1936 in animation
Events in 1936 in animation.
Films released
January
- January 4: David Hand's Mickey's Polo Team premieres, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, various other Disney characters and caricatures of Hollywood celebrities like Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Harpo Marx.[1]
- January 17: Somewhere in Dreamland, directed and produced by The Fleischer Brothers, is their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor.[2]
- January 31: In their animated short Betty Boop and the Little King, The Fleischer Brothers provide a crossover between Betty Boop and Otto Soglow's newspaper comic The Little King.[3]
March
- March 5: 8th Academy Awards: Three Orphan Kittens, directed by David Hand and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[4][5]
- March 7:
- Hugh Harman's The Old Mill Pond premieres, produced by MGM. The cartoon features caricatures of various famous jazz musicians like Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller.[6]
- Tex Avery's Page Miss Glory, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premieres.[7]
- March 27: Betty Boop and Little Jimmy, directed and produced by The Fleischer Brothers features a crossover between Betty Boop and Jimmy Swinnerton's series Little Jimmy.[8]
- March 28: Wilfred Jackson's Elmer Elephant, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.[9]
April
- April 4: Tex Avery's The Blow Out, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premieres. It marks the first cartoon in which side character Porky Pig has a starring role.[10]
May
- May 2: Friz Freleng's Let It Be Me premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The cartoon features a caricature of popular singer Bing Crosby. The real-life singer feels so offended that he tries to stop the distribution of this particular short.[11][12][13]
- May 30:
- Friz Freleng's Bingo Crosbyana premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, another cartoon which caricatures popular singer Bing Crosby. Again Crosby tries to stop the distribution of this particular short.[14]
- David Hand's Mickey Mouse cartoon Thru the Mirror is first released, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. In this cartoon, Mickey dreams that he travels through his mirror and in a memorable scene, dances with a pack of playing cards.[15]
June
- June 20:
- Wilfred Jackson's Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Rival premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Mickey Mouse is pitted against Mortimer Mouse, who tries to fancy his girlfriend Minnie Mouse.[16]
- Ben Sharpsteen's Moving Day is released, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. In the cartoon the characters move out all their furniture, with a memorable scene in which Goofy faces off against a piano which seems to move on its own.[17]
July
- July 18: Tex Avery's I Love to Singa premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[18]
- Specific date in July unknown: Carl Stalling is hired as composer for Warner Bros. Cartoons.[19]
August
- August 8: Friz Freleng's Sunday Go to Meetin' Time premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[20]
- August 10–31: 4th Venice International Film Festival:
- David Hand's Who Killed Cock Robin, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, wins the award for Best Animation.[21][22]
- Len Lye's experimental animated film A Colour Box is shown at the Venice Film festival but causes a riot among Nazi supporters who label it degenerate art and protest the film. They stomp their feet loudly, leading to the three-minute film being stopped before its completion.[23]
- August 22: Frank Tashlin's Porky's Poultry Plant premieres, starring Porky Pig and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.[24]
October
- October 10: Friz Freleng's Boulevardier from the Bronx premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. It is the first Warner Bros. Cartoon to use Merrily We Roll Along as its theme song.[25]
- October 31: Wilfred Jackson's The Country Cousin, produced by Walt Disney Animation, is first released.[26]
November
- November 27: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, produced and directed by The Fleischer Brothers, is first released. It is the first Popeye the Sailor cartoon over 16 minutes long and in color.
- November 28: Friz Freleng's The Coo-Coo Nut Grove is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The cartoon features various caricatures of Hollywood celebrities.[13][27]
Specific date unknown
- Carlo Campogalliani's The Four Musketeers is first released.[28]
- Len Lye's Rainbow Dance is released, a combination of live-action and animation.[29]
- Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya's The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda is abandoned halfway through production and never finished.[30]
- Raoul Verdini and Umberto Spano's The Adventures of Pinocchio is an animated film which is never completed, because of technical problems.[31][32]
Births
January
- January 2: Roger Miller, American singer and actor (voice of Alan-a-Dale in Robin Hood), (d. 1992).[33]
- January 6: Corinne Orr, Canadian actress (voice of Trixie in Speed Racer).
- January 23: Arlene Golonka, American actress (voice of Debbie in Speed Buggy), (d. 2021).
February
- February 11: Burt Reynolds, American actor (voice of Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go To Heaven, Judge Keaton in the Duckman episode Das Sub, M.F. Thatherton in the King of the Hill episode The Company Man, Senator Buckingham in the American Dad! episode School Lies), (d. 2018).[34]
- February 29: Alex Rocco, American voice actor (voice of Roger Meyers, Jr. in The Simpsons, Thorny in A Bug's Life), (d. 2015).[35]
March
- March: Hu Jinqing, Chinese animator and director (The Fight Between the Snipe and the Clam, Calabash Brothers), (d. 2019).[36]
- March 5: Dean Stockwell, American actor (voice of Duke Nukem in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, adult Tim Drake in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker), (d. 2021).
- March 15: Paul Fierlinger, Czech-American animator (Sesame Street, My Dog Tulip).
April
- April 10: John Madden, American football coach and sportscaster (voiced himself in The Simpsons episode Sunday, Cruddy Sunday), (d. 2021).[37]
- April 12: Charles Napier, American actor (voice of Duke Phillips in The Critic, General Hardcastle in Superman: The Animated Series, and Justice League Unlimited, Cooley in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, original voice of the Sheriff in Squidbillies), (d. 2011).
- April 20: Lisa Davis, English-American former actress (voice of Anita Ratcliffe in One Hundred and One Dalmatians).
- April 21: Avo Paistik, Estonian animated film director, animator and illustrator (Lend, Tolmuimeja, Klaabu, Nipi ja tige kala, Klaabu kosmoses, Naksitrallid, Naksitrallid II), (d. 2013).[38]
May
- May 13: Arthur Lipsett, Canadian film director and animator (Very Nice, Very Nice, 21-87, A Trip Down Memory Lane), (d. 1986).[39]
- May 17: Mark Hall, British animator and film producer (Cosgrove Hall Films, Danger Mouse), (d. 2011).[40]
June
- June 1: Gerald Scarfe, English cartoonist and illustrator (did the animation on Pink Floyd The Wall, production designer on Hercules).
- June 19: Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Space Battleship Yamato, Fist of the North Star), (d. 2012).
- June 20: Derek Lamb, British animator and film producer (Special Delivery, the opening credits of Mystery!, co-produced the Sports Cartoons series, played himself in Ryan, made animated shorts for Sesame Street), (d. 2005).[41][42]
- June 22: John Korty, American film director and animator (Sesame Street, Twice Upon a Time, Vegetable Soup), (d. 2022).[43]
July
- July 24: Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian (voice of Granny Goodwitch in Linus the Lionhearted, singing voice of Frou-Frou in The Aristocats, voice of Gladys in Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, Mama Bear in The Berenstain Bears, Nose Marie in Pound Puppies, Delilah in Sheep in the Big City).
August
- August 11: Mitsutoshi Furuya, Japanese manga artist (Dame Oyaji), (d. 2021).[44]
September
- September 14: Walter Koenig, American actor (voice of Vladimir Pavel Maximov in The Real Ghostbusters episode Russian About, Mr. Savic in Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, himself in the Futurama episode Where No Fan Has Gone Before) and screenwriter (the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode The Infinite Vulcan).
- September 18: Roman Arámbula, Mexican comics artist, animator and lay-out artist (Hanna-Barbera, Pinky and the Brain), (d. 2020).[45]
- September 24: Jim Henson, American puppeteer animator (creator of Muppet Babies), (d. 1990).
October
- October 25: Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress (voice of Goku in the Dragon Ball franchise).
- October 26: Reiko Okuyama, Japanese animator (Nippon Animation), (d. 2007).[46]
November
- November 3: Takao Saitō, Japanese manga artist (Golgo 13), (d. 2021).[47]
December
- December 5: John Erwin, American actor (voice of the title character in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe).
- December 22: Hector Elizondo, American actor (voice of Malcho in Aladdin, Lt. Kragger in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, Wan Shi Tong in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra).
Specific date unknown
- Glenn Vilppu, American animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Marvel Productions), storyboard artist (Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates, Tiny Toon Adventures), painter and art instructor.
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External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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