1898 in animation

Events in 1898 in animation.

Events

• November: The German toy manufacturer
  magic lanterns, adapted with one or two small spools that used standard "Edison perforation" 35mm film, a crank, and a shutter. These projectors were intended for the same type of "home entertainment" toy market that most of the manufacturers already provided with praxinoscopes and magic lanterns. Apart from relatively expensive live-action films, the manufacturers produced many cheaper films by printing lithographed drawings. These animations were probably made in black-and-white from around 1898 or 1899. The pictures were often traced from live-action films (much like the later rotoscoping technique). These very short films typically depicted a simple repetitive action and most were designed to be projected as a loop - playing endlessly with the film ends put together. The lithograph process and the loop format follow the tradition that was set by the stroboscopic disc, zoetrope and praxinoscope.^[2][3]
• Date uncertain - The Motograph Moving Picture Book was published in London at the start of 1898 by Bliss, Sands & Co.^[4] It came with a "transparency" with black stripes to add the illusion of motion to the pictures in the book (13 in the original black and white edition and 23 in the later color edition). The illustrations were credited to "F.J. Vernay, Yorick, &c.".^[5] The book is an early form of stereography. ^[6]

Births

January

• January 2: Dick Huemer, American animator, comic strip artist, and illustrator (redesigned and developed Koko the Clown, created Fitz (Ko-Ko's canine companion), created Scrappy, storyboard artist for Dumbo), (d. 1979).^[7][8]
• January 20: Tudor Owen, Welsh actor (voice of Towser in 101 Dalmatians), (d. 1979).^[9]

May

• May 1: Hazel Sewell, American animator, head of the Ink and Paint Department at Walt Disney Animation Studios (Plane Crazy, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.), (d. 1975).^[10][11][12]
• May 11:
  sound engineer, (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1974).^{[13][14][15][16]}

• June 7:
  Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Ub Iwerks, directed Honeymoon Hotel), (d. 1950).^[17][18][19]
• June 18: Dink Trout, American voice actor, (voice of the title character in Bootle Beetle, Old Bootle Beetle and Balsam in Morris the Midget Moose, the King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1950).^[20][21]

July

• July 24:
  Universal Studios), (d. 1981).^[22]
• July 31:
  DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1982).^{[23][24][25][26][27]}

• August 15: Charles Tobias, American songwriter (co-wrote the Merrie Melodies theme "Merrily We Roll Along"), (d. 1970).
• August 30: Shirley Booth, American actress (voice of Mrs. Claus in The Year Without a Santa Claus), (d. 1992).^[28][29][30]

October

• October 5:
  cel animation and recorded sound in anime, Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, Benkei tai Ushiwaka, Kumo to Tulip, co-founder of Toei Animation), (d. 1988). ^[31][32]
• October 28:
  Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1951). ^[33]

• November 4: Joe Dougherty, American actor (original voice of Porky Pig), (d. 1978).

December

• December 1:
  The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Frog in Tubby the Tuba, Father Thomas in The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow, Elrond in The Hobbit), (d. 1977).^[34]
• December 14: Lillian Randolph, American actress and singer, (voice of Mammy Two Shoes in Tom and Jerry), (d. 1980).^{[35][36][37][38]}

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