Even earlier examples animation’ish tech that predates film would be the Magic lantern in 1603, Phenakistiscope in 1831 and Zoetrope in 1834. Though all of them where limited to a couple of dozen frames at best.

Wonder if it would have been possible to have invented longer animation before film, having a long strip of frames mass produced by a printing press might have been possible, but probably not very economical.