1949 in animation
The year 1949 in animation involved some animation-related events.
Events
January
- January 22: Tex Avery's classic Bad Luck Blackie premiers, 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, premiers. 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 premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[5]
May
- May 13: Dallas Bower's Alice in Wonderland premiers, which has stop-motion sequences by Lou Bunin.[6]
June
- June 11: Tex Avery's classic short The House of Tomorrow premiers, produced by MGM.
- June 25: Chuck Jones' classic Bugs Bunny short Long-Haired Hare premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[7]
July
- July 9: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Heavenly Puss premiers, produced by MGM.[8]
- July 30: Tex Avery’s Doggone Tired premiers, produced by MGM.[9]
August
- August 27: Bob McKimson's The Windblown Hare premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, 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 premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, 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, premiers.[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 premiers.[17]
Films released
Television series debuts
Births
February
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 MCC, 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]
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 DNA in Jurassic Park, voice replacement for all characters performed by Mel Blanc and Daws Butler), (d. 2008).[22]
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 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).[23]
October
- 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).[24]
December
- December 7: Jymn Magon, American television writer (The Disney Afternoon).
Deaths
March
October
- October 1: Buddy Clark, American singer (singer and narrator in Melody Time), dies at age 37 in a plane crash.[26]
December
- December 25: Leon Schlesinger, American animated film producer (Leon Schlesinger Productions, head of Warner Bros. Cartoons), dies at age 65.[27]
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.
- "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.
- Evanier, Mark (August 1, 2008). "Greg Burson, R.I.P." NewsFromMe.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
- 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
- "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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