1948 in animation

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Events in 1948 in animation.

Events

January

• January 3: Bob McKimson's Gorilla My Dreams starring Bugs Bunny premiers. [1]
• January 23: Toei Animation is founded.

March

• March 5: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Drip Dippy Donald premiers. In the short film, Donald tries to sleep despite a dripping kitchen faucet. [2]
• March 20: 20th Academy Awards:
  • James Baskett wins an Academy Honorary Award for his role as Uncle Remus in Song of the South, making him the first African-American actor to win an Oscar. [3]
  • Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song of the South, written by Ray Gilbert and composed by Allie Wrubel wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song. [3]
  • Friz Freleng's Tweetie Pie wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [3]

April

• April 17: Bob McKimson's Sylvester the Cat cartoon Hop, Look and Listen premiers, which features the debut of Hippety Hopper. [4]

May

• May 8: Friz Freleng's Buccaneer Bunny premiers. [5]
• May 15: Tex Avery's Little 'Tinker premiers. [6]
• May 27: The Walt Disney Company releases Melody Time, directed by Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson. [7]

June

• June 1: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Kitty Foiled premiers. [8]
• June 12: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoon Bugs Bunny Rides Again premiers. [9]

July

• July 17: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Truce Hurts is first released. [10]
• July 24: Chuck Jones' Haredevil Hare premiers, in which Marvin the Martian makes his debut. [11]

September

• September 18: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Old Rockin' Chair Tom premiers. [12]

October

• October 9: Tex Avery's Lucky Ducky premiers. [13]

November

• November 28: Arthur Davis's The Stupor Salesman starring Daffy Duck premiers. [14]

December

• December 3: Charles Nichols' Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey and the Seal, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released. [15]
• December 11: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Mouse Cleaning premiers. [16]

Specific date unknown

• Walter Lantz Productions closes down; however, it was reopened two years later.

Films released

Births

November

• November 26: Jiří Barta, Czech stop-motion animation director (The Pied Pieper, Toys in the Attic)

Deaths

July

• July 9: James Baskett, American actor (voice of the obese crow in Dumbo, Uncle Remus and the voice of Br'er Fox in Song of the South), dies at age 44 from heart failure. [17]

Source

1. "Gorilla My Dreams". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
2. "Drip Dippy Donald". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
3. "The 20th Academy Awards (1948) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
4. "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
5. "Buccaneer Bunny". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
6. "Little 'Tinker". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
7. "Melody Time". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
8. "Kitty Foiled". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
9. "Bugs Bunny Rides Again". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
10. "The Truce Hurts". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
11. "Haredevil Hare". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
12. "Old Rockin' Chair Tom". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
13. "Lucky Ducky". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
14. "The Stupor Salesman". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
15. "Mickey and the Seal". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
16. "Mouse Cleaning". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
17. "James Baskett". IMDb. Retrieved May 18, 2020.

See also

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