1901 in animation explained

Events in 1901 in animation.

Films released

• Specific date unknown: Dolly’s Toys. British trick film, directed by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper. It may have used stop-motion animation, or a variant of the stop-action technique previously used by Walter R. Booth.^{[1] [2]}

Births

January

• January 21: André Daix, French animator and comics artist (Professeur Nimbus), (d. 1976).^[3]

March

• March 1: Jan Kraan, Dutch illustrator, animator and comics artist, (d. 1988).^[4]
• March 24: Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician (designed Mickey Mouse, Clarabelle Cow, and Horace Horsecollar, creator of Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper, founder of Iwerks Studio, chief animator on the Laugh-O-Gram Studio, worked on the Alice Comedies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Silly Symphony, ComiColor Cartoons, Looney Tunes, and Color Rhapsody series, special visual effects artist for Song of the South), (d. 1971).^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
• March 27: Carl Barks, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company), (d. 2000).^{[11] [12] [13]}

April

• April 18: Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian animator, film director (The Nose, Pictures at an Exhibition), inventor (pinscreen) and producer, (d. 1982).^{[14] [15] [16]}
• April 28: Yuri Merkulov, Russian animator and film director (Bratishkin's Adventures), (d. 1979).^{[17] [18]}

June

• June 12: Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animation director (Bray Productions, Walter Lantz Productions, Walt Disney Company), (d. 1989).^{[19] [20]}
• June 29: Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (narrator and voice of Willie the Whale in " The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" in Make Mine Music), (d. 1967).^[21]

July

• July 5: Len Lye, New Zealand artist, filmmaker, and animation director, (The Peanut Vendor, A Colour Box, Rainbow Dance, Free Radicals). (d. 1980).^{[22] [23] [24] [25] [26]}

August

• August 4: Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer (appeared as a giant floating head in the Betty Boop cartoon I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You), (d. 1971).^{[27] [28]}
• August 7: Sid Sutherland, American animator, screenwriter and sound editor (Walter Lantz Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1968).^{[29] [30] [31]}
• August 12: Bob Kuwahara, Japanese-American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Terrytoons), (d. 1964).^{[32] [33] [34]}

October

• October 1: Homer Brightman, American screenwriter (Walt Disney Company, Walter Lantz, MGM, UPA, Larry Harmon Pictures, Cambria Productions, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises) and comics writer, (d. 1988).
• October 20: Frank Churchill, American composer and songwriter (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1942).^[35]
• October 28: Bob Rothberg, American songwriter and lyricist (Fleischer Studios), (d. 1938).

November

• November 21: Franzisca Baruch, German–Israeli graphic designer, and character designer, (designed characters and titles for the animated film Goethe is Alive!), (d. 1989).^{[36] [37] [38]}

December

• December 5: Walt Disney, American animator, film producer, (The Walt Disney Company), and entrepreneur (developed and voiced the character of Mickey Mouse, pioneered the use of synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor, and feature-length films in American animation), (d. 1966).^{[39] [40] [41]}

Sources

• Book: Andrae, Tom . 2006 . Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity . . 1-57806-858-4.

External links

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb

Notes and References

1. Crafton (2015), p. 223
2. Stewart (2021), p. 13-15
3. Web site: André Daix. lambiek.net. May 20, 2020.
4. Web site: Jan Kraan. lambiek.net. May 29, 2020.
5. Web site: Ub Iwerks. lambiek.net. 29 January 2019.
6. Book: Burnes . Av Brian . Walt Disney's Missouri: The Roots of a Creative Genius . Viets . Dan . Butler . Robert W. . 2002 . Kansas City Star Books . 9780971708068 . Google Books.
7. Book: Kaufman . J.B. . Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History . Gerstein . David . 2018 . Taschen . 978-3-8365-5284-4 . Cologne . 53.
8. Book: Ryan, Jeff . A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt . Post Hill Press . 2018 . 978-1-68261-628-4 . 181, 184.
9. Book: Telotte, J. P. . The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology . June 18, 2008 . University of Illinois Press . 9780252033278 . Jay Telotte . Google Books.
10. News: Counts . Kyle B. . Rubin . Steve . Fall 1980 . The Making of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds . 10 . . 2 . live . March 7, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220307154006/https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Cinemafantastique_%281980%29_-_The_Making_of_Alfred_Hitchcock%27s_The_Birds . March 7, 2022.
11. Carl Barks: Conversations (2003), ed. by Donald Ault: The Carl Barks Story: The Creator of Scrooge McDuck Moves into the Limelight, Disney News 19 no. 1 (Winter 1983–84), p. xi.
12. Web site: Cronin . Brian . 2023-12-03 . How Was a Christmas Comic Used to Introduce Uncle Scrooge McDuck? . 2024-03-24 . CBR . en.
13. Blum. Geoffrey. Barks and the Bending Panel. The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color. c. 1990. 18. [46].
14. Web site: Cinédoc Paris Films Coop distribution cinéma expérimental. https://web.archive.org/web/20060419023059/http://cinedoc.org/EN/apropos/boutique_aadvd.asp. dead. April 19, 2006. April 19, 2006. May 29, 2020.
15. Alexeieff, Alexandre Oublis ou Regrets: Memoirs of a Cadet in St. Petersburg Unpublished. Excerpts from Material for the Exhibition "Timeline and Retrospective of Films" Museum of Film. Moscow. July 1995
16. http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.2/articles1.2/bendazzi1.2.html Claire Parker: An Appreciation
17. http://studio-mir.ru/eng/index.php?p=film&id=55 The Stars of Russian Animation. Yuri Merkulov
18. Animation from A to Z by Irina Margolina and Eduard Nazarov, episodes 15, 22—23, REN TV, 1997 (in Russian)
19. Web site: Clyde Geronimi, 87, An Animator at Disney. April 30, 1989. The New York Times. May 29, 2020.
20. Book: McCall, Douglas . Film Cartoons - A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts . McFarland Incorporated Publishers . October 31, 2005 . 978-0786424504 . 94, 108 . February 21, 2023.
21. Web site: From the Archives: Nelson Eddy Dies Following Stroke on Nightclub Stage. Mar 7, 1967. Los Angeles Times. May 27, 2020.
22. Web site: Lye, Len (1901-1980) Biography. BFI Screenonline.
23. Web site: The Peanut Vendor.
24. Web site: Experimental Animation, aka Peanut Vendor (1933). BFI.
25. https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-237.html "Cinematic Classics, Legendary Stars, Comedic Legends and Novice Filmmakers Showcase the 2008 Film Registry"
26. News: Johnstone. Andrew. Adding Len Lye to the Book of 20th-Century Art. New York Times. 17 June 2013. 4 May 2001.
27. Meckna, Michael; Satchmo, The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Connecticut & London, 2004.
28. Krebs, Albin. "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies" The New York Times, July 7, 1971. Accessed October 1, 2009. "Louis Armstrong, he celebrated jazz trumpeter and singer, died in his sleep yesterday morning at his home in the corona section of Queens".
29. Web site: Dreamers Draw Big Eyes. Klein. Tom. Cartoon Research.
30. Book: Martha., Sigall. Living life inside the lines : tales from the golden age of animation. 2005. University Press of Mississippi. 1578067499. 906933338.
31. Web site: Bob Clampett's A Tale of Two Kitties. Baxter. Devon. Cartoon Research.
32. Web site: Bob Kuwahara. lambiek.net. May 15, 2020.
33. Web site: Japanese American Internee Data File: Robert Kuwahara. National Archives and Records Administration. 2019-08-18.
34. Web site: National Cartoonists Society: Bob Kuwahara. 2008-07-21.
35. Book: Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the Jungle Book. 9781496812155. Bohn. James. 12 May 2017. Univ. Press of Mississippi .
36. Web site: Goethe Institute. Franzisca Baruch (1901–1989). German. https://web.archive.org/web/20171002115651/https://www.goethe.de/ins/il/de/m/kul/sup/nwt/20844488.html. 2 October 2017.
37. Web site: Passover Haggadah. Center for Jewish History. 13 November 2021.
38. News: Aderet . Ofer . סיפורה של פרנציסקה ברוך, המעצבת הנשכחת שעיצבה את הסמלים הבולטים של מדינת ישראל [The story of Francisca Baruch, the forgotten designer who designed the prominent symbols of the State of Israel] ]. הארץ . Ha'aretz . 11 November 2021 . 24 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190624151636/https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/art/.premium-MAGAZINE-1.2783517 . he.
39. Web site: Walt Disney. lambiek.net. May 27, 2020.
40. Book: Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. 9780679757474. 2007. Vintage Books.
41. Book: Barrier . Michael . Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation In Its Golden Age . 2003 . Oxford University Press . New York . 978-0-19-516729-0 . 368 . Revised . 28 December 2023.