1873 in animation

none Events in 1873 in animation. Events December: The pioneer animator Charles-Émile Reynaud starts holding free magic lantern shows in the style of François-Napoléon-Marie Moigno.Bendazzi 1994 4Myrent 1989 192-193 Reynaud had previously worked as an assistant of Moigno.Bendazzi 1994 3Myrent 1989 191-192 Specific date unknown: In 1873,Daily Alta California 1873-04-07 Leland Stanford approached Eadweard Muybridge and instructed him to photograph Stanford's favorite trotter Occident in action. Initially, Muybridge believed it was impossible to get a good picture of a horse at full speed. He knew of only a few examples of instantaneous photography made in London and Paris, that depicted street scenes. These were made in very practical conditions, with subjects moving towards the camera no faster than the ordinary walk of a man, in which the legs had not been essayed at all. He explained that photography simply had not yet advanced far enough to record a horse flashing by the camera. Stanford insisted, and Muybridge agreed to try.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34191389/muybridgestorysfexaminerfeb1881/ MuybridgeStory_SFExaminer_Feb1881 1881-02-06 The San Francisco Examiner 2020-03-30 3 The first experiments were executed over several days. To create the needed bright backdrop, white sheets were collected and Occident was trained to walk past them without flinching. Then more sheets were gathered to lay over the ground, so the legs would be clearly visible, and Occident was trained to walk over them. Muybridge developed a spring-activated shutter system, leaving an opening of 1/8 of an inch, and in the end, managed to reduce the shutter speed to a reported 1/500th of a second. Nonetheless, the best result was a very blurry and shadowy image of the trotting horse. Muybridge was far from satisfied with the result, but to his surprise, Stanford reacted very enthusiastically after carefully studying the foggy outlines of the legs in the picture. Although Stanford agreed that the photograph was not successful regarding image quality, it was satisfactory as proof of his theory about the horse's motions. Most of the previous depictions and descriptions had indeed been wrong. Before leaving his customer, Muybridge promised to concentrate his thoughts on coming up with a faster photographic process for the project. Although Stanford later claimed he did not contemplate publishing the results, the local press was informed and it was hailed as a triumph in photography by The Daily Alta California. This was the start of Muybridge's experiments with chronophotography, an important step in the development of motion pictures.Nail Thomas Theory of the Image 2019 Oxford University Press 978-0190924058 279 https://books.google.com/books?id=cguXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA279 14 June 2023 enViscomi Rick Davies Andy Duran Marcel Using WebPageTest: Web Performance Testing for Novices and Power Users 2015 O'Reilly Media, Inc. 978-1491902806 https://books.google.com/books?id=QXS9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT68 en Births September September 3: Charles Allan Gilbert, American animator, illustrator, and World War I-era camouflage artist, (pioneer of silhouette animation, worked for John R. Bray on the production of a series of moving shadow plays called Silhouette Fantasies. These Art Nouveau-styled films, which were made by combining filmed silhouettes with pen-and-ink components, were serious interpretations of Greek myths), (d. 1929).Crafton 1993 865Bachman Slater 2002 261-262 Specific date unknown Willis Robards, American actor, film director, and film producer (producer for the animated film series Mutt and Jeff), (d. 1921).https://books.google.com/books?id=emxDAQAAMAAJ&dq=willis+robards&pg=RA11-PA23 Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage 1917 Dramatic Mirror Company 23 enJustice Fred C. https://books.google.com/books?id=HRU6AQAAIAAJ Who's Who in the Film World: Being Biographies with Photographic Reproductions of Prominent Men and Women who Through Their Genius and Untiring Energy Have Contributed So Greatly Toward the Upbuilding of the Moving Picture Industry Smith Tom R. 1914 Film World Publishing Company 168 enNovember 5, 1921 Willis L. Robards, Movie Actor Dies https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-obituary-for/123909100/ 2023-05-02 The San Francisco Examiner Newspapers.com References Sources Bachman Gregg Thomas J. Slater American Silent Film: Discovering Marginalized Voices Carbondale South Illinois University 2002 261–262 Bendazzi Giannalberto Giannalberto Bendazzi Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation Indiana University Press 1994 https://archive.org/details/cartoonsonehundr0000bend 0253209374 Crafton Donald Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928 University of Chicago Press 1993 Myrent Glenn Emile Reynaud: First Motion Picture Cartoonist Film History Indiana University Press 1989 3 3 191–202 10.2307/3814977 3814977 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3814977 Category:1870s in animation Category:1873 in mass media Category:1873 in the arts