The “Theatre Optique” opens in Paris, where transparent celluloid, which had been hand drawn upon, is projected as film to the delight of Parisian audiences.

Isadore “Friz” Freleng is born in Kansas City, Missouri

Robert McKimson is born in Denver, Colorado.

Willian Hanna is born in Melrose, New Mexico.

Joseph Barbera is born in New York City’s Little Italy.

The first animated comic strips appear in newsreels.

The first animation studio is opened in New York by Raul Barre and short animation features begin to be regularly screened in theaters throughout the country.

– Brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, creators of Betty Boop, patent the rotoscope enabling animators to copy the movement of live-action by tracing filmed live-action images frame by frame.

Fleischer Studios, then known as Out of the Inkwell, release Koko the Clown.

Walt and Roy Disney open their studio in California which was to set the standard for the entire art form.

Disney creates the first cartoon to synchronize sound with movement.

Fleischer Studios’ Betty Boop makes her first appearances in Barnacle Bill and Dizzy Dishes.

Walter Lantz develops the first Technicolor cartoon.

Ed Hurd, an employee of the John Bray Studio, invents the process of inking the animator’s drawings onto clear pieces of celluloid and then photographing them in succession on a single painted background, which becomes the process that will be used in the creation of animated films for decades.

Hearst Corporation establishes King Features, Incorporated, a syndication company for newspaper content including comics.

Disney creates the first three Mickey Mouse cartoons with Ub Iwerks.

Freleng embarks on 30 year career with Warner Brothers.

Walt Disney Studios wins the first Academy Award for animation.

Joseph Barbera begins working for Van Buren Studios in New York as a writer and animator.

Freleng becomes the director of animation at Warner Brothers.

Fleischer Studios debuts Popeye the Sailor.

Through mergers McKimson begins working with Warner Brothers. While there, he creates model sheets, which help to develop and define the characters by providing numerous drawings in a variety of poses.

Warner Brothers introduces Porky Pig in I Haven’t Got a Hat.

Barbera begins a short stint at Terrytoon Studios.

Barbera moves to MGM in Culver City, California.

Disney releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Warner Brothers introduces Daffy Duck in Porky’s Duck Hunt.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wins a “Special Academy Award for Screen Innovation.”

Hanna and Barbera’s first collaborative project, “Puss Gets the Boot”, earns them an Academy Award nomination and serves as the precursor to “Tom and Jerry”.

Warner Brothers introduces Bugs Bunny originally as Happy Rabbit.

Disney releases Pinocchio.

The first time Bugs Bunny asks, “What’s up, Doc?” in A Wild Hare.

Disney premieres Dumbo.

Fleischer launches the Superman cartoons.

Disney premieres Bambi.

Friz Freleng creates Yosemite Sam and Sylvester for Warner Brothers.

Chuck Jones introduces Pepé LePew at Warner Brothers.

Tweetie Pie earns Warner Brothers an Academy Award.

Warner Brothers introduce the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

Disney introduces Donald Duck.

Warner Brothers introduces Tasmanian Devil.

Hanna and Barbera form their own production company which has early success with The Ruff & Ready Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show.

Hanna-Barbera creates The Flintstones which is honored with numerous awards and will run during prime time for six years – unprecedented for an animated series.

The Jetsons is launched by Hanna-Barbera.

Warner Brothers animation studio begins to lose momentum and, shortly after, McKimson leaves for DePatie-Freleng one year later.

Freleng works with producer Dave DePatie to form DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

DePatie-Freleng introduces the Pink Panther.

Freleng’s Pink Panther is honored with an Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

A Charlie Brown Christmas is first aired on television.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Chuck Jones premieres.

Warner Brothers reopens a small animation department and McKimson returns.

The animation department at Warner Brothers closes once again, and McKimson directs animation works for DePatie-Freleng.

McKimson is having lunch with Freleng and DePatie when he suffers a massive heart attack. McKimson dies at the age of 66.

A star on the Hollywood Walk of fame is rewarded to Bugs Bunny.

Freleng is immortalized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Turner Broadcasting System launches the Cartoon Network.

Freleng dies at the age of 89.

Hanna dies at the age of 90.

Barbera dies at the age of 95.

King Features, Inc. introduces DailyINK, a mobile sevice to digitally display comic strips.