1888 in animation

none Events in 1888 in animation. Events December 1: Charles-Émile Reynaud files a patent for his animated moving picture system Théâtre Optique. The patent was issued on 14 January 1889. Myrent 1989 193; 195-198Bendazzi 1994 5Rossell 1995 119 Reynaud in the 1888 patent: "The aim of the apparatus is to obtain the illusion of motion, which is no longer limited to the repetition of the same poses at each turn of the instrument, as is necessary in all known apparatus (Zootropes, Praxinoscopes, etc.), but Having, on the contrary, an indefinite variety and duration, and thus producing real scenes animated by unlimited development. Hence the name of Optical Theater given by the inventor to this apparatus" (translated from French).Brevet d'invention N° 194 482 https://emilereynaud.fr/index.php/post/Brevet-d-invention-N-194-482-1888 1888-12-01 Reynaud Émile Date uncertain - Charles-Émile Reynaud creates the animated film Un bon bock (A Good Beer). It consisted of 700 individually painted 6 x 6 cm pictures in a 50 meter long flexible strip. Reynaud manipulated the speed and repeated movements by moving the film back and forth through the projector to tell a visual story that lasted close to fifteen minutes. The film would not be exhibited to the public until 1892.https://www.victorian-cinema.net/reynaud.htm Charles-Émile Reynaud Who's Who of Victorian Cinema 2007-03-11https://www.jstor.org/stable/3814977 3814977 Myrent Glenn Emile Reynaud: First Motion Picture Cartoonist Film History 1989 3 3 191–202 Births January January 22: Win Smith, Canadian-American animator and comics artist (Penguin Pete, Looney Luke, Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes), (d. 1941).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/smith_win.htm Win Smith lambiek.net May 18, 2020 February February 1: Manuel Urda Marín, Spanish comics artist and animator, (d. 1974).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/u/urda-manuel.htm Manuel Urda lambiek.net May 20, 2020 March March 3: Seitarō Kitayama, Japanese animation director, credited with the first examples of commercial production of anime, (directed animated adaptations of The Crab and the Monkey, Urashima Tarō, and Momotarō), (d. 1945).https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-anime-pioneers-idUST23069120080327 Japan finds films by early "anime" pioneers Reuters 6 July 2013 https://litten.de/fulltext/ani1917.pdf Some remarks on the first Japanese animation films in 1917 Frederick S. Litten 2014-01-02 March 12: Hall Johnson, American composer and choirmaster (voice of the Deacon Crow in Dumbo), (d. 1970).https://www.afrovoices.com/hjohnson.html AFROCENTRIC VOICES: Hall Johnson Biography www.afrovoices.com May 20, 2020 April April 6: Hans Richter, German film producer of animated films, painter, graphic artist, and art historian (pioneer of abstract animation, directed the animated short films Rhythmus 21, and Ghosts Before Breakfast), (d. 1976).https://vimeo.com/42339457 https://web.archive.org/web/20121203112730/http://vimeo.com/42339457 dead December 3, 2012 Hans Richter - Film Ist Rhythm: Rhythmus 21 (c1921) Vimeohttps://books.google.com/books?id=eR-H75ZxHnUC&q=absolute+film+rhythmus&pg=PA153 The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy Christian Rogowski 12 December 2018 Camden House 9781571134295 Google Bookshttps://www.econtact.ca/15_4/mcdonnell_visualmusic.html CEC — eContact! 15.4 — Visual Music by Maura McDonnell Maura McDonnell CEC - Canadian Electroacoustic Communityhttps://movies.nytimes.com/movie/19686/Ghosts-Before-Breakfast/overview https://web.archive.org/web/20110520075215/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/19686/Ghosts-Before-Breakfast/overview dead 20 May 2011 Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times Matthew Tobey 2011 New York Times: Ghosts Before Breakfast 24 July 2008Wilke Tobias Medien der Unmittelbarkeit 2010 Wilhelm Fink Munich 978-3-7705-4923-8 62 GermanBiographie Deutsche Richter, Hans - Deutsche Biographie https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz105633.html?language=en 2023-06-25 www.deutsche-biographie.de de April 17: Gwen Williams, American actress (voice of Mary in Mr. Bug Goes to Town), (d. 1962). September September 12: Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (sang the title song in The Aristocats), (d. 1972).https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/02/archives/maurice-chevalier-dead-singer-and-actor-was-83.html Marice Chevalier Dead; Singer and Actor Was 83 February 14, 1972 The New York Timeshttps://walkoffame.com/maurice-chevalier/ Maurice Chevalier October 25, 2019Freedland Michael Maurice Chevalier 1981 Morrow New York 0688006523 1st October October 3: Claud Allister, English actor (voice of Sir Giles in The Reluctant Dragon, and Mr. Rat in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), (d. 1970).https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fb1b97d https://web.archive.org/web/20160306090658/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fb1b97d dead March 6, 2016 Claud Allisterhttps://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff-/claude-allister-66736 Claude Allister - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB The Broadway League www.ibdb.com December December 24: Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, Russian animator, cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter, (directed The Skating Rink, one of the first traditionally animated Soviet cartoons, and Bolvashka's Adventures, the first Soviet short film that combined live-action and stop motion animation), (d. 1955).Vechernjaja Moskva, 25.10.1955Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema Peter Rollberg Rowman & Littlefield 2009 US 978-0-8108-6072-8 762–764Spring & Taylor p.236Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // main editor Sergei Yutkevich (1987). — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 640 pagesYuri Zhelyabuzhsky at Animator.ruGiannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age at Google BooksSemyon Ginzburg. Bolvashka's Adventures https://web.archive.org/web/20170828232720/http://2011.russiancinema.ru/index.php?e_dept_id=1&e_person_id=10905 2017-08-28 article from the Hand-Drawn and Stop-Motion Animated Films book (1957) (in Russian) References Sources Bendazzi Giannalberto Giannalberto Bendazzi Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation Indiana University Press 1994 https://archive.org/details/cartoonsonehundr0000bend 0253209374 Rossell Deac A Chronology of Cinema, 1889-1896 Film History Indiana University Press 1995 7 2 115–236 3815166 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3815166 Derek Spring & Richard Taylor. Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Routledge, 2013. Category:1880s in animation Category:1888 in mass media Category:1888 in the arts