1902 in animation explained

Events in 1902 in animation.

Events

• Date uncertain - Nuremberg toy companies Gebrüder Bing and Ernst Plank were offering chromolithographed film loops for their toy kinematographs. The films were traced from live-action film footage.^[1] The technique is a precursor of rotoscoping.

Films released

• April 3 - Fun in a Bakery Shop: Edwin S. Porter used stop-motion animation to depict clay loaves being sculpted into faces.^[2] The film's plot was only the pretext of showcasing the skills of a fast sculptor.^[3]

Births

February

• February 9: Fred Harman, American animator, cartoonist, and illustrator (Kansas City Film Ad Company, business partner of Walt Disney), (d. 1982).^[4]

April

• April 27: Harry Stockwell, American actor and singer (voice of the Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1984).^[5]

June

• June 17: Sammy Fain, American composer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1989).
• June 20: Antoine Payen, French animator, and illustrator (Les Enfants du Ciel, Cri-Cri, Ludo et l'orage), (d. 1985).^{[6] [7]}
• June 30: Tom Palmer, American animator, animation director, and training film supervisor (Walt Disney Productions, Walter Lantz Studio, Warner Bros. Cartoons, creator of Buddy).^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}

July

• July 13: Dan Gordon, American comics artist, animator, director and screenwriter (Van Beuren Studios, Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1970).^{[12] [13] [14] [15] [16]}

September

• September 2: Norm Ferguson, American animator and sequence director, (Walt Disney Company, designed Peg-Leg Pete, the Big Bad Wolf, and Pluto, served as the primary animator of the witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1957).^{[17] [18]}
• September 25: Al Hoffman, American composer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1960).

October

• October 2: William Timym, Austrian-English animator and comics artist (Bleep and Booster, and Bengo the Boxer), (d. 1990).^[19]

November

• November 1: Vivie Risto, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros Cartoons, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1981).^[20]
• November 22: Ethel Smith, American organist (played organ during the "Blame It on the Samba" segment in Melody Time), (d. 1996).^[21]
• November 23: Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (narrator in Tubby the Tuba), (d. 1982).^[22]

December

• December 14: Frances Bavier, American actress (model for Flora in Sleeping Beauty), (d. 1989).^[23]
• December 19: Ralph Richardson, British actor (voice of Chief Rabbit in Watership Down), (d. 1983).^[24]
• December 25: Vera Tsekhanovskaya, Russian animation director and illustrator (Belgoskino, Lenfilm, directed The Wild Swans), (d. 1977).^{[25] [26]}
• December 27: Carman Maxwell, American animator, production manager and actor (Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, animated Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, voiced Bosko), (d. 1987).^{[27] [28] [29]}

Date uncertain

• Fred Brunish, American painter and animator (Walter Lantz), (d. 1952).^{[30] [31]}
• Enrique Riveron, Cuban-American cartoonist, animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1998).^[32]
• Brian White, British animator and comics artist (Bonzo the Dog, Jerry the Tyke, Animal Farm), (d. 1984).^{[33] [34]}

External links

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb

Notes and References

1. Litten. Frederick S.. ja:招待研究ノート：日本の映画館で上映された最初の（海外）アニメーション映画について. Shōtai kenkyū nōto: Nihon no eigakan de jōei sareta saisho no (kaigai) animēshon eiga ni tsuite. ja. On the Earliest (Foreign) Animation Shown in Japanese Cinemas. The Japanese Journal of Animation Studies. 15. 1A. 2013. 9–11.
2. Dobson (2010), p. xxiv
3. Niver (1985), p. 113
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=IWqjaXc_4QUC&dq=%22fred+harman%22&pg=PA91 Reynolds, Moira Davison. Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980, McFarland, 2003.
5. Web site: Harry Stockwell . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . July 27, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220714134829/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/harry-stockwell-61178 . July 14, 2022 . live.
6. Scalliet . Marie-Odette . 2011-04-11 . Antoine Payen: Peintre des Indes Orientales. . Journal of Southeast Asian Studies . en . 30 . 2 . 385 . 10.1017/S0022463400013291 . 164003031 . 1474-0680.
7. Poole . William . 2007-09-22 . Antoine-François Payen, the 1666 Selenelion, and a rediscovered letter to Robert Hooke . Notes and Records of the Royal Society . en . 61 . 3 . 251–263 . 10.1098/rsnr.2007.0182 . 144890436 . 0035-9149.
8. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866–1909
9. Web site: 1931 Disney Staff Caricatures & Profiles – pt 4. 26 April 2013.
10. Book: Gabler . Neal . Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination . 2007 . Vintage Books . New York . 9780679757474 . 168 . 1 . 7 August 2023.
11. Barrier (2003), Warner Bros., pp. unnumbered pages
12. Gifford, Denis. The International Book of Comics. (Crescent Books, 1984). 132. Retrieved from Google Books on January 24, 2011. "As drawn by "Dang" (the comic-book pen name of animator Dan Gordon from the Fleischer Studio) [...]"
13. Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic (New York: Plume, 1980, rev. 1987), p. 134.
14. Culhane, Shamus. Talking Animals and Other People (Da Capo Press, 1998), p. 205.
15. Beck, Jerry. "Fleischer Becomes Famous Studios," Cartoon Research. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
16. Web site: Animation Profiles: DAN GORDON |.
17. Steve Watts, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, University of Missouri Press, pg. 132
18. http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/WhatsNewArchivesAugust11.html Michael Barrier interviews Corny Cole
19. Web site: Tim. lambiek.net.
20. Web site: Vivie Ritso. Lambiek.net. May 29, 2020.
21. News: Ethel Smith, radio and film organist, dies . Ethel Smith, a professional organist whose music enlivened the beat on radio's Lucky Strike Hit Parade and Carmen Miranda films, died in Palm Beach Friday. She was 93. . . May 18, 1996.
22. News: Jones . Jack . February 13, 1982 . Victor Jory - Hollywood Star Walk . . January 17, 2017.
23. News: Frances Bavier Dead; TV Performer Was 86. 1989-12-08. The New York Times. 2009-05-14.
24. Book: Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902–1983), actor . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 10.1093/ref:odnb/31607 . en.
25. Web site: Дыхание воли. Дневники Михаила ЦЕХАНОВСКОГО - Номер 54. www.kinozapiski.ru. 2018-11-15.
26. . Mihailova . Mihaela . 1962: The wild swans (Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya) . Senses of Cinema . 85 . December 2017 .
27. Book: Barrier, Michael . The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney . . 2007 . 978-0-520-24117-6 . 34–35 .
28. Book: Sandler, Kevin . Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation . . 1998 . 9780813525389 . 30.
29. Book: Scott, Keith . Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-70 . BearManor Media . 2022 . 979-8-88771-010-5 . 4–5.
30. Web site: The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia. 1946. 29 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20151107061740/http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1946.html. 7 November 2015. dead.
31. Web site: Ask Art The Artists' Bluebook. Fred W. Brunish. 15 June 2012.
32. Web site: Enrique Riveron. lambiek.net. October 21, 2020.
33. Web site: Bonzo (New Era Films, LTD.). https://archive.today/20140107055704/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/47464-Bonzo.html. dead. 7 January 2014.
34. Gifford, Denis British Animated Films 1895-1985 A Filmography