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, 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 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.
April
- April 3: Frank Tashlin's Porky Pig cartoon Porky's Romance premiers. [7]
- April 17: The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery, is released. It marks the debut of Daffy Duck. [8]
- April 27: The Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Amateurs, directed by Pinto Colvig, Erdmann Penner and Walt Pfeiffer, premiers. [9]
- 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. [10]
May
- May 15: David Hand's Little Hiawatha premiers. It marks the debut of Hiawatha who will later become a popular comics character. [11]
- May 22: Friz Freleng's Clean Pastures premiers. [12]
- May 29: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Modern Inventions premiers. [13]
June
- June 5: Tex Avery's Uncle Tom's Bungalow premiers. [14]
October
- October 15: The Disney short Clock Cleaners is released. [15][16][17]
November
- November 5: The Disney cartoon The Old Mill premiers. It marks the first use of the multiplane camera. [18]
- November 26: The Popeye cartoon Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves premiers. [19]
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. [20] 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.[21]
- December 24: Burt Gillett's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy film Lonesome Ghosts premiers. [22]
Deaths
July
- July 20: Elmer Wait, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Elmer Fudd was named after him), dies at age 23. [23]
See also
Sources
- ^ Don Donald Archived February 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178015/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029188/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029260/
- ^ "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.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029431/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029426/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029237/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030608/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029149/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028724/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029257/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029708/
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1809-Popeye_The_Sailor_Meets_Ali_Babas_F.html
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/disney.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/disney.htm
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029161/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906582/
