1941 in animation
This is a list of events in 1941 in animation.
Events
January
- January 4: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Elmer's Pet Rabbit premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. [1]
February
- February 27: 13th Academy Awards
- The Milky Way, directed by Rudolf Ising, produced by MGM Animation, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It is the first animated cartoon not produced by Disney to win an Oscar. [2]
- Pinocchio wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score, while When You Wish Upon a Star wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song. [2]
March
- March 15: Tex Avery's Tortoise Beats Hare premiers, starring Bugs Bunny in the first cartoon where he loses, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. [3]
- March 28: Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat, by Walter Lantz, is first released. [4]
April
- April 11: The Fleischer Studios release an adaptation of Johnny Gruelle's children's stories, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. [5]
- April 19: Tex Avery's Porky's Preview premiers. [6]
May
- May 24: Tex Avery's Hollywood Steps Out, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released. [7]
- May 29: Disney animators' strike: At the Walt Disney Animation Studios a five-week strike breaks out to ask for higher payment and privileges. While the demands are eventually met, several animators are either fired by Disney or quit. [8]
June
- June 11: Jack King's Early to Bed, starring Donald Duck, directed by Jack King, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios premiers. [9]
- June 20: The Reluctant Dragon, featuring animated scenes by Jack Cutting, Ub Iwerks, Hamilton Luske and Jack Kinney, produced by Walt Disney Animation, premiers. It features two shorts within the feature film, How To Ride a Horse starring Goofy and The Reluctant Dragon. [10]
- June 21: Riley Thomson’s The Nifty Nineties premiers,
July
- July 5: Tex Avery's The Heckling Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is first released. [11]
- July 7: With Woody Woodpecker, Woody Woodpecker's second film appearance, produced by Walter Lantz, the bird becomes star of his own long-running animated series. [12]
- July 19: The Second Tom And Jerry Short, The Midnight Snack. The characters receive their official names.
August
- August 11: The Screwdriver, produced by Walter Lantz, is the last Woody Woodpecker cartoon featuring Mel Blanc as Woody's voice.[13] Afterwards Warner Bros. Cartoons takes an exclusivity contract on Blanc’s voice. [14]
- August 30: Bob Clampett's The Henpecked Duck is first released, starring Daffy Duck, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. [15]
September
- September 13: Tex Avery's All This and Rabbit Stew, starring Bugs Bunny, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premiers. [16]
- September 26: Paramount Pictures launches an animated film series based on Superman, produced by the Fleischer Studios, which kicks off with the first film Superman. [17]
October
- October 3: Lend a Paw, starring Pluto, directed by Clyde Geronimi, produced by the Walt Disney Studios, is released. [18]
- October 23: Walt Disney Studios releases Dumbo. [19]
November
- November 14: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon The Art of Skiing, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios premiers. [20]
- November 19:
- In China Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming release Princess Iron Fan, the first Chinese animated feature film. [21]
- The National Film Board of Canada releases The Thrifty Pig, a cartoon by the Walt Disney Studios about the importance of war bonds. [22]
- November 24: Pantry Panic starring Woody Woodpecker, directed and produced by Walter Lantz, premiers. [23]
December
- December 5: The Fleischer Studios release their second animated feature film Mr. Bug Goes to Town, which becomes such a colossal flop that the studio goes bankrupt. [24]
- December 6: Friz Freleng's Rhapsody in Rivets, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premiers. [25]
- December 12: The National Film Board of Canada releases Richard Lyford's 7 Wise Dwarfs, produced by the Walt Disney Animation studios, to educate audiences on war bonds. [26]
- December 20: Tex Avery's Wabbit Twouble, starring Bugs Bunny, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premiers. Avery directed the short, but after he left the studio Bob Clampett finished the picture. [27]
- December 26: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon The Art of Self Defense, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, premiers. [28]
Specific date unknown
- Roberto Sgrilli creates the animated short Il Barone di Münchhausen.[29]
Films released
Deaths
August
- August 13: John Stuart Blackton, British animator and film director (The Enchanted Drawing, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces), dies at age 66.
October
- October 8: Win Smith, Canadian-American animator and comics artist (Penguin Pete, Looney Luke, continued Mickey Mouse, worked on Looney Tunes comics), dies at age 53. [30]
References
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=638
- "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=5238
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/2556-Scrub-Me-Mama-With-A-Boogie-Beat
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/1600-Raggedy-Ann-And-Raggedy-Andy
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=302
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- https://animationguild.org/about-the-guild/disney-strike-1941/
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=7879
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/16-Reluctant-Dragon
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=128
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=5218
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/5146-Screwdriver
- https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lantz_walter.htm
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/127-Henpecked-Duck
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=4329
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 139. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=4130
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/17-Dumbo
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/3880-Art-Of-Skiing
- Du, Daisy Yan (2012). "A Wartime Romance: Princess Iron Fan and the Chinese Connection in Early Japanese Animation," in On the Move: The Trans/national Animated Film in 1940s-1970s China, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5382-Thrifty-Pig
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/5196-Pantry-Panic
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/20479-Mr-Bug-Goes-To-Town
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-characters/263-Rhapsody-In-Rivets
- Shull, Michael S. and David E. Wilt. Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945 (2nd ed.) Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-1555-7.
- https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=5268
- https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3883-Art-Of-Self-Defense
- https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sgrilli_roberto.htm
- "Win Smith". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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