Day: October 15, 2024

The power of music in animated films: From Disney’s Fantasia to politically charged works

The beginnings of animation date back to the late 19th century, when pioneers like Émile Reynaud and the Lumière brothers developed the first moving images. With his „praxinoscope“ in 1877, Reynaud created one of the earliest forms of animated films. In the following decades, techniques such as stop-motion and cel animation refined the medium, which at the beginning of the 20th century with films like [...]