<Li> 1914: First use of stop - motion animation as special effects in Cabiria </Li> <Li> 1949: The first two Italian animated movies are released: La Rosa di Bagdad directed by Anton Gino Domeneghini and The Dynamite Brothers directed by Nino Pagot </Li> <Li> 1970: The Italian animated cartoon art and industry (La Linea, Mio Mao, Calimero ...) is born . </Li> <Li> 1977: The animated Italian classic, Allegro non troppo, is both a parody of and homage to Disney's Fantasia; this is director Bruno Bozzetto's most ambitious work and his third feature - length animation, after West and Soda, an animated spaghetti western, and VIP my Brother Superman, a parody of superheroes, although he also directed several notable shorter works including Mr. Rossi and the Oscar - nominated Grasshoppers (Cavallette). </Li>

Who is considered the inventor of modern animation