Georges Melies was born on December the 8th 1861 and died in January the 21st 1938, he was a french film director who was famous for making films, he built a glass-enclosed studio that was near paris. He wrote scripts, designed ingenious sets and used actors to film stories. He discovered the basic camera tricks such as, stop motion, slow motion, fade-out, dissolve, double exposure and superimposition. 

Lotte Reiniger was a film director from Germany, she has made over 40 films in her career. she made animations using snippets of card and wire to create an image and she also does this by hand, she also made one of the first animated features, its called The Adventures of Prince Achmed, it was made in 1926. 

Winsor McCay was a cartoonist and a animator from America, he is best known for his comic strip called little Nemo and also the animated film called Gertie the Dinosaur, Gertie was the first featured character that was created for the new medium that he used. the film was compossed of more than 10,000 drawings.