1951 in animation

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Events in 1951 in animation.

Events

January

• January 6: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Casanova Cat premiers. [1]

February

• February 3: Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester cartoon Canned Feud premiers. [2]

March

• March 10: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Bunny Hugged premiers, in which Bugs participates in a wrestling match. [3]
• March 29: 23rd Academy Awards: John Hubley's Gerald McBoing-Boing, produced by UPA, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [4]

April

• April 7: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Jerry's Cousin premiers. [5]

May

• May 19: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck short Rabbit Fire premiers, the first short in his Hunting Season trilogy. [6]It also marks a significant change in Daffy's personality, where the originally mad character now transforms into a more selfish, unsympathetic loser.
• May 26: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Sleepy-Time Tom premiers. [7]

June

• June 16:
  • Chuck Jones' Chow Hound premiers. [8]
  • Tex Avery's Symphony in Slang premiers. [9]

July

• July 26: The Walt Disney Company releases Alice in Wonderland, produced by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. [10]

Fall

• In the autumn the U.S. government educational short Duck and Cover, by Anthony Rizzo, starts to get circulated in U.S. schools. The film teaches children what to do in case of a nuclear attack and features an animated sequence starring Bert the Turtle. [11]

November

• November 15: John Hubley's Rooty Toot Toot, produced by UPA, premiers. [12]
• November 17:
  • Chuck Jones' Daffy Duck cartoon Drip-Along Daffy premiers. It marks the debut of recurring villain Nasty Canasta. [13]
  • Tex Avery's Droopy cartoon Droopy's Double Trouble premiers, in which confusion arises around Droopy's twin brother. [14]

December

• December 29: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon No Smoking, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. It's one of the few Disney shorts rarely broadcast on TV because the plot revolves around Goofy trying to quit smoking. [15]

Specific date unknown

• Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg's The Night Before Christmas premiers. [16]

Films released

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

Deaths

April

• April 5: Harry Hemsley, British comedian, radio presenter, comics artist, illustrator, voice actor and animator (made a 1940 animated short based on the characters from his Ovaltiney's Concert Party radio show and comics, which he also voiced himself), passes away at age 73. [17]

May

• May 5: Larry Grey, British magician (voice of Bill the Lizard in Alice in Wonderland), commits suicide at age 56. [18]

June

• June 3: Rollin Hamilton, American animator (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 52 or a heart attack.[19]

August

• August 14: William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher and animation producer (founder of International Film Service), passes away at age 88. [20]

References

1. "Casanova Cat". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
2. "Canned Feud". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
3. "Bunny Hugged". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
4. "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
5. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Jerry's Cousin (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
6. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Rabbit Fire (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
7. "Sleepy-Time Tom". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
8. "Chow Hound". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
9. "Symphony in Slang". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
10. "Alice in Wonderland: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
11. http://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/duck_cover.pdf
12. "Rooty Toot Toot". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
13. "Drip-Along Daffy". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
14. "Droopy's Double Trouble". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
15. "No Smoking". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
16. "Russian animation in letters and figures | Films | «THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS»". www.animator.ru. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
17. "Harry Hemsley". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
18. David K. Frasier. "Suicide in the Entertainment Industry". Retrieved 2018-09-28.
19. Hollywood Cartons: American Animation in its Golden Ag - Michael Barrier - Google Books. Books.google.com. 1999. ISBN 9780198020790. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
20. "William Randolph Hearst". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

See also

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