1914 in animation


Events in 1914 in animation.

Events

  • Raoul Barré and Bill Nolan develop the peg and slash system, to respectively keep animated drawings in the exact same order and place, and to keep background drawings and character drawings separate. They also establish their own studio, Barré-Nolan, which is the first animation studio in history.
  • J.R. Bray establishes his own studio, J.R. Bray Productions, pioneering the factory system in animation.

February

February 18: Winsor McCay releases Gertie the Dinosaur, a landmark in full-blown animation and character animation.

Films released

Births

January

January 27: Bill Littlejohn, American animator,.January 29: Susi Weigel, Austrian illustrator, comics artist and animator,.

February

February 6: Thurl Ravenscroft, American actor and singer,.February 9: Bill Justice, American animator,.

March

March 4: Ward Kimball, American animator, and one of Disney's Nine Old Men,.March 15: Joe E. Ross, American actor,.March 22: Sonny Burke, American composer,.

April

April 7: Nikolay Fyodorov, Russian animator, film director and cartoonist,.April 9: Joaquim Muntañola, Spanish animator and comics artist,.April 11: Norman McLaren, Scottish-American animator, film director and producer,.April 20: Betty Lou Gerson, American actress,.

May

May 12: Joy Batchelor, English animator, film producer and director,.May 16: Reg Hill, English model-maker, animator, and producer,.May 19: Maurice Rapf, American screenwriter,.May 21: John Hubley, American animator, film director, producer, screenwriter and comics artist,.May 30: Milt Neil, American comics artist and animator,.

June

June 3: Roy Glenn, American actor,.June 11: Gerald Mohr, American actor,.June 17: Manuel Perez, Mexican-American animator and director, and comics writer,.June 24: Paul Julian, American animator, background artist, and voice actor,.

July

July 3: George Bruns, American composer,.July 11:
  • * Hal Adelquist, American animator, animation producer and storyboard writer,.
  • * Irving Spector, American animator and comics artist,.July 23: Evelyn Lambart, Canadian animator and film director,.

August

August 9: Martin Taras, American comics artist and animator, and character designer,.August 14: Boris Dyozhkin, Russian film director, caricaturist and animator,.August 15: Carl Brandt, American musician,.August 26: Richard Thompson, American animator and film director,.

September

September 3: Willis Pyle, American animator,.September 26: Jack LaLanne, American fitness & nutrition guru and motivational speaker,.

October

October 6: Robert C. Bruce, American voice actor,.October 28: Dody Goodman, American actress,.

November

November 6: Jonathan Harris, American actor,.November 11: Mel Leven, American composer and lyricist,.November 22: Frank Graham, American radio presenter and actor,.

December

December 1: Michel Douay, French comics artist, illustrator and animator .December 19: Mel Shaw, American animator,.December 20: Charles McKimson, aka Chuck McKimson, American animator and comics artist,.December 27: Jack Bradbury, American animator and comics artist,.December 30: Nicolai Shutorev, American singer,.

Specific date unknown

  • Chad Grothkopf, American comics artist and animator,.
  • Oscar Conti, aka Oski, Argentine cartoonist, caricaturist, animator and comics artist,.
  • Phil DeLara, American animator and comics artist,.