1946 in animation

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Years in animation: 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
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Years: 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

Events in 1946 in animation.

Events[]

January[]

  • January 4: Terrytoons produces The Thieving Magpies, in which Heckle and Jeckle make their debut.[1]
  • January 5: Bob Clampett's Book Revue premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[2]

February[]

  • February 2: Friz Freleng's Baseball Bugs is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny.[3]

March[]

  • March 7: 18th Academy Awards: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Quiet Please!, produced by MGM, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[4]
  • March 8: Jack Hannah's Goofy cartoon A Knight for a Day, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.[5]
  • March 9: Tex Avery's Lonesome Lenny premieres, produced by MGM. It's the final Screwy Squirrel cartoon.[6]
  • March 16: Bob Clampett's Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cartoon Baby Bottleneck premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[7]
  • March 20: Bob McKimson's Hollywood Canine Canteen premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, which caricatures Hollywood actors as anthropomorphic dogs.[8]

April[]

  • April 20: Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Joshua Meador's Make Mine Music, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. The anthology film consists of the animated segments The Martins and the Coys, Blue Bayou, All the Cats Join In, Without You, Casey at the Bat, Two Silhouettes, Peter and the Wolf, After You've Gone, Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnett and Willie the Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met.[9]

May[]

  • May 16: Svend Methling directs the first Danish animated feature film, The Tinderbox, based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, animated by Børge Ring.[10]
  • May 18: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Milky Waif is first released, produced by MGM, which marks the debut of Nibbles.[11]
  • May 25: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Hair-Raising Hare is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. It marks the debut of Gossamer.[12]

June[]

  • June 8: Bob Clampett's Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat cartoon Kitty Kornered is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[13]
  • June 22: Friz Freleng's Hollywood Daffy premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, in which Daffy Duck visits Hollywood and meets and impersonates a lot of celebrity actors.[14]
  • June 28: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Double Trouble premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. In this cartoon Donald uses a well-mannered lookalike to make a good impression on Daisy Duck.[15]
  • June 29: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Trap Happy, produced by MGM, is first released.[16]

July[]

  • July 20: Bob Clampett's Daffy Duck cartoon The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[17]

August[]

September[]

  • September 6: George Pal's John Henry and the Inky-Poo premieres.[21]
  • September 14: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Racketeer Rabbit is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[22]
  • September 28: Chuck Jones' Fair and Worm-er premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[23]

October[]

  • October 5: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny short The Big Snooze is first released. This is the final Warner Bros. Cartoons cartoon directed by him, as Clampett retires.[24]
  • October 26: Tex Avery's Henpecked Hoboes premieres, produced by MGM which marks the debut of George and Junior.[25]

November[]

  • November 1: The Walt Disney Company produces The Story of Menstruation, an educational film for young teenagers about menstruation.[26]
  • November 9: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Rhapsody Rabbit premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[27]
  • November 12: Song of the South, a film which combines live-action with animation, is first released. The live-action scenes are directed by Harve Foster, while the animated scenes are directed by Wilfred Jackson and produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It marks the debut of the characters Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear who will become popular comics characters. As the decades pass by Song of the South is frequently accused of promoting racial stereotypes and romanticizing slavery.[28]

December[]

  • December 20: Jack Hannah's Goofy cartoon Double Dribble, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.[29]

Specific date unknown[]

  • Karel Zeman's Podkova pro štěstí ("Horseshoe for Luck") premieres which marks the debut of Mr. Prokouk.[30]

Films released[]

Main article: List of animated feature films of the 1940s

Births[]

February[]

March[]

April[]

  • April 19: Tim Curry, English actor (voice of Taurus Bulba in Darkwing Duck, Captain Hook in Peter Pan and the Pirates, Hexus in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Lord Dragonus in Mighty Ducks, Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys, Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Ben Ravencroft in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, second voice of Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars).
  • April 23: Michael Sporn, American animator and animated film director (Doctor DeSoto, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers) and producer (Michael Sporn Animation), (d. 2014).[33]
  • April 26: Claude Viseur, aka Clovis, Belgian comic artist and animator (Belvision), (d. 2018). [34]
  • April 29: Wayne Robson, Canadian voice actor (voice of Frank the frill-necked lizard in The Rescuers Down Under), (d. 2011).[35]
  • April 30: Bill Plympton, American animator.

May[]

  • May 1: Nellie Bellflower, American actress and voice artist (voice of Princess Ariel in Thundarr the Barbarian).
  • May 6: Larry Huber, American television producer, writer and animator (Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, co-creator of ChalkZone).
  • May 10: Donovan, Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist (voiced himself in the Futurama episode The Deep South).

June[]

  • June 28: Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (various voices in Animalympics), (d. 1989).[36]

July[]

  • July 13: Cheech Marin, American actor (voice of Tito in Oliver & Company, Stump in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Banzai in The Lion King, and The Lion King 1/2, Ramone in the Cars Franchise).
  • July 17: Giannalberto Bendazzi, Italian animation historian (Cartoons - 100 Years of Cinema Animation), (d. 2021).[37][38]

August[]

September[]

  • September 11: Julie Payne, American actress (voice of Dr. Liz Wilson in the Garfield franchise).

October[]

November[]

  • November 20: Samuel E. Wright, American actor and singer (voice of Sebastian in The Little Mermaid, Kron the Iguanodon in Dinosaur), (d. 2021).[42]

December[]

Deaths[]

January[]

  • January 2: O'Galop, French painter, illustrator, graphic designer, animator and comics artist, passes away at age 78.[43]

November[]

  • November 9: Scotty Mattraw, American actor (voice of Bashful in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 66.[44]
  • November 26: Charles Bowers, American comedian, animator and cartoonist (Raoul Barré, Walter Lantz), dies at age 59.

See also[]

References[]

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