The document outlines key events and developments in the history of animation, including: - Japan's first animation in the early 20th century. - The development of the phenakistiscope in the 1830s, an early animation device. - The creation of animated characters Betty Boop and Popeye by Fleischer Studios in the 1920s and 1930s. - Disney and Pixar's Toy Story being the first fully computer-animated feature film in 1995.