1947 in animation
Events in 1947 in animation.
Events
January
- January 10: Ivan Ivanov-Vano's The Humpbacked Horse is released.
- January 11: The Crab with the Golden Claws premiers, a stop-motion film directed by Claude Misonne (pseudonym for Simone Swaelens). This is the first animated film based on Hergé's popular comics series The Adventures of Tintin.[1]
- January 25: In Arthur Davis' The Goofy Gophers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the Goofy Gophers make their debut.[2]
March
- March 13: 19th Academy Awards: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3] Controversy arises, because Warner Brothers's Rhapsody Rabbit (directed by Friz Freleng) has a similar plot and is said to have been omitted from nomination, merely because it was screened to the Academy jury after they had just watched The Cat Concerto. The jury assumed that it was a case of mere plagiarism. Today most historians assume that both cartoons were in production at the same time, and most of their similarities were coincidental.[4]
- March 22: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon A Hare Grows in Manhattan premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[5]
April
- April 26: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto, produced by MGM, is released to general audiences.[6]
May
- May 3: In Friz Freleng's Tweetie Pie, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Bob Clampett's character Tweety Bird and Freleng's own Sylvester the Cat are first paired together, thus marking the start of the Tweety & Sylvester series.[7]
- May 9: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Sleepy Time Donald is first released, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It features Donald suffering from sleepwalking.[8]
- May 16 - November 15: A huge strike takes places at Terrytoons, where Paul Terry refuses to negotiate a union contract with the Screen Cartoonist's Guild and fires several of his animators.[9]
June
- June 14: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse, produced by MGM, premiers.[10]
July
- July 11: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Dilemma, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released, in which Donald's singing voice improves due to a flower pot falling on his head.[11]
- July 12: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Salt Water Tabby premiers, produced by MGM, in which Tom and Jerry go to the beach.[12]
- July 19: George Pal's Tubby the Tuba is first released.[13]
- July 19: Tex Avery's Uncle Tom's Cabaña, produced by MGM, is first released.[14]
August
- August 30: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short A Mouse in the House premiers, produced by MGM, in which Tom and a rival cat have to catch Jerry to avoid being kicked out the house.[15]
September
- September 12–25: During the 1947 Cannes Film Festival the film Dumbo by the Walt Disney Animation studios, receives the Grand Prix pour Meilleur Dessin Animé (Grand Prize for Best Animated Film).[16]
- September 20: Tex Avery's Slap Happy Lion, produced by MGM, premiers.[17]
- September 27: Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Hamilton Luske and William Morgan's Fun and Fancy Free, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. It consists of the shorts Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk.[18]
October
- October 4: Chuck Jones' Little Orphan Airedale, produced by Warner Bros. Animation premiers, in which Charlie Dog makes his debut.[19]
- October 10: In Seymour Kneitel's Naughty But Mice, produced for Famous Studios, Herman and Katnip are first paired as a duo.[20][21]
- October 24: Walt Disney testifies for the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he accuses several of his former employees of being Communist sympathizers, which results in several of them being blacklisted.[22]
November
- November 1: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny short Slick Hare, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, is first released, a cartoon which features many caricatures of Hollywood celebrities.[23]
- November 28: In Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Chip an' Dale, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Chip 'n' Dale are first paired with Donald Duck.[24]
December
- December 5: Little Audrey debuts in the short film Santa's Surprise, produced by Famous Studios.[25]
- December 6: Tex Avery's King-Size Canary premiers, produced by MGM.[26]
- December 13: Jiří Trnka's Spalicek (The Czech Year) is first released. It's his debut animated feature and will win critical acclaim.[27]
Specific date unknown
- George Moreno Jr.'s Bubble and Squeek is first released.[28]
Films released
Births
January
- January 2: Eiji Kusuhara, Japanese-British actor (voice of Dr. Kamikazi in Robotboy), (d. 2010).[29]
- January 8: David Bowie, British rock singer and actor (voice of Lord Royal Highness in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis and Emperor Maltazard in Arthur and the Invisibles), (d. 2016).[30]
- January 29: Gerald Polley, American singer, activist and animator.[31]
- Juan Padrón, Cuban comics artist and animator (Vampires in Havana), (d. 2020).[32]
February
- February 7: Wayne Allwine, American actor (voice of Mickey Mouse since 1977), (d. 2009).
- February 11: Bruce Bickford, American animator (made the surreal clay-animated sequences in Frank Zappa's concert films The Dub Room Special, Baby Snakes and The Amazing Mr. Bickford), (d. 2019).[33]
- February 16: Giorgio Lopez, Italian voice actor (Italian dub voice of King Harold in the Shrek franchise, Italian dub voice of Scrooge McDuck), (d. 2021).[34][35]
March
- March 18: Susan Sheridan, British Voice actress (voice of Princess Eilonwy in The Black Cauldron, Noddy on Noddy's Toyland Adventures), (d. 2015).
- March 22: Tony Pope, American voice actor (voice of Goofy and The Big Bad Wolf in Who Framed Roger Rabbit), (d. 2004).[36]
- March 27: Chick Vennera, American actor (voice of Pesto in Animaniacs, Lorenzo in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Chauffeur in Batman Beyond and Ferrett in Static Shock) (d. 2021).[37]
April
- April 4: Jacques Frantz, French actor (voice of Obelix in Asterix and the Vikings), (d. 2021).[38]
- April 23: Ron McLarty, American dramatist, playwright and actor (did voices for several episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog, voice of the narrator and Papa Bear in The Berenstain Bears animated TV specials), (d. 2020).[39]
May
- May 10: Marion Ramsey, American actress (voiced teacher in the Robot Chicken episode Sausage Fest), passed away at age 73.[40][41]
June
- June 22: David Lander, American actor and comedian (voice of Smart Ass the Weasel in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Sewer King in Hey Arnold!, Squiggy in The Simpsons episode Helter Shelter), (d. 2020).[42][43]
August
- August 22: Tibor Hernádi, Hungarian animator, animated film director, producer, screenwriter and storyboard artist (Felix the Cat: The Movie, The Seventh Brother, made various Red Bull animated TV commercials), (d. 2012).[44]
September
- September 20: Steve Gerber, American writer, (Thundarr the Barbarian, G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero, The Transformers, Superman: The Animated Series), (d. 2008).
- September 29: Hubert Gagnon, Canadian voice actor (dub voice of Optimus Prime in Transformers), dub voice of Homer Simpson and Grampa Simpson in the Canadian-French version of The Simpsons), (d. 2020).[45]
- Greg Irons, American underground cartoonist, animator, poster- and tattoo artist (worked on Yellow Submarine), (d. 1984).[46]
November
- November 17: Will Vinton, American animator and film director (The Adventures of Mark Twain, The California Raisins), (d. 2018).[47][48]
Deaths
January
- January 3: Gus Wickie, German-American singer and actor (voice of Bluto in Popeye), dies at age 61.[49]
- January 9: Herman Bing, German-American actor (voice of The Ringmaster in Dumbo, commits suicide at age 57.
March
- March 24: Frank Rocky Fiegel, American tramp and bar bouncer (inspiration for Popeye), dies at age 79.[50]
See also
References
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- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Goofy Gophers (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Cat Concerto (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "A Hare Grows in Manhattan". 22 March 1947 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Cat Concerto (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Tweetie Pie (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Weight For Me (Walt Disney Television Animation.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "Moonlighting Animation Artists in Comics: CARLO VINCI |". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Mouse (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Donald's Dilemma (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Salt Water Tabby (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Tubby The Tuba (Paramount Pictures)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Uncle Tom's Cabaña (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "A Mouse In The House (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
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- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Slap Happy Lion (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "BCDB: Error". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Little Orphan Airedale (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ^ "Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Herman and Katnip". www.toonopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Naughty But Mice (Famous Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ "CNN Cold War - Historical Document: Walt Disney testifies". CNN. May 14, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-14.
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- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Chip an' Dale (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
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- ^ Arlin, Marc (March 17, 2021). "Mort du comédien Jacques Frantz, la voix française de Robert de Niro, Mel Gibson et Nick Nolte". www.programme-tv.net.
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External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb