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* '''January 16''': Vladmir Delac, Yugoslavian comics artist and animator (''[[Veliki Miting]]''), dies at age 60 from cancer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/delac-vladimir.htm|title=Vladimir Delač|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref> |
* '''January 16''': Vladmir Delac, Yugoslavian comics artist and animator (''[[Veliki Miting]]''), dies at age 60 from cancer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/delac-vladimir.htm|title=Vladimir Delač|website=lambiek.net|accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref> |
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* '''Specific date unknown''': Steve Muffati, American animator and comics artist ([[Fleischer Studios]], [[Famous Studios]]), dies at age 57. <ref>https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mufatti_steve.htm</ref> |
* '''Specific date unknown''': Steve Muffati, American animator and comics artist ([[Fleischer Studios]], [[Famous Studios]]), dies at age 57. <ref>https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mufatti_steve.htm</ref> |
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* '''February 19''': [[Hamilton Luske]], American animator and director ([[Walt Disney Company]]), dies at age 64. <ref>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527217/</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:00, 5 March 2019
Events in 1968 in animation.
Events
February
April
- April 10: 40th Academy Awards: The Box by Fred Wolf wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [2]
- April 29: The first episode of Les Shadoks is broadcast. [3]
July
- July 17: George Dunning's animated feature based on The Beatles, Yellow Submarine, is released. The innovative designs are done by Heinz Edelmann. [4]
September
- September 14:
- The first episode of Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races is broadcast. [5]
- The first episode of The Batman/Superman Hour is broadcast. [6]
- The first episode of The Archie Show is broadcast. [7]
- September 29: The first episode of Joe 90 is broadcast. [8]
October 31
- October 31: Bruno Bozzetto's VIP, mio fratello superuomo premiers. [9]
December
- December 6: Per Åhlin and Tage Danielsson's Out of an Old Man's Head premiers, which mixes live-action with animation. [10]
- December 19: Belvision releases the second Astérix film, Asterix and Cleopatra.
- December 23: Roberto Gavioli's The Magic Bird premiers. [11]
Specific date unknown
- The first episode of The Mézga Family is broadcast. [12]
- Ray Goossens's animated TV series Musti is first broadcast. [13]
- Eleven classic animated shorts are selected to be banned from being broadcast on U.S. television: the Censored Eleven. [14] [15]
Films released
Television series
Deaths
January
- January 16: Vladmir Delac, Yugoslavian comics artist and animator (Veliki Miting), dies at age 60 from cancer.[16]
- Specific date unknown: Steve Muffati, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios), dies at age 57. [17]
February
- February 19: Hamilton Luske, American animator and director (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 64. [18]
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.[19]
- October 30: John McLeish, Canadian actor (voice of the Carnival Barker in Pinocchio, narrator in Dumbo and many Goofy cartoons, narrator in The Ducktators and The Dover Boys, voice of John Ployardt in The Wind in the Willows segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) and animation writer (The Rite of Spring segment in Fantasia), dies at age 52. [20]
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. [21]
- December 30: Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator (Disney Studios, Terrytoons, Famous Studios), passes away at age 64. [22]
References
- ^ http://theherbs.homestead.com/
- ^ "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) - ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218789/
- ^ "YELLOW SUBMARINE (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 3 July 1968. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122365/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062544/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062541/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062573/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144667/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063120/
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063475/
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20020809221224/http://www.mezga.de.vu/
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/goossens_ray.htm
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=censored-11
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101202202204/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/censored11/
- ^ "Vladimir Delač". lambiek.net. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mufatti_steve.htm
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527217/
- ^ "Star of TV, Radio Bea Benaderet Dies". The Independent. October 14, 1968. p. 2. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0572689/?ref_=tt_cl_t5
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hultgren_ken.htm
- ^ Master Animator" by John Canemaker, Animation Journal, Fall 1994, pp. 8-9