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. The project was based on Muybridge's work with the zoopraxiscope, and would result in the production of Animal Locomotion.
- * The photographer James Bamforth of Bamforth & Co Ltd began to specialise in making lantern slides. 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.
Births
January
January 30: Eddie Collins, American actor,.July
July 19: Max Fleischer, Polish-American animator, inventor, film director, and film producer,.November
November 19: Ned Sparks, Canadian actor,.Specific date unknown
- Helena Smith Dayton, American animator, filmmaker, painter, playwright, and sculptor,,.