1937 in animation
This is a list of events in 1937 in animation.
Events
January
- January 9: The first solo cartoon of Donald Duck, Don Donald premiers, directed by Ben Sharpsteen and produced by Walt Disney Productions, which launches the Donald Duck series.[1]
- January 24: Georg Woelz' Die Schlacht um Miggershausen premiers.[2]
February
- February 6: David Hand's Mickey Mouse cartoon Magician Mickey premiers.[3]
- February 20: Ben Sharpsteen's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy cartoon Moose Hunters premiers[4]
March
- March 4: 9th Academy Awards: The Country Cousin, produced by The Walt Disney Company, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [5]
- March 12: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio is established.[6]
- March 26; In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon character Popeye.[7][8]
April
- April 3: Frank Tashlin's Porky Pig cartoon Porky's Romance premiers.[9]
- April 17: The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery, is released. It marks the debut of Daffy Duck.[10]
- April 27: The Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Amateurs, directed by Pinto Colvig, Erdmann Penner and Walt Pfeiffer, premiers.[11]
- April 30: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton's Porky's Hare Hunt premiers, a Porky Pig cartoon which is basically a remake of Porky's Duck Hunt, only with a hare instead of a duck. This hare marks the debut of The Happy Rabbit, a prototypical version of the character who would later become Bugs Bunny in 1940.[12]
May
- May 15: David Hand's Little Hiawatha premiers. It marks the debut of Hiawatha who will later become a popular comics character.[13]
- May 22: Friz Freleng's Clean Pastures premiers.[14]
- May 29: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Modern Inventions premiers.[15]
June
- June 5: Tex Avery's Uncle Tom's Bungalow premiers.[16]
October
- October 15: The Disney short Clock Cleaners is released. [17][18][19]
November
- November 5: The Disney cartoon The Old Mill premiers. It marks the first use of the multiplane camera.[20]
- November 26: The Popeye cartoon Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves premiers.[21]
December
- December 2: Ferdinand Diehl, Paul Diehl and Hermann Diehl's The Seven Ravens premiers, which is notable for being an animated feature film, several weeks before Disney's own animated feature film Snow White premiers.[22] However, The Seven Ravens is done in stop-motion, while Snow White features pencil animation.
- December 21: Walt Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiers and becomes a global box office hit.[22]
- December 24: Burt Gillett's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy film Lonesome Ghosts premiers.[23]
Deaths
July
- July 20: Elmer Wait, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Elmer Fudd was named after him), dies at age 23.[24]
See also
Sources
- ^ Don Donald Archived February 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts
- ^ Die Schlacht um Miggershausen at IMDb
- ^ Magician Mickey at IMDb
- ^ Moose Hunters at IMDb
- ^ "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
- ^ Barrier, Michael. "A Day in the Life: MGM, March 4, 1953". Michaelbarrier.com. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "POPEYE MONUMENT, 1939. Statue of the comic strip character Popeye erected on 26 March 1937 in Crystal City, Texas which became known as the spinach capital of the world". Granger Historical Picture Archive. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
- ^ "Spinach Capital of the World". daytrippintexas.com. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
- ^ Porkey's Romance at IMDb
- ^ Porky's Duck Hunt at IMDb
- ^ Mickey's Amateurs at IMDb
- ^ The Happy Rabbit at IMDb
- ^ Little Hiawatha at IMDb
- ^ Clean Pastures at IMDb
- ^ Modern Inventions at IMDb
- ^ Uncle Tom's Bungalow at IMDb
- ^ 1937 in animation at IMDb
- ^ Clock Cleaners Archived 2011-03-17 at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts
- ^ Clock Cleaners at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- ^ Thomas, Bob. Walt Disney: An American Original. Simon & Schuster, 1976, p. 134.
- ^ "Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves". The Big Cartoon Database. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
- ^ a b "Walt Disney". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved January 20, 2021.[better source needed]
- ^ Lonesome Ghosts at IMDb
- ^ Elmer Wait at IMDb[better source needed]
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb