Events in 1900 in animation.

Events Specific date unknown: a Parisian company markets L'Animateur (The Animator), an animation device inside a small zoetrope drum with four slits.

Films released November 16: The Enchanted Drawing. American trick film, directed by J. Stuart Blackton. It contained the first animated sequences recorded on standard picture film.

Births

January January 18 Wan Guchan, Chinese animator and film director (founder of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter, Uproar in the Studio, The Camel's Dance, Princess Iron Fan, Havoc in Heaven Why is the Crow Black-Coated), (d. 1995).http://www.shfsy.com/chinese/memorial/20000805074851/402.htm Memorial Wan Laiming, Chinese animator and film director (founder of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter, Uproar in the Studio, The Camel's Dance, Princess Iron Fan, Havoc in Heaven, Why is the Crow Black-Coated), (d. 1997).Travel Channel China. "." "Tieshangongzhufirst-length cartoon." Retrieved on 2006-12-24.New York Times December 2004. "NY Times ." "China Hurries to Animate Its Film Industry." Retrieved on 2006-12-20. January 23: David Hand, American animator film director, (Walt Disney Company, Gaumont), (d. 1986).David Hand's Animaland. Posted on Toonhound: Cartoons, animation, comic strips and puppets in the UK.

February February 4: Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter, (The King and the Mockingbird), (d. 1977). February 8: Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Russian animation director, animator, screenwriter, and professor in a film school, (Black and White, Moidodyr, The Humpbacked Horse, The Snow Maiden, The Twelve Months, The Adventures of Buratino, Lefty, Go There, Don't Know Where, The Battle of Kerzhenets, The Humpbacked Horse, The Tale of Tsar Saltan), (d. 1987).Islands. Ivan Ivanov-Vano documentary by Russia-K, 2015 (in Russian)Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. – Rowman & Littlefield. Giannalberto Bendazzi – Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Animation, 1995 February 14: Jessica Dragonette, American singer and actress (voice of Persephone in The Goddess of Spring, Princess Glory in Gulliver's Travels), (d. 1980). February 17: Ruth Clifford, American actress (fifth voice of Minnie Mouse and third voice of Daisy Duck), (d. 1998).

March March 13: Ted Sears, American animator (Raoul Barre, Fleischer Brothers, Walt Disney Company), lyricist and scriptwriter, (d. 1958).Registration State: New York; Registration County: Bronx; Roll: 1754124; Draft Board: 15 U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918

April April 9: Allen Jenkins, American actor (voice of Officer Dibble in Top Cat), (d. 1974). April 19: Aleksandr Ptushko, Russian animator and film director (The New Gulliver, The Stone Flower, Sadko, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Ruslan and Ludmila), (d. 1973).Tim Lucas, DVD commentary for Black Sunday (1960), Image Entertainment 2000Upchurch, Alan (Nov/Dec 1991). "Russkaya Fantastika: The Fairytale Landscapes of Aleksandr Ptushko – Part One". Video Watchdog, pp. 24–37.Upchurch, Alan (Jan/Feb 1992). "Russkaya Fantastika: The Fairytale Landscapes of Aleksandr Ptushko – Part Two". Video Watchdog, pp. 32–46.Ptushko Aleksandr Lukich (real surname Ptushkin) from the Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian)

June June 1: Noburō Ōfuji, Japanese film director and animator, (directed The Story of the Monkey King, Burglars of "Baghdad" Castle, and The Three Fearless Frogs), (d. 1961). June 2: Joseph Dubin, American composer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1961). June 9: Fred Waring, American bandleader and musician (Melody Time), (d. 1984). June 22: Oskar Fischinger, German-American painter and animator (Motion Painting No. 1, Pinocchio, Fantasia), (d. 1967).

July July 4: Jack Bogle, American animator and comics artist (Pat Sullivan (Felix the Cat), Van Beuren Studios, Walt Disney Company), (d. 1982). July 20: Sylvia Holland, English concept artist, illustrator and storyboard artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1974).

July 29: Don Redman, American jazz composer and singer (guest starred in the Betty Boop short I Heard), (d. 1964).

August August 2: Zinaida Semyonovna Brumberg, Russian animator and film director (The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Lost Letter, The Night Before Christmas, It Was I Who Drew the Little Man), (d. 1983).Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations – The Golden Age at Google Books, p. 177Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style – The Three Markets at Google Books, p. 78Sergey Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 129–130, 14The Stars of Russian Animation. Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg by Irina Margolina and Eduard Nazarov, Studio M.I.R., 2013 (in Russian) September September 1: Don Wilson, American announcer and actor (narrator in Ferdinand the Bull, voiced himself in The Mouse That Jack Built), (d. 1982). September 13: Bianca Majolie, Italian-American story artist, animator, concept artist and writer (Walt Disney Company), (d, 1997).

October October 2: Cecil Roy, American actress (voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost, and Little Lulu), (d. 1995). October 9: Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (voice of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol), (d. 1976).Gilbert, Michael. "Sim, Alastair George Bell (1900–1976)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2011, retrieved 11 July 2014 October 15: Lauro Gazzolo, Italian voice actor (dub voice of Bashful in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dandy (Jim) Crow in Dumbo, the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, Archimedes in The Sword in the Stone, Jock in Lady and the Tramp, Mr. Magoo, and the Talking Cricket in The Adventures of Pinocchio), (d. 1970).È morto Lauro Gazzolo, la "voce" dei Western – La Stampa (in Italian)

November November 5: Natalie Schafer, American actress (voice of Lovey Howell in The New Adventures of Gilligan and Gilligan's Planet), (d. 1991).Natalie Schafer, 90, 'Gilligan's Island' star, The Courier-News (Bridgewater, NJ), April 12, 1991, p. 23

December December 6: Agnes Moorehead, American actress (voice of the Goose in Charlotte's Web), (d. 1974). December 11: Hermína Týrlová, Czech animator, film director, and screenwriter, (directed Tajemství Lucerny (The Lantern's Secret) and Ferda Mravenec (Fernando the Ant), (d. 1993).

References

External links Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb