1950 in animation
Events in 1950 in animation.
Events
January
- January 7: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Little Quacker premiers. It marks the debut of Quacker the duckling. [1]
- January 20: Jack Hannah's Lion Around, a Donald Duck cartoon produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It marks the debut of Louie the Mountain Lion. [2]
February
- February 11: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short Mutiny on the Bunny premiers. [3]
- February 15: Cinderella, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson and produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[4] The characters Gus and Jaq will later become popular comics characters.
March
- March 3:
- Jack Kinney's The Brave Engineer, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [5]
- In I. Sparber's Quack-A-Doodle-Doo Baby Huey makes his debut. [6]
- March 4: Chuck Jones' Daffy Duck cartoon The Scarlet Pumpernickel premiers. [7]
- March 11: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Texas Tom premiers. [8]
- March 23:
- 22nd Academy Awards: Chuck Jones' Pepe LePew cartoon For Scent-imental Reasons wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [9]
- Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester short Canary Row premiers. It marks the debut of Tweety's owner, Granny. [10]
May
- May 27: Tex Avery's Ventriloquist Cat premiers. [11]
June
- June 17: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short What's Up Doc? premiers. [12]
- June 30: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Motor Mania premiers.
July
- July 1: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Safety Second premiers. [13]
August
- August 5: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck cartoon Golden Yeggs premiers, in which Rocky the gangster makes his debut. [14]
- August 12: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short Hillbilly Hare premiers. [15]
September
- September 2: Chuck Jones' The Ducksters premiers, in which Daffy Duck presents a radio quiz show and torments Porky Pig. [16]
October
- October 11: Jiří Trnka's animated film Prince Bayaya premiers.[17]
- October 28: Bob McKimson's Sylvester the Cat cartoon Pop 'Im Pop! premiers, which features Sylvester trying to impress his son by catching a giant mouse (which is actually the kangaroo Hippety Hopper). [18]
November
- November 2: John Hubley and Robert Cannon's Gerald McBoing-Boing, produced by UPA, premiers. [19]
- November 3: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Hold That Pose, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It marks the debut of Humphrey the Bear. [20]
- November 25: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Cue Ball Cat premiers. [21]
December
- December 13: Jean Image's Jeannot l'intrépide (Johnny the Giant Killer) premiers. [22]
- December 16: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Rabbit of Seville premiers. [23]
Films released
Births
September
- September 7: Julie Kavner, American voice actress (voice of Marge Simpson and Patty and Selma in The Simpsons). [24]
Deaths
March
- March 26: Dink Trout, American radio actor (voice of Bootle Beetle in Bootle Beetle, Old Bootle Beetle & Balsam in Morris the Midget Moose and the King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 51. [25]
September
- September 2: Frank Graham, American radio presenter and voice actor (the Wolf in Tex Avery's Droopy, the Mouse in Slap Happy Lion and King-Size Canary, the Fox and the Crow in The Fox and the Crow, the Lion in the Tom & Jerry short Jerry and the Lion, the narrator in Disney's Chicken Little and The Three Caballeros), dies at age 35 by suicide. [26] [27]
References
- "Little Quacker (MGM)".
- "Lion Around".
- Borowiec, Piotr (1998). Animated Short Films: A Critical Index to Theatrical Cartoons. ISBN 9780810835030.
- "Cinderella: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
- "The Brave Engineer". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Quack-A-Doodle-Doo (Famous Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Texas Tom (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- "Canary Row". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Ventriloquist Cat". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "What's Up Doc? (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Safety Second (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Golden Yeggs (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Hillbilly Hare". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The Ducksters". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Bajaja". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Pop 'im Pop!". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Gerald McBoing-Boing". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Hold That Pose". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Cue Ball Cat". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ""Johnny The Giant Killer" (1950) |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Rabbit Of Seville (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Julie Kavner". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Trout, Radio Player, Dies After Operation". North Dakota, Bismarck. The Bismarck Tribune. March 28, 1950. p. 2. Retrieved February 5, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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