Unable to get animation to show more than the first frame

Are you looking for these options perhaps?

The red ones are for loading a series of snapshot files as an animation.

The green one is for loading a single file containing an entire trajectory.

For more info, see:

https://ovito.org/docs/dev/usage/import.html#usage-import-sequence
https://ovito.org/docs/dev/reference/pipelines/data_sources/external_file.html