a selection of early animation history
(dates are the approximate year of first known work ]
1907 Emile Cohl
1920 Walter Ruttman
1921 Oskar Fischinger
1929 Len Lye
1934 Mary Ellen Bute
1948 Hy Hirsh
1949 John Whitney
1952 Stan Brakhage
1959 Stan VanDerBeek
1964 Charles Csuri
1967 Jim Blinn
1969 Lillian Schwartz
1974 Larry Cuba