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Events in 1903 in animation.

## Events

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* April 14 - The inventor Frederic Eugene Ives receives U.S. patent 725,567 for his "parallax stereogram", the first "no glasses" autostereoscopic 3-D display technology.[1][2][3][4] It helps introduce the animation technique of barrier-grid animation and stereography. Ives' method is then modífied by Eugène Estanave to introduce a method of animated stereoscopic photography.[5]

## Births

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### January

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* January 7: Alan Napier, English actor (voice of Sir Pellinore in The Sword in the Stone, huntsman and reporter in Mary Poppins), (d. 1988).[6]
* January 28: Sammy Lerner, Romanian songwriter (Popeye theme), (d. 1989).

### February

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* February 16: Edgar Bergen, American actor, comedian and puppeteer (narrator in the Mickey and the Beanstalk segment in Fun and Fancy Free), (d. 1978).[7]
* February 18: George Givot, Russian-American comedian and actor (voice of Tony in Lady and the Tramp), (d. 1984).

### May

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* May 3: Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (narrator and voice of Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), (d. 1977).[8]
* May 21: Sammy Timberg, American musician and composer (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios), (d. 1992).[9][10]
* May 29: Bob Hope, English-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer and dancer (voiced himself in The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Beauty Queen"), (d. 2003).[11][12]

### June

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* June 17: Donald W. Graham, Canadian-American animator, artist and art instructor (Walt Disney Company), (d. 1976).[13][14][15][16]
* June 21: Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, (artistic consultant for the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment in Fantasia 2000 which was inspired by his designs), (d. 2003).[17][18]

### July

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* July 5: Vladimir Suteev, Russian children's writer, artist, animator, film director, and screenwriter (China in Flames, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, The Magic Store), (d. 1993).[19][20][21][22]
* July 7: Frank McSavage, Scottish-American comic artist and animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios, worked for Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1998).[23]

### August

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* August 7: Rudolf Ising, American animator, film director and producer (co-founder of Warner Bros. Cartoons and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Happy Harmonies) and actor (original voice of Barney Bear), (d. 1992).[24][25][26]
* August 22: Jerry Iger, American animator (Fleischer Studios), and comics publisher, (d. 1990).[27]
* August 31: Hugh Harman, American animator, (co-founder of Warner Bros. Cartoons and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Happy Harmonies), (d. 1982).[28][29][30][31]

### September

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* September 27: Robert O. Cook, American sound engineer (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1995).
* September 30: Pete Peterson, American stop motion animator and special effects artist (Mighty Joe Young, The Black Scorpion, The Giant Behemoth), (d. 1962).[32][33][34]

### October

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* October 16: Hamilton Luske, American animator and director (Walt Disney Company), (d. 1968).[35][citation needed]

### November

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* November 7:
* Georgy Millyar, Russian voice actor (voiced the Tsar in The Humpbacked Horse, Baba Yaga in The Frog Princess, and Koshchei in Beloved Beauty), (d. 1993).[36]
* Grace Stafford, American actress (voice of Woody Woodpecker from 1950 to 1991) and wife of Walter Lantz, (d. 1992).[37][38][39]

### December

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* December 4: Lazar Lagin, Soviet science fiction writer, children's writer, satirist, and screenwriter (scripted Passion of Spies), (d. 1979).[40][41]
* December 16: Hardie Albright, American actor (voice of adolescent Bambi in Bambi), (d. 1975).[42]

## References

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1. ^ Ives, Frederic (1902). A novel stereogram.
2. ^ "US725567.pdf" (PDF). docs.google.com.
3. ^ Timby, Kim (2015-07-31). 3D and Animated Lenticular Photography. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9783110448061.
4. ^ U.S. Patent 725,567 "Parallax Stereogram and Process of Making Same", application filed 25 September 1902, patented 14 April 1903
5. ^ texte, Académie des sciences (France) Auteur du (March 14, 1910). "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences / publiés... par MM. les secrétaires perpétuels". Gallica.
6. ^ "Alan Napier, Batman's butler, dies". Ukiah Daily Journal. Associated Press. 8 August 1988 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "Candice Bergen's Dad Cut Her Out of Her Will (But She's Got Murphy Brown' Money)". Yahoo! Entertainment. April 3, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
8. ^ Smith, Jim (October 19, 1977). "Memorial Rites Held for city favorite, Bing Crosby". The Spokesman Review. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
9. ^ "Obituary: Sammy Timberg". Independent.co.uk. 9 September 1992.
10. ^ "Sammy Timberg Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic.
11. ^ Ward, Linda. "Bob Hope: Thanks for the memory". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
12. ^ "Bob Hope's 100th birthday greeted with good wishes". USA Today. Associated Press. May 30, 2003. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016. Retrieved November 16, 2012.
13. ^ "Donald W. Graham". Retrieved 27 April 2022.
14. ^ Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pgs. 84-86, 144-151. ISBN 0-19-516729-5.
15. ^ "The Wonderful World of WALT: Back to School with Walt Disney - Disney Insider". 8 October 2012.
16. ^ Bruno Girveau (editor), Once Upon a Time — Walt Disney: The Sources of inspiration for the Disney Studios (Prestel, London, 2006) ISBN 978-3-7913-3770-8
17. ^ Buhlman, Jocelyn (28 January 2020). "Q&A with Eric and Susan Goldberg about the Magical, Musical World of Fantasia 2000". D23. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
18. ^ Corliss, Richard (29 January 2003). "That Old Feeling: The Fun in Al Hirschfeld". Time. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
19. ^ "Аниматор.ру | Новости | 20 июля на телеканале "Культура" в 15:05 можно будет ув..." www.animator.ru. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
20. ^ Sergey Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 14–15, 621–623
21. ^ Duckling + Chicken: An artist and a writer spent 40 years waiting for his beloved to say "Yes" article from Rossiyskaya Gazeta 30 June 2016 (in Russian)
22. ^ "My golden chicken!" The love story of Vladimir Suteev and Tatiana Taranovich article from Argumenty i Fakty, 12 March 2017 (in Russian)
23. ^ "Frank McSavage". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
24. ^ Lambert, Bruce (July 23, 1992). "Rudolf C. Ising, 80, a Cartoonist And Creator of 'Looney Tunes'". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
25. ^ Folkart, Burt (July 22, 1992). "Rudolf Ising; Founded Cartoon Studios". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
26. ^ "Harman and Ising at MGM |".
27. ^ "Jerry Iger". lambiek.net. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
28. ^ Barrier, Michael (January 10, 2006). "Hugh Harman, An Interview". michaelbarrier.com. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
29. ^ "Hugh Harman, 79, Creator Of 'Looney Tunes' Cartoons". The New York Times. November 30, 1982.
30. ^ Korkis, Jim (2017-03-22). "The Laugh -O-gram Story: Part One". MousePlanet. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
31. ^ Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in its Golden Age. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 43\. ISBN 978-0195037593.
32. ^ Smolen, Philip (January 1, 2010). "Pete Peterson – Stop Motion's Forgotten Man". Rogue Cinema. Archived from the original on March 1, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
33. ^ "Pete Peterson – The Las Vegas Monster". BlueSpill. WorldPress. April 25, 2007. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
34. ^ "Flesh Gordon – The Great God Porno (the Nesuahyrrah)". BlueSpill. WorldPress. November 10, 2007. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
35. ^ "Disney Legends - D23".
36. ^ Оллэ. К гастролям Московского Театра Революции // Бурят-Монгольская правда. Верхнеудинск. № 168 (1138) за 28 июля 1927 года. — С. 4.
37. ^ "Walter Lantz, Creator of Woody Woodpecker, Dies". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
38. ^ "Gracie Lantz Dies; Invented Woody Woodpecker". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
39. ^ "Gracie Lantz, 88, Dies; Cartoon Figure's Voice". The New York Times. 1992-03-20. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
40. ^ "Russian animation in letters and figures. Movies. Shpionskiye strasti" [Российская анимация в буквах и фигурах. Фильмы. "Шпионские страсти"] (in Russian). Animator.ru. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
41. ^ Королев, Роман (September 17, 2010). "Шпионские страсти", режиссер Ефим Гамбург, 1967. Forbes (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-12-31. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
42. ^ "Hardie Albright". Films of the Golden Age (94): 39, 42. Fall 2018.

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