History Of The Vitagraph Company Of America

USA is one of the earliest who dived into the animation world. In 1889, the kinetoscope was invented by Thomas Edison with the help of William Dickson later on, and in 1894, Edison showed his first ten kinetoscopes in New York. Edison has been influence by earlier inventions. He probably saw the zoopraxiscope in early 1888. Later that year, he came up with a device that shows pictures and produces sound; however, he then dropped the sound and made a silent machine. He visited France and saw several advanced machines that are similar in a way, also German ones, which in 1891 helped him to produce the kinetograph. He organized, fully developed, and exploited all these various stands for ideas (Cavalier, S., 2011: 41).
Animated Cartoon History (n.d.) mentioned one production of Vitagraph Company of America by the producer James Stuart Blackton is The Enchanter Drawing in 1900. It was considered the first animated film by mistake, but it actually was filmed continuously. The same Vitagraph Company of America and producer produced Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906), drawing characters on a blackboard, and using the frame-by-frame technique to make the characters come to life. Although he

The first contact between the West and Japan was in the mid-sixteenth century, and following contacts were made with the English, the Spaniards, and the Dutch. They introduced Western culture to the Japanese. They introduced many things including painting, cartography, and copper-plate engraving. Their influences were religious, political, economic, and cultural. The use of the Japanese to the painting was for backgrounds, not portrait paintings like in other countries. “The thematic trait of realism […] is unique to the Japanese representation of art and the visual and real” (TZE-YUE G. HU, 2010: