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. 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.Dobson (2010), p. xxiv The film's plot was only the pretext of showcasing the skills of a fast sculptor.Niver (1985), p. 113
Births February February 9: Fred Harman, American animator, cartoonist, and illustrator (Kansas City Film Ad Company, business partner of Walt Disney), (d. 1982).Reynolds, Moira Davison. Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980, McFarland, 2003.
April April 27: Harry Stockwell, American actor and singer (voice of the Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1984).
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). June 30: Tom Palmer, Italian-American animator, animation director, and training film supervisor (Walt Disney Productions, Walter Lantz Studio, Warner Bros. Cartoons, creator of Buddy), (d. 1972).New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866–1909Barrier (2003), Warner Bros., pp. unnumbered pages
July July 13: Dan Gordon, American comics artist, animator, director and screenwriter (Van Beuren Studios, Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1970).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) [...]"Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic (New York: Plume, 1980, rev. 1987), p. 134.Culhane, Shamus. Talking Animals and Other People (Da Capo Press, 1998), p. 205.Beck, Jerry. "Fleischer Becomes Famous Studios ," Cartoon Research. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
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).Steve Watts, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, University of Missouri Press, pg. 132Michael Barrier interviews Corny Cole 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).
November November 1: Vivie Risto, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros Cartoons, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1981). November 22: Ethel Smith, American organist (played organ during the "Blame It on the Samba" segment in Melody Time), (d. 1996). November 23: Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (narrator in Tubby the Tuba), (d. 1982).
December December 14: Frances Bavier, American actress (model for Flora in Sleeping Beauty), (d. 1989). December 19: Ralph Richardson, British actor (voice of Chief Rabbit in Watership Down), (d. 1983). December 25: Vera Tsekhanovskaya, Russian animation director and illustrator (Belgoskino, Lenfilm, directed The Wild Swans), (d. 1977). 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).
Date uncertain Fred Brunish, American painter and animator (Walter Lantz), (d. 1952). Enrique Riveron, Cuban-American cartoonist, animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1998). Brian White, British animator and comics artist (Bonzo the Dog, Jerry the Tyke, Animal Farm), (d. 1984).Gifford, Denis British Animated Films 1895-1985 A Filmography
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External References
External links Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb