson. (The image to the right is the cover
of batman from 1989 directed by Tim Burton). Tim Burton also
directed the sequel to Batman which was called batman
returns and the villain was Danny DeVito.
Tim Burton also co-wrote Edward Scissor hands, (with Caroline
Thompson), he also directed Edward Scissor hands.
The nightmare before Christmas is a dark/gothic stop motion
animation created by Tim Burton where every day is
Halloween. The film made $50 million in profits. (Image to the
right is the cover for the film a nightmare before Christmas)