1865 in animation
Events in 1865 in animation.
Events
[edit]- Specific date unknown:
- The inventor William Ensign Lincoln invented the definitive version of the zoetrope in 1865, when he was about 18 years old and a sophomore at the Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Lincoln's patented version had the viewing slits on a level above the pictures, which allowed the use of easily replaceable strips of images. It also had an illustrated paper disc on the base, which was not always exploited on the commercially produced versions. On the advice of a local bookstore owner, Lincoln had sent a model to the board game manufacturing company Milton Bradley and Co. in an attempt to market the animation device. [1]
- In 1865, Edmund Johann Krüss, representing the optical equipment company Krüss Optronic, received a patent for his version of the magic lantern. The device was a forerunner of movie projectors.[2]
Births
[edit]December
[edit]- December 29: Otis Harlan, American actor and comedian, (voiced Happy, one of the Seven Dwarfs in the Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.)(d. 1940)[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Herbert, Stephen. (n.d.) From Daedaleum to Zoetrope, Part 1. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
- ^ "Mikroskop, A. Krüss Hamburg". Museum optischer Instrumente.
- ^ Hischak, Thomas S. (2011), Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary, McFarland, p. 95, ISBN 978-0786462711.
- ^ Kaufman 2012b, p. 63.
Sources
[edit]- Kaufman, J. B. (2012b). The Fairest One of All: The Making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Weldon Owen. ISBN 978-1-61628-438-1.