1952 in animation
Events in 1952 in animation.
Events
January
- January 1: Norm McLaren releases Voisins (Neighbours). [1]
February
- February 5: Chuck Jones' Feed the Kitty premiers. [2]
- February 8: Jack Hannah's Lambert the Sheepish Lion, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released. [3]
- February 9: Tex Avery's Magical Maestro premiers. [4]
March
- March 15: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Two Mouseketeers is first released. This is the first of several shorts in which the characters appear as musketeers. [5]
- March 20: 24th Academy Awards: The Tom and Jerry cartoon The Two Mouseketeers wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [6]
September
- September 20: Chuck Jones' Rabbit Seasoning is released, the second hunting season cartoon starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. [7]
October
- October 10: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Company. It features the debut of Witch Hazel, who would become a recurring character in Disney comics. [8]
- October 31: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Two Weeks Vacation, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [9]
November
- November 15: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short Rabbit's Kin premiers, which marks the debut of Pete Puma. [10]
Specific date unknown
- Lev Atamanov's film The Scarlet Flower is first released. [11]
- Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya's The Snow Maiden is first released. [12]
- Colin Low's The Romance of Transportation in Canada is first released. [13]
- Norman McLaren's Neighbours premiers. [14]
Films released
Television series
Births
- April 16: Billy West, American voice actor (Stimpy in The Ren & Stimpy Show, Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on Doug, Philip J. Fry and Professor Farnsworth on Futurama)) [15]
Deaths
March
- March 1: Gregory La Cava, American animator and film director (Raoul Barré, International Film Service), dies at age 59.
- March 25: Egon von Tresckow, aka Tres, German animator, illustrator, comics artist and caricaturist (worked for UFA and the films of Hans Fischerkoesen), dies at age 45. [16]
June
- June 25: Fred Brunish, American painter and animator (Walter Lantz), dies at age 49 or 50. [17]
November
- November 23: Fred Moore, American animator (Walt Disney Company), passes away in a traffic accident at age 41.[18]
References
- ^ https://www.onf.ca/film/voisins-neighbours/
- ^ "Feed the Kitty". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Lambert the Sheepish Lion". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Magical Maestro". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Two Mouseketeers". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ^ "Rabbit Seasoning". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Trick or Treat". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Two Weeks Vacation". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Rabbit's Kin". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Scarlet Flower". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Snow Maiden". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Romance of Transportation in Canada". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ McLaughlin, Dan (2001). "A rather incomplete but still fascinating history of animation". Archived from the original on 2006-08-12. Retrieved 2006-08-30.
- ^ "Billy West • Welcome". www.billywest.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/von-tresckow_egon.htm
- ^ Ask Art The Artists' Bluebook. "Fred W. Brunish". Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Animators' Hall of Fame". www.agni-animation.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
See also
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb