1936 in animation
This is a list of events in 1936 in animation.
Films released
January
- January 4: David Hand's Mickey's Polo Team premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, various other Disney characters and caricatures of Hollywood celebrities like Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Harpo Marx. [1]
- January 17: Somewhere in Dreamland, directed and produced by The Fleischer Brothers, is their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor. [2]
- January 31: In their animated short Betty Boop and the Little King, The Fleischer Brothers provide a crossover between Betty Boop and Otto Soglow's newspaper comic The Little King. [3]
March
- March 5: 8th Academy Awards: Three Orphan Kittens, directed by David Hand and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [4][5]
- March 7: -
- Hugh Harman's The Old Mill Pond premiers, produced by MGM. The cartoon features caricatures of various famous jazz musicians, like Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller. [6]
- Tex Avery's Page Miss Glory, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premiers. [7]
- March 27: Betty Boop and Little Jimmy, directed and produced by The Fleischer Brothers, features a crossover between Betty Boop and Jimmy Swinnerton's series Little Jimmy. [8]
- March 28: Wilfred Jackson's Elmer Elephant, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, premiers. [9]
April
- April 4: Tex Avery's The Blow Out, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premiers. It marks the first cartoon in which side character Porky Pig is given a starring role. [10]
May
- May 2: Friz Freleng's Let It Be Me premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The cartoon features a caricature of popular singer Bing Crosby. The real-life singer feels so offended that he tries to stop the distribution of this particular short. [11] [12] [13]
- May 30:
- Friz Freleng's Bingo Crosbyana premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, another cartoon which caricatures popular singer Bing Crosby. Again Crosby tries to stop the distribution of this particular short. [14]
- David Hand's Mickey Mouse cartoon Thru the Mirror is first released, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. In this cartoon Mickey dreams that he travels through his mirror and, in a memorable scene, dances with a pack of playing cards. [15]
June
- June 20:
- Wilfred Jackson's Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Rival premiers, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Mickey Mouse is pitted against Mortimer Mouse, who tries to fancy his girlfriend Minnie Mouse. [16]
- Ben Sharpsteen's Moving Day is released, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. In the cartoon the characters move out all their furniture, with a memorable scene in which Goofy faces off against a piano which seems to move on its own. [17]
July
- July 18: Tex Avery's I Love to Singa premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. [18]
- Specific date in July unknown: Carl Stalling is hired as composer for the animated cartoons of Warner Bros. Cartoons. [19]
August
- August 8: Friz Freleng's Sunday Go to Meetin' Time premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. [20]
- August 10-31: 4th Venice International Film Festival:
- David Hand's Who Killed Cock Robin, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, wins the award for Best Animation. [21][22]
- Len Lye's experimental animated film A Colour Box is shown at the Venice Film festival, but causes a riot among Nazi supporters, who label it degenerate art and protest the film. They stomp their feet loudly, leading to the three-minute film being stopped before its completion.[23]
- August 22: Frank Tashlin's Porky's Poultry Plant premiers, starring Porky Pig and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. [24]
October
- October 10: Friz Freleng's Boulevardier from the Bronx premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. It is the first Warner Bros. Cartoon to use Merrily We Roll Along as its theme song. [25]
- October 31: Wilfred Jackson's The Country Cousin, produced by Walt Disney Animation, is first released. [26]
November
- November 27: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, produced and directed by The Fleischer Brothers, is released. It is the first Popeye the Sailor cartoon over 16 minutes long and in colour.
- November 28: Friz Freleng's The Coo-Coo Nut Grove is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The cartoon features various caricatures of Hollywood celebrities. [27] [28]
Specific date unknown
- Carlo Campogalliani's The Four Musketeers is released. [29]
- Len Lye's Rainbow Dance is released, a combination of live-action and animation. [30]
- Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya's The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda is abandoned halfway through production. It is never finished. [31]
- Raoul Verdini and Umberto Spano's The Adventures of Pinocchio is an animated film which is never completed, because of technical problems. [32] [33]
Births
January
- January 2: Roger Miller, American singer and actor (voice of Alan-a-Dale the rooster in Robin Hood), (d. 1992).[34]
- January 6: Corinne Orr, Canadian actress (voice of Trixie on Speed Racer).
- January 23: Arlene Golonka, American actress (voice of Debbie on Speed Buggy), (d. 2021).
February
- February 11: Burt Reynolds, American actor (voice of Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go To Heaven, Judge Keaton in the Duckman episode Das Sub, M.F. Thatherton in the King of the Hill episode The Company Man, Senator Buckingham in the American Dad! episode School Lies), (d. 2018).[35]
- February 29: Alex Rocco, American voice actor (voice of Roger Meyers, Jr. in The Simpsons, Thorny in A Bug's Life), (d. 2015).[36]
March
- March: Hu Jinqing, Chinese animator and director (The Fight Between the Snipe and the Clam, Calabash Brothers), (d. 2019).[37]
April
- April 12: Charles Napier, American character actor (voice of Duke Phillips on The Critic, General Hardcastle on Superman: The Animated Series, and Justice League Unlimited, Cooley on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, original voice of The Sheriff on Squidbillies), (d. 2011).
- April 21: Avo Paistik, Estonian animated film director, animator and illustrator (Lend, Tolmuimeja, Klaabu, Nipi ja tige kala, Klaabu kosmoses, Naksitrallid, Naksitrallid II), (d. 2013).[38]
May
- May 13: Arthur Lipsett, Canadian film director and animator (Very Nice, Very Nice, 21-87, A Trip Down Memory Lane), (d. 1986).[39]
- May 17: Mark Hall, British animator and animated film producer (Cosgrove Hall Films, Danger Mouse), (d. 2011).[40]
June
- June 19: Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Space Battleship Yamato, Fist of the North Star), (d. 2012).
- June 20: Derek Lamb, British animator and animated film producer (Special Delivery, the opening credits of Mystery!, co-produced the Sports Cartoons series, played himself in Ryan, made animated shorts for Sesame Street), (d. 2005).[41][42]
July
- July 24: Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedienne (voice of Mama Bear on The Berenstain Bears, Nose Marie on Pound Puppies, Delilah on Sheep in the Big City).
August
- August 11: Mitsutoshi Furuya, Japanese manga artist (Dame Oyaji), (d. 2021).[43]
September
- September 18: Roman Arámbula, Mexican comics artist, animator and lay-out artist (Hanna-Barbera, worked on Pinky and the Brain), (d. 2020).[44]
- September 24: Jim Henson, American puppeteer animator (creator of Muppet Babies), (d. 1990).
October
- October 25: Masako Nozawa, Japanese voice actress (voice of Goku in the Dragon Ball franchise).
- October 26: Reiko Okuyama, Japanese animator (Nippon Animation), (d. 2007).[45]
December
- December 5: John Erwin, American voice actor (voice of He-Man/Prince Adam in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe),
References
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- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- "The 8th Academy Awards (1936) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
- "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Select "1935" in the "Award Year(s)" drop-down menu and press "Search".
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- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5325-Elmer-Elephant
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- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=455
- Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 45. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
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- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/4101-Mickeys-Rival
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/4105-Moving-Day
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- Georgy Borodin. The Story of the Unknown Picture. M. M. Tsekhanovsky's The Tale of a Silly Little Mouse in Documents article from the Notes by Film Historian magazine № 73, 2005 ISSN 0235-8212 (in Russian)
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- "中国经典动画《葫芦兄弟》《鹬蚌相争》导演胡进庆在上海去世-新华网". www.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20090130042324/http://www3.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/filmmakers/Arthur-Lipsett/overview.php Overview of work
- "Danger Mouse co-creator Mark Hall dies". BBC News. November 8, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
- "OSCAR WINNER LAMB LOSES CANCER FIGHT". Contact Music. November 6, 2005. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
- "Tribute to Derek Lamb". Animation World Network. December 22, 2005. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
- "Manga Creator Mitsutoshi Furuya Passes Away at 85". Anime News Network. December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- "Román Arámbula". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2007/09/reiko-okuyama-has-passed-away.html was announced only in September, 2007
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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