1883 in animation explained

Events in 1883 in animation.

Events

• 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

January

• January 30: Eddie Collins, American actor (voice of Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1940).^[5]

July

• 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]}

Specific date unknown

• 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).^{[10] [11] [12] [13]}

Deaths

September

• 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.^{[14] [15]}

Sources

• Web site: Museum for the History of Sciences . Ghent . Ghent Scientists: Joseph Plateau . en . 2001 . 2 October 2011.
• Book: Pointer, Ray . 2016 . The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer . . 978-1-4766-6367-8 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Motion Pictures: The Zoopraxiscope . Tate Museum . 26 February 2022.
2. Web site: Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion . Huxley-Parlor Gallery . 2017 . 27 February 2022.
3. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/449654/index.html Screen Online – James Bamforth
4. http://www.yfaonline.com/assetDetails.cfm?film=2231&keyword= Yorkshire Film archives online
5. Book: More Magnificent Mountain Movies. W. Lee Cozad. 9780972337236. May 18, 2020. Google Books.
6. Web site: The Polish-American immigrant who changed the face of animation. Little White Lies.
7. Langer. Mark. 1992-12-01. The Disney-Fleischer dilemma: product differentiation and technological innovation. Screen. en. 33. 4. 343–360. 10.1093/screen/33.4.343. 0036-9543.
8. Out of the Inkwell. Die Zeichentrickfilme von Max und Dave Fleischer . March 11, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050111080435/http://gewi.uni-graz.at/~blimp/full_text/langer/langer.html . January 11, 2005 . Mark . Langer . Blimp Film Magazine . 26 .
9. Web site: 'American Pop'... Matters: Ron Thompson, the Illustrated Man Unsung. PopMatters. August 2, 2012. Maçek III, J.C. . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240419143010/https://www.popmatters.com/160872-american-pop-matters-ron-thompson-the-illustrated-man-unsung-2495833587.html . Apr 19, 2024 .
10. Book: Johnson, Mindy. Ink & paint: the women of Walt Disney's animation. 2017. 9781484727812. English. 23. Disney Editions . 968290213.
11. Web site: Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 90.djvu/274 - Wikisource, the free online library. en.wikisource.org. 2020-01-28.
12. “Romeo and Juliet – In Clay!,” Film Fun, November 2, 1917, p. 434.
13. November 24, 1917. Prominent Sculptor in Film. The Moving Picture World. 1164.
14. Des Illusions d'optique sur lesquelles se fonde le petit appareil appelé récemment Phénakisticope . Optical illusions that underlie the small device recently called Phénakisticope . Plateau . Annales de chimie et de physique . French . 304 . 1833 . 19 July 2016.
15. See the, web site section "Phenakistiscope".