Before Looney Tunes, Farmer Alfafa, Humourous Phases of Funny Faces...

[cbrubaker]

...heck, WAY before Thomas Edison invented movie reel, there was a very first animation on a slab of rock. Recently discovered today

From Jerry Beck at Cartoon Brew-

"An Iranian archeologist may have unearthed the first man made example of animation. The animation was found on a 5000 year old goblet discovered in an archeological dig in Burnt City, in the Sistan-Baluchistan province of southeastern Iran. Read the story here (http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1249.html) and download the 20 second "film" made from the object."

[JDWeil]

Anything else on the jar tonight?

[Barb Herholzer]

...heck, WAY before Thomas Edison invented movie reel, there was a very first animation on a slab of rock. Recently discovered today
From Jerry Beck at Cartoon Brew-
An Iranian archeologist may have unearthed the first man made example of animation. The animation was found on a 5000 year old goblet discovered in an archeological dig in Burnt City, in the Sistan-Baluchistan province of southeastern Iran. This "animated" goblet was painted 5000 years ago. 1000 years after that, it was re-released as a Blue Ribbon with a new title card, and all ethnic references edited out.;)

[Banned Bunny]

Funny how the background in each "frame" is EXACTLY the same, with exactly the same leaves, trees, and background spots.

[Geezil]

Funny how the background in each "frame" is EXACTLY the same, with exactly the same leaves, trees, and background spots.
Which tells us what ... perhaps that Bill Hanna could have had an Iranian ancestor who was into persistence of vision? ;)

[Mac]

I thought this was pretty cool. The clip is too slow so you see each picture individually, but when you watch it in fast forward that little goat thing really does hop around. You could call this the earliest surviving piece of animation rather than the first piece made - if this thing exists were are probably other examples which no longer exist. I wonder if the goblet was ever rotated fast so that thousands of years ago people could see that animal drawing move or if people just saw the individual paintings, which do still clearly show a succession of movement, like that 'slow motion' clip on that site.

[Treadwell]

As for the background being the same, I think the images were edited so the eye would be drawn to the differences in the goat rather than the tree.

[wundermild]

This "animated" goblet was painted 5000 years ago. 1000 years after that, it was re-released as a Blue Ribbon with a new title card, and all ethnic references edited out.;)
... note the sepiatone ...