1945 in animation
Events in 1945 in animation.
January
- January 6: Chuck Jones' Odor-able Kitty premiers, which marks the debut of the skunk Pepé Le Pew. [1]
- January 13:
- Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Herr Meets Hare premiers, a war-time propaganda short in which Bugs outsmarts Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler. [2]
- Tex Avery's Screwy Squirrel cartoon The Screwy Truant premiers. [3]
February
- February 10: Frank Tashlin's Bugs Bunny short The Unruly Hare premiers. [4]
March
- March 3: Tex Avery's Droopy cartoon The Shooting of Dan McGoo premiers. [5]
- March 15: 17th Academy Awards: The Tom & Jerry short Mouse Trouble by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [6]
April
- April 7: Tex Avery's Jerky Turkey premiers. [7]
- April 12: The Japanese war-time propaganda cartoon Momotaro: Sacred Sailors, directed by Mitsuyo Seo, is released. It is notable for being th first Japanese feature-length animated film. [8]
May
- May 5:
- Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoon Hare Trigger premiers. [9]
- William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry short The Mouse Comes to Dinner premiers. [10]
- May 19: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck cartoon Ain't That Ducky premiers.
June
- June 9: Bob Clampett's Tweety cartoon A Gruesome Twosome premiers. [11]
- June 21: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Tee for Two premiers. [12]
- June 22: The Halas and Batchelor cartoon Handling Ships, a training film for the Royal Navy, premiers, the first British animated film in Technicolor. [13]
- June 29: Jack King's Donald Duck short Donald's Crime premiers.[14]
- June 30: Frank Tashlin's Tale of Two Mice premiers. [15]
July
- July 7: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Mouse in Manhattan premiers. [16]
- July 28: Bob Clampett's Porky Pig cartoon Wagon Heels premiers. [17]
August
- August 10: Jack Kinney's Donald Duck cartoon Duck Pimples premiers. [18]
- August 11: Chuck Jones' Hare Conditioned premiers. [19]
- August 25: Tex Avery's Swing Shift Cinderella premiers. [20]
September
- September 7: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck and Goofy cartoon No Sail, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [21]
- September 15: Bob Clampett's The Bashful Buzzard premiers. [22]
- September 21: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Hockey Homicide, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [23]
October
- October 15: The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Stripfilm is published. It also offers information about animation techniques, provided by the animation studio Stripfilm. [24] The magazine will last until 23 November. [25]
- October 26: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Cured Duck premiers. [26]
November
- November 3: Tex Avery's Droopy cartoon Wild and Woolfy premiers. [27]
- November 10: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoon Hare Tonic premiers. [28]
- November 16: Isadore Sparber's The Friendly Ghost premiers, in which Casper the Friendly Ghost makes his debut. [29]
- November 23: The Spanish animated film Garbancito de la Mancha by José María Blay and Arturo Moreno premiers. [30]
Joaquín Bisbe[31] [32]
December
- December 1: Frank Tashlin's Daffy Duck short Nasty Quacks premiers. [33]
- December 22: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Quiet Please! premiers. [34]
Specific date unknown
- The Soviet animated feature film The Lost Letter by Lamis Bredis and the Brumberg sisters premiers. [35]
- Karel Zeman and Bořivoj Zeman A Christmas Dream premiers. [36]
Films released
Deaths
March
- March 4: Lucille La Verne, American actress (voice of the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 72. [37]
References
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Odor-Able Kitty (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Herr Meets Hare (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Screwy Truant (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Unruly Hare (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Shooting Of Dan McGoo (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Jerky Turkey (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy. The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917. Revised and Expanded Edition.—Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2006.—P. 12.—ISBN 978-1933330105
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Hare Trigger (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Mouse Comes To Dinner (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "A Gruesome Twosome (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Tee For Two (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Handling Ships". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Donald's Crime (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Tale Of Two Mice (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Mouse In Manhattan (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Wagon Heels (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Duck Pimples (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "User Comments About Hare Conditioned Theatrical Cartoon". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Swing Shift Cinderella (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "No Sail (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Bashful Buzzard (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Hockey Homicide (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Stripfilm". www.lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Piet van Elk". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Cured Duck (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Wild And Woolfy (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "User Comments About Hare Tonic Theatrical Cartoon". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Friendly Ghost (Famous Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ José Ramos Machí, María José (2012). "El primer largometraje de animación europeo en color: Garbancito de La Mancha (1945) Análisis de la música de Jacinto Guerrero". Anuario Musical (in Spanish). 67: 223–270.
- ^ De España Renedo, Rafael (7 June 2007). De la Mancha a la pantalla: aventuras cinematográficas del ingenioso hidalgo (in Spanish). pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-8447532032.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Garbancito De La Mancha (Balet Y Blay)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Nasty Quacks (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Quiet Please! (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "The Lost Letter". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Awards 1946: Competition", Festival de Cannes: Archives, Festival de Cannes, retrieved 7 February 2015
- ^ https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p39806