1965 in animation
Events in 1965 in animation.
Events
March
- March 20: The anime film Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon, by Masao Kuroda and Sanae Yamamoto, premiers.[1]
April
- April 3: David Detiege's The Man from Button Willow premiers.[2]
- April 5: 37th Academy Awards:
- Julie Andrews wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Mary Poppins, while the song Chim Chim Cher-ee and the entire soundtrack from that same movie, both by the Sherman Brothers, wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Academy Award for Best Original Song. Cotton Warburton wins the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Hamilton Luske the Academy Award for Best Special Visual Effects, also for the same movie.[3]
- Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt and David DePatie's The Pink Phink wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3]
June
- June 6: The first episode of Osamu Tezuka's The Amazing 3 airs.[4]
- June 23: Rankin/Bass Productions releases Willy McBean and his Magic Machine.[5]
September
- September 9: The first episode of Hanna-Barbera's The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show is broadcast.[6]
- September 11: The first episode of Roger Ramjet airs.[7]
- September 25: The Beatles, an animated TV series based on the popular British band The Beatles, debuts on ABC (United States, 1965–1967).[8]
- September 30: The first episode of Thunderbirds is broadcast.[9]
October
- October 1:
- In The Flintstones episode The Return of Stony Curtis Tony Curtis is special guest voice as Stony Curtis.
- Bruno Bozzetto's West and Soda premiers.[10]
- October 6: The first episode of Kimba the White Lion, based on Osamu Tezuka's manga series, airs.[11]
- October 9: The first episode of Milton the Monster is broadcast.[12]
- October 22: In The Flintstones episode Samantha Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York appear as special guest voices to play the same characters they portray on the TV series Bewitched.
December
- December 9: A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts animated special, airs on CBS. This Christmas special will become a holiday classic.[13]
Specific date unknown
- Belvision releases the film Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs, directed by Eddy Ryssack, based on Peyo's The Smurfs. The picture is an anthology film of five Smurfs shorts which aired earlier on television.[14]
- The first episode of Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát, aka Hey Mister, Let's Play! is broadcast.[15]
- Arthur Lipsett's A Trip Down Memory Lane premiers.[16]
- Gene Deitch's Nudnik debuts in the animated short Here's Nudnik.[17]
Films released
Television series
Births
January
- January 10: Butch Hartman, American animator and voice actor (The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom).
March
- March 8: Satoru Akahori, Japanese screenwriter (Tekkaman Blade, Video Girl Ai).
- March 16: Masaaki Yuasa, Japanese director (Lu over the Wall, Devilman crybaby), screenwriter, animator, and studio co-founder (Science SARU).
April
- April 12: Konstantin Bronzit, Russian director and animator (Lavatory – Lovestory, We Can't Live Without Cosmos).
May
- May 23: Kappei Yamaguchi, Japanese voice actor (Case Closed, One Piece).
August
- August 6: Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sword Art Online).
December
- December 3: Andrew Stanton, American director and screenwriter (Finding Nemo, WALL-E).
Specific date unknown
- Bob Anderson, American director (The Simpsons).
Deaths
February
- February 26: Ladislas Starevich, Polish-Russian animator (The Beautiful Leukanida, The Night Before Christmas, Le Roman de Renard (The Tale of the Fox)), dies at age 82. [18]
April
- April 22: Harvey Eisenberg, American animator and comics artist (MGM Animation, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 53.[19]
June
- June 22: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, Russian illustrator, animator and animated film director (Post, The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda, The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, The Frog Princess, The Wild Swans), dies at age 76. [20]
August
- August 24: Joshua Meador, American animator, animated film director and special effects artist (Walt Disney Studios, animation effects in Forbidden Planet), dies at age 54. [21]
September
- September 16: Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (MGM), dies at age 79. [22]
October
- October 13: Connie Rasinski, American animator and animated film director (Hansel and Gretel, Terrytoons), dies at age 58. [23]
December
- December 12: Johnny Lee, American singer, dancer and actor (voice of Br'er Rabbit in Song of the South), dies from a heart attack at age 67. [24]
See also
References
- ^ "Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon". imdb. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ "The Man from Button Willow". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ a b "The 37th Academy Awards (1965) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-31. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ "Wonder 3 (TV Series 1965– ) - IMDb". Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Willy McBean and His Magic Machine". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Roger Ramjet". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Beatles". www.startrekanimated.com. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ "Thunderbirds". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "West and Soda". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Kimba the White Lion". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Milton the Monster". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Adventures of the Smurfs". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ Miroslav Štěpánek in ČSFD
- ^ "Arthur Lipsett: Inside His Disturbed & Disturbing Collage Films". Oct 5, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Gene Deitch". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ http://starewitch.pagesperso-orange.fr/ Starewitch official homepage
- ^ "Harvey Eisenberg". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_person&pid=1015 Mikhail Tsekhanovsky] at Animator.ru
- ^ "Josh Meador: Walt's Animation and Special Effects Master | The Walt Disney Family Museum". www.waltdisney.org. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Fred Quimby". IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Connie Rasinski". Animators Hall of Fame. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ "Blackface! - Johnny Lee". www.black-face.com. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb