1943 in animation

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This is a list of events in 1943 in animation.

Events

January

• January 1: Jack Kinney's war-time propaganda Donald Duck cartoon Der Fuehrer's Face, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. [1]
• January 4: Walt Disney's war-time propaganda cartoon The Grain That Built a Hemisphere premiers. [2]
• January 7: Jack King's war-time propaganda cartoon The Spirit of '43 premiers, produced by the Walt Disney company, in which Donald Duck promotes paying income taxes to help the war effort. [3]
• January 15: Clyde Geronimi's war-time propaganda cartoon Education for Death, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [4]
• January 16:
  • Bob Clampett's Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs is first released. [5]
  • Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Sufferin' Cats! premiers, produced by MGM, in which the alley cat Meathead makes his debut. [6]
• January 22: The war-time propaganda Popeye cartoon Spinach Fer Britain, directed by Isadore Sparber, produced by Famous Studios, premiers, in which Popeye fights Nazi marines. [7]
• January 23: Norman McCabe's Daffy Duck cartoon Confusions of a Nutzy Spy, a war-time propaganda cartoon, is first released. [8]
• January 29: Dick Lundy's Donald Duck short Donald's Tire Trouble premiers. While not directly referencing World War II it does mention rationing. [9]

February

• February 2: Friz Freleng's Pigs in a Polka is first seen in theaters. [10][11]
• February 19: The war-time propaganda Popeye cartoon Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue, directed by Dan Gordon, produced by Famous Studios, premiers, in which Popeye and Bluto fight Japanese spies. Hirohito, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring have cameos too. [12]
• February 20: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny cartoon Tortoise Wins by a Hare is first released. [13]

March

• March 4: 15th Academy Awards: Der Fuehrer's Face, produced by the Walt Disney Company, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [14]
• March 6:
  • Friz Freleng's The Fifth-Column Mouse is first released, a war-time propaganda cartoon. [15]
  • Chuck Jones' To Duck or Not to Duck premiers, which stars Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck eventually fighting it out in a boxing ring. [16]
• March 20: Tex Avery's Dumb-Hounded is first released, marking the debut of Droopy. [17]
• March 25: The Japanese war-time propaganda short Momotarō no Umiwashi is released. [18][18][19][20][21]
• March 26: The Superman war-time propaganda short, Jungle Drums, produced by Famous Studios, has Superman fighting Nazis, with a caricature cameo of Adolf Hitler appearing at the end. [22]

April

• April 2: Clyde Geronimi's Pluto cartoon Private Pluto, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. It marks the debut of Chip 'n' Dale. [23]
• April 3: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Super-Rabbit premiers. [24]
• April 15: Kenzo Masaoka's Kumo to Tulip is first released. [25]
• April 23: Jack King's war-time propaganda Donald Duck cartoon Fall Out Fall In, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [26]

May

• May 1: Bob Clampett's Daffy Duck short The Wise Quacking Duck premiers. [27]
• May 8: Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood premiers, produced by MGM, in which his recurring Wolf and Red make their debuts.[28]
• May 15: Norman McCabe's war-time propaganda cartoon Tokio Jokio premiers. [29]

June

• June 5: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoon Yankee Doodle Daffy is first released. [30]
• June 12: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoon Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk premiers. [31]
• June 19: Tex Avery's Who Killed Who? premiers. [32]
• June 26: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Yankee Doodle Mouse premiers, produced by MGM. While not directly referencing World War II, much of their fight mirrors a military battle, making it a war-time propaganda short. [33]
• June 28: Warner Bros. Cartoons starts producing the Private Snafu wartime propaganda military instruction cartoons, of which the first entry in the series is Coming!! Snafu. [34]

July

• July 3: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Wackiki Wabbit is first released. [35]
• July 17:
  • Frank Tashlin's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoon Porky Pig's Feat is first released. [36]
  • Bob Clampett's Tin Pan Alley Cats is first released. [37]
  • Victory Through Air Power, a combination of live-action and animation war-time propaganda film, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released. It also marks more focus by Disney on producing educational animated films. [38]

August

• August 21: Frank Tashlin's war-time propaganda Daffy Duck cartoon Scrap Happy Daffy premiers. [39]
• August 27: The war-time propaganda short Reason and Emotion, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [40]

September

• September 18: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny short A Corny Concerto is first released. [41]

October

• October 9: Hanna-Barbera's war-time propaganda short War Dogs, produced by MGM, premiers. [42]
• October 30: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny cartoon Falling Hare premiers, in which Bugs fights a Gremlin.[43]

November

• November 5: Jack King's war-time propaganda Donald Duck cartoon The Old Army Game premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Company. [44]
• November 20: Friz Freleng's war-time propaganda cartoon Daffy - The Commando is first released, in which Daffy Duck outsmarts a Nazi officer and memorably hits Adolf Hitler over the head with a mallet near the end. [45]
• November 26: The Donald Duck war-time propaganda short Home Defense, directed by Jack King and produced by the Walt Disney Company premiers. [46]
• November 27: Tex Avery's What's Buzzin' Buzzard premiers. [47]

December

• December 17: Clyde Geronimi's Chicken Little, produced by the Walt Disney Company is first released. [48]
• December 25: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Baby Puss premiers, produced by MGM, in which Butch and Topsy make their debuts.[49]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of the 1940s

Births

July

• July 11: Suzan Pitt, American animator (Asparagus) (died in 2019). [50]
• July 31: Ryan Larkin, Canadian animator (Walking, Street Musique) (died in 2007). [51]

November

• November 14: Michèle Cournoyer, Canadian animator [52]

December

• December 23: Harry Shearer, American voice actor (Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Dr. Hibbert, Reverend Lovejoy, Seymour Skinner, Kent Brockman in The Simpsons). [53]

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See also

• List of anime by release date (1939–1945)