1907 in animation

none Events in 1907 in animation. Films released Date unknown – Katsudō Shashin, the oldest known work of animation from Japan. Its creator is unknown.Litten 2014 13Matsumoto 2011 98 Births January January 1: Carlo Cossio, Italian comics artist and animator, (d. 1964).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cossio_carlo.htm Carlo Cossio lambiek.net May 27, 2020Franco Fossati Dizionario Illustrato del Fumetto Mondadori, 1992 88-04-35544-1 Cossio, Carlo 1992 65Luciano Secchi. "Cossio, Carlo". Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto. Editoriale Corno, 1978. p.261. January 28: Connie Rasinski, American animator and film director (Hansel and Gretel, Terrytoons), (d. 1965).Connie Rasinski http://www.agni-animation.com/fullerton/halloffame/Connie_Rasinski.html Animators Hall of Fame 14 January 2018 12 March 2018 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20180312030415/http://www.agni-animation.com/fullerton/halloffame/Connie_Rasinski.html February February 12: Joseph Kearns, American actor (voice of the Doorknob in Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1962). February 18: Billy De Wolfe, American actor (voice of Professor Hinkle in Frosty the Snowman), (d. 1974).UPI. "Vet hoofer, actor Billy De Wolfe dies," Pacific Stars & Stripes (March 8, 1974), page 3. February 22: Sheldon Leonard, American actor (voice of Dodsworth in Kiddin' the Kitten and A Peck o' Trouble, Kid Banty in Sock-a-Doodle-Do, the title character in Linus the Lionhearted), (d. 1997).Frank Bruni Frank Bruni Sheldon Leonard, Film Actor And TV Producer, Dies at 89 https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/13/movies/sheldon-leonard-film-actor-and-tv-producer-dies-at-89.html The New York Times January 13, 1997Dick Vosburgh Dick Vosburgh https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sheldon-leonard-1283571.html Sheldon Leonard The Independent January 17, 1997 London January 5, 2014 February 26: Dub Taylor, American actor (voice of Digger in The Rescuers), (d. 1994).Ellenberger Allan R. https://books.google.com/books?id=8bOJCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22dub+taylor%22+%22westlake+village%22&pg=PA231 Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory 2001-05-01 McFarland 978-0-7864-0983-9 231 en February 27: Egon von Tresckow, German animator, illustrator, comics artist and caricaturist (worked for UFA and the films of Hans Fischerkoesen), (d. 1952).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/von-tresckow_egon.htm Egon von Tresckow March March 4: Patrick McGeehan, American actor (voice of the Jimmy Durante buzzard in What's Buzzin' Buzzard, Black Cat in Bad Luck Blackie, Joe Bear in Rock-a-Bye Bear), (d. 1988).January 7, 1988 Obituaries: P. McGeehan; Radio Performer https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-07-mn-33811-story.html 2021-09-14 Los Angeles Times en-US March 5: Thomas McKimson, American animator and cartoonist, designed Tweety (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walt Disney Animation Studios) (d. 1998).http://lambiek.net/artists/m/mckimson_tom.htm "Tom McKimson." Lambiek.net website. Last accessed 03/28/2007.http://www.comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=7063 https://web.archive.org/web/20181223163911/http://www.comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=7063 2018-12-23 "Pete Alvarado." Comic Book DB website. Last accessed 03/30/2007/ March 11: Robert Bentley, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Fleischer Studios, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation) (d. 2000).Campana Joe Century Birthday - Robert Bentley http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/03/century-of-animation-robert-bentley_11.html Animation - Who & Where 11 March 2007 Blogspot 30 July 2023Deneroff Harvey Chatting with Chuck Couch and Bob Bentley https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/chatting-with-chuck-couch-and-bob-bentley/ Cartoon Research Jerry Beck 30 July 2023 March 26: Leigh Harline, American songwriter and composer (The Goddess of Spring, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Mr. Bug Goes to Town), (d. 1969). March 31: Dorothy Jones, American screenwriter and wife of Chuck Jones (Gay Purr-ee), (d. 1978). April April 12: Hardie Gramatky, American children's writer, illustrator, animator, and watercolorist, creator of Little Toot (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1979).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gramatky_hardie.htm Hardie Gramatky lambiek.net May 20, 2020Sullivan Goss http://www.sullivangoss.com/Gramatky_Hardie/ Hardie Gramatky (1907–1989) sulivangoss.com 2007-04-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023812/http://www.sullivangoss.com/Gramatky_Hardie/ 2016-03-04"About Books", Shirley Horner, The New York Times, November 26, 1989, p. NJ18. April 19: Cecil Surry, American animator and cartoonist (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walter Lantz Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, UPA) (d. 1956).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/surry_cecil.htm Cecil Surry lambiek.net May 19, 2020http://www.disneyshorts.org/artists/s/surrey_cecil.html Disney Shorts - Artists - Cecil Surrey 2010-01-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20100310011554/http://www.disneyshorts.org/artists/s/surrey_cecil.html 2010-03-10 animation historian Mike Barrier, http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/Disney1930/Disney1930.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240224180026/http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/Disney1930/Disney1930.html 2024-02-24 https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/surry_cecil.htm Cecil Surry May May 20: Volney White, American animator and animation director (Looney Tunes) (d. 1966).http://www.davemackey.com/animation/wb/1937.html Warner Bros. Cartoon Releases - 1937 www.davemackey.com https://web.archive.org/web/20000511061521/http://www.davemackey.com/animation/wb/1937.html 2000-05-11 May 22: Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (creator of The Adventures of Tintin), (d. 1983).June 2023 June June 6: Edward H. Plumb, American film composer and orchestrator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1958).Campana Joe Animation - Who & Where: Century Birthday - Edward Plumb http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/06/century-birthday-edward-plumb.html 2007-06-06 2008-12-04Bohn June 16: Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian and singer (voice of Amos Slade in The Fox and the Hound), (d. 1981).https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/26/obituaries/jack-albertson-versatile-star-of-stage-film-and-tv-series.html JACK ALBERTSON, VERSATILE STAR OF STAGE, FILM AND TV SERIES Eleanor Blau 26 November 1981 6 November 2021 New York Times June 27: John McIntire, American actor (voice of Rufus in The Rescuers, Mr. Digger in The Fox and the Hound), (d. 1991)."Tim McIntireI" Retrieved June 19, 2015. July July 25: Dallas Bower, English film and television director and producer (Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1999).http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/8367 BFI | Film & TV Database | BOWER, Dallas March 16, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080316140219/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/8367 August 2, 2020 2008-03-16 mdy-all July 27: Jesse Marsh, American animator and comics writer (Make Mine Music, Pluto), (d. 1966). http://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/marsh_jesse.htm Jesse Marsh December 11, 2009 Lambiek Comiclopedia https://web.archive.org/web/20120521151619/http://lambiek.net/artists/m/marsh_jesse.htm May 21, 2012 live October 7, 2012 Jesse Marsh was a comic artist who is mainly known for his work on Tarzan, the comics series published by Dell. July 30: Roy Williams, American animator storyman (Walt Disney Animation Studios) and presenter, (d. 1976).Korkis Jim The True Story of Roy 'Big Mooseketeer' Williams https://www.mouseplanet.com/12618/The_True_Story_of_Roy_Big_Mooseketeer_Williams Mouseplanet June 10, 2022 April 1, 2020Disney Legends at go.com. Retrieved September 2012.https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/30/disneyland-reopening-celebrated-with-custom-mickey-ears-and-masks.html Disney fans celebrate the reopening of Disneyland with custom Mickey ears and masks CNBC 30 April 2021Kinney, p. 79 August August 8: Virgil Walter Ross, American animator and cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons, A Wild Hare) (d. 1996).Daily Variety Obituaries 11 May 24, 1996Animation Profiles: VIRGIL ROSS https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/animation-profiles-virgil-ross/ 2021-05-25 Cartoon ResearchBob Clampett's "A Tale Of Two Kitties" (1942) https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/bob-clampetts-a-tale-of-two-kitties-1942/ 2021-05-25 Cartoon Research http://www.animationguild.org/_Home/GA2005/backlist_kz.htm Animation Guild Golden Honorees, 1984-2005 The Animation Guild 2007-12-31 2007-02-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20070217070747/http://www.animationguild.org/_Home/GA2005/backlist_kz.htm dead http://movies.nytimes.com/person/109000/Virgil-Ross/biography NY Times biography of Virgil Ross 2007-11-14 Vincent Canby Vincent Canby https://web.archive.org/web/20121102042304/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/109000/Virgil-Ross/biography Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times 2012 November 2, 2012 August 9: Richard Bickenbach, American animator, layout artist, character designer, and cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1994).https://animationresources.org/category/dick-bickenbach/ dick bickenbach Archives AnimationResources.org – Serving the Online Animation Community en-US January 1, 2019https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bickenbach_dick.htm Dick Bickenbach lambiek.net en January 1, 2019 August 12: Joe Besser, American actor, comedian, and musician (voice of Babu in Jeannie, Scare Bear in Yogi's Space Race and Galaxy Goof-Ups, Putty Puss in The Houndcats, Elmo in Shirt Tales, Cupid in The Smurfs), (d. 1988).'Three Stooges' Actor Joe Besser Dies at Age 80 www.washingtonpost.com, accessed 22 February 2021 August 14: Dick Lundy, American animator and film director and producer (Walt Disney Company, MGM, Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera, co-creator of Donald Duck), (d. 1990).44. Dick Lundy at 50 Most Influential Disney Animators. 2011-05-11; retrieved 2011-08-08.Kaufman J.B. Gerstein David Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History 2018 Taschen Cologne 66 978-3-8365-5284-4http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/happy-birthday-donald-duck-walt-disneys-the-wise-little-hen-1934/ Happy Birthday Donald Duck! Walt Disney's "The Wise Little Hen" (1934) | Cartoon Research November 11, 2021 O'Brien Flora Justin Knowles Leslie Posner Parry-Crooke Charlotte Walt Disney's Donald Duck: 50 Years of Happy Frustration 1984 HPBooks Tucson, AZ 0-89586-333-2 14 registration https://archive.org/details/waltdisneysdonal00obri/page/14 August 20: Alan Reed, American voice actor (voice of Fred Flintstone in The Flintstones, Dum Dum in Touche Turtle and Dum Dum, Boris the Russian Wolfhound in Lady and the Tramp), (d. 1977).http://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/2015/09/24/alan-reed-jr-remembers-flintstones/72626720/ Alan Reed Jr. remembers 'The Flintstones' at 55 Nick Thomas USA Today September 23, 2015 November 1, 2017 August 29: Lurene Tuttle, American actress (voice of Duck's Mother in Down and Dirty Duck, Clara's Grandmother in The Story of Heidi, Aunt Gerda in Nutcracker Fantasy, Carlton's Mother in Carlton Your Doorman, Aunt Em in Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz), (d. 1986). September September 7: Jack Mather, American actor (voice of Wally Walrus in Woody Woodpecker), (d. 1966).Jack Mather, Film Actor And Radio's Cisco Kid, 58 https://www.proquest.com/docview/117623993 November 3, 2020 The New York Times Associated Press August 22, 1966 33 117623993 "The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware". Retrieved 2 May 2018. September 15: Alvin Childress, American actor (voice of Jasper in Puppetoons), (d. 1986).https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TmgVAAAAIBAJ&pg=5784,5327298&dq=charles+correll&hl=en Actor of 'Amos' Fame Dies 22 April 1986 Eugene Register-Guard 11 October 2010June 2026 InternetArchiveBot https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bX0zAAAAIBAJ&pg=6900,6615168&dq=amanda+randolph&hl=en Amos of TV's Amos 'n' Andy is dead at age 78 22 April 1986 Lodi News-Journal 8 March 2011https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=jo+stafford&pg=PA229 Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. (2 volume set) Wilson Scott McFarland 2016 134 978-1-4766-2599-7 January 25, 2017 September 26: Willard Bowsky, American animator (Fleischer Studios), (d. 1944).Culhane Shamus http://archive.org/details/talkinganimalsot00culh Talking animals and other people 1986 New York : St. Martin's Press Internet Archive 978-0-312-78473-7 46Pointer Ray The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer June 9, 2017 McFarland Incorporated Publishers 978-1-4766-2741-0 139 7https://books.google.com/books?id=fYTVk97VCo4C&q=Willard+Bowsky+1944 Battle Yet Unsung: The Fighting Men of the 14th Armored Division in World War II Timothy J. O'Keefe 23 Casemate Publishers 2014 978-1-61200-039-8 October October 8: Art Babbitt, American animation director and animator, (creator of Goofy, worked for Terrytoons, Walt Disney Company, Hanna-Barbera, and UPA), (d. 1992).https://50mostinfluentialdisneyanimators.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/17-art-babbitt/ 17. Art Babbitt August 12, 2011 August 2, 2020A real "Goofy" character… Mickey News https://www.mickeynews.com/cotm/a-real-goofy-character/ 2022-10-30 www.mickeynews.comArt Babbitt Collection http://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/art-babbitt-collection-0 Academy Film Archive November November 4: Bennie Benjamin, Virgin Islands-born American songwriter (Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time), (d. 1989). "Songwriter Claude A. `Bennie` Benjamin, 81", New York Times, May 7, 1989. Retrieved 3 April 2017 November 14: Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author and writer (creator of Pippi Longstocking), (d. 2002).https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/01/29/astrid-lindgren-dies-at-94/d62b627d-cfcd-488f-8faf-2acd121a86db/ Astrid Lindgren Dies at 94 29 January 2002 The Washington Post November 16: Burgess Meredith, American actor (voice of Puff the Magic Dragon in a series of TV specials, Golobulus in G.I. Joe: The Movie), (d. 1997).Gussow Mel September 11, 1997 Burgess Meredith, 89, Who Was at Ease Playing Good Guys and Villains, Dies https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/11/movies/burgess-meredith-89-who-was-at-ease-playing-good-guys-and-villains-dies.html The New York Times September 17, 2011Burgess Meredith dies at 89 http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9709/10/meredith.obit CNN September 10, 1997 September 17, 2011 November 17: Les Clark, American animator and film director (Disney Studios), (d. 1979).http://www.waltdisney.com/tags/les-clark Les Clark | the Walt Disney Family Museum 2017-04-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20170522134940/http://www.waltdisney.com/tags/les-clark 2017-05-22 Les Clark https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/les-clark/ D23 The Walt Disney Company December 31, 2020 December December 20: Al Rinker, American musician (The Aristocats), (d. 1982). Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist (wrote the theme from Spider-Man), (d. 1984). December 25: Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and dancer (voiced singing characters in the Betty Boop shorts Minnie the Moocher, Snow-White, Old Man of the Mountain), (d. 1994).Considine J.D. https://www.baltimoresun.com/1994/11/20/hi-de-ho-man-cab-calloway-dies/ 'Hi-De-Ho Man' Cab Calloway dies November 20, 1994 The Baltimore SunWilson, John S. Cab Calloway Is Dead at 86; 'Hi-de-hi-de-ho' Jazz Man The New York Times November 20, 1994 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/obituaries/cab-calloway-is-dead-at-86-hi-de-hi-de-ho-jazz-man.html July 6, 2019https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/11/19/Big-Band-leader-Calloway-dies-at-86/2549785221200/ Big Band leader Calloway dies at 86 November 19, 1994 UPI enLitchman Irv December 3, 1994 Cab Calloway Conquered Biz With Panache https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwgEAAAAMBAJ&q=calloway+&pg=PA10 Billboard 10, 105 Specific date unknown Frank Little, American animator and comics artist (Terrytoons), (d. 1997).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/little_frank.htm Frank Little lambiek.net August 2, 2020 Wan Dihuan, Chinese animator, pioneer of the Chinese animation industry (Princess Iron Fan, Havoc in Heaven).Qing Yun. "Qing Yun https://web.archive.org/web/20060521124159/http://www.qingyun.com/cgi-bin/ut/topic_print.cgi?id=60678 2006-05-21 ." Qing Yun.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-19. References Sources Kinney, Jack, Walt Disney and other assorted characters - An unauthorised account of the early years at Disney's, Harmony Books, New York, 1988 Litten Frederick S. ja:招待研究ノート：日本の映画館で上映された最初の（海外）アニメーション映画について Shōtai kenkyū nōto: Nihon no eigakan de jōei sareta saisho no (kaigai) animēshon eiga ni tsuite ja On the Earliest (Foreign) Animation Shown in Japanese Cinemas The Japanese Journal of Animation Studies 15 1A 2013 27–32 Litten Frederick S. Japanese color animation from ca. 1907 to 1945 http://litten.de/fulltext/color.pdf litten.de 17 June 2014 18 June 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714184537/http://litten.de/fulltext/color.pdf 14 July 2014 Matsumoto Natsuki 映画渡来前後の家庭用映像機器 Home movie equipment from the earliest days of film in Japan ja 95–128 Kenji Iwamoto ja:日本映画の誕生 Nihon eiga no tanjō Birth of Japanese film 2011 Shinwa-sha 978-4-86405-029-6 External links Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb Category:1900s in animation