1968 in animation
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.[citation needed]
July
- July 17: George Dunning's animated feature based on The Beatles, Yellow Submarine, is released. The innovative designs are done by Heinz Edelmann.[3]
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.[citation needed]
- The first episode of The Batman/Superman Hour is broadcast.[citation needed]
- The first episode of The Archie Show is broadcast.[citation needed]
- September 29: The first episode of Joe 90 is broadcast.[citation needed]
October
- October 31: Bruno Bozzetto's VIP, mio fratello superuomo premiers.[citation needed]
December
- December 6: Per Åhlin and Tage Danielsson's Out of an Old Man's Head premiers, which mixes live-action with animation.[citation needed]
- December 19: Belvision releases the second Astérix film, Asterix and Cleopatra.
- December 23: Roberto Gavioli's The Magic Bird premiers.[citation needed]
Specific date unknown
- The first episode of The Mézga Family is broadcast.[4]
- Ray Goossens's animated TV series Musti is first broadcast.[5]
- Eleven classic animated shorts are selected to be banned from being broadcast on U.S. television: the Censored Eleven.[citation needed][6]
Films released
Television series
Births
March
- March 28: Merriwether Williams, American television writer and former Nickelodeon executive.
May
- May 13: Paul Tibbitt, American voice actor, animator, storyboard artist, writer and director (SpongeBob SquarePants).
July
- July 11: Conrad Vernon, American animator, writer (Rocko's Modern Life), director (Shrek 2, Monsters vs. Aliens, Madagascar 3 and Sausage Party) and voice actor.
August
- August 21: Cory Edwards, American animator, director and voice actor (Hoodwinked!)
October
- October 9: Pete Docter, American director, writer and animator (Pixar).
November
- November 19: Derek Drymon, American animator, storyboard artist, writer and director (SpongeBob SquarePants).
Deaths
January
- January 16: Vladmir Delac, Yugoslavian comics artist and animator (Veliki Miting), dies at age 60 from cancer.[7]
- Specific date unknown: Steve Muffati, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios), dies at age 57.[8]
February
- February 19: Hamilton Luske, American animator and director (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 64.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[9][10][11]
- April 20: Sid Sutherland, American animator, screenwriter and sound editor (Walter Lantz, Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 66.[citation needed]
- April 22: Ernie Nordli, American animator, animation designer and lay-out artist (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 55.[12][13][14]
May
- May 21: Doris Lloyd, British-American actress (voice of Rose in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 71.[citation needed]
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.[15]
- 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.[citation needed]
November
- November 13: Berthold Bartosch, German animator and animated film director (The Idea, worked together with Lotte Reiniger), dies at age 74.[16]
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.[17]
- December 30: Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator (Disney Studios, Terrytoons, Famous Studios), passes away at age 64.[18]
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.
- ^ "YELLOW SUBMARINE (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 3 July 1968. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ "Heißer Draht ins Jenseits Phantastische Abenteuer der Familie Mézga". Aug 9, 2002. Archived from the original on August 9, 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ "Ray Goossens". lambiek.net. 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Star of TV, Radio Bea Benaderet Dies". The Independent. October 14, 1968. p. 2. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ 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
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb