Influenced by Leon Theremin and Joseph Schillinger, Mary Ellen Bute was one of the first artists to use analog electronics to create animation ("Abstronic" 1954). Her earliest works were traditionally animated experimental pieces and given wide exposure as "opening shorts" in movie theaters.
This article in Animation World Network summarizes her work along with that of similar artists working before and after.
There are parallels between work like this, going from frame-by-frame animation to realtime filming oscilloscopes, and Robert Moog's advances from simple "static" audio oscillators to voltage controlled systems. More recently we've seen transitions from rendered to realtime animation in computer gaming systems.
In each of these, technology provides the medium additional depth and responsiveness, which allows use of more dynamic inputs for control. Inputs that would previously have been too difficult to manage.
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