1949 in animation
The year 1949 in animation involved some animation-related events.
Events
January
- January 22: Tex Avery's classic Bad Luck Blackie premiers. It marks the debut of a prototypical version of Spike the Bulldog.[1]
- January 30: The first episode of Adventures of Pow Wow is broadcast.[2]
March
- March 24: 21st Academy Awards: The Tom & Jerry cartoon The Little Orphan wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3]
April
- April 9: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny cartoon Rebel Rabbit premiers.[4]
May
- May 13: Dallas Bower's Alice in Wonderland premiers, which has stop-motion sequences by Lou Bunin.[5]
June
- June 25: Chuck Jones' classic Bugs Bunny short Long-Haired Hare premiers.[6]
July
- July 30: Tex Avery’s Doggone Tired premiers
August
- August 27: Bob McKimson's The Windblown Hare premiers, which stars Bugs Bunny, the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs.[4]
September
- September 1: Crusader Rabbit becomes the first made for television animated series.[7][8]
- September 17: Chuck Jones' Fast and Furry-ous premiers, which marks the debut of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.[9]
October
- October 5: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[10]
- October 8: Voice actor Mel Blanc loses a trial against animation producer Walter Lantz, whom he'd sued for unauthorized use of his voice and laugh for the character Woody Woodpecker. Blanc had voiced the character in his three first cartoons, before Warner Brothers took an exclusivity contract on him. However Lantz had kept using audio recordings of Woody's laugh and had other actors imitate the voice. The judge rules that Blanc has no case since he didn't copyright Woody's voice. [11] However, Lantz does settle the case out of court and pays him some compensation afterwards. [12]
Specific date unknown
- Karel Zeman's Inspiration premiers.[13]
Films released
Television series debuts
Deaths
March
October
- October 1: Buddy Clark, American singer (singer and narrator in Melody Time), dies at age 37 in a plane crash.[15]
December
- December 25: Leon Schlesinger, American animated film producer (Leon Schlesinger Productions, head of Warner Bros. Cartoons), dies at age 65.[16]
References
- "Bad Luck Blackie". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The Adventures of Pow Wow". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The 21st Academy Awards (1949) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "Alice in Wonderland (1949) - IMDb". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Long-Haired Hare". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Crusader Rabbit (TV Series 1950–1957) - IMDb". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- Lenburg, Jeff (2006). Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film And Television's Award-Winning And Legendary Animators. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 348–349. ISBN 978-1557836717. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Fast And Furry-Ous (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Billboard". 15 October 1949.
- https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lantz_walter.htm
- Karel Zeman Museum, "Filmography", MuzeumKarlaZemana.cz, archived from the original on 2 February 2015, retrieved 3 February 2015
- "Storm P." lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "Buddy Clark". IMDb. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- Ellenberger, Allan R. (May 1, 2001). Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory. McFarland. ISBN 9780786450190. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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