1944 in animation
Events in 1944 in animation.
January
- January 8: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny short What's Cookin' Doc? premiers, in which Bugs competes for an Academy Award for Best Actor.[1]
- January 28: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon How to Be a Sailor premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Company.[2]
February
- February 3: Hans Fischerkoesen's Der Schneemann premiers.[3]
- February 18: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Trombone Trouble, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[4]
- February 26:
- Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears premiers, which marks the debut of The Three Bears.[5]
- Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Zoot Cat premiers.[6]
March
- March 2: 16th Academy Awards:
- Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short The Yankee Doodle Mouse wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short, the first of seven Oscars the franchise will win over the years.[7]
- George Pal wins the Academy Honorary Award.[7]
- March 10: Jack Kinney's Goofy short How to Play Golf, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[8]
- March 25: Chuck Jones' war-time cartoon The Weakly Reporter premiers.[9]
- March 31: Jack King's Donald Duck and the Gorilla, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[10]
April
- April 1: Tex Avery's Screwball Squirrel premiers, which marks the debut of Screwy Squirrel.[11]
- April 22:
- The classic Woody Woodpecker short The Barber of Seville premiers, produced by Walter Lantz Productions.[12]
- Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips premiers, a war propaganda cartoon in which Bugs Bunny fights the Imperial Japanese Army.[13]
May
- May 20: Bob Clampett's Russian Rhapsody premiers, a wartime propaganda short in which a group of gremlins ridicule Adolf Hitler.[14]
- May 27: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoon Duck Soup to Nuts premiers.[15]
June
- June 2: Jack King's Donald Duck short Commando Duck premiers, a wartime propaganda cartoon, produced by the Walt Disney Company, in which Donald fights Japanese soldiers.[16]
- June 3: Chuck Jones's Angel Puss premiers, a one-shot cartoon which will later become part of the Censored Eleven.[17]
- June 23: Charles Nichols' Springtime for Pluto, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[18]
- June 24:
- Tex Avery's Screwy Squirrel cartoon Happy-Go-Nutty is first released.[19]
- Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny short Hare Ribbin' premiers.[20]
July
- Chuck Jones directs Hell-Bent for Election, a propaganda cartoon to promote U.S. presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt.[21]
- July 28: The Puppetoons short film Jasper Goes Hunting premiers, which features a cameo by Bugs Bunny.[22]
August
- August 26: Bob Clampett's Buckaroo Bugs premiers.[23]
September
- September 2: Friz Freleng's Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears premiers.[24]
- September 15: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon How to Play Football, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[25]
- September 16: Frank Tashlin's war-time propaganda cartoon Plane Daffy is first released, in which Daffy Duck fights a female Nazi spy and fools Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring.[26]
November
- November 3: The Hungarian film Svatba v korálovém moři premiers.[27]
- November 8: Hans Fischerkoesen's Das dumme Gänslein premiers.[28]
- November 23: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Mouse Trouble premiers.[29]
- November 25: Frank Tashlin's Daffy Duck short The Stupid Cupid premiers.[30]
December
- December 21: The Walt Disney Company releases The Three Caballeros, which marks the debut of Panchito Pistoles.[31]
Films released
Deaths
July
- July 9: Kent Rogers, American voice actor (voice of Beaky Buzzard and Junior Bear in Looney Tunes, continued the voice of Woody Woodpecker in Walter Lantz's cartoons), dies in a military training flight at age 20.[32][33]
November
- November 27: Willard Bowsky, American animator (Fleischer Studios), dies in combat at age 37.[34][35]
References
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "What's Cookin' Doc? (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "How To Be A Sailor (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "Snowman in July". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Trombone Trouble (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Bugs Bunny And The Three Bears (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Zoot Cat (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "How To Play Golf (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Weakly Reporter (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Donald Duck And The Gorilla (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Screwball Squirrel (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "Walter Lantz". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Russian Rhapsody (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Duck Soup To Nuts (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Commando Duck (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Angel Puss (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Springtime For Pluto (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Happy-Go-Nutty (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Hare Ribbin' (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Hell-Bent For Election (UPA, United Auto Workers, Industrial Films)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "Jasper and the Puppetoons - Part 3 |". cartoonresearch.com. 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "User Comments About Buckaroo Bugs Theatrical Cartoon". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Goldilocks And The Jivin' Bears (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "How To Play Football (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Plane Daffy (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- "Hochzeit im Korallenmeer". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Das dumme Gänslein". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Mouse Trouble (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Stupid Cupid (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Three Caballeros (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kent-Rogers/
- https://www.myheritage.nl/names/kent_rogers
- Bendazzi, Giannalberto (Oct 23, 2015). Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age. CRC Press. ISBN 9781317520849. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
- Pointer, Ray (Jun 9, 2017). The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer. McFarland. ISBN 9781476627410. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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