July 9: Publication of Animal Locomotion, a
chronophotographic series by
Eadweard Muybridge. It comprised 781
collotype plates, each containing up to 36 pictures of the different phases of a specific motion of one subject (over 20,000 images in total).[1] The series is a result of Muybridge's interest in motion studies and his work on the
zoopraxiscope. [2] Historians and theoreticians have proposed that Muybridge's work on animal locomotion influenced a number of other artists, photographers and filmmakers, including
Marcel Duchamp,
Thomas Eakins,
Walt Disney, among others.[3][4][5][6]
January 16:
Ralph Ince, American cartoonist, animator, actor, film director and screenwriter (worked as an animator under
Winsor McCay), (d.
1937).[8][9][10]
December 28:
Walter Ruttmann, German film director and cinematographer (pioneer of
abstract animation, directed the animated short film Lichtspiel: Opus I, the "oldest fully abstract motion picture known to survive, using only animated geometric forms, arranged and shown without reference to any representational imagery"; served as a
special effects artist in the animated feature film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, making the film's moving backgrounds and magic scenes), (d.
1941).[36][37][38][39]
^Hamonic, W. Gerald (2018). "Here I Come to Save the Day!: The Mouse that Saved a Cartoon Studio, 1942-1945". Terrytoons: The Story of Paul Terry and His Classic Cartoon Factory. John Libbey Publishing Ltd. pp. 207–223.
ISBN978-0861967292.
^Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime, Volume 3, ed. Benjamin F. Shearer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), p. 836
^Thomas S. Hischak, The Encyclopedia of Film Composers (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), pp. 691–693,
^Betancourt, Michael.
"Walther Ruttmann's Lichtspiel Films". Cinegraphic. Retrieved 20 August 2021. from: An Excerpt from 'The History of Motion Graphics'
July 9: Publication of Animal Locomotion, a
chronophotographic series by
Eadweard Muybridge. It comprised 781
collotype plates, each containing up to 36 pictures of the different phases of a specific motion of one subject (over 20,000 images in total).[1] The series is a result of Muybridge's interest in motion studies and his work on the
zoopraxiscope. [2] Historians and theoreticians have proposed that Muybridge's work on animal locomotion influenced a number of other artists, photographers and filmmakers, including
Marcel Duchamp,
Thomas Eakins,
Walt Disney, among others.[3][4][5][6]
January 16:
Ralph Ince, American cartoonist, animator, actor, film director and screenwriter (worked as an animator under
Winsor McCay), (d.
1937).[8][9][10]
December 28:
Walter Ruttmann, German film director and cinematographer (pioneer of
abstract animation, directed the animated short film Lichtspiel: Opus I, the "oldest fully abstract motion picture known to survive, using only animated geometric forms, arranged and shown without reference to any representational imagery"; served as a
special effects artist in the animated feature film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, making the film's moving backgrounds and magic scenes), (d.
1941).[36][37][38][39]
^Hamonic, W. Gerald (2018). "Here I Come to Save the Day!: The Mouse that Saved a Cartoon Studio, 1942-1945". Terrytoons: The Story of Paul Terry and His Classic Cartoon Factory. John Libbey Publishing Ltd. pp. 207–223.
ISBN978-0861967292.
^Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime, Volume 3, ed. Benjamin F. Shearer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), p. 836
^Thomas S. Hischak, The Encyclopedia of Film Composers (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), pp. 691–693,
^Betancourt, Michael.
"Walther Ruttmann's Lichtspiel Films". Cinegraphic. Retrieved 20 August 2021. from: An Excerpt from 'The History of Motion Graphics'