Chronology of Animation 1919

January
Hardrock Dome the Great Detective (ss), Pat Sullivan /Bray.
first Hardrock Dome series (1919)

April
Dud Perkins Gets Mortified (ss), Wallace A. Carlson /Bray.
first Us Fellers series (1919-1920)

May
Touchatout peintre de talent ("Touchatout, Talented Painter") (ss), Marius O'Galop /Pathe. (France)
(drawn animation)
early Touchatout series

Uncle Remus No.1 (ss), Anson Dyer /Kine Komedy Kartoons. (Great Britain)
(drawn animation)
series 1919

Stanislav Latál (animator, writer, director) born in Samotísky. (Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic])

June
John R. Bray reincorporates company as Bray Pictures Company. New distributor is Goldwyn for entertainment films. The company also makes films for industry and government.

July
Dal McKennon (Dallas McKennon, Dale McKennon) (voice actor) born in Oregon.

July
Todor Dinov (Todor Georgiev Dinov [Тодор Динов] (July 24, 1919—June 17, 2004) (director, animator, art director, producer) born in Plovdiv. (Bulgaria)

September
Out of the Inkwell (ss), Max Fleischer /Bray.
(drawn animation, some live action)
first Out of the Inkwell series (1919-1929)
early series cartoons released by Bray until Fleischer created his own studio

Where Has My Little Coal Bin (ss), Gregory La Cava /Bray.
(drawn animation)
first Jerry On the Job series (1919-1920) (earlier series by IFS)

Dayton Allen (voice actor) born in New York, New York.

September
Becasotte et son cochon ("Becasotte and Her Pig") (ss) O'Galop /Pathe. (France)
(drawn animation)
first Becasotte series (1919-1920)

The Merchant of Venice (ss), Anson Dyer /Hepworth. (Great Britain)
(cut-out animation)
one of a number of Shakespeare satires made by Dyer (1919-1920)

October
Jean Vander Pyl (October 11, 1919-April 10, 1999) (voice actress) born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

November
Feline Follies (ss), Otto Messmer /Sullivan.
(drawn animation)
first Felix the Cat cartoon appears in the Paramount Screen Magazine
series 1919-1931

November
Alan Young (voice actor, writer) born in North Shields, Tyne-and-Wear, England. (Great Britain)

December
Cinema Luke (ss), Leslie Elton /Universal.
(drawn animation, some live action)
early Cinema Luke series made for the Universal Screen Magazine

no date
Raoul Barre retires from Bud Fisher Film Corporation. Charles Bowers takes over as studio director.

no date
The Man Who Woke Up (ss)/(edu), J.A. Norling. (Canada)
(drawn animation)

no date
Das Loch im Westen ("The Hole in the West") (ss), Hans Fischerkoesen. (Germany)
(drawn animation)

Das Ornament des verliebten Herzens ("The Ornament of the Loving Heart", "The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart") (ss), Lotte Reiniger. (Germany)
(silhouette animation)

Lortac founds Publi-Cine, the first independent European animation studio. The firm mainly created advertisements. (France)

no date
Tadahito Mochinaga (Tad Mochinaga, Fang Ming, Mochinaga Tadahito, 持永只仁) (1919-April 4, 1999) (director, animator, producer, background artist) born in Tokyo.

Note: Unfortunately I lack the time or resources to help people find copies of animated films and television programs. I have put together a web List of Online Video and Book Stores that will be useful to find copies in the United States. There are other similar stores on the Internet around the world that might be able to supply the DVDs, LDs, or video tapes that are desired. Check my Animation on the World Wide Web pages for links to animation studios and other Internet resources that may have further information. I am not involved in trading materials from my own collection. I am still waiting to see most of the programs in this Chronology and would be happy to find sources for many of them.

Because of these circumstances I will not respond to requests for help to find these types of materials.

Continue to 1920

Go to the
Chronology of Animation
Introduction and Index

Return to
Richard's
Animated Divots