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Creating the illusion of movement using fixed drawings supposes that these images match up in exactly the same place under the camera if one is to avoid breaking the continuity between images and, at the same time, the impression of movement they produce. This was what was addressed by one of the major inventions of the 1910s, one still used today in traditional animated drawings: the peg bar, known as the règle à ergots or règle à tenons in French. It was created by Raoul Barré, founder of the first animated drawing studio, in New York in 1914. His device was never patented, however, complicating the task of dating its invention, which film historians estimate to be the same year as the founding of his studio.^[1]