1909 in animation
Events in 1909 in animation.
Events
- The German orientalist Paul E. Kahle discovered leather puppets near Damietta, Egypt which were used in medieval shadow plays, one of the precursors of silhouette animation.
Films released
- Unknown date – ''To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly''
Births
January
January 2: Lloyd Vaughan, American animator,.January 17: Don Figlozzi, American animator and cartoonist, pioneer in television animation,.January 21: Sid Raymond, American comedian and voice actor,.January 26: Nikolai Prilutskiy, Soviet and Russian sound operator and director of audiography, worked primarily in Soviet animated sound films,.January 27: Lester Novros, American animator, art director, and teacher of filmmaking,.February
February 2: Purv Pullen, American actor,.February 9: Heather Angel, English actress,.February 11: Al Eugster, American animator, writer, and film director,.February 21: Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, Russian animator and film director,.February 26: Lou Lilly, American animator,.February 28: Olan Soule, American actor,.March
March 1: Winston Sharples, American composer,.March 11: Jules Engel, American animator, graphic artist, and film director, the founding director of the experimental animation program at the California Institute of the Arts,.March 16: Don Raye, American songwriter,.March 17: Ken Anderson, art director and writer for the Walt Disney Animation Studios,.March 22:- * Ralph Heimdahl, American animator and comics artist,.
- * Milt Kahl, American animator, one of Disney's Nine Old Men,.March 25: Jerry Livingston, American songwriter,.March 29: Jack Kinney, American animator, director and producer,.
April
April 14: Jim Pabian, American animator, screenwriter, and director,.April 24: Irven Spence, American animator,.May
May 10: Arturo Moreno, Spanish animator, cartoonist, and comics artist,.May 13: Ken Darby, American composer and conductor,.May 15: James Mason, British actor,.May 20: Jerry Hausner, American actor,.May 25: Marie Menken, American film director, painter and animator,.May 30: Benny Goodman, American jazz band leader,.June
June 13: Hannes Schroll, Austrian skier and yodeller,.June 14: Burl Ives, American singer and actor,.June 20: Helen Ogger, American inker and animator,.June 26: Wolfgang Reitherman, American animator, director and producer,,.August
August 8: David Tendlar, American animator,.August 11: Edwin Gillette, American inventor and cinematographer, creator of the Syncro-Vox technique of limited animation, executive of Cambria Productions,.September
September 3: Yale Gracey, Writer and layout artist,.September 8: Lynn Karp, American animator and comics artist,.October
October 1:- * Everett Sloane, American actor,.
- * Romer Zane Grey, American animator and comics writer,.October 15: Margie Hines, American actress,.October 26: Dante Quinterno, Argentine animator, comics artist, and publisher, created the first animated color film of Latin America,.October 31: Thelma Boardman, American actress,.
November
November 7: Campbell Grant, American actor, character designer and animation writer,.November 10: Johnny Marks, American composer,.November 25: P. D. Eastman, American screenwriter, children's author, and illustrator,.December
December 12: Dick Moores, American cartoonist and producer of television animation, co-founder of Telecomics,.December 20: Amby Paliwoda, American animator,.December 23: Maurice Denham, English actor,.December 26: Don Patterson, American animator, director and producer,.Specific date unknown
- Fred Abranz, American comics artist and animator,.