1900 in animation


Events in 1900 in animation.

Events

Specific date unknown: a Parisian company markets L'Animateur, an animation device inside a small zoetrope drum with four slits.

Films released

November 16: The Enchanted Drawing. American trick film, directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It contained the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film.

Births

January

January 18

February

February 4: Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter,,.February 8: Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Russian animation director, animator, screenwriter, and professor in a film school,,.February 14: Jessica Dragonette, American singer and actress,.February 17: Ruth Clifford, American actress,.

March

March 13: Ted Sears, American animator, lyricist and scriptwriter,.

April

April 9: Allen Jenkins, American actor,.April 19: Aleksandr Ptushko, Russian animator and film director,.

June

June 1: Noburō Ōfuji, Japanese film director and animator,,.June 2: Joseph Dubin, American composer,.June 9: Fred Waring, American bandleader and musician,.June 22: Oskar Fischinger, German-American painter and animator,.

July

July 4: Jack Bogle, American animator and comics artist,.July 20: Sylvia Holland, English concept artist, illustrator and storyboard artist,.July 29: Don Redman, American jazz composer and singer,.

August

August 2: Zinaida Semyonovna Brumberg, Russian animator and film director,.

September

September 1: Don Wilson, American announcer and actor,.September 13: Bianca Majolie, Italian-American story artist, animator, concept artist and writer,.

October

October 2: Cecil Roy, American actress,.October 9: Alastair Sim, Scottish actor,.October 15: Lauro Gazzolo, Italian voice actor,.

November

November 5: Natalie Schafer, American actress,.

December

December 6: Agnes Moorehead, American actress,.December 11: Hermína Týrlová, Czech animator, film director, and screenwriter, and Ferda Mravenec,.