1893 in animation explained

Events in 1893 in animation.

Events

• Specific date unknown
  • Émile Reynaud hand-paints 636 individual images for his upcoming animated film. Autour d'une cabine (Around A Cabin). The film was eventually released in 1894, shown at the Musée Grévin from December 1894 until March 1900.^{[1] [2]}
  • Eadweard Muybridge produced a series of 50 different paper 'Zoopraxiscope discs' (basically a version of the phenakistiscopes), with pictures drawn by Erwin F. Faber. The discs were intended for sale at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. They seem to have sold very poorly, and surviving discs are quite rare. The discs were printed in black-and-white, with twelve different discs also produced as chromolithographed versions. Of the coloured versions, only four different ones are known to still exist (with a total of five or six extant copies).^[3]

Births

January

• January 12: Edward Selzer, American film producer and publicist (Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1970).^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

February

• February 10: Jimmy Durante, American actor, comedian, pianist, and singer (voiced himself in Frosty the Snowman), (d. 1980).^{[9] [10] [11]}

June

• June 24: Roy O. Disney, American businessman (co-founder and first CEO of the Walt Disney Company) and brother of Walt Disney, (d. 1971).^{[12] [13] [14]}

August

• August 27: Leslie Elton, American animator and comics artist (worked for J.R. Bray), (d. 1966).^[15]

September

• September 12: Wolfgang Zeller, German film composer (composed the orchestral score for the animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed), (d. 1967).^[16]

October

• October 1: Cliff Friend, American songwriter and pianist (co-wrote "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" for Looney Tunes), (d. 1974).^[17]

December

• December 29: Berthold Bartosch, German-Bohemian filmmaker, pioneer of silhouette animation, creator of an early version of the multiplane camera, (animator for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, director of The Idea), (d. 1968).^[18]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Autour d'une cabine (Around a Bathing Hut). 2021-05-22.
2. Web site: The Optical Theater. 2021-05-22.
3. Web site: COMPLEAT EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE - MUY BLOG 2009. www.stephenherbert.co.uk. 2018-01-20.
4. Web site: The Life and Death of Looney Tunes Producers: Schlesinger and Selzer. 2013-03-08. 2021-03-29. Cartoon Research. Beck. Jerry. Jerry Beck.
5. Web site: The Kid From East Harlem: Some Early Traces of Eddie Selzer. 2021-03-29. 2021-03-29. Cartoon Research. Costello. E.O..
6. Web site: Year: 1947 (20th) Academy Awards Category: Short Subject (Cartoon) Film Title: Tweetie Pie . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . 20 April 2015.
7. Web site: Bugs Bunny in "Devil May Hare" (1954). 2017-05-03. 2021-03-29. Cartoon Research. Baxter. Devon.
8. "Hollywood", Peter Bogdanovich, Esquire March 1972, p. 66
9. "Durante Family and Friends attend Funeral Rite", The New York Times, April 2, 1980, p. 13.
10. Book: Bakish, David. Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography. 2007. McFarland. Google Books. 978-0786430222.
11. Book: Crump . William D. . Happy Holidays--Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film . 2019 . McFarland & Co . 9781476672939 . 112 . 27 March 2020.
12. News: Jones. Jack. Roy O. Disney. September 24, 2014. Los Angeles Times. December 21, 1971.
13. Web site: Tewari. Lata. June 24, 2020. The Success of Roy O. Disney & Walt Disney Company. July 28, 2020. Open Naukri. en-US.
14. Web site: DiCologero. Brittany. October 25, 2022. Today in Disney History, 1971: Roy Disney's Disney World Dedication. February 12, 2023.
15. Web site: Leslie Elton. lambiek.net. May 27, 2020.
16. https://books.google.com/books?id=z7gFT_Duq1cC&pg=PA547 "The concise Cinegraph: encyclopaedia of German cinema"
17. Web site: Songwriters Hall of Fame . 2008-01-11 . dead . https://archive.today/20071118010928/http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/notable_bio.asp?notableWriterId=14 . 2007-11-18 .
18. Book: Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Animation : a world history. Focal Press. 2016. 978-1-138-94307-0. 1. Foundations - The Golden Age. Boca Raton. 138. 934475892.