1938 in animation
This is a list of events in 1938 in animation.
Films released
January
- January 1: Tex Avery's Daffy Duck & Egghead, starring Daffy Duck, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is released.[1]
- January 28: Riding the Rails, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[2]
February
- February 7: Bob Clampett's Breakdowns of 1938 is made, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, an blooper reel made exclusively for Warner Brothers' personnel and not released in theaters. The film is notable for a scene where Porky Pig says: "Son of a bitch!".[3]
- February 11: Jack King's Self Control, starring Donald Duck, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[4]
- February 19:
- Friz Freleng's Jungle Jitters, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[5]
- The Captain and the Kids film series, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, debuts with their first cartoon Cleaning House.[6]
- February 25:
- Be Up to Date, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[7]
- Ben Sharpsteen's Boat Builders, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is first released.[8]
- February 26: Bob Clampett's What Price Porky starring Porky Pig, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is released.[9]
March
- March 10: Jack King's Donald's Better Self, starring Donald Duck, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, is first released.[10]
- 10th Academy Awards:
- Walt Disney's The Old Mill wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[11]
- Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, but loses to One Hundred Men and a Girl. However, a year later the Academy will give Snow White 8 special Academy Awards.[12]
- 10th Academy Awards:
- March 25: Honest Love and True, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[13]
April
- April 1: Burt Gillett's Moth and the Flame, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is first released.[14]
- April 15: Jack King's Donald's Nephews, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released. It marks the on-screen debut of Huey, Louie and Dewey, who had already debuted in Al Taliaferro's Donald Duck comic strip a year earlier.[15][16]
- April 16: Bob Clampett's Porky's Five & Ten, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Porky Pig is first released.[17]
- April 22: Out of the Inkwell, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[18]
- April 23: Tex Avery's The Penguin Parade, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[19]
- April 30: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton's Porky's Hare Hunt is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Porky Pig. Porky is hunting a rabbit, who is a prototypical version of Bugs Bunny. Since Ben Bugs Hardaway designed him, the character will later be named Bugs' Bunny.[20]
May
- May 6: Ben Sharpsteen's Mickey's Trailer, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[21]
- May 14: Frank Tashlin's Now That Summer is Gone, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[22]
- May 27:
- The Swing School, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[23]
- Graham Heid's Wynken, Blynken and Nod, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, is first released.[24]
- May 28: Friz Freleng's The Isle of Pingo Pongo, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[25]
June
- June 11: Cal Howard and Cal Dalton's Katnip Kollege, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[26]
- June 17: Ben Sharpsteen's Polar Trappers, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[27]
- June 24: Pudgy and the Lost Kitten, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[28]
- June 25:
- Frank Tashlin's Have You Got Any Castles?, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[29]
- Bob Clampett's Porky's Party, starring Porky Pig, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[30]
July
- July 8: Jack King's Good Scouts, starring Donald Duck, Huey, Louie and Dewey, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[31]
- July 9: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton's Love and Curses, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[32]
- July 23: Tex Avery's Cinderella Meets Fella, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[33]
- July 25: Frank Tashlin's Porky's Spring Planting, starring Porky Pig, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[34]
- July 29:
- Buzzy Boop, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[35]
- Ben Sharpsteen's The Fox Hunt, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[36]
August
- August 6: Bob Clampett's Porky & Daffy, starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[37]
- August 12: Pudgy the Watchman, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[38]
- August 13: Frank Tashlin's The Major Lied 'Til Dawn, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[39]
- August 19: David Hand and Dick Huemer's The Whalers, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[40]
- August 26: All's Fair at the Fair, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[41]
- August 27:
- Cal Dalton and Cal Howard's A-Lad-In Bagdad, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[42]
- Frank Tashlin's Wholly Smoke, starring Porky Pig, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[43]
September
- September 9: Bill Roberts' Mickey's Parrot, starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[44]
- September 10: Frank Tashlin's Cracked Ice, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[45]
- September 16: Buzzy Boop at the Concert, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[46]
- September 23: Bill Roberts' Brave Little Tailor , starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[47]
- September 24:
- Tex Avery's A Feud There Was starring Egghead, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[48]
- Bob Clampett's Porky in Wackyland starring Porky Pig, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released. It marks the debut of the Do-Do Bird. The cartoon is notable for being the most surreal Warner Bros. cartoon up to that moment.[49][50]
October
- October 8: Bob McKimson's Little Pancho Vanilla, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[51]
- October 14:
- Jack Cutting's Farmyard Symphony, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is first released.[52]
- Sally Swing, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[53]
- October 22: Tex Avery's Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas, starring Egghead, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[54]
- October 28: The Playful Polar Bears, produced by Fleischer Studios, is first released.[55]
November
- November 4: Jack King and Jim Handley's Donald's Golf Game, starring Donald Duck, Huey, Louie and Dewey, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[56]
- November 5:
- Bob Clampett's Porky in Egypt, starring Porky Pig, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[57] The cartoon is notable for a scene where a camel loses his mind because of a heat stroke.[58]
- Frank Tashlin's You're an Education, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[59]
- November 18: A Date to Skate, starring Popeye, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is first released.[60]
- November 19: Chuck Jones' The Night Watchman, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[61]
- November 25: Dick Rickard's Ferdinand the Bull, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[62]
- November 26: Bob Clampett's The Daffy Doc, starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[63]
December
- December 2: On with the New, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[64]
- December 9: Rudolf Ising and Vernon Stallings' Merbabies, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released.[65]
- December 12: Tex Avery's Daffy Duck in Hollywood, starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[66] The cartoon is notable for various scenes which combine animation with live-action, including a scene where Daffy talks with producer Leon Schlesinger.
- December 17: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton's Count Me Out (1938) starring Egghead, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.
- December 23:
- Wilfred Jackson's Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, is released. A cartoon featuring caricatures of Hollywood actors.[67]
- Thrills and Chills, starring Betty Boop, produced by the Fleischer Studios, is released.[68]
Specific date unknown
- The manga Norakuro is adapted into an anime film, directed by Mitsuyo Seo.[69]
Births
January
- January 6: Michael Graham Cox, British actor (voice of Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, Bigwig in Watership Down), (d. 1995).
- January 7: Roland Topor, French novelist, illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, film script writer, TV script writer, animator and playwright (Les Escargots, Fantastic Planet), (d. 1998).[70]
- January 16
- Michael Pataki, American voice actor (The Cow in Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, George Liquor in Ren & Stimpy, Sewer King in Batman: The Animated Series, the Chief in Boo Boo Runs Wild), (d. 2010).[71][72]
- Michael J. O'Connor, American animator (worked on The Simpsons), (d. 1992).
February
- February 3: Petar Gligorovski, Macedonian painter, comics artist, animator and animated film director (Adam 5 do 12), (d. 1995).[73]
March
- March 12: Ken Spears, American animation writer, sound editor and producer (Hanna-Barbera, co-creator of Scooby-Doo, co-founder of Ruby-Spears Productions), (d. 2020).
- March 24: Noboru Ishiguro, Japanese animated film director, producer and screenwriter (Space Battleship Yamato II, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Century Orguss, Humanoid Monster Bem, Megazone 23, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Tytania), (d. 2012).[74][75]
May
- May 8: Jean Giraud, French artist, cartoonist, and writer (Les Maitres du temps, Tron, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, Space Jam), (d. 2012).
- May 16: Don Morgan, American animator (UPA, Chuck Jones, Walt Disney Animation, Ralph Bakshi, Hanna-Barbera) and comics artist, (d. 2019).[76]
June
- June 6: Vladimír Jiránek, Czech animator, illustrator and film director (co-creator of Pat & Mat), (d. 2012).[77]
- June 27: Kathryn Beaumont, English-American actress (voice of Alice in Alice in Wonderland, Wendy Darling in Peter Pan).
July
- July 1: Aleksandr Kurlyandsky, Russian animation screenwriter (Well, Just You Wait!) and author, (d. 2020).[78]
- July 27: Gary Gygax, American author, game designer (co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, voiced himself in the Futurama episode Anthology of Interest I), (d. 2008).[79]
October
- October 22: Christopher Lloyd, American actor (Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, voice of Merlock in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Grigori Rasputin in Anastasia, The Hacker on Cyberchase, The Woodsman in Over the Garden Wall, Santa Claus in Big City Greens).
November
- November 28: Shingo Araki, Japanese animated film and TV director (Mushi Production, Toei Animation, Tokyo Movie Shinshia) and producer (co-founder of Toei Animation), (d. 2011).[80]
December
- December 19: Danny Dark, American voice actor (voice of Superman in Super Friends), (d. 2004).
Deaths
January
- January 20:
- Émile Cohl, French comics artist, caricaturist and animated film director (Fantasmagorie), dies at age 81.[81]
- Georges Méliès, French film director, actor, special effects maker and animator (A Trip to the Moon), passes away at age 76.[82][83]
October
- October 13: E.C. Segar, American comics artist (creator of Popeye), dies at age 44.[84]
November
- November 11: Fred Spencer, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 34 in a road accident.[85]
- November 12: Amedee J. Van Beuren, American producer (Van Beuren Studios), dies at age 59.
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- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/5285-What-Price-Porky
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/4208-Donalds-Better-Self
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- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/322-Porkys-Five-Ten
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/1523-Out-Of-The-Inkwell
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- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3993-Mickeys-Trailer
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- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/6429-Wynken-Blynken-And-Nod
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/118-Isle-Of-Pingo-Pongo
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/468-Katnip-Kollege
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3960-Polar-Trappers
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1710-Pudgy-And-The-Lost-Kitten
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/549-Have-You-Got-Any-Castles
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/310-Porkys-Party
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/4022-Good-Scouts
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/434-Love-And-Curses
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3732-Cinderella-Meets-Fella
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/297-Porkys-Spring-Planting
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1781-Buzzy-Boop
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3848-Fox-Hunt
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/345-Porky-Daffy
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1654-Pudgy-The-Watchman
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/109-Major-Lied-Til-Dawn
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3982-Whalers
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/1646-Alls-Fair-At-The-Fair
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/4406-Lad-In-Bagdad
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5295-Wholly-Smoke
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3987-Mickeys-Parrot
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3719-Cracked-Ice
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/1755-Buzzy-Boop-At-The-Concert
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External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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