Editing Animation (section)

===Silent era===
When [[cinematography]] eventually broke through in the 1890s, the wonder of the realistic details in the new medium was seen as its biggest accomplishment. It took years before animation found its way to the cinemas. The successful short ''The Haunted Hotel'' (1907) by [[J. Stuart Blackton]] popularized [[stop motion]] and reportedly inspired [[Émile Cohl]] to create ''[[Fantasmagorie (film)|Fantasmagorie]]'' (1908), regarded as the oldest known example of a complete [[traditional animation|traditional (hand-drawn) animation]] on standard cinematographic film. Other great artistic and very influential short films were created by [[Ladislas Starevich]] with his puppet animations since 1910 and by [[Winsor McCay]] with detailed hand-drawn animation in films such as ''[[Little Nemo (1911 film)|Little Nemo]]'' (1911) and ''[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]'' (1914).<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |date=22 July 2023 |title=Winsor McCay: American Animator|encyclopedia = Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Winsor-McCay |access-date= |language=en}}</ref>

During the 1910s, the production of animated "[[cartoons]]" became an industry in the US.{{sfn|Solomon|1989|p=28}} Successful producer [[John Randolph Bray]] and animator [[Earl Hurd]], patented the [[cel animation]] process that dominated the animation industry for the rest of the century.{{sfn|Solomon|1989|p=24}}{{sfn|Solomon|1989|p=34}} [[Felix the Cat]], who debuted in 1919, became the first fully realized anthropomorphic animal character in the history of American animation.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Michael|last1=Cart|title=The Cat With the Killer Personality|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/31/books/the-cat-with-the-killer-personality.html|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=31 March 1991|access-date=30 December 2022|archivedate=11 April 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140411005148/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/31/books/the-cat-with-the-killer-personality.html}}</ref>
[[Image:FelixTheCat-1919-FelineFollies silent.ogv|thumb|''Feline Follies'' with [[Felix the Cat]], silent, 1919]]