1978 in animation
The year 1978 in animation involved some events.
Events
March
- March 1: Karel Zeman's Krabat - The Sorcerer's Apprentice premiers.[1]
- March 11: Masami Hata's Chirin no Suzu (Ringing Bell) premiers, the first animated feature produced by Sanrio to be aimed more at young adults, with a remarkable shift in brutal tone in the second half of the film.[2][3]
- March 27: Jannik Hastrup's Danish animated feature Trællene / The Thralls is first released in theaters.[4]
April
- April 2: The first episode of Starzinger premiers.[5]
- April 3: 50th Academy Awards: The Sand Castle by Co Hoedeman wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[6]
May
- May 12: Hisayuki Toriumi's Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: The Movie premiers.
- May 16–30: Jean-François Laguionie's Rowing Across the Atlantic premiers during the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. It will later win a Short Film Palme d'Or.[7]
June
- June 3: The first episode of Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern is broadcast.[8]
- June 16: The film Grease premiers, which has an animated opening sequence created by John David Wilson.[9][10]
- June 23: Lionel Jeffries' The Water Babies, which combines animation and live-action, is first released.
July
- July 6: The first episode of the French animated TV series Wattoo Wattoo Super Bird premiers.[11]
- July 14: Leiji Matsumoto's Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato is released.[12]
September
- The first episode of the Italian animated TV series Quaq Quao premiers.[13]
- September 30: The first episode of Il était une fois... l'Homme (Once Upon a Time... Man), the first series in the Once Upon a Time... franchise by Albert Barillé, is broadcast.[14]
October
- October 19: Martin Rosen's animated feature film, Watership Down, an adaptation of Richard Adams' novel Watership Down, premiers.[15]
- October 22: Nelvana releases its first animated Halloween special, The Devil and Daniel Mouse.[16]
- October 24: René Goscinny and Morris' second animated feature film based on the Lucky Luke series, La Ballade des Dalton, premiers in France.[17]
November
- November 2: Takashi Masunaga's anthology film Metamorphoses premiers, a retelling of Metamorphoses by Roman poet Ovid set to music by Joan Baez and Mick Jagger.[18]
- November 6: Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon's Livraison Spéciale (Special Delivery is released.[19]
- November 13: To celebrate the character's 50th anniversary Mickey Mouse receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is the first animated character, and general fictional character, to receive this honour.[20]
- November 15: Ralph Bakshi releases his animated film adaptation of the Ring trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings.[21]
December
- December 16:
- Soji Yoshikawa's The Mystery of Mamo is released, the first animated film in the Lupin III franchise.[22]
- Don Bluth's The Small One is released, produced by Walt Disney Productions.[23]
Specific date unknown
- Ishu Patel's animated short Afterlife premiers.[24]
- Robert Awad, André Leduc and Tim Reid's L'Affaire Bronswik (The Bronswik Affair) premiers, an animated mockumentary.[25]
- Yefim Gamburg's Ograblenie po... (Robbery Style...) premiers.[26]
- Janet Perlman and Derek Lamb's Why Me? premiers.[27]
Films released
Television series
Births
March
- March 25: Tomohisa Shimoyama, Japanese director (Super Shiro) and animator (Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl).
November
- November 19: Daniel Chong, American creator (We Bare Bears) and storyboard artist (Inside Out, Toy Story of Terror!).
Deaths
January
- January 18:
- Clark Haas, American comics artist, animator and animation producer (Clutch Cargo, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 58.[28]
- Junius Matthews, American actor (voice of Archimedes the owl in The Sword in the Stone and Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh), dies at age 87.[29]
April
- April 3: Winston Sharples, American composer (Van Beuren Studios, Fleischer Brothers, Paramount), dies at age 69.[30]
- April 19: Joe Dougherty, American voice actor (original voice of Porky Pig), dies at age 79.[31]
June
- June 1: John W. Burton, American animated film producer (head of Warner Bros. Animation (1958-1960)) and cinematographer, dies at age 71.[32]
August
- August 22: Steve Gravers, American actor (voice of Blackwolf in Wizards), dies at age 56 from lung cancer.[33]
- August 24: Louis Prima, American jazz singer, bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and voice actor (voice of King Louie in The Jungle Book), dies at age 67.[34]
September
- September 30: Edgar Bergen, American actor, comedian and puppeteer (the narrator in the Mickey and the Beanstalk segment in Fun and Fancy Free), dies at age 75.[35]
October
- October 8: Karl Swenson, American actor (voice of Merlin in The Sword in the Stone), dies at age 70.[36]
- October 10: J.R. Bray, American animator, film producer and director (Colonel Heeza Liar), dies at the age of 99.[37]
December
- December 4: Brian Lewis, British illustrator, comics artist and animator (worked on Yellow Submarine), dies at age 49.[38]
- December 28: Władysław Nehrebecki, Polish animator and TV director (Bolek and Lolek), dies at age 55.[39]
See also
Sources
- "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Chirin no suzu (Ringing Bell) (1978)". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
- ""Ringing Bell" (1978) and "One Stormy Night" (2005) |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Trællene | Danish Film Institute". www.dfi.dk. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Science Fiction Saiyuki Starzinger (TV) - Anime News Network". www.animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on November 11, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
- "La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame - Fiche Film - La Cinémathèque française". cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Smart-san (TV) - Anime News Network". www.animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Grease (1978) - IMDb". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Grease credits animator Wilson dies". BBC News. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Planète Jeunesse - Wattoo Wattoo Super Bird". www.planete-jeunesse.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Farewell Space Battleship Yamato (movie) - Anime News Network". www.animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "AntonioGenna.net presenta: IL MONDO DEI DOPPIATORI - ZONA ANIMAZIONE: "Quaq Quao"". www.antoniogenna.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Once Upon a Time... Man". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Watership Down". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Devil And Daniel Mouse (Nelvana Limited)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons (1978) - IMDb". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 1, 1978 · Page 25". Newspapers.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- Canada, National Film Board of. "Livraison spéciale". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.nfb.ca.
- "Mickey Mouse". Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- "The Lord of the Rings". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo (movie) - Anime News Network". www.animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Small One (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Canadian Film Encyclopedia - Afterlife". Oct 6, 2012. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "L'affaire Bronswik (1978) - IMDb". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Russian animation in letters and figures | Films | "THE ROBBERY LIKE…"". www.animator.ru. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- Canada, National Film Board of. "Why Me". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.nfb.ca.
- "Clark Haas". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- Junius Matthews at IMDb
- "Winston Sharples". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Joe Dougherty". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "John W. Burton". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Steve Gravers". TV.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Louis Prima". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Edgar Bergen". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Actor Karl Swenson Dies". Lakeland Ledger. October 9, 1978. p. 2A. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
- "J.R. Bray". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Brian Lewis". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- "Wladyslaw Nehrebecki". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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