1968 in animation
Events in 1968 in animation.
Events
April
- April 10: 40th Academy Awards: The Box by Fred Wolf wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [1]
July
- July 17: Yellow Submarine is released. [2]
September
- September 14: The first episode of Wacky Races is broadcast.
December
- December 19: Belvision releases the second Astérix film, Asterix and Cleopatra.
Specific date unknown
- Ray Goossens's animated TV series Musti is first broadcast. [3]
Films released
- 19 March; The World of Hans Christian Andersen (Japan)
- 17 July; Yellow Submarine (United Kingdom)
- 21 July; The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (Japan)
- 31 October; VIP my Brother Superman (Italy)
- 6 December; Out of an Old Man's Head (Sweden)
- 19 December; Asterix and Cleopatra (France)
- 23 December; The Magic Bird (Italy)
Television series
Debuts
Deaths
January
- January 16: Vladmir Delac, Yugoslavian comics artist and animator (Veliki Miting), dies at age 60 from cancer.[4]
- Specific date unknown: Steve Muffati, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios), dies at age 57. [5]
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. [6]
- December 30: Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator (Disney Studios, Terrytoons, Famous Studios), passes away at age 64. [7]
References
- ^ "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) - ^ "YELLOW SUBMARINE (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 3 July 1968. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/goossens_ray.htm
- ^ "Vladimir Delač". lambiek.net. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mufatti_steve.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hultgren_ken.htm
- ^ Master Animator" by John Canemaker, Animation Journal, Fall 1994, pp. 8-9