1955 in animation

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Events in 1955 in animation.

Events

January

• January 29: A pilot episode of Art Clokey's Gumby airs. It will become a full-fledged TV series a year later. [1]

February

• February 12: Chuck Jones's Beanstalk Bunny premiers. [2]

March

• March 30: 27th Academy Awards: The Mr. Magoo short film When Magoo Flew, directed by Pete Burness, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. '[3]

April

• April 11: Tex Avery's The Legend of Rockabye Point premiers. [4]
• April 16: Bob McKimson's The Hole Idea is released, an animated short he directed and animated nearly entirely on his own. [5]
• April 26 - May 10 : 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Jiří Trnka's The Good Soldier Schweik premiers. [6]

June

• June 6: Tex Avery's animated short Sh-h-h-h-h-h is released. It will be his final theatrical animated short ever. Afterwards he retires from the animation industry for decades.
• June 16: The Walt Disney Company releases Lady and the Tramp, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. [7]

July

• July 18: In Anaheim, California, Disneyland opens its doors, the first theme park based completely on animated characters from one particular film studio. In this case the studio was Walt Disney Animation Studios.[8]

August

• August 5: Karel Zeman's Journey to the Beginning of Time premiers. [9]

September

• September 2: Art Clokey's short film Gumbasia premiers. [10]
• September 16: Vladimir Polkovnikov and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya's The Enchanted Boy premiers, an animated feature based on Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlöf. [11]
• September 17: Speedy Gonzales, who was earlier created by Bob McKimson, appears in a remodelled version in the Friz Freleng cartoon Speedy Gonzales, which launches the character as a star. [12]

October

• October 3: The first episode of The Mickey Mouse Club airs. [13]

November

• November 11: The Tom and Jerry short film Pecos Pest is first released. [14]
• November 12: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short film Roman Legion-Hare is first released. [15]

December

• December 10: The first episode of Mighty Mouse Playhouse airs. [16]
• December 15: The first episode of A Rubovian Legend airs. [17]
• December 31: Chuck Jones' most beloved animated short, One Froggy Evening, premiers, which also marks the debut of Michigan J. Frog. [18]

Specific date unknown

• Belvision Studios creates some animated television shorts for Belgian television, based on Suske en Wiske (English:Spike and Suzy) and Till Eulenspiegel by Willy Vandersteen, which are broadcast during the children's show Kom Toch Eens Kijken. [19]
• Alberta Siegel conducts a study on the effect of cartoon violence on young children, under the title: Film-Mediated Fantasy Aggression and Strength of Aggressive Drive. She shows the Ub Iwerks cartoon The Little Red Hen and Woody Woodpecker cartoon Ace in the Hole as test subjects and notices the children play more aggressively after having watched the Woody Woodpecker cartoon. A year later the test will cause debate and concern among moral guardians. [20]

Films released

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

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of the 1940s and 1950s

Deaths

July

• July 4: Perce Pearce, American animation director, producer, writer (Walt Disney Company) and voice actor (voice of the mole in Bambi), dies at age 55. [21]

Specific date unknown

• Erich F.T. Schenk, German-American painter, children's book illustrator, animator and comics artist (worked for the Fleischer Studios), dies at age 53 or 54. [22]

References

1. "Art Clokey". KQED Public Media for Northern California. Archived from the original on March 7, 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
2. "Beanstalk Bunny". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
3. "The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
4. "The Legend of Rockabye Point". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
5. McCall, Douglas L. (2015-09-11). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. ISBN 9781476609669.
6. "Dobrý voják Svejk (1955) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
7. "Lady and the Tramp". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
8. "Walt Disney". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
9. "A Journey to the Beginning of Time". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
10. IMDb title|0788085|Gumbasia
11. "The Bewitched Boy". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
12. "Speedy Gonzales". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
13. "The Mickey Mouse Club". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
14. "Pecos Pest". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
15. "Roman Legion-Hare". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
16. "The Mighty Mouse Playhouse (TV Series 1955–1966) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
17. "A Rubovian Legend". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
18. "One Froggy Evening (1955) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
19. "Ray Goossens". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
20. "Alberta Siegel Sets a Rubber Knife, 1955 |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
21. "Perce Pearce". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
22. "Erich F. T. Schenk". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

See also

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