1895 in animation

Events in 1895 in animation.

Events

• August 28: Release of the film The Execution of Mary Stuart, directed by Alfred Clark. It is the first known film to use special effects, specifically the stop trick. Stop motion is closely related to the stop trick, in which the camera is temporarily stopped during the recording of a scene to create a change before filming is continued (or for which the cause of the change is edited out of the film). In the resulting film, the change will be sudden and a logical cause of the change will be mysteriously absent or replaced with a fake cause that is suggested in the scene. The technique of stop motion can be interpreted as repeatedly applying the stop trick. ^[1][2][3]

Births

March

• March 4: Milt Gross, American cartoonist and animator, (Bray Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Screen Gems, adapted his comic strip Count Screwloose into two animated short films), (d. 1953).^[4][5][6]

April

• April 22: Margaret J. Winkler, American animation producer and distributor, credited as the first woman to produce and distribute animated films, (Pat Sullivan, Fleischer Brothers, Walt Disney, founder of Screen Gems) and wife of Charles Mintz, (d. 1990).^{[7][8][9][10][11]}
• April 30: Verena Ruegg, American animator, camerawoman, and painter, (worked in the ink and paint department of both the Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. Cartoons, camerawoman for the animation process during World War II), (d. 1973).^[12][13][14]

May

• May 19: Albert Hay Malotte, American pianist, organist, composer and educator, (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1964).^[15][16]
• May 21: Ben Hardaway, American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, screenwriter, and animation director, (co-creator of Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker, main writer of the Woody Woodpecker short films from 1940 to 1951, voice actor of Woody Woopecker from 1944 to 1949, writer of Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat), (d. 1957).^{[17][18][19][20][21][22]}

June

• June 14: Cliff Edwards, American signer, musician and voice actor, (voice of Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio. ^[23] Fun and Fancy Free and From All of Us to All of You, and Jim Crow in Dumbo),^[24] (d. 1971).^[25]

November

• November 4:
  • Jack King, American animation director and animator, (directed films for the Judge Rummy, Buddy, Beans, Porky Pig, and Donald Duck series), (d. 1958).^[26][27]
  • Ben Sharpsteen, American animation director and film producer, (sequence director for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, supervising director for Pinocchio and Dumbo, production supervisor for Fantasia, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, and Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1980). ^[28][29]

References

Sources

• Barrier, Michael (2003), "Warner Bros., 1933-1940", Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199839223
• Cohen, Karl F. (2004), "Censorship of Theatrical Animation", Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America, McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0786420322
• Lenburg, Jeff (2006), "King, Jack", Who's who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators, Hal Leonard Corporation, ISBN 978-1557836717
• Leonard Maltin; Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Penguin Books; ISBN 0-452-25993-2 (1980, 1987)
• Russell Merritt and J. B. Kaufman; Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney; Johns Hopkins University Press; ISBN 0-8018-4907-1 (paperback, 1993)

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