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1910s

12 effects · The decade marks introduction, breakthrough or wide use

  • 71

    Stop-Motion Animation

    1900s–1910s as an early animated film sensation. An enduring form of animation.

  • 72

    Rotoscoping

    Late 1910s–1920s: Out of the Inkwell. Later music video and digital VFX.

  • 73

    Motion Blur

    1911: Futuristic photodynamics as a historical reference

  • 74

    Black-and-White Infrared

    1910s: Robert Wood's early infrared experiments; later experimental landscape look

  • 75

    Iris Shot

    Silent film era: especially popular

  • 76

    Ultraviolet Photography

    1910s, Robert W. Wood's UV landscape and floral images

  • 77

    Cel Animation

    1914, Earl Hurd's patent

  • 78

    Pochoir Stencil Print

    1910s, high-end French fashion plates

  • 79

    Photodynamism

    1910s; Anton Giulio Bragaglia's experiments from 1911

  • 80

    Vortograph

    1917, Alvin Langdon Coburn's abstract photographs

  • 81

    Neon Sign Glow

    1910, Georges Claude’s neon demonstration at the Paris Motor Show

  • 82

    Williams Process

    1918, Frank D. Williams's travelling-matte patent

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