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Digital Multimedia Timeline

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The Vision:

1843

Ada Byron (Lady Lovelace) predicts that the calculating machine proposed by Charles Babbage (Analytical Engine) might be used to compose music and produce graphics as well as be utilized in scientific inquiry. [www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/lovelace.htm]

1914

Winsor McCay introduces Gertie the Dinosaur, an animated film consisting of 10,300 separate drawings. It was the first film animation to be created using keyframe animation techniques.

1915

Max Fleischer invents rotoscoping, an animation ...

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