1947 in animation
Events in 1947 in animation.
Events
January
- 10 January: Ivan Ivanov-Vano's The Humpbacked Horse is released.
- 11 January: The Crab with the Golden Claws premiers, a stop-motion film directed by Claude Misonne (pseudonym for Simone Swaelens). This is the first animated film based on Hergé's popular comics series The Adventures of Tintin. [1]
- January 25: In Arthur Davis' The Goofy Gophers, the Goofy Gophers make their debut. [2]
March
- March 13: 19th Academy Awards: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [3] Controversy arises, because Warner Brothers's Rhapsody Rabbit (directed by Friz Freleng) has a similar plot and is said to have been omitted from nomination, merely because it was screened to the Academy jury after they had just watched The Cat Concerto. The jury assumed that it was a case of mere plagiarism. Today most historians assume that both cartoons were in production at the same time, and most of their similarities were coincidental. [4]
- March 22: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon A Hare Grows in Manhattan premiers. [5]
April
- April 26: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto premiers to the public. [6]
May
- May 3: In Friz Freleng's Tweetie Pie Bob Clampett's character Tweety Bird and Freleng's own Sylvester the Cat are first paired together, thus marking the start of the Tweety & Sylvester series. [7]
- May 9: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Sleepy Time Donald is first released, produced by the Walt Disney Company. It features Donald suffering from sleepwalking. [8]
- May 16 - November 15: A huge strike takes places at Terrytoons, where Paul Terry refuses to negotiate a union contract with the Screen Cartoonist's Guild and fires several of his animators. [9]
June
- June 14: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse premiers. [10]
July
- July 11: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Dilemma, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released, in which Donald's singing voice improves due to a flower pot falling on his head. [11]
- July 12: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Salt Water Tabby premiers, in which Tom and Jerry go to the beach. [12]
- July 19: George Pal's Tubby the Tuba is first released. [13]
- July 19: Tex Avery's Uncle Tom's Cabaña is first released. [14]
August
- August 30: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short A Mouse in the House premiers, in which Tom and a rival cat have to catch Jerry to avoid being kicked out the house. [15]
September
- September 20: Tex Avery's Slap Happy Lion premiers. [16]
- September 27: Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Hamilton Luske and William Morgan's Fun and Fancy Free, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. It consists of the shorts Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk. [17]
October
- October 4: Chuck Jones' Little Orphan Airedale premiers, in which Charlie Dog makes his debut. [18]
- October 10: In Seymour Kneitel's Naughty But Mice, produced for Famous Studios, Herman and Katnip are first paired as a duo. [19][20]
- October 24: Walt Disney testifies for the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he accuses several of his former employees of being Communist sympathizers, which results in several of them being blacklisted. [21]
November
- November 1: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny short Slick Hare is first released, a cartoon which features many caricatures of Hollywood celebrities. [22]
- November 28: In Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Chip an' Dale Chip 'n' Dale are first paired with Donald Duck. [23]
December
- December 5: Little Audrey debuts in the short film Santa's Surprise. [24]
- December 6: Tex Avery's King-Size Canary premiers. [25]
- December 13: Jiří Trnka's Spalicek (The Czech Year) is first released. It's his debut animated feature and will win critical acclaim. [26]
Specific date unknown
- George Moreno Jr.'s Bubble and Squeek is first released. [27]
Films released
Deaths
January
- January 3: Gus Wickie, German-American singer and actor (voice of Bluto in Popeye), dies at age 61. [28]
March
- March 24: Frank Rocky Fiegel, American tramp and bar bouncer (inspiration for Popeye), dies at age 79. [29]
References
- ^ "The Crab With the Golden Claws (1947) - The First Tintin movie | Tintinologist.org". www.tintinologist.org.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Goofy Gophers (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Cat Concerto (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "A Hare Grows in Manhattan" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Cat Concerto (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Tweetie Pie (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Weight For Me (Walt Disney Television Animation.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "Moonlighting Animation Artists in Comics: CARLO VINCI |". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Mouse (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Donald's Dilemma (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Salt Water Tabby (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Tubby The Tuba (Paramount Pictures)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Uncle Tom's Cabaña (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "A Mouse In The House (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Slap Happy Lion (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "BCDB: Error". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Little Orphan Airedale (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Herman and Katnip". www.toonopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Naughty But Mice (Famous Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ "CNN Cold War - Historical Document: Walt Disney testifies". web.archive.org. May 14, 2008.
- ^ "Slick Hare" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Chip an' Dale (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ Markstein, Donald D. (2000). "Little Audrey". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
...Little Audrey's first cartoon, Santa's Surprise, which came out on December 5, 1947.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "King-Size Canary (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "Spalicek" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Animation Anecdotes #356 |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
- ^ Gerstein, David (November 30, 2013). "Out of the Vaults: From Binko to Bluto". Ramapith: David Gerstein's Prehistoric Pop Culture. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
- ^ "Was Frank 'Rocky' Fiegel the Inspiration for 'Popeye'?". Snopes.com. Retrieved May 18, 2020.