Q 01/05

Which French artist made Fantasmagorie (1908), considered the first animated cartoon?

A) Émile Cohl

B) Georges Méliès

C) Émile Reynaud

D) Charles Pathé

Answer · why

A) Émile Cohl

The whole film is a stick figure meeting morphing objects, and it was drawn in white on black to look like a chalkboard.

Q 02/05

Which American game company introduced the definitive zoetrope, with replaceable picture strips, as a toy in 1866?

A) Parker Brothers

B) Milton Bradley

C) Selchow & Righter

D) McLoughlin Brothers

Answer · why

B) Milton Bradley

Its inventor, William Ensign Lincoln, was a Brown University sophomore of about 18 when he came up with it.

Q 03/05

Reynaud's 1877 praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with what?

A) A glass magnifying lens

B) A spinning shutter disc

C) An inner ring of mirrors

D) An oil lamp behind it

Answer · why

C) An inner ring of mirrors

The reflections stayed almost stationary as the drum turned, giving a brighter, less distorted picture.

Q 04/05

Which Belgian physicist invented the phenakistiscope around December 1832, simultaneously with Simon Stampfer?

A) Michael Faraday

B) Peter Mark Roget

C) Étienne-Jules Marey

D) Joseph Plateau

Answer · why

D) Joseph Plateau

The inventor never settled on one name for it, using both phénakisticope and his preferred fantascope.

Q 05/05

Émile Reynaud's Pantomimes Lumineuses, the first projected animated films, opened in 1892 at which Paris venue?

A) Musée Grévin

B) Moulin Rouge

C) Grand Café

D) Théâtre du Châtelet

Answer · why

A) Musée Grévin

The shows beat the Lumière brothers' first paid film screening by more than three years.