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Revision as of 01:45, 14 February 2019
Events in 1968 in animation.
Events
April
- April 10: 40th Academy Awards: The Box by Fred Wolf wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [1]
July
- July 17: Yellow Submarine is released. [2]
September
- September 14: The first episode of Wacky Races is broadcast.
December
- December 19: Belvision releases the second Astérix film, Asterix and Cleopatra.
Specific date unknown
- Ray Goossens's animated TV series Musti is first broadcast. [3]
Films released
- 19 March; The World of Hans Christian Andersen (Japan)
- 17 July; Yellow Submarine (United Kingdom)
- 21 July; The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (Japan)
- 31 October; VIP my Brother Superman (Italy)
- 6 December; Out of an Old Man's Head (Sweden)
- 19 December; Asterix and Cleopatra (France)
- 23 December; The Magic Bird (Italy)
Television series
Debuts
Deaths
January
- January 16: Vladmir Delac, Yugoslavian comics artist and animator (Veliki Miting), dies at age 60 from cancer.[4]
- Specific date unknown: Steve Muffati, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios), dies at age 57. [5]
October
- October 13: Bea Benaderet, American actress (voice of Betty Rubble in The Flintstones, the bobbysoxer Little Red Riding Hood in Little Red Riding Rabbit, voice of Granny, Witch Hazel in Bewitched Bunny, Mama Bear in The Three Bears), dies at age 62 from lung cancer.[6]
December
- December 13: Ken Hultgren, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company, Mr. Magoo, The Archies), dies from a heart attack at age 63. [7]
- December 30: Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator (Disney Studios, Terrytoons, Famous Studios), passes away at age 64. [8]
References
- ^ "The 40th Academy Awards (1968) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "YELLOW SUBMARINE (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 3 July 1968. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/goossens_ray.htm
- ^ "Vladimir Delač". lambiek.net. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mufatti_steve.htm
- ^ "Star of TV, Radio Bea Benaderet Dies". The Independent. October 14, 1968. p. 2. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hultgren_ken.htm
- ^ Master Animator" by John Canemaker, Animation Journal, Fall 1994, pp. 8-9