To this day, The Simpsons is the longest running American animated series, and American sitcom, coming in at 745 episodes over 34 seasons.
1908 – Fantasmagorie, considered by animation historians as the world's first cartoon, is released.
Many film historians consider Émile Cohl's Fantasmagorie (1908) to be the first animated cartoon. Fatansmagorie is a cartoon where objects continuously morph into different things.
Before Mickey Mouse, there was his predecessor: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Before Mickey Mouse, there was his predecessor: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. For the first time, we're seeing footage of the first Disney character. The silent film in black and white dates back to 1928, when a young Walt Disney created Oswald.
Based on our research, the first-ever Disney supervillain is the Evil Queen. Disney's first-ever animated full-length film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White and the Seven Dwarf's villain started the evilness and spread hate and jealousy all over the Disney world.
Felix the Cat is widely considered the world's first animated film star. He first appeared as 'Master Tom' in an animated short titled Feline Follies, released by Paramount Studios on 9 November 1919, a full nine years before Mickey Mouse's debut in Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928).
The history of anime can be traced back to the start of the 20th century, with the earliest verifiable films dating from 1917. The first generation of animators in the late 1910s included Ōten Shimokawa, Jun'ichi Kōuchi and Seitaro Kitayama, commonly referred to as the "fathers" of anime.
Anime has a very recent history as compared to a cartoon. In 1937 the United States of America was introduced to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs though the first anime (full length feature) to be released was Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors' in Japan in 1945.
For one thing, it simply makes hands easier to draw. In the era of hand-drawn animation, having one less digit on every character in every cel could potentially save animators a ton of time, which, in turn, saved companies a ton of money.
From the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, the world of animation in the United States experienced a severe quality drought. Television animation was cheaply and quickly produced and loaded with errors.
The longest-running anime TV series is Fuji TV's Sazae-san (Japan), which was first broadcast on 5 October 1969 and has run for 53 years 58 days, as of 2 December 2022. Produced by the studio Eiken, the animation features Sazae and her family focusing on day-to-day life in the suburbs.
The first Technicolor cartoon to be commercially released was Disney's Flowers and Trees (USA, 1932), a "Silly Symphonies" short that also became the first cartoon to win an Oscar.
The golden age of American animation was a period in the history of U.S. animation that began with the popularization of sound cartoons in 1928 and gradually ended from the late 1950s to early 1970s, where theatrical animated shorts began losing popularity to the newer medium of television animation, produced on ...
Oswald who? It turns out the big-eared bunny was one of Walt Disney's first animated characters, a star in his own right before Mickey Mouse was even a gleam in his creator's eye. But Disney lost the rabbit after he found out that Universal Studios, now part of NBC Universal, owned the rights to develop the character.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (also known as Oswald the Rabbit or Oswald Rabbit or just plain Oswald) is an animated cartoon character created in 1927 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal Pictures.
Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character, having debuted in the cartoon Alice Solves the Puzzle in 1925.
Kitty Kat is Felix's love interest. In her first known appearance, Feline Follies, Kitty was better known as "Miss Kitty White", as a pun of her natural coloration.
Betty Boop's official age is 16. However in other media she is a woman as she was once the mascot for Hooters. In Betty's 1980s reboots she is a woman.
Shan Yu's most famous quote to the Emperor. Shan Yu (sometimes spelled Shan-Yu) is the main antagonist of Disney's 36th full-length animated feature film Mulan.
But as of late, those archetypes have gradually faded away. While The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Tangled (2010) gave us Dr. Facilier and Mother Gothel respectively, we haven't seen a traditional villain since 2013.