1939 in animation

This is a list of events related to film and television animation of 1939.

Events

The last Betty Boop film, Yip Yip Yippy, was released on August 11 (though she does not appear in the cartoon)

French illustrator, comic book artist and animator Benjamin Rabier
Swedish animator Victor Bergdahl, creator of the animated character Captain Grogg^[1]

December 22: Gulliver's Travels (1939 film), the second American feature-length animated film^[2]

Swinging the Lambeth Walk, directed by Len Lye
January 27: My Friend the Monkey
March 31: So Does an Automobile
April 22: Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
May 12: Musical Mountaineers
June 9: The Scared Crows
June 10: The Bear That Couldn't Sleep, debut appearance of Barney Bear.
July 7: Rhythm on the Reservation, last theatrical Betty Boop cartoon.
July 21: The Pointer, a short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and featuring Mickey Mouse and Pluto, is released in theaters by RKO Radio Pictures
August 11: Yip Yip Yippy
September 9: Life Begins for Andy Panda, produced by Walter Lantz and released by Universal Pictures, marking the film debut of the cartoon character Andy Panda

Bendazzi, Giannalberto (1994). Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation. Translated by Anna Taraboletti-Segre. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20937-4.

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