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Charlotte's Web
2006 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Gary Winick
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
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A good overview is in [1].
Curiously, before the classic paper on modeling shutter efficiency [2] came out in 2005, all renderers used in VFX production used box shutters. I.e. the shutter opens instantly, stays open for the specified duration and then closes instantly.
When you watch movies like "Jurassic Park" or "The Mask" and see scenes with extreme motion blur, that's PhotoRealistic RenderMan with a box shutter.
The first in-the-wild 1:1 implementation of the parameterization in [2] was done in [3] in the same year the paper came out (hasn't changed until today). It was first used on "Charlotte's Web" (only the spider character done by Rising Sun Pictures has it as they used [3] for it).
Pixar added it a few years later too and went a tad overboard with theirs in [4]. Most offline renderers nowadays have this feature and call it a "shutter curve".
[1] O. Navarro et al.: Motion Blur Rendering: State of the Art (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/doc_view/pid/fc23fb525cafa8fe68ec84c1eadf85e30090a774)
[2] Stephenson, Ian: Improving Motion Blur: Shutter Efficiency and Temporal Sampling (https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/journal-article/5221)
[3] https://www.3delight.com/, see specifically https://nsi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nodes.html
[4] https://renderman.pixar.com/resources/RenderMan_20/cameramodel.html#the-shutter-model
Well even before animated movies, there were books, first that comes to mind was Charlotte's Web (1952). Winnie the Pooh (1926) has a talking owl.
I'm not particularly well read, I'm sure others could come up with better/earlier examples. If you go back in history, Eve was supposedly tempted by a talking snake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_animals_in_fiction