1946 in animation

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Events in 1946 in animation.

January

• January 4: Terrytoons produces The Thieving Magpies, in which Heckle and Jeckle make their debut. [1]
• January 5: Bob Clampett's Book Revue premiers. [2]

February

• February 2: Friz Freleng's Baseball Bugs is first released. [3]

March

• March 7: 18th Academy Awards: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Quiet Please! wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [4]
• March 8: Jack Hannah's Goofy cartoon A Knight for a Day premiers. [5]
• March 9: Tex Avery's Lonesome Lenny premiers, in which Screwy Squirrel is killed off. [6]
• March 16: Bob Clampett's Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cartoon Baby Bottleneck premiers. [7]
• March 20: Bob McKimson's Hollywood Canine Canteen premiers, which caricatures Hollywood actors as anthropomorphic dogs. [8]

April

• April 20: Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Joshua Meador's Make Mine Music, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. The anthology film consists of the animated segments The Martins and the Coys, Blue Bayou, All the Cats Join In, Without You, Casey at the Bat, Two Silhouettes, Peter and the Wolf, After You've Gone, Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnett and Willie the Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met. [9]

May

• May 16: Svend Methling directs the first Danish animated feature film, The Tinderbox, based on the eponymous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, animated by Børge Ring.[10]
• May 18: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Milky Waif is first released, which marks the debut of Nibbles. [11]
• May 25: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Hair-Raising Hare is first released, which marks the debut of Gossamer. [12]

June

• June 8: Bob Clampett's Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat cartoon Kitty Kornered is first released. [13]
• June 22: Friz Freleng's Hollywood Daffy premiers, in which Daffy Duck visits Hollywood and meets and impersonates a lot of celebrity actors. [14]
• June 28: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Double Trouble premiers, in which Donald uses a well-mannered lookalike to make a good impression on Daisy Duck. [15]

July

• July 20: Bob Clampett's Daffy Duck cartoon The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is first released. [16]

August

• August 3: Tex Avery's Droopy cartoon Northwest Hounded Police premiers. [17]
• August 31: Bob McKimson's Walky Talky Hawky premiers, which marks the debuts of Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg. [18][19]

September

• September 6: George Pal's John Henry and the Inky-Poo premiers. [20]
• September 14: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Racketeer Rabbit is first released. [21]
• September 28: Chuck Jones' Fair and Worm-er premiers. [22]

October

• October 5: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny short The Big Snooze is first released. This is the final cartoon directed by him, as Clampett retires. [23]
• October 26: Tex Avery's Henpecked Hoboes premiers, which marks the debut of George and Junior. [24]

November

• November 1: The Walt Disney Company produces The Story of Menstruation, an educational film for young teenagers about menstruation. [25]
• November 9: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Rhapsody Rabbit premiers. [26]
• November 12: Walt Disney releases Song of the South, a film which combines live-action with animation. It marks the debut of the characters Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear who will become popular comics characters. As the decades pass by Song of the South is frequently accused of promoting racial stereotypes and romanticizing slavery. [27]

December

• December 20: Jack Hannah's Goofy cartoon Double Dribble, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [28]

Specific date unknown

• Karel Zeman's Podkova pro štěstí ("Horseshoe for Luck") premiers, which marks the debut of Mr. Prokouk. [29]

Films released

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

Deaths

January

• January 2: O'Galop, French painter, illustrator, graphic designer, animator and comics artist, passes away at age 78. [30]

November

• November 9: Scotty Mattraw, American actor (voice of Bashful in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 66. [31]
• November 26: Charles Bowers, American comedian, animator and cartoonist (Raoul Barré, Walter Lantz), dies at age 59.

References

1. "Paul Terry". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
2. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Book Revue (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
3. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Baseball Bugs (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
4. "The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
5. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "A Knight For A Day (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
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7. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Baby Bottleneck (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
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9. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Make Mine Music (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
10. From the Tinder Box to the Ugly Duckling, Danish Film Institute, archived from the original on 2008-01-31, retrieved 2009-02-05
11. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Milky Waif (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
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13. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Kitty Kornered (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
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15. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Donald's Double Trouble (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
16. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
17. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Northwest Hounded Police (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
18. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Walky Talky Hawky (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
19. "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
20. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "John Henry And The Inky-Poo (Paramount Pictures)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
21. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Racketeer Rabbit (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
22. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Fair And Worm-Er (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
23. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Big Snooze (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
24. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Henpecked Hoboes (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
25. U.S. copyright registration no. M1355, Dec. 6, 1946. Recorded in Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series. U.S. Copyright Office. 1973. p. 332.
26. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Rhapsody Rabbit (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
27. "Song of the South". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
28. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Double Dribble (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
29. Luciani, Noémie (20 January 2015), "La Magie Karel Zeman: les chefs-d'œuvre miniatures de l'enchanteur tchèque", Le Monde, retrieved 2 February 2015
30. "O'Galop". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
31. Jerry Beck (1 October 2005). The Animated Movie Guide. Chicago Review Press. pp. 257–. ISBN 978-1-56976-222-6. Retrieved 4 July 2013.

See also

• List of anime by release date (1946–1959)