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Events in 1863 in animation.
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January 1: On 1 January 1863, The Illustrated London News reported on a magic lantern production of Cinderella at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, in which the showman Henry Langdon Childe was involved in painting slides, following the designs of Henry George Hine.The Illustrated London News https://books.google.com/books?id=PWUjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA19 1863 Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited 19
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April 29: William Randolph Hearst, American film producer, newspaper publisher, and politician, (founder and owner of the animation studio International Film Service, produced animated adaptations of the comic strips Krazy Kat, The Katzenjammer Kids, And Her Name Was Maud, Happy Hooligan, Jerry on the Job, Bringing Up Father, Abie the Agent, and Judge Rummy), (d. 1951).Donald Crafton; Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928; University of Chicago Press; 0-226-11667-0 (2nd edition, paperback, 1993) Denis Gifford; American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897-1929; McFarland & Company; 0-89950-460-4 (library binding, 1990) Leonard Maltin; Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Penguin Books; 0-452-25993-2 (1980, 1987)"From the Archives: W. R. Hearst, 88, Dies in Beverly Hills" https://web.archive.org/web/20191215182803/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-william-randolph-hearst-19510815-story.html December 15, 2019 (original pub. August 15, 1951). Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from LATimes.com September 15, 2018.
April 30: Max Skladanowsky, German businessman, filmmaker, and inventor, (he performed dissolving magic lantern shows, for which he developed special multi-lens devices that allowed simultaneous projection of up to nine separate image sequences. He invented the Bioscop movie projector. He produced flip books and 3-D anaglyph image slides, (d. 1939).http://sensesofcinema.com/2010/feature-articles/the-skladanowsky-brothers-the-devil-knows/ The Skladanowsky Brothers: The Devil Knows Barber Stephen 2010-10-11 Senses of Cinema en-US 2020-03-22https://www.victorian-cinema.net/skladanowsky Who's Who of Victorian Cinema www.victorian-cinema.net 2020-03-22
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December 20: Agnes Deans Cameron, Canadian adventurer, educator, and travel writer, (the first white woman to reach the Arctic Ocean, Cameron then traveled extensively as a lecturer, showing magic lantern slides of her photographic images from her journey to the Arctic), (d. 1912).Hale Linda L. Agnes Deans Cameron http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cameron_agnes_deans_14E.html Dictionary of Canadian Biographies University of Toronto/Laval University XIV (1911-1920) 1998 16 July 2015Cameron Agnes Deans The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic TOQH5HqwqKsC yes New York D. Appleton 1909 16 July 2015Cameron, Agnes Deans (1863-1912) ABC Book World http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=2625 16 July 2015
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Charles Barker Howdill, English architect, photographer, and traveler, (he gave hundreds of illustrated magic lantern lectures about his journeys. He was among the first photographers to exhibit colour photographs at the Royal Photographic Society), (d. 1941).Janet Douglas, Charles Barker Howdill: Historical Notes for the Blue Plaque Unveiling, Saturday 28 October 2018, Leeds: Leeds Civic Trust, p. 10.See Duncan McCargo From Leeds to Jutland, About Leeds Blog, 28 July 2020 https://aboutleeds.blog/2020/07/28/from-leeds-to-jutland/ aboutleeds.blog 28 July 2020 29 November 2020Duncan McCargo (ed.) Jutland Jottings: Charles B. Howdill 1911, Copenhagen: Weysesgade eBooks 2020, p.3W.T. Stead Image Gallery W.T. Stead Resource Site https://attackingthedevil.co.uk/gallery.php attackingthedevil.co.uk 6 April 2020Sisters : Charles Barker Howdill's Blazing Balkans https://blazingbalkans.leeds.ac.uk/galleries/gallery-2/ blazingbalkans.leeds.ac.uk 6 April 2020
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