1954 in animation
Events in 1954 in animation.
Events
January
- January 30: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Posse Cat, produced by MGM, is first released.[1]
March
- March 5: The Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Diary premiers, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, directed by Jack Kinney.[2]
- March 25: 26th Academy Awards: The Walt Disney Company's Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3]
June
- June 19: Bob McKimson's Devil May Hare premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, which marks the debut of the Tasmanian Devil.[5]
July
- July 24: Chuck Jones' Bewitched Bunny premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, which marks the debut of Witch Hazel.[6]
- July 31: Dick Lundy's Bird-Brain Bird Dog, produced by MGM, premiers. It's the final theatrical Barney Bear cartoon. [7]
August
- August 7: Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester short Satan's Waitin', produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.[8]
- August 13: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Grin and Bear It premiers, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It marks the debut of park ranger J. Audubon Woodlore.[9]
October
- October 10: John Paul's Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy premiers.[10]
- October 16: Chuck Jones' From A to Z-Z-Z-Z is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[11]
- October 27: The first episode of Walt Disney anthology television series airs under the title Walt Disney's Disneyland.[12]
December
- December 4: Tex Avery's Dixieland Droopy premiers, produced by MGM.[13]
- December 20: After having left the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Tex Avery joins Walter Lantz Productions. He directs his first animated short for this studio, I'm Cold, which stars Chilly Willy.
- December 29: Halas and Batchelor release Animal Farm, an adaptation of George Orwell's eponymous novel. It's the first British animated feature-length film.[14]
- Specific date unknown:
- Mikhail Tsekhanovsky's The Frog Princess premiers.
- Pete Burness' Mr. Magoo short film When Magoo Flew, produced by UPA, premiers.[15]
Films released
Television series
Births
January
- January 6: David Sproxton, English animator, director and producer (co-creator of Morph and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio).
- January 7: Sander Schwartz, American producer of television animation (Warner Bros. Animation).
- January 17: Igor Kovalyov, Russian-born, American animator, director and educator (Klasky Csupo).
February
- February 15: Matt Groening, American comics artist and animator (The Simpsons, Futurama, Disenchantment) [16]
April
- April 13: Glen Keane, American animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios The Chipmunk Adventure, Dear Basketball, Over the Moon).
May
- May 21: Janice Karman, American voice actress, producer and director (the creator of The Chipettes and the wife of Ross Bagdasarian Jr.).
June
- June 2: Richard Sala, American comics artist, illustrator and animator (made animation for Liquid Television), (d. 2020).[17]
August
- August 4: Martin Pasko, Canadian-American comics writer and animation writer (Thundarr the Barbarian, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman: The Animated Series), (d. 2020).[18]
- August 13: Peter Hannan, American producer, animator, singer-songwriter, author, illustrator, and artist (creator of CatDog).
November
- November 5: Mike Gabriel, American animator and film director (Walt Disney Animation Studios).
- November 28: Marty Grabstein, American actor (voice of Courage the Cowardly Dog).
Specific date unknown
- Nina Elias-Bamberger, American producer (Sesame Street, Big Bag, Dragon Tales), (d. 2002).[19]
Deaths
November
- November 22: Moroni Olsen, American actor (voice of the Slave in the Magic Mirror in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 65.[20]
December
- December 6: Bill Nolan, American animator, director and animation writer (Pat Sullivan, Margaret J. Winkler, Walter Lantz, MGM), dies at age 60.[21]
References
- "Posse Cat". 30 January 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Donald's Diary". 5 March 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- "Billy Boy". 8 May 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Bewitched Bunny". 24 July 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 53. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- "Satan's Waitin'". 7 August 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Grin And Bear It (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Hansel and Gretel". 24 December 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z". 16 October 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- Griffin, Sean. "Walt Disney Programs". Encyclopedia of Television. Museum of Broadcast Communications. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- "Dixieland Droopy". 4 December 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- John Reed (2013-04-12). "Animal Farm Timeline". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
Animal Farm ... premieres in New York City at the chic Paris Theatre, December 29, 1954.
- "When Magoo Flew". 1954. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "When and where was Matt Groening born?". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on February 7, 2008. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- "Richard Sala". lambiek.net.
- Johnston, Rich (May 11, 2020). "Marty Pasko, Writer on Superman, Doctor Fate and Roseanne, Dies At 65". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- "Nina Elias-Bamberger". IMDb.
- Hischak, Thomas S. (6 October 2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 9780786486946.
- "William Nolan". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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