1903 in animation explained

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: Alan Napier, English actor (voice of 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: Edgar Bergen, American actor, comedian and puppeteer (narrator in the Mickey and the Beanstalk segment in Fun and Fancy Free), (d. 1978).^[7]
• February 18: George Givot, Russian-American comedian and actor (voice of Tony in Lady and the Tramp), (d. 1984).

May

• 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 17: Donald W. Graham, Canadian-American animator, artist and art instructor (Walt Disney Company), (d. 1976).^{[13] [14] [15] [16]}
• 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).^{[17] [18]}

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).^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

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).^{[23] [24] [25]}
• August 22: Jerry Iger, American animator (Fleischer Studios), and comics publisher, (d. 1990).^[26]
• 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).^{[27] [28] [29] [30]}

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).^{[31] [32] [33]}

October

• October 16: Hamilton Luske, American animator and director (Walt Disney Company), (d. 1968).^[34]

November

• November 7:
  • Georgy Millyar, Russian voice actor (voiced the Tsar in The Humpbacked Horse, Baba Yaga in The Frog Princess, and Koshchei in Beloved Beauty), (d. 1993).^[35]
  • Grace Stafford, American actress (voice of Woody Woodpecker from 1950 to 1991) and wife of Walter Lantz, (d. 1992).^{[36] [37] [38]}

December

• December 4: Lazar Lagin, Soviet science fiction writer, children's writer, satirist, and screenwriter (scripted Passion of Spies), (d. 1979).^{[39] [40]}
• December 16: Hardie Albright, American actor (voice of adolescent Bambi in Bambi), (d. 1975).^[41]

External links

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb

Notes and References

1. Book: Ives, Frederic . A novel stereogram . 1902.
2. Web site: US725567.pdf. docs.google.com.
3. Book: Timby, Kim. 3D and Animated Lenticular Photography . 9783110448061 . 2015-07-31 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG .
4. U.S. Patent 725,567 "Parallax Stereogram and Process of Making Same", application filed 25 September 1902, patented 14 April 1903
5. Web site: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences / publiés... par MM. les secrétaires perpétuels. Académie des sciences (France) Auteur du. texte. March 14, 1910. Gallica.
6. News: Alan Napier, Batman's butler, dies . Ukiah Daily Journal . . 8 August 1988 . Newspapers.com.
7. Web site: Candice Bergen's Dad Cut Her Out of Her Will (But She's Got Murphy Brown' Money) . Yahoo! Entertainment . April 3, 2015 . March 2, 2023.
8. News: Smith . Jim . Memorial Rites Held for city favorite, Bing Crosby . The Spokesman Review . October 19, 1977 . May 9, 2014.
9. Web site: Obituary: Sammy Timberg. Independent.co.uk. 9 September 1992.
10. Web site: Sammy Timberg Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More. AllMusic.
11. Web site: Bob Hope: Thanks for the memory. Ward. Linda. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. August 16, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121108122256/http://www.cbc.ca/news/obit/hope_bob/index.html. November 8, 2012. live.
12. News: Bob Hope's 100th birthday greeted with good wishes. USA Today. Associated Press. May 30, 2003. November 16, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20160318095050/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/2003-05-30-bob-hope_x.htm. March 18, 2016. live.
13. Web site: Donald W. Graham . 27 April 2022.
14. Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pgs. 84-86, 144-151. .
15. Web site: The Wonderful World of WALT: Back to School with Walt Disney - Disney Insider. 8 October 2012.
16. Bruno Girveau (editor), Once Upon a Time — Walt Disney: The Sources of inspiration for the Disney Studios (Prestel, London, 2006)
17. News: Q&A with Eric and Susan Goldberg about the Magical, Musical World of Fantasia 2000. 28 January 2020. 23 December 2023. Buhlman, Jocelyn. D23.
18. Corliss . Richard . Richard Corliss . 29 January 2003 . That Old Feeling: The Fun in Al Hirschfeld . . 23 December 2023.
19. Web site: Аниматор.ру | Новости | 20 июля на телеканале "Культура" в 15:05 можно будет ув.... www.animator.ru. August 2, 2020.
20. Sergey Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 14–15, 621–623
21. Duckling + Chicken: An artist and a writer spent 40 years waiting for his beloved to say "Yes" article from Rossiyskaya Gazeta 30 June 2016 (in Russian)
22. "My golden chicken!" The love story of Vladimir Suteev and Tatiana Taranovich article from Argumenty i Fakty, 12 March 2017 (in Russian)
23. News: Lambert . Bruce . Rudolf C. Ising, 80, a Cartoonist And Creator of 'Looney Tunes' . 13 June 2019 . The New York Times . July 23, 1992.
24. News: Folkart . Burt . Rudolf Ising; Founded Cartoon Studios . 13 June 2019 . Los Angeles Times . July 22, 1992.
25. Web site: Harman and Ising at MGM | .
26. Web site: Jerry Iger. lambiek.net. April 8, 2017.
27. Web site: Barrier . Michael . Hugh Harman, An Interview . michaelbarrier.com . January 10, 2006. June 13, 2019 .
28. News: Hugh Harman, 79, Creator Of 'Looney Tunes' Cartoons . The New York Times. November 30, 1982 .
29. Web site: The Laugh -O-gram Story: Part One . 2017-03-22 . 2022-04-15 . MousePlanet . Korkis . Jim.
30. Book: Barrier, Michael . Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in its Golden Age . 1999 . . Oxford, England . 978-0195037593 . 43.
31. Web site: Pete Peterson – Stop Motion's Forgotten Man . Rogue Cinema . January 1, 2010 . January 20, 2012 . Smolen, Philip . https://web.archive.org/web/20130301214623/http://www.roguecinema.com/article2024.html . March 1, 2013 . dead .
32. Web site: Pete Peterson – The Las Vegas Monster . WorldPress . BlueSpill . April 25, 2007 . January 20, 2012.
33. Web site: Flesh Gordon – The Great God Porno (the Nesuahyrrah) . WorldPress . BlueSpill . November 10, 2007 . January 20, 2012.
34. Web site: Disney Legends - D23.
35. Оллэ. К гастролям Московского Театра Революции // Бурят-Монгольская правда. Верхнеудинск. № 168 (1138) за 28 июля 1927 года. — С. 4.
36. News: Walter Lantz, Creator of Woody Woodpecker, Dies . The Los Angeles Times. 2011-11-22.
37. News: Gracie Lantz Dies; Invented Woody Woodpecker . The Los Angeles Times. 2011-11-22.
38. News: Gracie Lantz, 88, Dies; Cartoon Figure's Voice . . 1992-03-20 . 2013-08-10.
39. Web site: Russian animation in letters and figures. Movies. Shpionskiye strasti. Российская анимация в буквах и фигурах. Фильмы. "Шпионские страсти". . Russian . 2 May 2010.
40. Web site: http://www.forbes.ru/stil-zhizni-slideshow/56831-multika-kak-lyubit-grisha/slide/6. ru:"Шпионские страсти", режиссер Ефим Гамбург, 1967. Королев. Роман. September 17, 2010. Forbes. Russian. 13 March 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20121231121817/http://www.forbes.ru/stil-zhizni-slideshow/56831-multika-kak-lyubit-grisha/slide/6. 2012-12-31. dead.
41. Hardie Albright . Films of the Golden Age . Fall 2018 . 94 . 39, 42.