Events in 1889 in animation.
Events January 14: Charles-Émile Reynaud receives a French patent for his animated moving picture system Théâtre Optique. He also received a British patent for the system on February 8. The system was displayed at the world's fair Exposition Universelle (May-October, 1889) in Paris.
Births January January 1: Count Cutelli, Italian-American actor (provided sound effects for various 1930s Hollywood cartoons), (d. 1944).
February February 4: Walter Catlett, American actor and comedian (voice of J. Worthington Foulfellow in Pinocchio), (d. 1960).
March March 3: William Pennell, American singer and actor (original voice of Bluto in Popeye), (d. 1956). March 18: Gene Byrnes, American cartoonist (created the long-running comic strip Reg'lar Fellers, which received the animated adaptations Happy Days by Ub Iwerks and Boy Meets Dog! by Walter Lantz), (d. 1974)."United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VML4-7M9 : accessed 21 Feb 2013), Eugene Byrnes, July 1974; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).Tack Knight entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. Accessed Nov. 1, 2018.George Carlson entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. Accessed Nov. 1, 2018. March 23: Mario Gallina, Italian actor (Italian voice of J. Worthington Foulfellow in Pinocchio, the Ringmaster in Dumbo), (d. 1950). March 30: Herman Bing, German-American actor (voice of the Ringmaster in Dumbo), (d. 1947).
June June 2: Martha Wentworth, American actress (voice of Madam Mim in The Sword in the Stone, Mama Katzenjammer in The Captain and the Kids, and Nanny, Queenie and Lucy in One Hundred and One Dalmatians), (d.1974). June 7: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, Russian animation director, illustrator, screenwriter and sculptor (Post, The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda, The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, The Frog Princess, The Wild Swans), (d. 1965).Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. — Rowman & Littlefield, p. 751—752 (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation. — Moscow: Algorithm, p. 699—700, 244A Breath of Freedom. Diaries of Mikhail Tsekhanovsky from the Notes by Film Historian magazine № 54, 2001, p. 172, 208—211 (in Russian)Vera Kuznetsova, Erast Kuznetsov (1973). Tsekhanovsky . — Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 116 pages June 27: Moroni Olsen, American actor (voice of Magic Mirror in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), (d. 1954).
July July 31: Frans Masereel, Belgian painter, graphic artist, and wood engraver (The Idea), (d. 1972).
November November 5: Charles Mintz, American film producer and distributor (Winkler Pictures, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), (d. 1939).Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014. Social Security Administration. November 30: Ramsay Hill, British actor (voice of Labrador Retriever and TV Announcer in One Hundred and One Dalmatians), (d. 1976).House, Adrian (1995). The Great Safari : The Lives of George and Joy Adamson. London: Harper Collins. p. 354. .
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