1937 in animation
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This is a list of events in 1937 in animation.
Events[]
January[]
- January 9: The first solo cartoon of Donald Duck, Don Donald premiers, directed by Ben Sharpsteen and produced by Walt Disney Productions, which launches the Donald Duck series.[1]
- January 24: Georg Woelz' Die Schlacht um Miggershausen premiers.[2]
February[]
- February 6: David Hand's Mickey Mouse cartoon Magician Mickey premiers, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.[3]
- February 20: Ben Sharpsteen's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy cartoon Moose Hunters premiers, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.[4]
- February 27: Tex Avery's Picador Porky premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. This cartoon marks Mel Blanc's first voice acting role in a cartoon.[5]
March[]
- March 4: 9th Academy Awards: The Country Cousin, produced by The Walt Disney Company, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[6]
- March 12: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio is established.[7]
- March 26; In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon character Popeye.[8][9]
April[]
- April 3: Frank Tashlin's Porky Pig cartoon Porky's Romance premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation .[10]
- April 17: The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, produced by Warner Bros. Animation and directed by Tex Avery, is released. It marks the debut of Daffy Duck.[11]
- April 27: The Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Amateurs, directed by Pinto Colvig, Erdmann Penner and Walt Pfeiffer, premiers.[12]
- April 30: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton's Porky's Hare Hunt premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It's a Porky Pig cartoon which is basically a remake of Porky's Duck Hunt, only with a hare instead of a duck. This hare marks the debut of The Happy Rabbit, a prototypical version of the character who would later become Bugs Bunny in 1940.[13]
May[]
- May 15: David Hand's Little Hiawatha premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It marks the debut of Hiawatha who will later become a popular comics character.[14]
- May 22: Friz Freleng's Clean Pastures premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation .[15]
- May 29: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Modern Inventions premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios.[16]
June[]
- June 5: Tex Avery's Uncle Tom's Bungalow premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[17]
October[]
- October 15: Ben Sharpsteen's Clock Cleaners, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, is released.[18][19]
November[]
- November 5: Wilfred Jackson's The Old Mill premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It marks the first use of the multiplane camera.[20]
- November 26: The Popeye cartoon Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves premiers, produced by the Fleischer Studios.[21]
December[]
- December 2: Ferdinand Diehl, Paul Diehl and Hermann Diehl's The Seven Ravens premiers, which is notable for being an animated feature film, several weeks before Disney's own animated feature film Snow White premiers.[22] However, The Seven Ravens is done in stop-motion, while Snow White features pencil animation.
- December 21: Walt Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiers, co-directed by David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce and Ben Sharpsteen. It becomes a global box office hit.[22]
- December 24: Burt Gillett's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy film Lonesome Ghosts premiers, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.[23]
Births[]
January[]
- January 1: Bernard Longpré, Canadian animator and animated director (Monsieur Pointu), (d. 2002).[24]
- January 2: Terence Rigby, British actor (voice of Silver in Watership Down), (d. 2008).[25]
- January 11: Felix Silla, American actor (additional voice in The Lord of the Rings), (d. 2021).[26]
- January 31: Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (voice of Zira in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Yubaba and Zeniba in the english dub of Spirited Away), (d. 2008).
February[]
- February 15: Ron Dias, American animator and painter (worked for Don Bluth and Walt Disney Company), (d. 2013).[27]
- February 17: Benjamin Whitrow, British actor (voice of Fowler in Chicken Run), (d. 2017).[28]
March[]
- March 3: Bobby Driscoll, American actor (voice of Peter Pan in Peter Pan), (d. 1968).[citation needed]
April[]
- April 20: George Takei, American actor (voice of Sulu on Star Trek: The Animated Series, First Ancestor in Mulan, and Mulan II, Mr. Fixx on Batman Beyond, Master Sensui on Kim Possible, General Lok Durd on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Galactus on The Super Hero Squad Show, Mr. Littlepot on Amphibia, Himself on The Simpsons, Futurama, and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?).
- April 24: Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director (creator of Pingu), (d. 1993).[29]
May[]
- May 2: Lorenzo Music, American actor (voice of Garfield in Garfield and Friends, Tummi Gummi in Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters) (d. 2001).[30]
- May 26: Monkey Punch, Japanese manga artist (creator of Lupin III). (d. 2019).
July[]
- July 2: Jim Duffy, American animator (Hanna-Barbera, Klasky-Csupo, Duckman), (d. 2012).[31]
- July 6:
- July 12: Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor (Created Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, (where he voiced the title character, Mushmouth, William "Bill" Cosby Mudfoot Brown, The Brown Hornet) Little Bill, and co-created Fatherhood).
- July 13: Hurey, Belgian animator (worked for Belvision) and comics artist, (d. 2001).[35]
September[]
- September 2: Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (voice of Green Goblin on Spider-Man, Professor Coldheart on Care Bears, Bert Racoon on The Raccoons, Minimus P.U. on Atomic Betty), (d. 2006).
- September 6: Jo Anne Worley, American actress and comedienne (voice of Armoire the Wardrobe in Beauty and the Beast, Hopopotamus on The Wuzzles).
- September 10: Brian Murray, South African actor and theatre director (voice of Long John Silver in Treasure Planet), (d. 2018).[36]
- September 13: Don Bluth, American film director and animator (The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Anastasia, Titan A.E.).
- September 15: Anatoly Petrov, Russian animated film director and animator (Happy Merry-Go-Round, Polygon), (d. 2010).[37] He was survived by his wife Galina Barinova (born 1939) and their daughter Galina Petrova (1960—2016), also an artist and animator.[38]
- September 21: Ron Cobb, American cartoonist, animator, film set designer, TV director and scriptwriter (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2020).[39]
October[]
- October 20: Jonas Rodrigues de Mello, Brazilian actor (voice of Shadowseat in Cassiopeia, Montanha in The Happy Cricket and the Giant Bugs, Brazilian dub of various villains in Dragonball Z, Brazilian dub voice of Rataxes in The Adventures of Babar), (d. 2020).[40]
November[]
- November 6: Eugene Pitt, American musician (composed the theme music of Nickelodeon), (d. 2018).[41]
December[]
- December 1: Gennady Sokolsky, Russian children's book illustrator, animator and animated film director (Happy Merry-Go-Round, Well, Just You Wait!, The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin), (d. 2014).[42]
Deaths[]
July[]
- July 20: Elmer Wait, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Elmer Fudd was named after him), dies at age 23.[43]
See also[]
Sources[]
- ^ Don Donald Archived February 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts
- ^ Die Schlacht um Miggershausen at IMDb
- ^ Magician Mickey at IMDb
- ^ Moose Hunters at IMDb
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Picador Porky (A Vitaphone Production)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ^ "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
- ^ Barrier, Michael. "A Day in the Life: MGM, March 4, 1953". Michaelbarrier.com. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "POPEYE MONUMENT, 1939. Statue of the comic strip character Popeye erected on 26 March 1937 in Crystal City, Texas which became known as the spinach capital of the world". Granger Historical Picture Archive. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
- ^ "Spinach Capital of the World". daytrippintexas.com. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
- ^ Porkey's Romance at IMDb
- ^ Porky's Duck Hunt at IMDb
- ^ Mickey's Amateurs at IMDb
- ^ The Happy Rabbit at IMDb
- ^ Little Hiawatha at IMDb
- ^ Clean Pastures at IMDb
- ^ Modern Inventions at IMDb
- ^ https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5263-Uncle-Toms-Bungalow[bare URL]
- ^ Clock Cleaners Archived 2011-03-17 at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts
- ^ Clock Cleaners at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- ^ Thomas, Bob. Walt Disney: An American Original. Simon & Schuster, 1976, p. 134.
- ^ "Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves". The Big Cartoon Database. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
- ^ a b "Walt Disney". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved January 20, 2021.[better source needed]
- ^ Lonesome Ghosts at IMDb
- ^ "Canadian Film Encyclopedia - Bernard Longpré". legacy.tiff.net. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726600/
- ^ "Felix Silla, Cousin Itt on 'The Addams Family,' Dies at 84". Variety. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ C. Edwards (August 3, 2013). "Background Painter Ron Dias Dies at 76". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ Quinn, Michael (October 11, 2017). "Obituary: Benjamin Whitrow | Obituaries".
- ^ SILVIO MAZZOLA (October 20, 1993). "Obituary: Otmar Gutmann". The Independent.
- ^ "Lorenzo Music -- Actor, 64 (Published 2001)". The New York Times. Associated Press. August 8, 2001. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
- ^ "Animator Jim Duffy dies at 75, He was key figure at L.A.'s Klasky Csupo". Variety. 26 March 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ Coyle, Jake (2021-06-13). "Ned Beatty, titanic character actor of 'Network,' dies at 83". CTVNews. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
- ^ Barnes, Mike (2021-06-13). "Ned Beatty, Acclaimed Character Actor in 'Deliverance,' 'Network' and 'Homicide: Life on the Street,' Dies at 83". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
- ^ "Ro Marcenaro". lambiek.net. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- ^ "Hurey". lambiek.net. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- ^ "Tony Nominee Brian Murray Passes Away at 80". BroadwayWorld. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ Famous Russian animator Anatoly Petrov died by Vesti.ru, March 3, 2010 (in Russian)
- ^ Gailna Petrova at Animator.ru
- ^ "Ron Cobb". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Ator Jonas Mello, de 'Flor do Caribe', morre aos 83 anos". November 19, 2020.
- ^ "Doo-Wop Singer Eugene Pitt Passes". Allaccess.com. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ Legendary Russian Animator Sokolsky Dies At 78 by Radio "Liberty", December 27, 2014.
- ^ Elmer Wait at IMDb[better source needed]
External links[]
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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