Nope.<p>The first for mass public display was a technology called  Théâtre Optique by Charles-Émile Reynaud in 1892. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_Optique" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_Optique</a>  ... if you replace the word &quot;film&quot; with &quot;moving picture&quot; - which is what most non-technicians are thinking. (&quot;film&quot; refers to a specific family of technologies - a subset of the methods of creating moving pictures)<p>The feature film (which is something else again) in the article is magnificent, but it&#x27;s not the first &quot;animated moving picture of a length most would consider to be a &#x27;story&#x27; (say &gt;2 minutes)  for viewing in a theater&quot; by 35 years.<p>Here&#x27;s one of the 3 original animated works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=426mqlB-kAY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=426mqlB-kAY</a>  and yes, it was in color<p>Might as well drop my favorite from the era, McCay&#x27;s Flying House (1921) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=obnRKhgRFXA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=obnRKhgRFXA</a> which is done in a novel speech bubble system ... similar to comics.<p>I love studying technologies before &quot;standard practice&quot; is ingrained. There&#x27;s a time window of rapid innovation ... ideas that might have worked but weren&#x27;t pushed far enough.  It&#x27;s facinating to see what people end up falling on as the standard fanfare.  I&#x27;ve called this time window, &quot;The period of play&quot;