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1912 In Animation
Events in 1912 in animation. Films released *January – '' How a Mosquito Operates'' (United States) *27 October – ''The Cameraman's Revenge'' (Russia) Births January * January 12: Sara Berner, American actress (original voice of Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Red in Tex Avery's ''Red Hot Riding Hood'' and ''Swing Shift Cinderella'', the canary in ''King-Size Canary'' and the mother of WB's Beaky Buzzard, Nancy in the ''Tom & Jerry'' cartoon ''Baby Puss'', Toots in '' Tom and Jerry'', '' The Zoot Cat'' and '' The Mouse Comes to Dinner'', Jerry Mouse in '' Anchors Aweigh'', did celebrity voice impressions in several Disney and Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1969). February * February 24: Jiří Trnka, Czech puppeteer, illustrator, animator and film director (''The Czech Year'', ''The Emperor's Nightingale'', ''Prince Bayaya'', ''Old Czech Legends'', ''The Good Soldier Schweik'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''The Cybernetic Grandma''), (d. 1969). April * April 5: John Le Mes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How A Mosquito Operates
''How a Mosquito Operates'' is a 1912 silent animated film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. The six-minute short depicts a giant mosquito tormenting a sleeping man. The film is one of the earliest works of animation, and its technical quality is considered far ahead of its time. It is also known under the titles ''The Story of a Mosquito'' and ''Winsor McCay and his Jersey Skeeters''. McCay had a reputation for his proficient drawing skills, best remembered in the elaborate cartooning of the children's comic strip ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' he began in 1905. He delved into the emerging art of animation with the film ''Little Nemo'' (1911), and followed its success by adapting an episode of his comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'' into ''How a Mosquito Operates''. McCay gave the film a more coherent story and more developed characterization than in the ''Nemo'' film, with naturalistic timing, motion, and weight in the animation. ''How a Mosquito Operates'' h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchors Aweigh (film)
''Anchors Aweigh'' is a 1945 American live-action/animated musical fantasy comedy film directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, with songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. In the film, two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, meet a young boy and his aunt, an aspiring young singer, and the sailors try to help her get an audition at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In addition to a live-action Kelly dancing with Jerry Mouse, the cartoon mouse of the ''Tom and Jerry'' series, the film also features José Iturbi, Pamela Britton, Dean Stockwell, and Sharon McManus. Tom Cat has a brief cameo appearance as a servant of Jerry Mouse, the lonesome king. The film received mixed reviews but it became a financial success. Plot Gunner's Mate Second Class Joe Brady and Seaman First Class Clarence Doolittle are USN sailors who have a four-day leave in Hollywood. Joe has his heart set on spending time with his girl (the never seen) Lola. Clarence, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Lawrence (songwriter)
Jack Lawrence (born Jacob Louis Schwartz, April 7, 1912 – March 16, 2009) was an American songwriter. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975. Life and career Jack Lawrence was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Orthodox Jewish family of modest means as the third of four sons. His parents Barney (Beryl) Schwartz and Fanny (Fruma) Goldman Schwartz were first cousins who had run away from their home in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine to go to America in 1904. Lawrence wrote songs while still a child, but because of parental pressure after he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, he enrolled in the First Institute of Podiatry, where he received a D.P.M. degree in 1932. The same year, his first song was published and he immediately decided to make a career of songwriting rather than podiatry. That song, "Play, Fiddle, Play", won international fame and he became a member of ASCAP that year at age 20. In the early 1940s, Lawrence and several fellow hitmakers forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazism, Nazi war crime, war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for 1983 Australian federal election, elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bod (TV Series)
''Bod'' is a BBC1 children's television programme first shown in 1975, with thirteen episodes, based on four original ''Bod'' books by Joanne and Michael Cole. It is a cutout animated cartoon series narrated by John Le Mesurier and Maggie Henderson with music by Derek Griffiths and produced by David Yates. The four books were published in 1965 in the United Kingdom and later in the United States and France. They are: ''Bod's Apple'', ''Bod's Present'', ''Bod's Dream'' and ''Bod and the Cherry Tree''. The French version of ''Bod's Apple'' is called ''La Pomme de Gus''. Before the animated series was commissioned, the four books had been read on another BBC children's programme: '' Play School''. In 1974, thirteen five-minute episodes were created for transmission on the BBC as part of the ''Watch with Mother'' series, and were also sold to Australia's ABC channel. Soon thereafter, it was shown in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland and Israel. In the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier (, born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 191215 November 1983) was an English actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy ''Dad's Army'' (1968–1977). A self-confessed "jobbing actor", Le Mesurier appeared in more than 120 films across a range of genres, normally in smaller supporting parts. Le Mesurier became interested in the stage as a young adult and enrolled at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art in 1933. From there he took a position in repertory theatre and made his stage debut in September 1934 at the Palladium Theatre in Edinburgh in the J. B. Priestley play ''Dangerous Corner''. He later accepted an offer to work with Alec Guinness in a John Gielgud production of ''Hamlet''. He first appeared on television in 1938 as Seigneur de Miolans in the BBC broadcast of ''The Marvellous History of St Bernard''. During the Second World War Le Mesuri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cybernetic Grandma
''The Cybernetic Grandma'' (Czech: ''Kybernetická babička'') is a 1962 Czechoslovakian stop motion puppet cartoon. It is a surreal science fiction-horror animation film, showing a dystopian situation where machines tend humans into a cybernetic Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson ma ... lifestyle. The story is seen through the eyes of a little child who is led by his grandmother to enter an underground world. There it witnesses many strange events and ends up being cared for by a cybernetic grandma looking like a hybrid between a robotic wheelchair and a giant moth. The film shows a contradiction between the kind and sweet way the machine talks to the child and its disturbingly cold insensitive behavior. The cybernetic grandma is portrayed by the mechanically accurate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 Film)
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' ( cs, Sen noci svatojánské) is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated puppet film directed by Jiří Trnka, his last feature length film before his death 10 years later in 1969. It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Production Trnka, working under the Czech communist regime who had previously been denied in his wish to adapt ''Don Quixote'', worked for several years on his adaptation of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. The film established a new pinnacle of craftmanship. Beyond the artistic aspects the film was technically advanced. Trnka used expensive Eastmancolor stock* Every scene was shot with two cameras simultaneously—one shooting Academy ratio, and one shooting in the then new CinemaScope format, effectively producing an in-camera pan-and-scan version—all so Trnka could ensure that his widescreen production would not be presented letterboxed. The film thus exists in ''two'' definitive editions. The score was composed by Václav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Soldier Schweik (1955 Film)
''The Good Soldier Schweik'' ( cs, Dobrý voják Svejk) is a 1955 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka based on the novel ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' by Jaroslav Hašek. Its length is 76 minutes and consists of three episodes, ''From Hatvan to Halič, Švejk train accidents'' and ''Švejk Budějovice anabasi.'' Narrator: Jan Werich Jan Werich (; 6 February 1905 – 31 October 1980) was a Czech actor, playwright and writer. Early life Between 1916 and 1924, Werich attended "reálné gymnasium" (equivalent to high school) in Křemencova Street in Prague (where his future b .... External links * 1955 films 1955 animated films Czechoslovak animated films 1950s Czech-language films Czech animated films Films directed by Jiří Trnka Films based on Czech novels Films based on works by Jaroslav Hašek The Good Soldier Švejk World War I films set on the Eastern Front Animated films based on novels Czech war comedy films 1950s war comedy films Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Czech Legends
''Old Czech Legends'' ( cz, Staré pověsti české) is a 1953 Czechoslovak stop motion puppet animation film directed by Jiří Trnka. It is based on the 1894 book ''Ancient Bohemian Legends'' by Alois Jirásek. Production After the completion of '' Prince Bayaya'' in 1950, Trnka was praised by the communist regime of Czechoslovakia, and asked to make more films. He planned to make an adaptation of ''Don Quixote'', but was rejected for the theme being too cosmopolitan. He was pressed to make an adaptation of Jirásek's ''Ancient Bohemian Legends''. Trnka initially didn't want to work on the project. The film has a complex story with many characters and features complicated scenes both to stage and animate. Trnka's use of camera movements, lighting, set design, character design and animation and general storytelling made this an influential film in the history of animation. Voice cast * Růžena Nasková * Zdeněk Štěpánek * Eduard Kohout * Václav Vydra * Karel Höger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Bayaya
''Prince Bayaya'' (Czech: ''Bajaja'') is a 1950 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka. Awards 1954 Locarno International Film Festival *Won: Golden Leopard The Golden Leopard () is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be ... References External links * 1950 animated films 1950 films Films based on works by Božena Němcová Films directed by Jiří Trnka Golden Leopard winners Czechoslovak animated films Marionette films Czech animated films 1950s fantasy adventure films Czech fantasy adventure films Films about dragons Films based on fairy tales 1950s Czech-language films 1950s Czech films Czech animated adventure films Czech animated fantasy films {{1950s-animation-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Emperor's Nightingale
''The Emperor's Nightingale'' ( cs, Císařův slavík) is a 1949 Czechoslovak stop-motion animated film directed by Jiří Trnka and Miloš Makovec. The film is based on the 1843 fairy tale " The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen. Boris Karloff provides the voice of the narrator in the 1951 American dubbed version.Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011 p 353 The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. In the film, a live-action boy dreams that his toys are real. The toys come to life in stop-motion animation, and tell the story of a Chinese emperor who makes friends with a nightingale. Cast * Helena Patočková as the girl * Jaromír Sobota as the boy * Dětský pěvecký sbor Jana Kuhna as chorus * Boris Karloff - Narrator in English language version only See also * Boris Karloff filmography * List of Czech films * Jiří Trnka Jiří Trnka (; 24 February 1912 – 30 December 1969) was a Czec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
