1901 in animation

none Events in 1901 in animation. Films released Specific date unknown: Dolly’s Toys. British trick film, directed by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper. It may have used stop-motion animation, or a variant of the stop-action technique previously used by Walter R. Booth.Crafton (2015), p. 223Stewart (2021), p. 13-15 Births January January 21: André Daix, French animator and comics artist (Professeur Nimbus), (d. 1976).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/daix_andre.htm André Daix lambiek.net May 20, 2020 March March 1: Jan Kraan, Dutch illustrator, animator and comics artist, (d. 1988).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kraan_jan.htm Jan Kraan lambiek.net May 29, 2020 March 24: Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician (designed Mickey Mouse, Clarabelle Cow, and Horace Horsecollar, creator of Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper, founder of Iwerks Studio, chief animator on the Laugh-O-Gram Studio, worked on the Alice Comedies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Silly Symphony, ComiColor Cartoons, Looney Tunes, and Color Rhapsody series, special visual effects artist for Song of the South), (d. 1971).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/i/iwerks_ub.htm Ub Iwerks lambiek.net 29 January 2019Burnes Av Brian https://books.google.com/books?id=JEjSDvkp7OUC&dq=%22Ub+streamlined+the+process%22&pg=PA79 Walt Disney's Missouri: The Roots of a Creative Genius Viets Dan Butler Robert W. 2002 Kansas City Star Books 9780971708068 Google BooksKaufman J.B. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History Gerstein David 2018 Taschen 978-3-8365-5284-4 Cologne 53Ryan, Jeff A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt Post Hill Press 2018 978-1-68261-628-4 181, 184Telotte J. P. https://books.google.com/books?id=LEy50gAEhpgC&dq=unreleased+film+Toy+Parade&pg=PA62 The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology June 18, 2008 University of Illinois Press 9780252033278 Jay Telotte Google BooksCounts Kyle B. Rubin Steve Fall 1980 The Making of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds 10 Cinefantastique 2 https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Cinemafantastique_(1980)_-_The_Making_of_Alfred_Hitchcock's_The_Birds live March 7, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220307154006/https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Cinemafantastique_%281980%29_-_The_Making_of_Alfred_Hitchcock%27s_The_Birds March 7, 2022 March 27: Carl Barks, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company), (d. 2000).Andrae 2006 279–280Carl Barks: Conversations (2003), ed. by Donald Ault: The Carl Barks Story: The Creator of Scrooge McDuck Moves into the Limelight, Disney News 19 no. 1 (Winter 1983–84), p. xi.Cronin Brian 2023-12-03 How Was a Christmas Comic Used to Introduce Uncle Scrooge McDuck? https://www.cbr.com/christmas-comic-introduced-uncle-scrooge-mcduck/ 2024-03-24 CBR enBlum Geoffrey Barks and the Bending Panel The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color c. 1990 18 [46] April April 18: Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian animator, film director (The Nose, Pictures at an Exhibition), inventor (pinscreen) and producer, (d. 1982).http://cinedoc.org/EN/apropos/boutique_aadvd.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20060419023059/http://cinedoc.org/EN/apropos/boutique_aadvd.asp dead April 19, 2006 Cinédoc Paris Films Coop distribution cinéma expérimental April 19, 2006 May 29, 2020Alexeieff, Alexandre Oublis ou Regrets: Memoirs of a Cadet in St. Petersburg Unpublished. Excerpts from Material for the Exhibition "Timeline and Retrospective of Films" Museum of Film. Moscow. July 1995Claire Parker: An Appreciation Animation World Vol 1. No. 2 May 1996. Retrieved 20 August 2009 April 28: Yuri Merkulov, Russian animator and film director (Bratishkin's Adventures), (d. 1979).The Stars of Russian Animation. Yuri Merkulov https://web.archive.org/web/20171228171644/http://studio-mir.ru/eng/index.php?p=film&id=55 2017-12-28 by Irina Margolina and Eduard Nazarov, Studio M.I.R., 2015 (in Russian)Animation from A to Z by Irina Margolina and Eduard Nazarov, episodes 15, 22—23, REN TV, 1997 (in Russian) May May 20: Ferdinand Diehl, German animator and film director (The Seven Ravens, Mecki), (d. 1992). June June 12: Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animation director (Bray Productions, Walter Lantz Productions, Walt Disney Company), (d. 1989).https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/30/obituaries/clyde-geronimi-87-an-animator-at-disney.html Clyde Geronimi, 87, An Animator at Disney April 30, 1989 The New York Times May 29, 2020McCall Douglas https://books.google.com/books?id=ALmJCgAAQBAJ Film Cartoons - A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts McFarland Incorporated Publishers October 31, 2005 978-0786424504 94, 108 February 21, 2023 June 29: Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (narrator and voice of Willie the Whale in "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" in Make Mine Music), (d. 1967).https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-nelson-eddy-19670307-story.html From the Archives: Nelson Eddy Dies Following Stroke on Nightclub Stage Mar 7, 1967 Los Angeles Times May 27, 2020 July July 5: Len Lye, New Zealand artist, filmmaker, and animation director, (The Peanut Vendor, A Colour Box, Rainbow Dance, Free Radicals). (d. 1980).http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446754/ Lye, Len (1901-1980) Biography BFI Screenonlinehttps://archive.org/details/the-peanut-vendor-complete-directors-cut-len-lye-1933 The Peanut Vendorhttp://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/531100/index.html Experimental Animation, aka Peanut Vendor (1933) BFI"Cinematic Classics, Legendary Stars, Comedic Legends and Novice Filmmakers Showcase the 2008 Film Registry" News from the Library of Congress (30 December 2008)Johnstone Andrew Adding Len Lye to the Book of 20th-Century Art https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/style/04iht-lye_ed3_.html New York Times 17 June 2013 4 May 2001 August August 4: Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer (appeared as a giant floating head in the Betty Boop cartoon I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You), (d. 1971).Meckna, Michael; Satchmo, The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Connecticut & London, 2004.Krebs, Albin. "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies" The New York Times, July 7, 1971. Accessed October 1, 2009. "Louis Armstrong, he celebrated jazz trumpeter and singer, died in his sleep yesterday morning at his home in the corona section of Queens". August 7: Sid Sutherland, American animator, screenwriter and sound editor (Walter Lantz Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1968).http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/dreamers-draw-big-eyes/ Dreamers Draw Big Eyes Klein Tom Cartoon ResearchLiving life inside the lines : tales from the golden age of animation Martha. Sigall 2005 University Press of Mississippi 1578067499 906933338http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/bob-clampetts-a-tale-of-two-kitties-1942/ Bob Clampett's A Tale of Two Kitties Baxter Devon Cartoon Research August 12: Bob Kuwahara, Japanese-American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Terrytoons), (d. 1964).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kuwahara_bob.htm Bob Kuwahara lambiek.net May 15, 2020Japanese American Internee Data File: Robert Kuwahara https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=3099&mtch=112&tf=F&q=Kuwahara&bc=&sort=30040%20desc&rpp=50&pg=1&rid=41258&rlst=41254,41307,41271,41347,41258,41313,41321,41259,41361,41291 National Archives and Records Administration 2019-08-18National Cartoonists Society: Bob Kuwahara http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members/memorium/kuwahara.jpg 2008-07-21 October October 1: Homer Brightman, American screenwriter (Walt Disney Company, Walter Lantz, MGM, UPA, Larry Harmon Pictures, Cambria Productions, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises) and comics writer, (d. 1988). October 20: Frank Churchill, American composer and songwriter (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1942).https://books.google.com/books?id=oGckDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Frank+Edwin+Churchill%22&pg=PT80 Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the Jungle Book 9781496812155 Bohn James 12 May 2017 Univ. Press of Mississippi October 28: Bob Rothberg, American songwriter and lyricist (Fleischer Studios), (d. 1938). November November 21: Franzisca Baruch, German–Israeli graphic designer, and character designer, (designed characters and titles for the animated film Goethe is Alive!), (d. 1989). Goethe Institute Franzisca Baruch (1901–1989) German https://www.goethe.de/ins/il/de/m/kul/sup/nwt/20844488.html https://web.archive.org/web/20171002115651/https://www.goethe.de/ins/il/de/m/kul/sup/nwt/20844488.html 2 October 2017http://museum.cjh.org/web/pages/cjh/Display.php?irn=6222&QueryPage=%2F Passover Haggadah Center for Jewish History 13 November 2021Aderet Ofer סיפורה של פרנציסקה ברוך, המעצבת הנשכחת שעיצבה את הסמלים הבולטים של מדינת ישראל [The story of Francisca Baruch, the forgotten designer who designed the prominent symbols of the State of Israel] הארץ https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/art/.premium-MAGAZINE-1.2783517 Ha'aretz 11 November 2021 24 June 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190624151636/https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/art/.premium-MAGAZINE-1.2783517 he December December 5: Walt Disney, American animator, film producer, (The Walt Disney Company), and entrepreneur (developed and voiced the character of Mickey Mouse, pioneered the use of synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor, and feature-length films in American animation), (d. 1966).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/disney.htm Walt Disney lambiek.net May 27, 2020https://books.google.com/books?id=41e-Ru0wRkEC&q=Congregational 9780679757474 Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination 2007 Vintage BooksBarrier Michael Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation In Its Golden Age 2003 Oxford University Press New York 978-0-19-516729-0 368 Revised https://www.amazon.com.au/Hollywood-Cartoons-American-Animation-Golden-ebook/dp/B004TFXRHU 28 December 2023 References Sources Andrae Tom 2006 Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity https://books.google.com/books?id=CYP2Cj_Gb98C University Press of Mississippi 1-57806-858-4 Crafton Donald Before Mickey:The Animated Film 1898-1928 The Trickfilm Tradition 2015 University of Chicago Press 978-0226231020 https://books.google.com/books?id=yaeJFVTedysC&dq=Dolly%E2%80%99s+Toys&pg=PA223 Stewart Jez The Story of British Animation Signing In and Signing Up 2021 Bloomsbury Publishing 9781911239727 https://books.google.com/books?id=dhUwEAAAQBAJ&dq=Dolly%E2%80%99s+Toys&pg=PA15 External links Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb Category:1900s in animation Category:1901 in mass media Category:1901 in the arts