1907 in animation

Events in 1907 in animation.

• Date unknown – Katsudō Shashin , the oldest known work of animation from Japan. Its creator is unknown.^{[1] [2]}

• January 1: Carlo Cossio, Italian comics artist and animator, (d. 1964).^{[3] [4] [5]}
• January 28: Connie Rasinski, American animator and film director (Hansel and Gretel, Terrytoons ), (d. 1965).^[6]

• February 12: Joseph Kearns, American actor (voice of the Doorknob in Alice in Wonderland ), (d. 1962).
• February 18: Billy De Wolfe, American actor (voice of Professor Hinkle in Frosty the Snowman ), (d. 1974).^[7]
• February 22: Sheldon Leonard, American actor (voice of Dodsworth in Kiddin' the Kitten and A Peck o' Trouble , Kid Banty in Sock-a-Doodle-Do , the title character in Linus the Lionhearted ), (d. 1997).^{[8] [9]}
• February 26: Dub Taylor, American actor (voice of Digger in The Rescuers ), (d. 1994).^[10]
• February 27: Egon von Tresckow, German animator, illustrator, comics artist and caricaturist (worked for UFA and the films of Hans Fischerkoesen), (d. 1952).^[11]

• March 4: Patrick McGeehan, American actor (voice of the Jimmy Durante buzzard in What's Buzzin' Buzzard , Black Cat in Bad Luck Blackie , Joe Bear in Rock-a-Bye Bear), (d. 1988).^[12]
• March 5: Thomas McKimson, American animator and cartoonist, designed Tweety (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walt Disney Animation Studios) (d. 1998).^{[13] [14]}
• March 11: Robert Bentley, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Fleischer Studios, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation) (d. 2000).^{[15] [16]}
• March 26: Leigh Harline, American songwriter and composer (The Goddess of Spring , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Pinocchio , Mr. Bug Goes to Town ), (d. 1969).
• March 31: Dorothy Jones, American screenwriter and wife of Chuck Jones (Gay Purr-ee ), (d. 1978).

• April 12: Hardie Gramatky, American children's writer, illustrator, animator, and watercolorist, creator of Little Toot (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1979).^{[17] [18] [19]}
• April 19: Cecil Surry, American animator and cartoonist (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walter Lantz Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, UPA) (d. 1956).^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}

• May 20: Volney White, American animator and animation director (Looney Tunes) (d. 1966).^[24]
• May 22: Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (creator of The Adventures of Tintin ), (d. 1983).^{[citation needed ]}

• June 6: Edward H. Plumb, American film composer and orchestrator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1958).^{[25] [26]}
• June 16: Jack Albertson, American actor, comedian and singer (voice of Amos Slade in The Fox and the Hound ), (d. 1981).^[27]
• June 27: John McIntire, American actor (voice of Rufus in The Rescuers , Mr. Digger in The Fox and the Hound ), (d. 1991).^[28]

• July 25: Dallas Bower, English film and television director and producer (Alice in Wonderland ), (d. 1999).^[29]
• July 27: Jesse Marsh, American animator and comics writer (Make Mine Music , Pluto ), (d. 1966).^[30]
• July 30: Roy Williams, American animator storyman (Walt Disney Animation Studios) and presenter, (d. 1976).^{[31] [32] [33] [34]}

• August 8: Virgil Walter Ross, American animator and cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons, A Wild Hare ) (d. 1996).^{[35] [36] [37] [38] [39]}
• August 9: Richard Bickenbach, American animator, layout artist, character designer, and cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1994).^{[40] [41]}
• August 12: Joe Besser, American actor, comedian, and musician (voice of Babu in Jeannie , Scare Bear in Yogi's Space Race and Galaxy Goof-Ups , Putty Puss in The Houndcats , Elmo in Shirt Tales , Cupid in The Smurfs ), (d. 1988).^[42]
• August 14: Dick Lundy, American animator and film director and producer (Walt Disney Company, MGM, Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera, co-creator of Donald Duck), (d. 1990).^{[43] [44] [45] [46]}
• August 20: Alan Reed, American voice actor (voice of Fred Flintstone in The Flintstones , Dum Dum in Touche Turtle and Dum Dum , Boris the Russian Wolfhound in Lady and the Tramp ), (d. 1977).^[47]

• September 7: Jack Mather, American actor (voice of Wally Walrus in Woody Woodpecker), (d. 1966).^{[48] [49]}
• September 15: Alvin Childress, American actor (voice of Jasper in Puppetoons), (d. 1986).^{[50] [51] [52]}
• September 26: Willard Bowsky, American animator (Fleischer Studios), (d. 1944).^{[53] [54] [55]}

• October 8: Art Babbitt, American animation director and animator, (creator of Goofy, worked for Terrytoons, Walt Disney Company, Hanna-Barbera, and UPA), (d. 1992).^{[56] [57] [58]}

• November 4: Bennie Benjamin, Virgin Islands-born American songwriter (Fun and Fancy Free , Melody Time ), (d. 1989).^[59]
• November 14: Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author and writer (creator of Pippi Longstocking ), (d. 2002).^[60]
• November 16: Burgess Meredith, American actor (voice of Puff the Magic Dragon in a series of TV specials, Golobulus in G.I. Joe: The Movie ), (d. 1997).^{[61] [62]}
• November 17: Les Clark, American animator and film director (Disney Studios), (d. 1979).^{[63] [64]}

• December 20:
  • Al Rinker, American musician (The Aristocats ), (d. 1982).
  • Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist (wrote the theme from Spider-Man ), (d. 1984).
• December 25: Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and dancer (voiced singing characters in the Betty Boop shorts Minnie the Moocher , Snow White , Old Man of the Mountain ), (d. 1994).^{[65] [66] [67] [68]}

• Frank Little, American animator and comics artist (Terrytoons), (d. 1997).^[69]
• Wan Dihuan, Chinese animator, pioneer of the Chinese animation industry (Princess Iron Fan , Havoc in Heaven ).^[70]

• Kinney, Jack, Walt Disney and other assorted characters - An unauthorised account of the early years at Disney's, Harmony Books, New York, 1988
• Litten, Frederick S. (2013). "Shōtai kenkyū nōto: Nihon no eigakan de jōei sareta saisho no (kaigai) animēshon eiga ni tsuite" 招待研究ノート:日本の映画館で上映された最初の(海外)アニメーション映画について [On the Earliest (Foreign) Animation Shown in Japanese Cinemas]. The Japanese Journal of Animation Studies (in Japanese). 15 (1A): 27–32.
• Litten, Frederick S. (17 June 2014). "Japanese color animation from ca. 1907 to 1945" (PDF). litten.de. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
• Matsumoto, Natsuki (2011). "映画渡来前後の家庭用映像機器" [Home movie equipment from the earliest days of film in Japan]. In Iwamoto, Kenji (ed.). Nihon eiga no tanjō 日本映画の誕生 [Birth of Japanese film] (in Japanese). Shinwa-sha. pp. 95–128. ISBN 978-4-86405-029-6.

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb

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