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** The first episode of [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s ''[[Wacky Races (1968 TV series)|Wacky Races]]'' is broadcast. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122365/|title=Wacky Races|accessdate=May 27, 2020|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> |
** The first episode of [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s ''[[Wacky Races (1968 TV series)|Wacky Races]]'' is broadcast. It marks the debut of [[Penelope Pitstop]] and villainous characters [[Dick Dastardly]] and [[Muttley]] the dog. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122365/|title=Wacky Races|accessdate=May 27, 2020|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> |
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** The first episode of ''[[The Batman/Superman Hour]]'' is broadcast. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062544/|title=The Batman/Superman Hour|accessdate=May 27, 2020|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> |
** The first episode of ''[[The Batman/Superman Hour]]'' is broadcast. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062544/|title=The Batman/Superman Hour|accessdate=May 27, 2020|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> |
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** The first episode of ''[[The Archie Show]]'' is broadcast. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062541/|title=The Archie Show|accessdate=May 27, 2020|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> |
** The first episode of ''[[The Archie Show]]'' is broadcast. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062541/|title=The Archie Show|accessdate=May 27, 2020|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:25, 2 December 2020
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. It marks the debut of Penelope Pitstop and villainous characters Dick Dastardly and Muttley the dog. [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
- 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]
March
- March 30: Bobby Driscoll, American actor (voice of Peter Pan in Peter Pan), dies at age 31 from heart failure caused by long-time drug abuse. [19]
April
- April 10: Olga Khodataeva, Russian animated film director and art director (China in Flames, The Samoyed Boy, The Little Organ, Sarmiko), passes away at age 74. [20][21][22]
- April 20: Sid Sutherland, American animator, screenwriter and sound editor (Walter Lantz, Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 66. [23]
- April 22: Ernie Nordli, American animator, animation designer and lay-out artist (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 55.[24] [25][26]
May
- May 21: Doris Lloyd, British-American actress (voice of Rose in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 71. [27]
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.[28]
- 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. [29]
November
- November 13: Berthold Bartosch, German animator and animated film director (The Idea, worked together with Lotte Reiniger), dies at age 74. [30]
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. [31]
- December 30: Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator (Disney Studios, Terrytoons, Famous Studios), passes away at age 64. [32]
See also
References
- ^ "The Herbs.Parsley the Lion.BBC kids tv by Michael Bond". theherbs.homestead.com. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "The 40th Academy Awards (1968) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ "Les shadoks". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "YELLOW SUBMARINE (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 3 July 1968. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ "Wacky Races". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Batman/Superman Hour". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Archie Show". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Joe 90". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The SuperVips". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Out of an Old Man's Head". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Magic Bird". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ . Aug 9, 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20020809221224/http://www.mezga.de.vu/. Archived from the original on August 9, 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Ray Goossens". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Most Popular Censored 11 Movies and TV Shows". IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "The Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Guide: The Censored 11". Dec 2, 2010. Archived from the original on December 2, 2010. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Vladimir Delač". lambiek.net. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ "Steve Muffatti". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Hamilton Luske". IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Bobby Driscoll". IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016). Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age at Google Books, p. 76—79
- ^ Maurice Horn (1999). The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, Volume 4. — London: Chelsea House Publishers, p. 409 ISBN 0791051854
- ^ Sergey Kapkov (2006). Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 14–15, 21, 691–692
- ^ "Sidney Sutherland". IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ Amid Amidi (03/24/2013) Disney’s Crankiest Veteran is Still Cranky (Cartoon Brew)
- ^ "April 22". Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
- ^ "Ernest Nordli (1912-1968)". wingedsun.com. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
- ^ "Doris Lloyd". IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Star of TV, Radio Bea Benaderet Dies". The Independent. October 14, 1968. p. 2. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ "John McLeish". IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ Bendazzi, Giannalberto (23 October 2015). Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age. pp. 138–139. ISBN 9781138035317. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ "Ken Hultgren". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ Master Animator" by John Canemaker, Animation Journal, Fall 1994, pp. 8-9