1883 in animation
Events in 1883 in animation.
Events[edit]
- 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[edit]
January[edit]
- January 30: Eddie Collins, American actor (voice of Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1940).[5]
July[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
September[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "Motion Pictures: The Zoopraxiscope". Tate Museum. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ^ "Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion". Huxley-Parlor Gallery. 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ Screen Online – James Bamforth
- ^ Yorkshire Film archives online Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ More Magnificent Mountain Movies. W. Lee Cozad. ISBN 9780972337236. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Polish-American immigrant who changed the face of animation". Little White Lies.
- ^ Pointer 2016, p. 82
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Johnson, Mindy (2017). Ink & paint: the women of Walt Disney's animation. Disney Editions. p. 23. ISBN 9781484727812. OCLC 968290213.
- ^ "Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 90.djvu/274 - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- ^ “Romeo and Juliet – In Clay!,” Film Fun, November 2, 1917, p. 434.
- ^ "Prominent Sculptor in Film". The Moving Picture World: 1164. November 24, 1917.
- ^ 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.
- ^ See the Museum for the History of Sciences (2001), web site section "Phenakistiscope".
Sources[edit]
- Pointer, Ray (2016). The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer. McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-1-4766-6367-8.