1902 in animation

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Events in 1902 in animation.

Events

• Date uncertain - Nuremberg toy companies Gebrüder Bing and Ernst Plank were offering chromolithographed film loops for their toy kinematographs. The films were traced from live-action film footage.[1] The technique is a precursor of rotoscoping.

Films released

• April 3 - Fun in a Bakery Shop: Edwin S. Porter used stop-motion animation to depict clay loaves being sculpted into faces.[2] The film's plot was only the pretext of showcasing the skills of a fast sculptor.[3]

Births

February

• February 9: Fred Harman, American animator, cartoonist, and illustrator (Kansas City Film Ad Company, business partner of Walt Disney), (d. 1982).[4]

April

• April 27: Harry Stockwell, American actor and singer (voice of the Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1984).[5]

June

• June 17: Sammy Fain, American composer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1989).
• June 20: Antoine Payen, French animator, and illustrator (Les Enfants du Ciel, Cri-Cri, Ludo et l'orage), (d. 1985).[6][7]
• June 30: Tom Palmer, American animator, animation director, and training film supervisor (Walt Disney Productions, Walter Lantz Studio, Warner Bros. Cartoons, creator of Buddy).[8][9][10][11]

July

• July 13: Dan Gordon, American comics artist, animator, director and screenwriter (Van Beuren Studios, Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1970).[12][13][14][15][16]

September

• September 2: Norm Ferguson, American animator and sequence director, (Walt Disney Company, designed Peg-Leg Pete, the Big Bad Wolf, and Pluto, served as the primary animator of the witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1957).[17][18]
• September 25: Al Hoffman, American composer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1960).

October

• October 2: William Timym, Austrian-English animator and comics artist (Bleep and Booster, and Bengo the Boxer), (d. 1990).[19]

November

• November 1: Vivie Risto, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros Cartoons, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1981).[20]
• November 22: Ethel Smith, American organist (played organ during the "Blame It on the Samba" segment in Melody Time), (d. 1996).[21]
• November 23: Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (narrator in Tubby the Tuba), (d. 1982).[22]

December

• December 14: Frances Bavier, American actress (model for Flora in Sleeping Beauty), (d. 1989).[23]
• December 19: Ralph Richardson, British actor (voice of Chief Rabbit in Watership Down), (d. 1983).[24]
• December 25: Vera Tsekhanovskaya, Russian animation director and illustrator (Belgoskino, Lenfilm, directed The Wild Swans), (d. 1977).[25][26]
• December 27: Carman Maxwell, American animator, production manager and actor (Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, animated Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, voiced Bosko), (d. 1987).[27][28][29]

Date uncertain

• Fred Brunish, American painter and animator (Walter Lantz), (d. 1952).[30][31]
• Enrique Riveron, Cuban-American cartoonist, animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1998).[32]
• Brian White, British animator and comics artist (Bonzo the Dog, Jerry the Tyke, Animal Farm), (d. 1984).[33][34]

References

1. Litten, Frederick S. (2013). "Shōtai kenkyū nōto: Nihon no eigakan de jōei sareta saisho no (kaigai) animēshon eiga ni tsuite" 招待研究ノート：日本の映画館で上映された最初の（海外）アニメーション映画について [On the Earliest (Foreign) Animation Shown in Japanese Cinemas]. The Japanese Journal of Animation Studies (in Japanese). 15 (1A): 9–11.
2. Dobson (2010), p. xxiv
3. Niver (1985), p. 113
4. Reynolds, Moira Davison. Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980, McFarland, 2003.
5. "Harry Stockwell". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on July 14, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
6. Scalliet, Marie-Odette (2011-04-11). "Antoine Payen: Peintre des Indes Orientales". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 30 (2): 385. doi:10.1017/S0022463400013291. ISSN 1474-0680. S2CID 164003031.
7. Poole, William (2007-09-22). "Antoine-François Payen, the 1666 Selenelion , and a rediscovered letter to Robert Hooke". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 61 (3): 251–263. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2007.0182. ISSN 0035-9149. S2CID 144890436.
8. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866–1909
9. "1931 Disney Staff Caricatures & Profiles – pt 4". 26 April 2013.
10. Gabler, Neal (2007). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (1 ed.). New York: Vintage Books. p. 168. ISBN 9780679757474. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
11. Barrier (2003), Warner Bros., pp. unnumbered pages
12. Gifford, Denis. The International Book of Comics. (Crescent Books, 1984). 132. Retrieved from Google Books on January 24, 2011. "As drawn by "Dang" (the comic-book pen name of animator Dan Gordon from the Fleischer Studio) [...]"
13. Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic (New York: Plume, 1980, rev. 1987), p. 134.
14. Culhane, Shamus. Talking Animals and Other People (Da Capo Press, 1998), p. 205.
15. Beck, Jerry. "Fleischer Becomes Famous Studios Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine," Cartoon Research. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
16. "Animation Profiles: DAN GORDON |".
17. Steve Watts, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, University of Missouri Press, pg. 132
18. Michael Barrier interviews Corny Cole Archived 2016-08-24 at the Wayback Machine
19. "Tim". lambiek.net.
20. "Vivie Ritso". Lambiek.net. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
21. "Ethel Smith, radio and film organist, dies". Cox News Service. May 18, 1996. Ethel Smith, a professional organist whose music enlivened the beat on radio's Lucky Strike Hit Parade and Carmen Miranda films, died in Palm Beach Friday. She was 93.
22. Jones, Jack (February 13, 1982). "Victor Jory - Hollywood Star Walk". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
23. "Frances Bavier Dead; TV Performer Was 86". The New York Times. 1989-12-08. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
24. "Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902–1983), actor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31607. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
25. "Дыхание воли. Дневники Михаила ЦЕХАНОВСКОГО - Номер 54". www.kinozapiski.ru. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
26. Mihailova, Mihaela (December 2017). "1962: The wild swans (Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya)". Senses of Cinema (85). ProQuest 2027039295.
27. Barrier, Michael (2007). The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney. University of California Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-0-520-24117-6.
28. Sandler, Kevin (1998). Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation. Rutgers University Press. p. 30. ISBN 9780813525389.
29. Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. pp. 4–5. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
30. The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. "1946". Archived from the original on 7 November 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
31. Ask Art The Artists' Bluebook. "Fred W. Brunish". Retrieved 15 June 2012.
32. "Enrique Riveron". lambiek.net. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
33. "Bonzo (New Era Films, LTD.)". Archived from the original on 7 January 2014.
34. Gifford, Denis British Animated Films 1895-1985 A Filmography

External References

• Barrier, Michael (2003), "Warner Bros., 1933-1940", Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199839223
• Dobson, Nichola (2010), "Chronology", The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 978-0810876231
• Niver, Kemp R. (1985), "Fun in a Bakery Shop", Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, ISBN 978-0844404639

External links

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb