1883 in animation

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Events in 1883 in animation.

Events

• Specific date unknown
  • In 1883, Eadweard Muybridge met with William Pepper and J.B. Lippincott to discuss a plan for a scientific study focused on the analysis of animal and human movement. The university contributed $5,000, seeing the proposed project as important research that would benefit anthropology, physiology, medicine, and sports.[1] The project was based on Muybridge's work with the zoopraxiscope, and would result in the production of Animal Locomotion (1887).[2]
  • The photographer James Bamforth of Bamforth & Co Ltd began to specialise in making lantern slides.[3] His compady would later start production of silent monochrome films with the Riley Brothers of Bradford, West Yorkshire. James Bamforth's expertise with lantern slides proved invaluable in the filmmaking.[4]

Births

January

• January 30: Eddie Collins, American actor (voice of Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1940).[5]

July

• July 19: Max Fleischer, Polish-American animator, inventor, film director, and film producer (co-founder and head of the animation studio Fleischer Studios, inventor of rotoscoping, the bouncing ball, and the stereopticon process for impression of depth in animation), (d. 1972).[6][7][8][9][10]

Specific date unknown

• Helena Smith Dayton, American animator, filmmaker, painter, playwright, and sculptor, (pioneer of stop motion animation and clay animation, directed an animated adaptation of Romeo and Juliet), (d. 1960).[11][12][13][14]

Deaths

September

• September 15: Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist, mathematician, and inventor (inventor of the phenakistiscope, the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion), dies at age 81.[15][16]

References

1. "Motion Pictures: The Zoopraxiscope". Tate Museum. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
2. "Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion". Huxley-Parlor Gallery. 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
3. Screen Online – James Bamforth
4. Yorkshire Film archives online Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
5. More Magnificent Mountain Movies. W. Lee Cozad. ISBN 9780972337236. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
6. "The Polish-American immigrant who changed the face of animation". Little White Lies.
7. Pointer 2016, p. 82
8. Langer, Mark (1992-12-01). "The Disney-Fleischer dilemma: product differentiation and technological innovation". Screen. 33 (4): 343–360. doi:10.1093/screen/33.4.343. ISSN 0036-9543.
9. Langer, Mark. "Out of the Inkwell. Die Zeichentrickfilme von Max und Dave Fleischer". Blimp Film Magazine. No. 26. Archived from the original on January 11, 2005. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
10. Maçek III, J.C. (August 2, 2012). "'American Pop'... Matters: Ron Thompson, the Illustrated Man Unsung". PopMatters. Archived from the original on Apr 19, 2024.
11. Johnson, Mindy (2017). Ink & paint: the women of Walt Disney's animation. Disney Editions. p. 23. ISBN 9781484727812. OCLC 968290213.
12. "Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 90.djvu/274 - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
13. “Romeo and Juliet – In Clay!,” Film Fun, November 2, 1917, p. 434.
14. "Prominent Sculptor in Film". The Moving Picture World: 1164. November 24, 1917.
15. Plateau (1833). "Des Illusions d'optique sur lesquelles se fonde le petit appareil appelé récemment Phénakisticope" [Optical illusions that underlie the small device recently called Phénakisticope]. Annales de chimie et de physique (in French): 304. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
16. See the Museum for the History of Sciences (2001), web site section "Phenakistiscope".

Sources

• Museum for the History of Sciences, Ghent (2001). "Ghent Scientists: Joseph Plateau". Retrieved 2 October 2011.
• Pointer, Ray (2016). The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer. McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-1-4766-6367-8.