October 2: The first episode of Felix the Cat is broadcast. This leads to a revival in popularity for the classic theatrical cartoon character.[citation needed]
March 12: Luenell, American actress (voice of DMV Lady in Lucas Bros. Moving Co., Nellie Ruckus in The Boondocks episode "The Color Ruckus", Moms Mabley in the Black Dynamite episode "Sweet Bill's Badass Singalong Song or Bill Cosby Ain't Himself").
May 3: Chris Gifford, American writer and producer (co-creator of and voice of the Grumpy Old Troll, Big Red Chicken, and various other characters in Dora the Explorer).
Calpurnio, Spanish poster artist, animator, illustrator, veejay and comics artist (worked on an animated TV series of his signature comic series Cuttlas), (d. 2022).[24][25]
January 4: George Albert Smith, English filmmaker, inventor, magic lantern lecturer, stage hypnotist, and claimed psychic, (In 1894, Smith started staging magic lantern shows of a series of dissolving views. Smith's skilful manipulation of the lantern, cutting between lenses (from slide to slide) to show changes in time, perspective and location necessary for storytelling, allowed him to develop many of the skills he would later put to use as a pioneering filmmaker. He is credited with developing the grammar of film editing. He developed special effects by using his own patented process of double-exposure. Smith developed the Lee-Turner Process into the first successful color film process, Kinemacolor), dies at age 95.[31][32][33][34][35][36]
↑ Gray, Frank (2009), "The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), G.A. Smith and the Rise of the Edited Film in England", in Grieveson, Lee; Kramer, Peter (eds.), The Silent Cinema Reader, Routledge (published 2004), ISBN978-0415252843
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