1896 in animation
Events in 1896 in animation.
Events
[edit]- March 14 – W. Symons received British Patent No. 5,759 for a technique that was used about two years later for the oldest known publication that used a line-sheet to create the illusion of motion in pictures.[1] It is an early use of stereography.
- May – Auguste Berthier published an article about the history of stereoscopic images in French scientific magazine Le Cosmos, which included his method of creating an autostereogram.[2] Alternating strips from the left and right image of a traditional stereoscopic negative had to be recomposed as an interlaced image, preferably during the printing of the image on paper. A glass plate with opaque lines had to be fixed in front of the interlaced print with a few millimeters in between, so the lines on the screen formed a parallax barrier: from the right distance and angle each eye could only see the photographic strips shot from the corresponding angle. The article was illustrated with a diagram of the principle, an image of the two parts of a stereoscopic photograph divided into exaggerated wide bands, and the same strips recomposed as an interlaced image. Berthier's idea was hardly noticed.[3]
Births
[edit]January
[edit]- January 15: Marjorie Bennett, Australian actress (voice of Duchess in One Hundred and One Dalmatians), (d. 1982).[4]
- January 24: Yasuji Murata, Japanese animator, master of cutout animation (produced dozens of mostly educational films, featuring characters such as Momotarō and Norakuro), (d. 1966).[5][6]
May
[edit]- May 3: Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright, (her children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into the animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians), (d. 1990).[7][8][9][10]
- May 18: Hans Fischerkoesen, German commercial animator pioneered the use of three-dimensional elements in animation (Fischerkoesen Studios, Verwitterte Melodie (Weather-Beaten Melody), Der Schneemann (The Snowman), Das dumme Gänslein (The Silly Goose) ), (d. 1973).[11][12][13][14]
June
[edit]- June 21: Bob McCay, American cartoonist, illustrator, comic book colorist and inker, (assistant for his father Winsor McCay, he received sole credit for several of his father's cartoons, including an animated film), (d. 1962).[15][16][17]
July
[edit]- July 2: Quirino Cristiani, Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, created the world's first two animated feature films, and the first animated feature film with sound, pioneer of cutout animation, (El Apóstol, Sin dejar rastros, Firpo-Dempsey, Peludópolis, El mono relojero), (d. 1984).[18][19][20]
November
[edit]- November 3: Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American illustrator and animator, (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1970).[21][22][23][24]
- November 16: Jim Jordan, American actor (voice of Orville in The Rescuers), (d. 1988).[25][26]
Deaths
[edit]Specific date unknown
[edit]- Mary Fenton, Anglo-Indian actress, (presented her own magic lantern show before receiving training in singing and acting during the 1870s), dies at age 41–42.[27][28]
References
[edit]- ^ Hopwood, Henry V. (August 21, 1899). "Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical working. With a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography". London Optician & Photographic Trades Review – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Berthier, Auguste (May 16 and 23, 1896). "Images stéréoscopiques de grand format" (in French). Cosmos 34 (590, 591): 205–210, 227-233 (see 229–231)
- ^ Timby, Kim (May 1, 2001). "Images en relief et images changeantes. La photographie à réseau ligné". Études photographiques (9): 124–143 – via journals.openedition.org.
- ^ "Marjorie Bennett Dead at 87; Acted in Chaplin's 'Limelight'". The New York Times. 22 June 1982. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
- ^ Sharp, Jasper (September 23, 2004). "Pioneers of Japanese Animation (Part 1)". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Official booklet, The Roots of Japanese Anime, DVD, Zakka Films, 2009.
- ^ Scheerhout, John (12 September 2002), "Honour for 'Dalmatians' Dodie", Manchester Evening News, retrieved 14 January 2010
- ^ Smith, Dodie (2018). The Hundred and One Dalmatians & The Starlight Barking – Modern Classics. About The Author: Egmont UK Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4052-8875-0.
- ^ "10 Things You Didn't Know About 101 Dalmatians". Oh My Disney. "2. The story is based on Dodie Smith's own experience". c. 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ "One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 2, 2024. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
- ^ Giesen, R.; Storm, J.P. (2012). Animation under the swastika: a history of trickfilm in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 153–156.
- ^ Bendazzi, G. (2015). Animation: A world history. Volume I: Foundations – the golden age. London: Focal Press. pp. 240–256. doi:10.4324/9781315721057. ISBN 978-1-317-52083-2. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ^ Klatt, O. (9 May 2013). "Animated Success: The Life of Germany's Own Walt Disney". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- ^ Moritz, W. "The Case of Hans Fischerkoesen". www.awn.com. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
- ^ Canemaker, John (2005). Winsor McCay: His Life and Art. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. p. 47. ISBN 0-8109-5941-0.
- ^ Bob McCay at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
- ^ McCay, Bob at Bails, Jerry, and Hames Ware, Who's Who in American Comic Books 1929–1999
- ^ "The Untold Story of Argentina's Pioneer Animator". www.awn.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ Brook, Marisa. "Drawing the Shorter Straw". Damn Interesting. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
- ^ Giannalberto Bendazzi (Anna Taraboletti-Segre, translator); Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation; Indiana University Press; ISBN 0-253-20937-4 (paperback reprint, 2001)
- ^ "Gustaf Tenggren's World". www.gustaftenggren.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "GUSTAF A. TENGGREN, CHILDREN'S ARTIST". The New York Times. 9 April 1970. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
- ^ Conrad, JoAnn. Fantasy Imaginaries and Landscapes of Desire: Gustaf Tenggren’s Forgotten Decades
- ^ John Canemaker, Before the animation begins : the art and lives of Disney inspirational sketch artists, New York : Hyperion, 1996 ISBN 978-0-7868-6152-1
- ^ "Jim Jordan, Radio's Fibber McGee, Is Dead at 91". Associated Press in the New York Times. 2 April 1988. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
Jim Jordan, who delighted audiences for two decades as the well-meaning but bumbling Fibber McGee in the classic radio show Fibber McGee and Molly, died today at the Beverly Hills Medical Center. He was 91 years old. Mr. Jordan had been hospitalized for more than a week, in a coma with a blood clot in his brain caused by a fall at his home, according to a family friend, the radio and television performer Fran Allison. Mr. Jordan never regained consciousness after the accident.
- ^ "The Rescuers Down Under". Disney Archives. Disney.go.com. Archived from the original on January 29, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
- ^ Hansen, Kathryn (1 December 2013). Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies. Anthem Press. pp. 10, 16, 19, 292, 338. ISBN 978-1-78308-068-7.
- ^ Hansen, Kathryn (1998). "Stri Bhumika: Female Impersonators and Actresses on the Parsi Stage". Economic and Political Weekly. 33 (35): 2291–2300. JSTOR 4407133 – via Academia.