1950 in animation

Years in animation:	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
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Years:	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953

Events in 1950 in animation.

Events

January

• January 7: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Little Quacker premiers. It marks the debut of Quacker the duckling. [1]
• January 20: Jack Hannah's Lion Around, a Donald Duck cartoon produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It marks the debut of Louie the Mountain Lion. [2]

February

• February 11: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short Mutiny on the Bunny premiers. [3]
• February 15: Cinderella, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson and produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[4] The characters Gus and Jaq will later become popular comics characters.

March

• March 3:
  • Jack Kinney's The Brave Engineer, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. [5]
  • In I. Sparber's Quack-A-Doodle-Doo Baby Huey makes his debut. [6]
• March 4: Chuck Jones' Daffy Duck cartoon The Scarlet Pumpernickel premiers. [7]
• March 11: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Texas Tom premiers. [8]
• March 23:
  • 22nd Academy Awards: Chuck Jones' Pepe LePew cartoon For Scent-imental Reasons wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [9]
  • Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester short Canary Row premiers. It marks the debut of Tweety's owner, Granny. [10]

May

• May 27: Tex Avery's Ventriloquist Cat premiers. [11]

June

• June 17: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short What's Up Doc? premiers. [12]
• June 30: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Motor Mania premiers.

July

• July 1: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Safety Second premiers. [13]

August

• August 5: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck cartoon Golden Yeggs premiers, in which Rocky the gangster makes his debut. [14]
• August 12: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short Hillbilly Hare premiers. [15]

September

• September 2: Chuck Jones' The Ducksters premiers, in which Daffy Duck presents a radio quiz show and torments Porky Pig. [16]

October

• October 11: Jiří Trnka's animated film Prince Bayaya premiers.[17]
• October 28: Bob McKimson's Sylvester the Cat cartoon Pop 'Im Pop! premiers, which features Sylvester trying to impress his son by catching a giant mouse (which is actually the kangaroo Hippety Hopper). [18]

November

• November 2: John Hubley and Robert Cannon's Gerald McBoing-Boing, produced by UPA, premiers. [19]
• November 3: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Hold That Pose, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It marks the debut of Humphrey the Bear. [20]
• November 25: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Cue Ball Cat premiers. [21]

December

• December 13: Jean Image's Jeannot l'intrépide (Johnny the Giant Killer) premiers. [22]
• December 16: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Rabbit of Seville premiers. [23]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of the 1950s

Births

September

• September 7: Julie Kavner, American voice actress (voice of Marge Simpson and Patty and Selma in The Simpsons). [24]

Deaths

March

• March 26: Dink Trout, American radio actor (voice of Bootle Beetle in Bootle Beetle, Old Bootle Beetle & Balsam in Morris the Midget Moose and the King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 51. [25]

September

• September 2: Frank Graham, American radio presenter and voice actor (the Wolf in Tex Avery's Droopy, the Mouse in Slap Happy Lion and King-Size Canary, the Fox and the Crow in The Fox and the Crow, the Lion in the Tom & Jerry short Jerry and the Lion, the narrator in Disney's Chicken Little and The Three Caballeros), dies at age 35 by suicide. [26] [27]

References

1. "Little Quacker (MGM)".
2. "Lion Around".
3. Borowiec, Piotr (1998). Animated Short Films: A Critical Index to Theatrical Cartoons. ISBN 9780810835030.
4. "Cinderella: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
5. "The Brave Engineer". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
6. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Quack-A-Doodle-Doo (Famous Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
7. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
8. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Texas Tom (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
9. "The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
10. "Canary Row". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
11. "Ventriloquist Cat". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
12. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "What's Up Doc? (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
13. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Safety Second (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
14. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Golden Yeggs (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
15. "Hillbilly Hare". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
16. "The Ducksters". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
17. "Bajaja". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
18. "Pop 'im Pop!". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
19. "Gerald McBoing-Boing". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
20. "Hold That Pose". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
21. "Cue Ball Cat". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
22. ""Johnny The Giant Killer" (1950) |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
23. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Rabbit Of Seville (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
24. "Julie Kavner". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
25. "Trout, Radio Player, Dies After Operation". North Dakota, Bismarck. The Bismarck Tribune. March 28, 1950. p. 2. Retrieved February 5, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
26. https://books.google.be/books?id=mCXOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=Frank+Graham+1950+suicide&source=bl&ots=2Bl81RyeYh&sig=ACfU3U1cNRZMQuGp5_MJ2uQ4H5K1mqRieA&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY77qP5ojqAhVC6qQKHYL3CcsQ6AEwA3oECBAQAQ#v=onepage&q=Frank%20Graham%201950%20suicide&f=false
27. https://books.google.be/books?id=_jZbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=Frank+Graham+1950+suicide&source=bl&ots=hAZcQzmD5M&sig=ACfU3U1hBfcMcqXu8H5QeDt_PQNZ2wSCIA&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY77qP5ojqAhVC6qQKHYL3CcsQ6AEwBHoECBQQAQ#v=onepage&q=Frank%20Graham%201950%20suicide&f=false

See also

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