Events in 1901 in animation.
Films released
- Date uncertain - 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
March
- 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)[3].[4][5][6][7]
April
- April 18- Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian filmmaker, animation director, and illustrator (invented the technique of pinscreen animation, directed Die Nacht auf dem Kahlen Berge and The Nose) (d. 1982)[8] [9]
- April 28- Yuri Merkulov, Soviet film director, animation director, conservator-restorer, inventor, and film theorist) (d. 1979)[10][11]
June
- June 12 - Clyde Geronimi, American animation director (Bray Productions, Walter Lantz Productions, Walt Disney Productions, co-directed Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians). (d. 1989) [12]
August
- August 7 - Sid Sutherland, American animator, screenwriter, and sound editor (Walter Lantz Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons) (d. 1968)[13] [14][15]
- August 12 - Bob Kuwahara, Japanese-born American animator (Thru the Mirror, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, wrote and directed the Hashimoto-san film series, director of Deputy Dawg) (d. 1964)[16] [17]
October
- October 20 - Frank Churchill, American film composer and songwriter (wrote the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" for The Three Little Pigs, scored the music of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, and Bambi) (d. 1942)[18]
December
- December 5 - Walt Disney, American animator, film producer, 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) [19][20]
References
- ^ Crafton (2015), p. 223
- ^ Stewart (2021), p. 13-15
- ^ Burnes, Av Brian; Viets, Dan; Butler, Robert W. (2002). Walt Disney's Missouri: The Roots of a Creative Genius. Kansas City Star Books. ISBN 9780971708068 – via Google Books.
- ^ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. p. 53. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
- ^ Ryan, Jeff (2018). A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt. Post Hill Press. pp. 181, 184. ISBN 978-1-68261-628-4.
- ^ Telotte, J. P. (June 18, 2008). The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252033278 – via Google Books.
- ^ Counts, Kyle B.; Rubin, Steve (Fall 1980). "The Making of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds". Cinefantastique. Vol. 10, no. 2. Archived from the original on March 7, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
- ^ 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
- ^ Claire Parker: An Appreciation Animation World Vol 1. No. 2 May 1996. Retrieved 20 August 2009
- ^ The Stars of Russian Animation. Yuri Merkulov by Irina Margolina and Eduard Nazarov, Studio M.I.R., 2015 (in Russian)
- ^ Animation from A to Z by Irina Margolina and Eduard Nazarov, episodes 15, 22—23, REN TV, 1997 (in Russian)
- ^ McCall, Douglas (October 31, 2005). Film Cartoons - A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. McFarland Incorporated Publishers. pp. 94, 108. ISBN 978-0786424504. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
- ^ Klein, Tom. "Dreamers Draw Big Eyes". Cartoon Research.
- ^ Martha., Sigall (2005). Living life inside the lines : tales from the golden age of animation. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1578067499. OCLC 906933338.
- ^ Baxter, Devon. "Bob Clampett's A Tale of Two Kitties". Cartoon Research.
- ^ "Japanese American Internee Data File: Robert Kuwahara". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
- ^ "National Cartoonists Society: Bob Kuwahara". Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ Bohn, James (12 May 2017). Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the Jungle Book. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496812155.
- ^ Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Vintage Books. 2007. ISBN 9780679757474.
- ^ Barrier, Michael (2003). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation In Its Golden Age (Revised ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-19-516729-0. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
Sources
- Crafton, Donald (2015), "The Trickfilm Tradition", Before Mickey:The Animated Film 1898-1928, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226231020
- Stewart, Jez (2021), "Signing In and Signing Up", The Story of British Animation, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 9781911239727
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb