1954 in animation
Events in 1954 in animation.
Events
January
- January 30: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Posse Cat is first released.[1]
March
- March 5: The Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Diary premiers, directed by Jack Kinney.[2]
- March 25: 26th Academy Awards: The Walt Disney Company's Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3]
May
June
- June 19: Bob McKimson's Devil May Hare premiers, which marks the debut of the Tasmanian Devil.[5]
July
- July 24: Chuck Jones' Bewitched Bunny premiers, which marks the debut of Witch Hazel.[6]
August
- August 7: Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester short Satan's Waitin' is first released.[7]
- August 13: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Grin and Bear It premiers. It marks the debut of park ranger J. Audubon Woodlore.[8]
October
- October 10: John Paul's Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy premiers.[9]
- October 16: Chuck Jones' From A to Z-Z-Z-Z is first released.[10]
- October 27: The first episode of Walt Disney anthology television series airs under the title Walt Disney's Disneyland.[11]
December
- December 4: Tex Avery's Dixieland Droopy premiers.[12]
- December 20: After having left MGM Tex Avery joins Walter Lantz' studio, where he directs his first animated short, I'm Cold, which stars Chilly Willy.
- December 29: Halas and Batchelor release Animal Farm, an adaptation of George Orwell's eponymous novel. It's the first British animated feature-length film.[13]
- Specific date unknown: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky's The Frog Princess premiers.
Films released
Television series
Births
- February 15: Matt Groening, American comics artist and animator (The Simpsons, Futurama and Disenchantment) [14]
Deaths
November
- November 22: Moroni Olsen, American actor (voice of the Slave in the Magic Mirror in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 65. [15]
December
- December 6: Bill Nolan, American animator, director and animation writer (Pat Sullivan, Margaret J. Winkler, Walter Lantz, MGM), dies at age 60.[16]
References
- ^ "Posse Cat". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Donald's Diary". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- ^ "Billy Boy". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ "Bewitched Bunny". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Satan's Waitin'". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Grin And Bear It (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ "Hansel and Gretel". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ Griffin, Sean. "Walt Disney Programs". Encyclopedia of Television. Museum of Broadcast Communications. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ^ "Dixieland Droopy". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ John Reed (2013-04-12). "Animal Farm Timeline". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
Animal Farm ... premieres in New York City at the chic Paris Theatre, December 29, 1954.
- ^ "When and where was Matt Groening born?". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on February 7, 2008. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ https://books.google.be/books?id=e1RTP8thtR0C&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=Moroni+Olsen+1954&source=bl&ots=AS2zoztIS4&sig=ACfU3U0AvOix_45MYsqvzyYJ3Sapq98rvQ&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc_6v-4ojqAhXH0KQKHf6WBXAQ6AEwD3oECBIQAQ#v=onepage&q=Moroni%20Olsen%201954&f=false
- ^ "William Nolan". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.