1903 in animation

Events in 1903 in animation.

Events

• April 14 - The inventor Frederic Eugene Ives receives U.S. patent 725,567 for his "parallax stereogram", the first "no glasses" autostereoscopic 3-D display technology.^[1][2][3][4] It helps introduce the animation technique of barrier-grid animation and stereography. Ives' method is then modífied by Eugène Estanave to introduce a method of animated stereoscopic photography.^[5]

Births

January

• January 7:
  Sir Pellinore in The Sword in the Stone, huntsman and reporter in Mary Poppins), (d. 1988).^[6]
• January 28: Sammy Lerner, Romanian songwriter (Popeye theme), (d. 1989).

February

• February 16:
  Mickey and the Beanstalk segment in Fun and Fancy Free), (d. 1978).^[7]

• May 3: Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (narrator and voice of Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), (d. 1977).^[8]
• May 21: Sammy Timberg, American musician and composer (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios), (d. 1992).^[9][10]
• May 29: Bob Hope, English-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer and dancer (voiced himself in The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Beauty Queen"), (d. 2003).^[11][12]

June

• June 21: Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, (artistic consultant for the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment in Fantasia 2000 which was inspired by his designs), (d. 2003).^[13][14]

July

• July 5: Vladimir Suteev, Russian children's writer, artist, animator, film director, and screenwriter (China in Flames, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, The Magic Store), (d. 1993).^{[15][16][17][18]}

August

• August 7: Rudolf Ising, American animator, film director and producer (co-founder of Warner Bros. Cartoons and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Happy Harmonies) and actor (original voice of Barney Bear), (d. 1992).^[19][20][21]
• August 22: Jerry Iger, American animator (Fleischer Studios), and comics publisher, (d. 1990).^[22]
• August 31: Hugh Harman, American animator, (co-founder of Warner Bros. Cartoons and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Happy Harmonies), (d. 1982).^{[23][24][25][26]}

September

• September 27: Robert O. Cook, American sound engineer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1995).
• September 30: Pete Peterson, American stop motion animator and special effects artist (Mighty Joe Young, The Black Scorpion, The Giant Behemoth), (d. 1962).^[27][28][29]

October

• October 16:
  Walt Disney Company), (d. 1968).^{[30][citation needed}
  ]

• November 7:
  • The Humpbacked Horse, Baba Yaga in The Frog Princess, and Koshchei in Beloved Beauty), (d. 1993).^[31]
  • Grace Stafford, American actress (voice of Woody Woodpecker from 1950 to 1991) and wife of Walter Lantz, (d. 1992).^[32][33][34]

December

• December 4: Lazar Lagin, Soviet science fiction writer, children's writer, satirist, and screenwriter (scripted Passion of Spies), (d. 1979).^[35][36]

References