1949 in animation
| Years in animation: | 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 |
Events in 1949 in animation.
Events[]
January[]
- January 22: Tex Avery's classic Bad Luck Blackie premieres, produced by MGM. It marks the debut of a prototypical version of Spike the Bulldog.[1]
- January 30: The first episode of Adventures of Pow Wow is broadcast.[2]
February[]
- February 26: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Polka-Dot Puss, produced by MGM, premieres. It's the first cartoon to use the classic Tom & Jerry theme music as its intro, composed by Scott Bradley.[3]
March[]
- March 24: 21st Academy Awards: The Tom & Jerry cartoon The Little Orphan wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[4]
April[]
- April 9: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny cartoon Rebel Rabbit premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[5]
May[]
- May 13: Dallas Bower's Alice in Wonderland premieres which has stop-motion sequences by Lou Bunin.[6]
June[]
- June 11: Tex Avery's classic short The House of Tomorrow premieres, produced by MGM.
- June 25: Chuck Jones' classic Bugs Bunny short Long-Haired Hare premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[7]
July[]
- July 9: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Heavenly Puss premieres, produced by MGM.[8]
- July 30: Tex Avery’s Doggone Tired premieres, produced by MGM.[9]
August[]
- August 27: Bob McKimson's The Windblown Hare premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons which stars Bugs Bunny, the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs.[5]
September[]
- September 1: Crusader Rabbit becomes the first animated series directly made for television.[10][11]
- September 17: Chuck Jones' Fast and Furry-ous premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, which marks the debut of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.[12]
October[]
- October 1: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Love That Pup, produced by MGM, starring Tom & Jerry, is first released. It marks the debut of Tyke the pup.[13]
- October 5: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.[14]
- October 8: Voice actor Mel Blanc loses a trial against animation producer Walter Lantz, whom he'd sued for unauthorized use of his voice and laugh for the character Woody Woodpecker. Blanc had voiced the character in his three first cartoons, before Warner Brothers took an exclusivity contract on him. However Lantz had kept using audio recordings of Woody's laugh and had other actors imitate the voice. The judge rules that Blanc has no case since he didn't copyright Woody's voice.[15] However, Lantz does settle the case out of court and pays him some compensation afterwards.[16]
Specific date unknown[]
- Karel Zeman's Inspiration premieres.[17]
Films released[]
Television series debuts[]
Births[]
February[]
- February 8: John Swartzwelder, American comedy writer (The Simpsons).
- February 12: Tommy Luske, American actor (voice of Michael Darling in Peter Pan), (d. 1990).[18]
- February 18: Pat Fraley, American voice actor (voice of Krang, Casey Jones and Baxter Stockman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
April[]
- April 6: Tonino Accolla, Italian voice actor (Italian dub voice of Homer Simpson in The Simpsons), (d. 2013).[19]
- April 25: Augstí Ascensio Saurí, aka Asen, Spanish animator and comics artist (worked on El mago de los sueños), (d. 1994) in a car accident.[20]
May[]
- May 21: Will Ryan, American voice actor, singer and musician, (voice of Petrie in The Land Before Time, Willie the Giant in Mickey's Christmas Carol, House of Mouse, and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Scrooge McDuck in Sport Goofy in Soccermania, Pete in Mickey's Christmas Carol, and Ducktales, Grubby in The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, The Seahorse Herald in The Little Mermaid, Wall in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi), (d. 2021).[21]
- May 26: Arlene Klasky, American animator (co-founder of Klasky Csupo).
- May 27: Jo Ann Harris, American actress (voice of Tina in Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Richard, Lewis and other various characters in The Simpsons, Felicia in What-a-Mess).
- May 29: Robert Axelrod, American actor (voice of Lord Zedd and Finster in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Microchip in Spider-Man, English voice of Wizardmon and Vademon in Digimon Adventure), (d. 2019).[22]
June[]
- June 15: Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (voice of Slinky Dog in Toy Story, and Toy Story 2, Jebidiah 'Cookie' Farnsworth in Atlantis: The Lost Empire), (d. 2000).
- June 29:
- Roger Allers, American animator and film director.
- Greg Burson, American voice actor (voice of Mr. DNA in Jurassic Park, voice replacement for all characters performed by Mel Blanc and Daws Butler), (d. 2008).[23]
July[]
- July 12: Judy Freudberg, American writer (An American Tail, The Land Before Time), (d. 2012).
- July 22: Alan Menken, American music composer, songwriter, conductor, music director and record director.
August[]
- August 9: Don Vanderbeek, American background artist (All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, Johnny Bravo, Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure, Make Way for Noddy, The Simpsons), (d. 2014).[24][25]
- August 30: Christopher Collins, American voice actor (voice of Starscream in The Transformers, Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Mr. Burns and Moe Szyslak in season 1 of The Simpsons), (d. 1994).[26]
September[]
- September 19: Ernie Sabella, American actor (voice of Pumbaa in The Lion King franchise).
- September 21: Irene Mecchi, American screenwriter (The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Brave).
October[]
- October 8: Sigourney Weaver, American actress (voice of the Female Planet Express Ship in the Futurama episode Love and Rocket, Frieda in Happily N'Ever After, Axiom Computer in WALL-E, the Narrator in The Tale of Despereaux, Lady Starblaster in Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, The Myth Speaker in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance episode End. Begin. All the Same., voiced herself in Finding Dory).
- October 25:
- Ross Bagdasarian Jr., American cartoonist, animator, voice actor, writer, producer and director (the son of the creator of Alvin and The Chipmunks).
- Bill Kovacs, American animator (Tron), (d. 2006).[27]
December[]
- December 7: Jymn Magon, American television writer (The Disney Afternoon).
- December 23: Judy Strangis, American actress (voice of Groovia in The Roman Holidays, Merilee in Butch Cassidy, Rota Ree in Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch).
- December 24: Ray Colcord, American film and television composer (The Simpsons episode Dead Putting Society), (d. 2016).[28]
Specific date unknown[]
- Sally Cruikshank, American cartoonist and animator (Sesame Street, Quasi at the Quackadero).
Deaths[]
March[]
- March 6: Storm P., Danish comics artist, animator, illustrator, painter and comedian (Tre små mænd), passes away at age 66.[29]
October[]
- October 1: Buddy Clark, American singer (singer and narrator in Melody Time), dies in a plane crash at age 37.[30]
December[]
- December 25: Leon Schlesinger, American film producer (Leon Schlesinger Productions, head of Warner Bros. Cartoons), dies from a viral infection at age 65.[31]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Bad Luck Blackie". 22 January 1949. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Adventures of Pow Wow". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Polka-Dot Puss (MGM)".
- ^ "The 21st Academy Awards (1949) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- ^ a b "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Alice in Wonderland (1949) - IMDb". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Long-Haired Hare". 25 June 1949. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Heavenly Puss (MGM)".
- ^ "Doggone Tired (MGM)".
- ^ "Crusader Rabbit (TV Series 1950–1957) - IMDb". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2006). Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film And Television's Award-Winning And Legendary Animators. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 348–349. ISBN 978-1557836717. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Fast And Furry-Ous (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Love That Pup (MGM)".
- ^ "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad". 6 January 1950. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Billboard". 15 October 1949.
- ^ "Walter Lantz".
- ^ Karel Zeman Museum, "Filmography", MuzeumKarlaZemana.cz, archived from the original on 2 February 2015, retrieved 3 February 2015
- ^ "Tommy Luske". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- ^ È morto Tonino Accolla, voce italiana di Homer Simpson e Eddie Murphy (in Italian)
- ^ "Agustí Asensio Saurí". lambiek.net. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- ^ "News From ME - Mark Evanier's blog". www.newsfromme.com. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ Real, Evan (September 8, 2019). "Robert Axelrod, 'Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' Voice Actor, Dies at 70". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ^ Evanier, Mark (August 1, 2008). "Greg Burson, R.I.P." NewsFromMe.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
- ^ Moss, Meredith (February 12, 2014). "Don Vanderbeek, former Dayton Daily News art director, dies in California". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
- ^ "Don Vanderbeek". IMDb.
- ^ Woolhouse, Adam (April 4, 2014). "10 Voice-Actor Deaths That Impacted The Simpsons". WhatCulture.com. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
- ^ http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=LOCAL&ID=564745589858893989&Archive=false Santa Barbara News-Press, "Wavefront founder dies at age 56" 2 June 2006
- ^ The Society of Composers & Lyricists - "SCL Special Announcement" Retrieved 02-07-2016.
- ^ "Storm P." lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Buddy Clark". IMDb. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ Ellenberger, Allan R. (May 1, 2001). Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory. McFarland. ISBN 9780786450190. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
External links[]
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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