

1932 – Flowers and Trees (the first Silly Symphony cartoon in colour and winner of the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film), Goofy, Puppetoons.1931 – Merrie Melodies, Scrappy, Toby the Pup, Flip the Frog.1930 – Looney Tunes, Betty Boop, The Chain Gang (first appearance of Pluto).1929 – Silly Symphonies, Talkartoons, Terrytoons is founded.1928 – Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in Steamboat Willie, the first ever synchronized cartoon with sound.He appears in Poor Papa, which is made earlier in 1927, but it is rejected by Universal Pictures and not released until 1928. 1927 – First appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Trolley Troubles.1923 – Alice Comedies, Walt Disney Animation Studios is founded.1920 – The Van Beuren Corporation is founded.1918 – The Sinking of the Lusitania, Judge Rummy, Out of the Inkwell.1917 – El Apóstol (the first full-length animated feature film).1912 – The Cameraman's Revenge, How a Mosquito Operates.

1908 – Fantasmagorie, considered by animation historians as the world's first cartoon, is released.Stuart Blackton and Thomas Edison create The Enchanted Drawing, the first film to feature groundbreaking animated sequences. 1897 - The Captain and the Kids is created by Rudolph Dirks and debuted December 12, 1897.
