(example) Billy's Balloon

Here is an example i wanted to include in how repetitiveness can be funny. example

Gertie the Dinosaur 1914

Here is Winser McCay and his animation called "Gertie the Dinosaur". He created a dinosaur to show hes skills as a animator so that he has no real references on how a creature should look.
Again McCoy plays on the relationship he has with his animation like the previous examples but the quality of drawing is at a higher standard and something a little more closer to what we are used to seeing today.
I feel although it is a great animation, allot of cycles are used and i found it a little repetitive. Repetitiveness however works well in cartoons when going for a comic affect, for example popular animations today like "Family guy" has lots of gags in which it tests the patience of the viewer and is funny through the cheek of the animator playing with his audience. I don't feel it works for this animation as no comic affect is trying to be achieved from its cycles but instead, is used to simply prolong the ending of the animation.
All this being said, its a very early animation and wasn't set out to be a overly comic piece but a statement to Winser McCay's audience on how well he can animate which i think he has achieved successfully.

Emil cohl fantasmagorie 1908

In this animation by Emil cohl you can really see there is no limitations to what animation can provide. It is a visual feast of imagination and still he manages to through a little bit of creator and the created relation ship in by putting his seemingly broken animation back together again. I feel although the animation is basic, its run time and the amount of activities and actions taking place make it very interesting and fun to watch.

J.Stuart Blackton Funny faces 1906

Here is another animation by J.Stuart Blackton created six years after the enchanted drawing.
I feel in this animation he is making it very clear to the audience on how the animation is created rather then portraying it as some kind of magic trick. This is shown in the example below especially when he shows himself rub out half the animation then animates the other half. There is also the part of the animation which is shown in revers which will also educate the viewer on how the animation may have been created. As a very novice animator myself i would have guessed that the clown animation scene would have been done using cut outs due to the rigidness of its movements if Mr Blackton did not show himself physically rubbing out the limbs and hoop.

The Enchanted Drawing 1900

This allowed animation to flourish and show people things that seemed impossible.
Here is the first filmed animation by James Stuart Blackton born on who started off his career as a reporter and a artist for the new york evening world newspaper. He was sent to interview Thomas Edison and his creation of the vitoscope.
He then went on to animate The enchanted drawing.
I feel the idea of using trickery along with animation would have been something wondrous to behold when first viewed. The public would have most probably been uneducated on how the principles of animation worked and there for would behold the cinematic as a type of magic trick.
The skills in which J.S.Blackton sinked his movements along with the change of expression of his animated character are acceptably convincing today, so back in the early 1900ds viewers would have been amazed. I feel this is a great achievement and stepping stone for the possibilities of animation.

The Lumière Brothers

Here are the brothers that invented film "The Lumière Brothers
Les frères Lumière"  they where photographers but secured the development of film by patenting some key elements most noticeable being the dry plate process.
I feel that the development of still photos being translated into moving images changed the face of animation.

Praxinoscope

Two years later however, a projection version of the Praxiniscope was invented. This new Praxinoscope had a longer feed of pictures and a wide audience could watch the animation rather than a single person.