1952 in animation
Events in 1952 in animation.
Events
January
- January 1: Norm McLaren releases Voisins (Neighbours).[1]
February
- February 5: Chuck Jones' Feed the Kitty premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation .[2]
- February 8: Jack Hannah's Lambert the Sheepish Lion, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released.[3]
- February 9: Tex Avery's Magical Maestro premiers, produced by MGM, starring Spike.[4]
March
- March 15: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Two Mouseketeers is first released, produced by MGM. This is the first of several shorts in which the characters appear as musketeers.[5]
- March 20: 24th Academy Awards: The Tom and Jerry cartoon The Two Mouseketeers, produced by MGM, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[6]
September
- September 20: Chuck Jones' Rabbit Seasoning is released, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the second hunting season cartoon starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.[7]
October
- October 10: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Company. It features the debut of Witch Hazel, who would become a recurring character in Disney comics.[8]
- October 31: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Two Weeks Vacation, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[9]
November
- November 15: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short Rabbit's Kin premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, which marks the debut of Pete Puma.[10]
Specific date unknown
- Lev Atamanov's film The Scarlet Flower is first released.[11]
- Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya's The Snow Maiden is first released.[12]
- Colin Low's The Romance of Transportation in Canada is first released.[13]
- Norman McLaren's Neighbours premiers.[14]
Films released
Television series
Births
February
- February 5: Yoshinori Kanada, Japanese animator (Birth, worked for Hayao Miyazaki), (d. 2009).[15]
April
- April 15: Glenn Shadix, American actor (voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Brain and Monsieur Mallah in Teen Titans), (d. 2010).[16]
- April 16: Billy West, American voice actor (Stimpy in The Ren & Stimpy Show, Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on Doug, Philip J. Fry and Professor Farnsworth on Futurama) [17]
- April 17: Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (voice replacement for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, Grandpa Lou in Rugrats, Uncle Stinkie in Casper) (d. 2016).[18]
May
- May 28: Denis Akiyama, Japanese-Canadian voice actor (voice of Iceman/Bobby Drake, Silver Samurai/Kenuichio Harada and Sunfire in X-Men and Malachite in the original English dub of Sailor Moon), (d. 2018).[19]
- May 31: David Anthony Kraft, American comics writer, critic, publisher and animation screenwriter (G.I. Joe Extreme), (d. 2021).[20][21]
July
- July 12: Stephen R. Johnson, American animator, painter, television director and music video director (the music video of Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel), (d. 2015).[22][23][24]
- July 20: David Anderson, British animator (Dreamland Express, worked on the music video Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel), (d. 2015).[25]
October
- October 16: Ron Taylor, American actor, singer and writer (voice of Bleeding Gums Murphy in The Simpsons), (d. 2002).
November
- November 15: Randy Savage, American professional wrestler and actor (voice of Rasslor on Dexter's Laboratory, Leonard the Grey Ghost Ghostal on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Thug actor in Bolt), (d. 2011).
- November 16: Peter Keefe, American animated TV series producer (Voltron, Denver the Last Dinosaur, Widget) and co-founder of Zodiac Entertainment), (d. 2010).[26][27]
- November 30: Henry Selick, American stop motion director, producer, and writer.
December
- December 29: Efron Etkin, Israeli actor (Hebrew dub voice of Piglet in Winnie the Pooh and Dolf in Alfred J. Kwak), (d. 2012).[28]
Deaths
March
- March 1: Gregory La Cava, American animator and film director (Raoul Barré, International Film Service), dies at age 59.
- March 25: Egon von Tresckow, aka Tres, German animator, illustrator, comics artist and caricaturist (worked for UFA and the films of Hans Fischerkoesen), dies at age 45.[29]
June
- June 25: Fred Brunish, American painter and animator (Walter Lantz), dies at age 49 or 50.[30]
November
- November 23: Fred Moore, American animator (Walt Disney Company), passes away in a traffic accident at age 41.[31]
See also
References
- ^ "Voisins".
- ^ "Feed the Kitty". 2 February 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Lambert the Sheepish Lion". 8 February 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Magical Maestro". 9 February 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Two Mouseketeers". 15 March 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ^ "Rabbit Seasoning". 20 September 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Trick or Treat". 10 October 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Two Weeks Vacation". 31 October 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Rabbit's Kin". 15 November 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Scarlet Flower". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Snow Maiden". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Romance of Transportation in Canada". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ McLaughlin, Dan (2001). "A rather incomplete but still fascinating history of animation". Archived from the original on 2006-08-12. Retrieved 2006-08-30.
- ^ "Animator Yoshinori Kanada Reportedly Passes Away". Anime News Network. July 22, 2009. Archived from the original on July 23, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ^ "Glenn Shadix, Actor in 'Beetlejuice,' Dies at 58 (Published 2010)". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 9, 2010. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ "Billy West • Welcome". www.billywest.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ Leovy, Jill (February 4, 2016). "Joe Alaskey dies at 63; impersonator was a later voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ Bartlett, Rhett (July 3, 2018). "The Toronto native was prolific across film, television, stage and anime for four decades". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
- ^ Fassett, Ryan (2021-05-20). "Writer and Publisher David Anthony Kraft Has Passed Away". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ^ "David A. Kraft, Iconic Defenders Writer, Comics Journalist, Has Passed Away". CBR. 2021-05-20. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ^ "The Dead Rock Stars Club - January to June 2015". Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ "Obituary for Stephen Russell Johnson". Cheney-Witt Funeral Chapel. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
- ^ "Stephen R. Johnson's Obituary on New York Times". New York Times. 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
- ^ "In Memoriam: David Anderson (1952-2015)". May 13, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ Koppel, Niko (June 10, 2010). "Peter Keefe, Creator of Cartoon 'Voltron,' Dies at 57". The New York Times. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ Barnes, Mike. "'Voltron' producer Peter Keefe dies", The Hollywood Reporter, May 28, 2010. Accessed June 11, 2010.
- ^ עפרון אטקין (in Hebrew)
- ^ "Egon von Tresckow".
- ^ Ask Art The Artists' Bluebook. "Fred W. Brunish". Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Animators' Hall of Fame". www.agni-animation.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb