1893 in animation

Years in animation:	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
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Years:	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896

Events in 1893 in animation.

Events

• Specific date unknown
  • Émile Reynaud hand-paints 636 individual images for his upcoming animated film. Autour d'une cabine (Around A Cabin). The film was eventually released in 1894, shown at the Musée Grévin from December 1894 until March 1900.[1][2]
  • Eadweard Muybridge produced a series of 50 different paper 'Zoopraxiscope discs' (basically a version of the phenakistiscopes), with pictures drawn by Erwin F. Faber. The discs were intended for sale at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. They seem to have sold very poorly, and surviving discs are quite rare. The discs were printed in black-and-white, with twelve different discs also produced as chromolithographed versions. Of the coloured versions, only four different ones are known to still exist (with a total of five or six extant copies).[3]

Births

January

• January 12: Edward Selzer, American film producer and publicist (Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1970).[4][5][6][7][8]

February

• February 10: Jimmy Durante, American actor, comedian, pianist, and singer (voiced himself in Frosty the Snowman), (d. 1980).[9][10][11]

June

• June 24: Roy O. Disney, American businessman (co-founder and first CEO of the Walt Disney Company) and brother of Walt Disney, (d. 1971).[12][13][14]

August

• August 27: Leslie Elton, American animator and comics artist (worked for J.R. Bray), (d. 1966).[15]

September

• September 12: Wolfgang Zeller, German film composer (composed the orchestral score for the animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed), (d. 1967).[16]

October

• October 1: Cliff Friend, American songwriter and pianist (co-wrote "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" for Looney Tunes), (d. 1974).[17]

December

• December 29: Berthold Bartosch, German-Bohemian filmmaker, pioneer of silhouette animation, creator of an early version of the multiplane camera, (animator for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, director of The Idea), (d. 1968).[18]

References

1. "Autour d'une cabine (Around a Bathing Hut)". Retrieved 2021-05-22.
2. "The Optical Theater". Retrieved 2021-05-22.
3. "COMPLEAT EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE - MUY BLOG 2009". www.stephenherbert.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
4. Beck, Jerry (2013-03-08). "The Life and Death of Looney Tunes Producers: Schlesinger and Selzer". Cartoon Research. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
5. Costello, E.O. (2021-03-29). "The Kid From East Harlem: Some Early Traces of Eddie Selzer". Cartoon Research. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
6. "Year: 1947 (20th) Academy Awards Category: Short Subject (Cartoon) Film Title: Tweetie Pie". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
7. Baxter, Devon (2017-05-03). "Bugs Bunny in "Devil May Hare" (1954)". Cartoon Research. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
8. "Hollywood", Peter Bogdanovich, Esquire March 1972, p. 66
9. "Durante Family and Friends attend Funeral Rite", The New York Times, April 2, 1980, p. 13.
10. Bakish, David (2007). Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786430222 – via Google Books.
11. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays--Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 112. ISBN 9781476672939. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
12. Jones, Jack (December 21, 1971). "Roy O. Disney". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
13. Tewari, Lata (June 24, 2020). "The Success of Roy O. Disney & Walt Disney Company". Open Naukri. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
14. DiCologero, Brittany (October 25, 2022). "Today in Disney History, 1971: Roy Disney's Disney World Dedication". Retrieved February 12, 2023.
15. "Leslie Elton". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
16. "The concise Cinegraph: encyclopaedia of German cinema" By Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder
17. "Songwriters Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 2007-11-18. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
18. Bendazzi, Giannalberto (2016). Animation : a world history. Vol. 1. Foundations - The Golden Age. Boca Raton: Focal Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-138-94307-0. OCLC 934475892.