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The first anime shorts were made using cutout animation, which involves using paper cutouts in the shapes of characters and props to tell a story through stop-motion. This was a more affordable style of animation popular among early independent filmmakers.

Beginning of The Dull Sword (1917)

One of the first known anime shorts was Nakamura Gatana (“ The Dull Sword”)

The first cinemas opened in 1903

this 3-second animation depicts a little boy in a sailor outfit writing out the words “Katsudo Shashin.”

the first example of anime. Known as Katsudo Shashin ( “Activity Photo” or “Motion Picture” )

Tetsuwan Atomu , conocida en occidente como Astroboy .