Understanding the persistence of vision PAUL ROGET invented the “ Thaumatrope” in 1828.

In 1907, however, ‘Emellecole’ a caricaturist, for the first time ever experimented with animation, using flip books to try and capture movements.

Stuart Blackton, issued a short film in 1906 entitled Humourous Phases of Funny Faces where he drew comical faces on a blackboard, photographed them, and the erased it to draw another stage of the facial expression. This "stop-motion" effect astonished audiences by making drawings comes to life.

Soon thereafter, in 1907 itself, ‘Winson Macley’ for the first time ever animated with the help of frames. Hence, 1907 is known as the birth year of animation.

As time went by, Disney went ahead and decided to give more to his audience than 1 or 2 min animation stories. He went into production with the first animated full length animation film, with a budget of merely 1 Million Dollars “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ ran to packed houses where ever it was shown. What many had not realized was that this was a make or a break film for Disney and his studio. It was only due to the success of this film that Disney finally made a technically sound studio of his own.