1974 in animation
Events in 1974 in animation.
Events
January
- January 31: The first episode of Vicky the Viking airs.[1]
April
- April 2: 46th Academy Awards: Frank Film by Frank Mouris wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3]
May
- 9-24 May: 1974 Cannes Film Festival:
- Peter Foldes' Hunger wins the Special Jury Prize.[4]
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, a sequel to Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat (from 1972) but this time directed by Robert Taylor, becomes the first animated film to be entered at the Cannes Film Festival, but wins no awards.[5] The film is later officially released on 26 June, but flops. Only later will it gain a cult following.[6]
June
- June 15: Cesare Perfetto's Around the World with Peynet's Lovers is first released. .[7][8]
July
- July 8: Charles Swenson's Down and Dirty Duck premiers, featuring the voices of rock singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (aka Flo & Eddie).[9]
September
- September 7: The first episode of Hong Kong Phooey, produced by Hanna-Barbera, is broadcast.[10]
- September 26: The film Dunderklumpen! is first released.[11]
October
- October 6: The first episode of Space Battleship Yamato is broadcast.
- October 16: The first episode of Chapi Chapo airs.
- October 21: The first episode of Roobarb airs.[12]
November
- November 1: Karel Zeman's Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor premiers.[13]
Specific date unknown
- Mad Magazine makes a TV special where several of their comics series appear in animated form. The director is Chris Ishii. Unfortunately the special never airs, because network executives deem the comedy "too family unfriendly".[14]
Films released
Television series
Births
February
- February 8: Seth Green, American actor, producer, writer and director (voice of Chris Griffin on Family Guy, co-creator of Robot Chicken).
June
- June 5: Lino DiSalvo, American animator, film director, writer and voice actor.
July
- July 25: Lauren Faust, American animator (Quest for Camelot and The Iron Giant), writer (The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Wander Over Yonder), director and producer (creator of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic).
October
- October 6: Jeremy Sisto, American actor, voice actor, producer, and writer (voice of Batman in Justice League: The New Frontier, King Runeard in Frozen II).
November
- November 7: Carl Steven, American actor (voice of Pigpen and Franklin in the Peanuts Franchise Young Fred Jones in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo), (d. 2011).
December
- December 17: Paul Briggs, American animator, storyboard artist and voice actor (Walt Disney Animation Studios).
- Edwin Aguilar, American animator (The Simpsons, The Oblongs, Brickleberry, The Edge of Seventeen, and Rooted in Peace) (d. 2021).[15]
Deaths
January
- January 14: Paul Whitsun-Jones, Welsh actor (voice of Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol), dies at age 50.[16]
- January 28: Courtland Hector Hoppin, American animator and photographer (La Joie de Vivre), dies at age 67.[17]
February
- February 4: Stuart Buchanan, American voice actor (voice of The Huntsman in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 79.[18]
March
- March 8: Martha Wentworth, American actress (voice of Mama Katzenjammer in The Captain and the Kids, Nanny, Queenie the cow and Lucy the goose in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, female squirrel and Madame Mim in The Sword in the Stone), dies at age 84.[19]
July
- July 19: Joe Flynn, American actor (voice of Mr. Snoops in The Rescuers), dies at age 49 from a drowning accident.[20]
- July 20: Allen Jenkins, American actor (voice of Officer Dibble on Top Cat), dies at age 74.
September
- September 9: Manuel Urda Marín, Spanish comics artist and animator, passes away at age 86.[21]
- September 14: Barbara Jo Allen, American actress (Fauna in Sleeping Beauty, Goliath II's mother in Goliath II and the Scullery Maid in The Sword in the Stone), dies at age 68.[22]
October
- October 7: Vladimir Degtyaryov, Russian film director and animator (Beloved Beauty), dies at age 58.[23]
Specific date unknown
- Cal Dalton, American film director and animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walt Disney Company), dies at age 65.[24]
See also
Sources
- "Vicky the Viking". 3 April 1974. Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- Runcie, Charlotte (12 February 2014). "Happy 40th birthday, Bagpuss!". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
- "The 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2015-03-15. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- "La Faim".
- "Festival de Cannes: The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- Choron, Sandra; Choron, Harry; Moore, Arden (2007). Planet Cat: A Cat-Alog – Sandra Choron, Harry Choron, Arden Moore – Google Boeken. ISBN 978-0618812592. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
- Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059350.
- Francesco Pacifico (2007). San Valentino: dove si racconta come il marketing e la poesia hanno stravolto l'amore in Occidente. Fazi, 2007. ISBN 978-8881128082.
- Kaylan, Howard, "Getting Spit On By the Boss Himself!". Shell Shocked. P. 215. Backbeat, 2013. 978-1-61780-846-3.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090617043205/http://www.cartoonscrapbook.com/H/hongkongphooey1974.htm Hong Kong Phooey
- "Dunderklumpen (1974)". Swedish Film Institute. 5 March 2014.
- "Roobarb". 21 October 1974. Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "A Thousand and One Nights". November 1974. Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Chris Ishii". lambiek.net. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
- Milligan, Mercedes (April 14, 2021). "Edwin Aguilar Dies After Stroke, 'Simpsons' Animator Was 46". Animation Magazine. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
- "Paul Whitsun-Jones". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Light Cone - Hector HOPPIN". lightcone.org. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- Hischak, Thomas S. (Oct 6, 2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. ISBN 9780786486946. Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via Google Books.
- Hischak, Thomas S. (2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. p. 221. ISBN 9780786486946. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- "Joe Flynn". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Manuel Urda". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Barbara Jo Allen". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Vladimir Degtyaryov". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Cal Dalton". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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