At the beginning of the 19th century, before the television or the movie had been invented, Animation devices which enabled pictures to be seen moving were developed and had been improving.
In addition, photography, which was also invented in the 19th century and had been growing rapidly, enabled people to take sequenced photographs.
These technical movement were creating a big technological wave which would give birth to the movie.
Now let's go travel through time into the era before the invention of the movie to see what kind of animation devices existed.

Animation

Marey

Muybridge

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