1878 in animation

none Events in 1878 in animation. Events January 24: Following the introduction of the phonograph by Thomas Edison in November 1877, an article in Scientific American concluded "It is already possible, by ingenious optical contrivances, to throw stereoscopic photographs of people on screens in full view of an audience. Add the talking phonograph to counterfeit their voices and it would be difficult to carry the illusion of real presence much further". Wordsworth Donisthorpe announced in the 24 January 1878 edition of Nature that he would advance that conception: "By combining the phonograph with the kinesigraph I will undertake not only to produce a talking picture of Mr. Gladstone which, with motionless lips and unchanged expression shall positively recite his latest anti-Turkish speech in his own voice and tone. Not only this, but the life size photograph itself shall move and gesticulate precisely as he did when making the speech, the words and gestures corresponding as in real life."https://archive.org/details/nature17unkngoog 242 kinesigraph. Nature Macmillan Journals Limited Lockyer Sir Norman 1878 A Dr. Phipson repeated this idea in a French photography magazine, but renamed the device "Kinétiscope" to reflect the viewing purpose rather than the recording option. This was picked up in the United States and discussed in an interview with Edison later in the year.https://books.google.com/books?id=mgc_x5ph3sEC&q=kin%C3%A9tiscope&pg=PA33 Industry, Liberty, and a Vision: Wordsworth Donisthorpe's Kinesigraph Herbert Stephen 1998 The Projection Box 978-0-9523941-3-6 en June: In June 1878, Eadweard Muybridge created sequential series of photographs, now with a battery of 12 cameras along the race track at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm (now the campus of Stanford University). The shutters were automatically triggered when the wheel of a cart or the breast or legs of a horse tripped wires connected to an electromagnetic circuit. For a session on 15 June 1878, the press and a selection of turf men were invited to witness the process. An accident with a snapping strap was captured on the negatives and shown to the attendees, convincing even the most sceptical witnesses.https://books.google.com/books?id=3i3Z0vzYjigC&q=muybridge%20australia&pg=PA393 Pacific Rural Press 1878 Dewey & Company en The news of this success was reported worldwide.7 October 1878 Photographing a Racehorse at Full Speed 6 Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848–1957) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5916144 17 December 2020https://books.google.com/books?id=4bCDE7em8p4C&q=muybridge&pg=PA23 La Nature: science progrès 1878 Dunod. fr July 8: The Daily Alta California reported that Muybridge first exhibited magic lantern-projected slides of the sequential photographs at the San Francisco Art Association on 8 July 1878.Muybridge's Photographs https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18780709.2.15&srpos=16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-muybridge-------1 26 July 2018 XXX 10315 1 Daily Alta California 9 July 1878 Newspapers were not yet able to reproduce detailed photographs, so the images were widely printed as woodcut engravings. Mitchell Leslie May–June 2001 The Man Who Stopped Time Stanford Magazine https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-man-who-stopped-time/ 28 May 2019 Scientific American was among the publications at the time that carried reports and engravings of Muybridge's groundbreaking images."Capturing the Moment", p. 2, Freeze Frame: Eadward Muybridge's Photography of Motion, 7 October 2000 – 15 March 2001, National Museum of American History, accessed 9 April 2012 Six different series were soon published as cabinet cards, entitled The Horse in Motion. Specific date unknown: Charles-Émile Reynaud received an honourable mention at the 1878 Exposition Universelle for his praxinoscope. He started production on the device and was able to quit his teaching job after its financial success. The device was initially offered at Le Bon Marché stores.Bendazzi 1994 4Myrent 1989 192-193 Eadweard Muybridge published his first chronophotography pictures in 1878. These sequential pictures were soon mounted in zoetropes by several people (including Muybridge himself) and were also published as strips for the zoetrope in the 1880s.http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/muybZOETROPES.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20110224200701/http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/muybZOETROPES.htm usurped February 24, 2011 COMPLEAT EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE - ZOETROPES www.stephenherbert.co.uk Births May May 2: Roy Atwell, American actor, comedian, and composer (voice of Doc in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1962).1913-02-22 MISS YOUNG, ACTOR'S BRIDE.; Banker George W. Young's Daughter and Roy Atwell Wed in Greenwich. en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1913/02/22/archives/miss-young-actors-bride-banker-george-w-youngs-daughter-and-roy.html 2023-02-05 0362-4331http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/characters/sevendwarfs/sevendwarfs.html The Seven Dwarfs Character History Smith Dave Disney Archives March 21, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20030801080652/http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/characters/sevendwarfs/sevendwarfs.html August 1, 2003 deadVoice Talent Documentary film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Platinum Edition DVD Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001 May 16: Taylor Holmes, American actor, (voice of King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty), (d. 1959).Obituary for Taylor Holmes, New York Daily News, October 2, 1959, page 44.https://books.google.com/books?id=zwkeAAAAIBAJ&dq=taylor+holmes+sleeping+beauty&pg=PA49&article_id=7267,510771 Famous Voices Bring Life to 'Sleeping Beauty' The Pittsburgh Press 7 March 1, 1959 August 5, 2023 Google News Archivehttps://d23.com/a-to-z/king-stefan/ King Stefan D23 August 5, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20220706032255/https://d23.com/a-to-z/king-stefan/ July 6, 2022 liveThomas 1958 98 References Sources Bendazzi Giannalberto Giannalberto Bendazzi Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation Indiana University Press 1994 https://archive.org/details/cartoonsonehundr0000bend 0253209374 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 Thomas Bob 1958 Walt Disney, the Art of Animation https://archive.org/details/waltdisneyartofa0000thom Simon & Schuster registration Category:1870s in animation Category:1878 in mass media Category:1878 in the arts