1883 in animation

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 company 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][10]}

November

• November 19: Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (voice of Heckle and Jeckle from 1947 to 1951), (d. 1957).^[11]

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).^{[12][13][14][15]}

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.^[16][17]