1899 in animation

none Events in 1899 in animation. Events Specific date unknown: French trick film pioneer Georges Méliès claimed to have invented the stop trick and popularized it by using it in many of his short films. He reportedly used stop-motion animation in 1899 to produce moving letterforms.https://books.google.com/books?id=JhOdBQAAQBAJ&q=M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s%20animated%20title&pg=PA4 Transforming Type: New Directions in Kinetic Typography Brownie Barbara 2014-12-18 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-0-85785-533-6 en Earliest possible date for the production of Matches: an Appeal by the British film pioneer Arthur Melbourne-Cooper. Based on later reports by Melbourne-Cooper and by his daughter Audrey Wadowska, some believe that Cooper's Matches: an Appeal was produced in 1899 and was therefore the very first use of stop-motion animation. The extant black-and-white film shows a matchstick figure writing an appeal to donate a Guinea, for which Bryant & May would supply soldiers with sufficient matches. No archival records are known that could proof that the film was indeed created in 1899 during the beginning of the Second Boer War. Others place its creation at 1914, during the beginning of World War I.http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/215258 East Anglian Film Archive: Matches Appeal, 1899 www.eafa.org.uk 2019-07-25 2019-12-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20191226113322/http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/215258 deadhttps://books.google.com/books?id=6nWBD_raPKoC&pg=PA281 "They Thought it was a Marvel": Arthur Melbourne-Cooper (1874-1961) : Pioneer of Puppet Animation Vries Tjitte de Mul Ati 2009 Amsterdam University Press 9789085550167 en Cooper created more Animated Matches scenes in the same setting. These are believed to also have been produced in 1899,http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/2088 East Anglian Film Archive: Animated Matches Playing Cricket, 1899 www.eafa.org.uk 2024-04-16 2020-08-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20200807174614/http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/2088 dead while a release date of 1908 has also been given.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254199/reference Animated Matches (1908) - IMDb www.imdb.com yes March 2022 The German toy manufacturer Gebrüder Bing introduced their toy "kinematograph",http://www.zinnfiguren-bleifiguren.com/Firmengeschichten/Bing/Bing.html#Top Bing www.zinnfiguren-bleifiguren.com de at a toy convention in Leipzig in November 1898. In late 1898 and early 1899, other toy manufacturers in Germany and France, including Ernst Plank, Georges Carette, and Lapierre, started selling similar devices. The toy cinematographs were basically traditional toy magic lanterns, adapted with one or two small spools that used standard "Edison perforation" 35mm film, a crank, and a shutter. These projectors were intended for the same type of "home entertainment" toy market that most of the manufacturers already provided with praxinoscopes and magic lanterns. Apart from relatively expensive live-action films, the manufacturers produced many cheaper films by printing lithographed drawings. These animations were probably made in black-and-white from around 1898 or 1899. The pictures were often traced from live-action films (much like the later rotoscoping technique). These very short films typically depicted a simple repetitive action and most were designed to be projected as a loop - playing endlessly with the film ends put together. The lithograph process and the loop format follow the tradition that was set by the stroboscopic disc, zoetrope and praxinoscope. Litten Frederick S. Animated Film in Japan until 1919. Western Animation and the Beginnings of Anime http://litten.de/abstrtoc/abstr6.htm 2020-08-01 2024-04-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20200801171149/http://litten.de/abstrtoc/abstr6.htm deadLitten Frederick S. Japanese color animation from ca. 1907 to 1945 17 June 2014 http://litten.de/fulltext/color.pdf In the 1899 book Living Pictures, Henry V. Hopwood depicts and describes a simple four-phase animation device. Hopwood gave no name, date or any additional information for this toy that rotated when blown upon. It is thought to have been a version of the zoetrope. https://archive.org/stream/livingpicturesth00hopw#page/34/mode/2up Living Pictures Hopwood Henry V. 1899 Births January January 13: Louis de Rochemont, American filmmaker, (producer and artistic director for Animal Farm), (d. 1978).Shaw Tony Hollywood's Cold War 2007 University of Massachusetts Press Amherst 76 February February 15: Lillian Disney, American ink artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), and widow of Walt Disney, (d. 1997).http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/dec/18/lillian-disney-dies-philanthropist-widow-of-walt/ Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Lillian Disney dies December 18, 1997 December 11, 2017http://waltdisney.org/blog/walt-and-lilly Walt Disney Family Museum Taylor George Walt and Lilly February 14, 2012 December 11, 2017Jackson Kathy Walt Disney: Conversations 2006 University Press of Mississippi 1-57806-713-8 120 First registration https://archive.org/details/waltdisneyconver00disn/page/120https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/18/arts/walt-disney-s-widow-lillian-dies-at-98.html Walt Disney's Widow, Lillian, Dies at 98 Weinraub Bernard December 18, 1997 The New York Times 0362-4331 September 6, 2016LILLIAN DISNEY DIES AT 98 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/12/20/lillian-disney-dies-at-98/313294b5-a8b1-4da9-9239-58e485cb07e3/ January 27, 2021 Washington Post December 18, 1997 April April 2: William Garity, American inventor and audio engineer (Fantasound), (d. 1971). April 26: Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, American actor (narrator in Mr. Bug Goes to Town), (d. 1962).http://www.b-westerns.com/bigboy4.htm Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams www.b-westerns.com April 27: Walter Lantz, American animator, cartoonist, film director, and film producer (Walter Lantz Productions, Andy Panda, Woody Woodpecker, Chilly Willy, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), (d. 1994).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lantz_walter.htm Walter Lantz lambiek.net Walter Lantz, 93, the Creator Of Woody Woodpecker, Is Dead The New York Times March 23, 1994 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/23/obituaries/walter-lantz-93-the-creator-of-woody-woodpecker-is-dead.html November 22, 2011 Glen A. Collins limited Meet my boss, Walter Lantz The Los Angeles Times October 22, 2007 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/10/meet-my-boss-wa.html November 22, 2011 The Woodpecker and the Mouse : The Walter Lantz Story With Woody Woodpecker and Friends by Joe Adamson (Putnam's: $19.95; 254 pp., illustrated) and Disney's World by Leonard Mosley (Stein & Day: $18.95; 330 pp., illustrated) The Los Angeles Times December 29, 1985 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-29-bk-25829-story.html November 22, 2011 Charles Solomonhttps://www.animationmagazine.net/top-stories/a-tale-of-two-walts/ A Tale of Two Walts Michael Mallory March 20, 2014 May May 8: Arthur Q. Bryan, American comedian and actor (voice of Elmer Fudd in Looney Tunes), (d. 1959).http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/arthur-q-bryan/credits/213097 https://web.archive.org/web/20110616160758/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/arthur-q-bryan/credits/213097 dead June 16, 2011 Arthur Q. Bryan Credits Tvguide.com\accessdate=2014-06-17 May 10: Fred Astaire, American actor and singer (voice of S.D. Kluger in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town), (d. 1987).Ginger Rogers, who died on April 25, 1995, was buried in the same cemetery May 31: Madge Blake, American actress (model for Fauna in Sleeping Beauty), (d. 1969).*Ellenberger Allan R. Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory Jefferson, N.C. McFarland & Company 2001 9780786409839 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ 103 June June 2: Lotte Reiniger, German film director, and animator, pioneer of silhouette animation, (The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and devised an early version of the multiplane camera), (d. 1981).Schönfeld Christiane Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic 2006 Konigshausen & Neumann 174http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/wild/learn/animators/reiniger.html The life of Lotte Reiniger BFI https://web.archive.org/web/20010303135533/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/wild/learn/animators/reiniger.html Drawn to be Wild 2001-03-03 dead (an extract from Jayne Pilling Women and Animation: a Compendium BFI 1992 0-85170-377-1)Lockwood Devi 2019-10-16 Overlooked No More: Lotte Reiniger, Animator Who Created Magic With Scissors and Paper en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/obituaries/lotte-reiniger-overlooked.html 2021-12-05 0362-4331Reiniger Lotte 1935 Scissors Make Films https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/archives/lotte-reiniger-scissors-make-films-cut-out-animation-process-description-1936 International Film Magazine: Sight and Sound Spring 1936 August August 2: Valentina Semyonovna Brumberg, Russian animator, film director, and screenwriter (The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Lost Letter, The Night Before Christmas, It Was I Who Drew the Little Man), (d. 1975).Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age at Google Books, p. 177Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets at Google Books, p. 78Sergey Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 129–130, 14The Stars of Russian Animation. Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg https://web.archive.org/web/20220210203925/http://studio-mir.ru/eng/index.php?p=film&id=42 2022-02-10 by Irina Margolina and Eduard Nazarov, Studio M.I.R., 2013 (in Russian) September September 7: Perce Pearce, American animation director, producer, writer (Walt Disney Company) and actor (voice of the mole in Bambi), (d. 1955).Grant John The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey Mouse to Hercules 3rd 164 Disney Editions 978-0-7868-6336-5 1998Culhane John https://archive.org/details/waltdisneysfanta00culh/ Walt Disney's Fantasia 1983 New York Harry N. Abrams 81 0-8109-0822-0 Internet Archive registrationhttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/85375755/obituary-for-perce-pearce-aged-55/ Hollywood Producer, Perce Pearce, Dies The Boston Globe 9 July 5, 1955 Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85353650/obituary-of-perce-pearce/ Pearce, U.S. Producer Active in Britain, Dies Los Angeles Times July 5, 1955 Newspapers.com Ghez Didier Gant George Walt's People: Volume 12 — Talking Disney with the Artists who Knew Him https://books.google.com/books?id=PQ_nGPA2-qMC&pg=PT11 2012 55–66 Xlibris Corporation 978-1-4771-4790-0 Piercing the Perce Pearce Mysteryyes December 2017 November November 4: Treg Brown, American motion picture sound editor (Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1984). November 22: Hoagy Carmichael, American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer (voiced himself in The Flintstones episode "The Hit Song Writers"), (d. 1981).https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/28/obituaries/hoagy-carmichael-is-dead-composer-wrote-stardust.html HOAGY CARMICHAEL IS DEAD; WROTE 'STARDUST' 28 December 1981 6 November 2021 New York Times References External links Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb Category:1890s in animation Category:1899 in mass media Category:1899 in the arts