http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/07/05/animation-pioneers/
5 early animation before Walt Disney by: Cohl who made Fantasmagorie in 1908 considered the father of the animation cartoons. George Melies who made the prolific egg en 1902. Winsor McCay who made little Nemo in 1911. Stuart Blackton who made the enchanted drawing in 1900 and the work of a photographer Eadweard J. Mybridge in 1893, that isn´t animation, He made photograph of animals in motion but was one of the early experiments whitin animation.