First Cartoon Ever?

Well, it's considered to be the first SOUND cartoon.

And even that's not accurate. There were cartoons that came with sound before Steamboat Willie did.

If anyone wants to see "Autour D'Une Cabine", here's a YouTube video. (It was made 114 years ago, so it's gotta be in public domain)

Let's just say that animation has gone a long way since.
 
Gertie the Dinosaur was animated by Winsor McCay in 1914. It wasn't the first animated cartoon, but it is the most memorable of the early animated films.
 
I read something about a dinosaur being the first ever fully animated cartoon, but there is so many conflicting reports I am not so sure anymore. I may have to do some research on this to get a difinitive answer.
 
Found this:
First Animated Feature:

The little-known but pioneering, oldest-surviving feature-length animated film that can be verified (with silhouette animation techniques and color tinting) was released by German film-maker and avante-garde artist Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (aka Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) (1926, Germ.), based on the stories from the Arabian Nights. Reiniger's achievement is often brushed aside, due to the fact that the animations were silhouetted, used paper cut-outs, and they were done in Germany. And the rarely-seen prints that exist have lost much of their original quality. However, the film was very innovative -- it used multi-plane camera techniques and experimented with wax and sand on the film stock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achmed


Snow White is credited with being the one of the first full length animated films.http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Snow+White'&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=Snow+White
Sorry for the goole page wiki won't let me link to the snow white film page.
 
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