1937 in animation

Years in animation:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940

This is a list of events in 1937 in animation.

Events

January 9: The first solo cartoon of Donald Duck, Don Donald premiers, directed by Ben Sharpsteen and produced by Walt Disney Productions, which launches the Donald Duck series.[1]
January 24: Georg Woelz' Die Schlacht um Miggershausen premiers.[2]

February 6: David Hand's Mickey Mouse cartoon Magician Mickey premiers.[3]
February 20: Ben Sharpsteen's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy cartoon Moose Hunters premiers[4]

March 4: 9th Academy Awards: The Country Cousin, produced by The Walt Disney Company, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [5]
March 12: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio is established.[6]
March 26; In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon character Popeye.[7][8]

April 3: Frank Tashlin's Porky Pig cartoon Porky's Romance premiers.[9]
April 17: The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery, is released. It marks the debut of Daffy Duck.[10]
April 27: The Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Amateurs, directed by Pinto Colvig, Erdmann Penner and Walt Pfeiffer, premiers.[11]
April 30: Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton's Porky's Hare Hunt premiers, a Porky Pig cartoon which is basically a remake of Porky's Duck Hunt, only with a hare instead of a duck. This hare marks the debut of The Happy Rabbit, a prototypical version of the character who would later become Bugs Bunny in 1940.[12]

May 15: David Hand's Little Hiawatha premiers. It marks the debut of Hiawatha who will later become a popular comics character.[13]
May 22: Friz Freleng's Clean Pastures premiers.[14]
May 29: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Modern Inventions premiers.[15]

November 5: The Disney cartoon The Old Mill premiers. It marks the first use of the multiplane camera.[20]
November 26: The Popeye cartoon Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves premiers.[21]

December 2: Ferdinand Diehl, Paul Diehl and Hermann Diehl's The Seven Ravens premiers, which is notable for being an animated feature film, several weeks before Disney's own animated feature film Snow White premiers.[22] However, The Seven Ravens is done in stop-motion, while Snow White features pencil animation.
December 21: Walt Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiers and becomes a global box office hit.[22]
December 24: Burt Gillett's Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy film Lonesome Ghosts premiers.[23]

July 20: Elmer Wait, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Elmer Fudd was named after him), dies at age 23.[24]

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Years in animation:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940