1956 in animation

Years in animation:	1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

Events in 1956 in animation.

Events

February

• February 25: Chuck Jones' Broom-Stick Bunny is first released. [1]

March

• March 10: Chuck Jones' Rocket Squad premiers. [2]
• March 21: 28th Academy Awards: Speedy Gonzales wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [3]

April

• Gene Deitch becomes head of animation at Terrytoons until August 1958. [4]

May

• May 5: Chuck Jones' Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z premiers. [5]
• May 25: Peter Foldes and Joan Foldes' A Short Vision airs during an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show and causes controversy over its anti-atomic power message. [6]

September

• September 29: Chuck Jones' Deduce, You Say! premiers. [7]

November

• November 16: The Tom & Jerry cartoon Blue Cat Blues is first released, with the controversial ending in which the duo commit suicide by waiting on a railroad track for the train to come. [8]

December

• December 8: Bob McKimson's The Honey-Mousers is the first animated cartoon in which actors voice the same characters they play on a TV series, in this case The Honeymooners. [9]
• December 16: The first episode of The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show airs. [10]

Specific date unknown

• Ivan Ivanov-Vano's The Twelve Months is released. [11]
• Te Wei's The Proud General is released. [12]

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

April

• April 14: Christian Rub, Austrian-American actor (voice of Geppetto in Pinocchio), dies at age 70. [13]

September

• September 5: William Pennell, American bariton singer and voice actor (original voice of Bluto in Popeye), dies at age 67. [14]
• September 19: Cecil Surry, American animator (Walt Disney Company, Walter Lantz, Warner Brothers Animation, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, UPA) and comics artist, dies at age 49. [15]

References

1. "Broom-Stick Bunny". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
2. "Rocket Squad". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
3. "The 28th Academy Awards (1956) 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. "Gene Deitch". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
5. "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
6. "A SHORT VISION: Ed Sullivan's Atomic Show Stopper". conelrad.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
7. "Deduce, You Say". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
8. "Blue Cat Blues". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
9. "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
10. "The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (TV Series 1956– ) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
11. "The Twelve Months". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
12. Toon Zone. "Toon Zone Archived 2006-12-09 at the Wayback Machine." "The Conceited General." Retrieved on 2007-01-11.
13. "Christian Rub". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
14. Tim Lawson, Alisa Persons (2004-12-09). The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors. University Press of Mississippi. p. 26. ISBN 1-578-06696-4. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
15. "Cecil Surry". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

See also

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