1901 in animation
Events in 1901 in animation.
Films released
Specific date unknown: 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.
Births
January
January 21: André Daix, French animator and comics artist,.
March
March 1: Jan Kraan, Dutch illustrator, animator and comics artist,.March 24: Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician,.March 27: Carl Barks, American animator and comics artist,.
April
April 18: Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian animator, film director, inventor and producer,.April 28: Yuri Merkulov, Russian animator and film director,.
May
May 20: Ferdinand Diehl, German animator and film director,.
June 12: Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animation director,.June 29: Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor,.
July
July 5: Len Lye, New Zealand artist, filmmaker, and animation director,..
August
August 4: Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer,.August 7: Sid Sutherland, American animator, screenwriter and sound editor,.August 12: Bob Kuwahara, Japanese-American animator and comics artist,.
October
October 1: Homer Brightman, American screenwriter and comics writer,.October 20: Frank Churchill, American composer and songwriter,.October 28: Bob Rothberg, American songwriter and lyricist,.
November 21: Franzisca Baruch, German–Israeli graphic designer, and character designer,,.
December
December 5: Walt Disney, American animator, film producer,, and entrepreneur,.