1939 in animation
| Years in animation: | 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s |
| Years: | 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 |
This is a list of events related to film and television animation of 1939.
Events[]
January[]
- January 27: Walter Lantz's Life Begins for Andy Panda premiers, which marks the debut of Andy Panda.[1][2]
- January 28: Tex Avery's Hamateur Night premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[3]
February[]
- February 18: Hamilton Luske's Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Surprise Party premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios.[4]
- February 23: 11th Academy Awards: The Walt Disney Company's Ferdinand the Bull, directed by Dick Rickard, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[5]
- February 25: Milt Gross' Count Screwloose cartoon Jitterbug Follies premiers, produced by MGM.[6]
March[]
- March 11: Tex Avery's A Day at the Zoo premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation .[7]
- March 17: The Walt Disney Company releases Goofy and Wilbur, directed by Dick Huemer, which is the first cartoon to star Goofy solo, launching the Goofy animated series.[8]
- March 25: Chuck Jones' Prest-O Change-O premiers.[9]
April[]
- April 7: The Ugly Duckling, directed by Jack Cutting and Clyde Geronimi, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, premiers.[10]
- April 22: Chuck Jones' Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Daffy Duck.[11]
May[]
- May 20: In Chuck Jones' Naughty but Mice, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Sniffles the Mouse makes his debut. [12]
June[]
- June 10: Harman & Ising's The Bear That Couldn't Sleep is released, produced by MGM, which marks the debut of Barney Bear.[13]
July[]
- July 1: Chuck Jones' Porky Pig cartoon Old Glory premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, which stands out for being a very serious and educational propaganda cartoon about the Pledge of Allegiance.[14]
- July 7: The final Betty Boop cartoon Rhythm on the Reservation, produced by the Fleischer Brothers, premiers.[15]
- July 21: Clyde Geronimi's Mickey Mouse cartoon The Pointer premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. In the cartoon Mickey and Pluto go hunting and encounter a bear.[16]
September[]
- September 1:
- Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon The Autograph Hound premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios.[17]
- BBC One broadcasts the Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Gala Premier, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, on television. Afterwards it ceases all broadcasting because of the outbreak of World War II.[18] An urban legend about this final broadcast claims that due to the sudden outbreak of the war the BBC cut the cartoon short, and when BBC-TV resumed after the conflict, it was picked up at the very point it had been interrupted. Despite this widespread belief, the cartoon was shown in its entirety and then followed by tuning signals. On 7 June 1946, the day BBC television broadcasts resumed after the war, Mickey's Gala Premier was shown again.[19]
October[]
- October 7: Chuck Jones' The Little Lion Hunter premiers, in which Inki and the Mynah Bird make their debut. [20]
December[]
- December 9: Hugh Harman's Peace on Earth premiers, produced by MGM, which will become a classic.[21]
- December 22: The Fleischer Studios release Gulliver's Travels, the second American feature-length animated film.[22]
Specific date unknown[]
- In Antwerp Ray Goossens, Henri Winkeler, Jules Luyckx and Edmond Roex establish their own animation studio, AFIM (Antwerpse Filmmaatschappij). It will exist until 1944.[23]
- Kenzō Masaoka's Benkei tai Ushiwaka premiers.[24]
Films released[]
Births[]
February[]
- February 15: Taichirō Hirokawa, Japanese voice actor, (d. 2008).
- February 27: David Mitton, British TV and animated film director and producer, model maker and special effects technician (Thomas and Friends), (d. 2008).[25]
June[]
- June 26: Stu Rosen, American voice director and actor (Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series), (d. 2019).[26]
April[]
- April 28: Michiyo Yasuda, Japanese animator (Toei Animation, A Production, Nippon Animation, Topcraft, Studio Ghibli), (d. 2016).[27]
July[]
- July 26: Bob Baker, British screenwriter (Wallace and Gromit), (d. 2021).[28]
August[]
- August 16: Carole Shelley, British actress (voice of Amelia Gabble the goose in The Aristocats, Lady Kluck in Robin Hood), (d. 2018).[29]
September[]
- September 1: Lily Tomlin, American actress (voice of Ms. Frizzle on The Magic School Bus, Edith Ann in a series of TV specials May Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).
October[]
- October 2: Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Japanese voice actor (Philip II of Macedon in Reign, Muijika in Mushishi, Hachiroh Tohbe in Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Tonpetty in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood), (d. 2020).[30]
- October 27: John Cleese, English actor and comedian (voice of Cat R. Waul in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, King Harold in The Shrek Sequels, Narrator in Winnie the Pooh, Narrator on episodes of House of Mouse, Quincy Endicott/Adelaide in Over the Garden Wall).
- October 30: Danny Goldman, American voice actor (voice of Brainy Smurf in The Smurfs), (d. 2020).[31]
December[]
- December 26: Ron Campbell, Australian animated film director, producer (Ron Campbell Films, Inc.) and animator (worked on The Beatles, Yellow Submarine, and for Hanna-Barbera, Disney Animation, Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, Duckman), (d. 2021).[32]
Specific date unknown[]
- Suzanne Baker, Australian film producer (produced the Academy Award winning short film Leisure).
- Sam Cornell, American animator, writer (The New 3 Stooges) and storyboard artist (George of the Jungle, Jetsons: The Movie, The Rugrats Movie), (d. 2021).[33]
Deaths[]
January[]
October[]
- October 10: Benjamin Rabier, French comics artist, illustrator, animator and advertising artist (Gédéon, Tintin-Lutin, designed La Vache Qui Rit), passes away at age 74.[36]
December[]
- December 30: Charles Mintz, American animated film producer (Winkler Pictures, continued Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), dies at age 50.[37][38]
Notes[]
- ^ Glenn Collins (March 23, 1994). "Walter Lantz, 93, the Creator Of Woody Woodpecker, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. 2. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- ^ Charles Solomon (1989). Enchanted drawings: the history of animation. Knopf. pp. 90. ISBN 0-394-54684-9.
- ^ "Hamateur Night". IMDb. 28 January 1939.
- ^ "Mickey's Surprise Party". IMDb. 18 February 1939.
- ^ "The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Jitterbug Follies (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ^ "A Day at the Zoo". IMDb. 11 March 1939.
- ^ "Cartoons of 1939: 035 Goofy and Wilber". The Cartoons of Project: 1939. 15 March 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- ^ "Prest-O Change-O". IMDb. 25 March 1939.
- ^ "The Ugly Duckling". www.bcdb.com
- ^ "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur". IMDb. 22 April 1939.
- ^ "Naughty but Mice (Warner Bros.)".
- ^ http://www.toonopedia.com/b_bear.htm Barney Bear
- ^ "Old Glory". IMDb. July 1939.
- ^ "Rhythm on the Reservation". IMDb. 7 July 1939.
- ^ "The Pointer". IMDb. 21 July 1939.
- ^ "The Autograph Hound". IMDb. September 1939.
- ^ Thomson, Ernest C (1 September 2016). "Au Revoir, Television". Transdiffusion. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ^ The TV Room Plus: TV Listings Archived 2012-07-15 at archive.today
- ^ "The Little Lion Hunter (Leon Schlesinger Studios)".
- ^ "Hugh Harman, 79, Creator Of 'Looney Tunes' Cartoons". New York Times. November 30, 1982.
- ^ Bendazzi, p. 91
- ^ "Ray Goossens".
- ^ "Benkei tai Ushiwaka". IMDb.
- ^ "David Mitton". The Daily Telegraph. June 7, 2008. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (August 4, 2019). "Stu Rosen Dies: Emmy Winning 'Dusty's Treehouse' Creator, 'Fraggle Rock' Voice Actor Was 80". Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ "Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle artist dies". The Independent. October 13, 2016. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
- ^ "Doctor Who writer and K9 co-creator Bob Baker dies, aged 82". radiotimes.com. November 5, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
- ^ Slotnik, Daniel E. (4 September 2018). "Carole Shelley, a Tony Winner and a Pigeon Sister, Dies at 79". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ "Yoshisada SAKAGUCHI – Anime News Network". www.animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ Murphy, J. Kim (April 13, 2020). "Danny Goldman, Voice of Brainy Smurf and 'Young Frankenstein' Star, Dies at 80".
- ^ "Cartoonist Ron Campbell dies at 81". WFSA 12 News. January 23, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- ^ "Sam Cornell". IMDb.
- ^ "Victor Bergdahl".
- ^ Bendazzi, p. 45
- ^ "Benjamin Rabier".
- ^ "In Memoriam: Charles Mintz". Scrappyland. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
- ^ Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Social Security Administration.
References[]
- Bendazzi, Giannalberto (1994). Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation. Translated by Anna Taraboletti-Segre. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20937-4.
See also[]
External links[]
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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