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1902 in animation
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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]
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