When was the first animated cartoon created?
Via Jams O’Donnell at Poor Mouth, an article in Animation Magazine says it was 5200 years ago painted around a bowl in Iran. They have a video showing the effect of spinning the bowl on a turntable [like a potter’s wheel].
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Thanks for teh plug Bryan. It truly is amazing eh?
I think it tells us that the culture had the leisure to support “the arts” and that this was probably not an isolated incident. If they could do this, what other innovations were lost in the various invasions?
It is a fascinating piece that speaks to a lot of misconception about the ancient world and their level of technology and craft.
that was way cool.
but now we gotta invade iran, smash all those ancient treasures they might have lying around.
Like the way we parked tanks on the site of archaeological digs in Iraq.
yep.
I occasionally work for a small local archaeological firm and they were livid when they saw the pictures and identified what was happening. People were filling sand bags with thousands of years of history.