1863 in animation

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Events in 1863 in animation.

Events

• January 1: On 1 January 1863, The Illustrated London News reported on a magic lantern production of Cinderella at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, in which the showman Henry Langdon Childe was involved in painting slides, following the designs of Henry George Hine.[1]

Births

April

• April 29: William Randolph Hearst, American film producer, newspaper publisher, and politician, (founder and owner of the animation studio International Film Service, produced animated adaptations of the comic strips Krazy Kat, The Katzenjammer Kids, And Her Name Was Maud, Happy Hooligan, Jerry on the Job, Bringing Up Father, Abie the Agent, and Judge Rummy), (d. 1951).[2][3][4][5]
• April 30: Max Skladanowsky, German businessman, filmmaker, and inventor, (he performed dissolving magic lantern shows, for which he developed special multi-lens devices that allowed simultaneous projection of up to nine separate image sequences. He invented the Bioscop movie projector. He produced flip books and 3-D anaglyph image slides, (d. 1939).[6][7]

December

• December 20: Agnes Deans Cameron, Canadian adventurer, educator, and travel writer, (the first white woman to reach the Arctic Ocean, Cameron then traveled extensively as a lecturer, showing magic lantern slides of her photographic images from her journey to the Arctic), (d. 1912).[8][9][10]

Specific date unknown

• Charles Barker Howdill, English architect, photographer, and traveler, (he gave hundreds of illustrated magic lantern lectures about his journeys. He was among the first photographers to exhibit colour photographs at the Royal Photographic Society), (d. 1941).[11][12][13][14][15]

References

1. The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1863. p. 19.
2. Donald Crafton; Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928; University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-11667-0 (2nd edition, paperback, 1993)
3. Denis Gifford; American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897-1929; McFarland & Company; ISBN 0-89950-460-4 (library binding, 1990)
4. Leonard Maltin; Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Penguin Books; ISBN 0-452-25993-2 (1980, 1987)
5. "From the Archives: W. R. Hearst, 88, Dies in Beverly Hills" Archived December 15, 2019, at the Wayback Machine (original pub. August 15, 1951). Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from LATimes.com September 15, 2018.
6. Barber, Stephen (2010-10-11). "The Skladanowsky Brothers: The Devil Knows". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
7. "Who's Who of Victorian Cinema". www.victorian-cinema.net. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
8. Hale, Linda L. (1998). "Agnes Deans Cameron". Dictionary of Canadian Biographies. Vol. XIV (1911-1920). University of Toronto/Laval University. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
9. Cameron, Agnes Deans (1909). The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic. New York: D. Appleton. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
10. "Cameron, Agnes Deans (1863-1912)". ABC Book World. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
11. Janet Douglas, Charles Barker Howdill: Historical Notes for the Blue Plaque Unveiling, Saturday 28 October 2018, Leeds: Leeds Civic Trust, p. 10.
12. See Duncan McCargo "From Leeds to Jutland, About Leeds Blog, 28 July 2020". aboutleeds.blog. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
13. Duncan McCargo (ed.) Jutland Jottings: Charles B. Howdill 1911, Copenhagen: Weysesgade eBooks 2020, p.3
14. "W.T. Stead Image Gallery | W.T. Stead Resource Site". attackingthedevil.co.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
15. "Sisters : Charles Barker Howdill's Blazing Balkans". blazingbalkans.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2020.