1957 in animation

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Events in 1957 in animation.

Events

March

• March 20: The film Hemo the Magnificent, a combination of live-action with animated sequences, premiers.[1]
• March 27: 29th Academy Awards: The Mr. Magoo cartoon Magoo's Puddle Jumper wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[2]

May

• May 15: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio closes down.[3]

July

• July 6: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny short What's Opera, Doc? premiers. Though not remarkably popular at first, it will eventually become one of the most famous and critically acclaimed animated cartoons of all time.[4]
• July 7: Hanna-Barbera is established by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera and George Sidney.[5]

October

• October 3: The first episode of The Woody Woodpecker Show is broadcast.[6]

November

• November 15: Lev Atamanov and Nikolay Fyodorov's The Snow Queen premiers.[7]
• November 28: The first episode of Hergé's Adventures of Tintin by Ray Goossens and animation studio Belvision, first airs on television. This is the first hand-drawn animated television adaptation of the comics series The Adventures of Tintin (1929–1976) by Hergé.[8][9]

December

• December 14: The first Hanna-Barbera animated television series airs on American television: The Ruff and Reddy Show.[10][11]

Specific date unknown

• Zdeněk Miler launches his animated television series The Little Mole.
• Colonel Bleep, the first animated TV series in colour debuts.[12]

Films released

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of the 1940s and 1950s § 1957

Births

January

• January 12: John Lasseter, American director, writer, and animator (Pixar).

September

• September 24: Brad Bird, American animator and director (The Simpsons, Pixar)

October

• October 25: Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress (voice of Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz and Ralph Wiggum in The Simpsons)
• October 29: Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (voice of Homer Simpson, Grampa, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Sideshow Mel, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman, Gil Gunderson, Squeaky Voiced Teen, Itchy, Kodos in The Simpsons, Robot Devil in Futurama, Megavolt in Darkwing Duck)

Deaths

February

• February 5: Ben Hardaway, American animator (Looney Tunes, credited with inspiring the name and one of the earliest model sheets of Bugs Bunny, also worked for Walter Lantz), dies at age 61.[13]

March

• March 1: A.C. Hutchison, American comics artist and animator (Keene Cartoon Corporation, Lee-Bradford Corporation, Ted Eshbaugh Studios, Walt Disney Company), dies at age 72.[14]

April

• April 3: Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (voice of Heckle and Jeckle between 1947 and 1951), dies at age 73.[15]

May

• May 16: John Brown, British actor (voice of the Umpire in Make Mine Music, Noah Webster in Symphony in Slang, the narrator, Pee Wee and the theatrical agent in Dixieland Droopy), dies at age 53.[16]

June

• June 21: Kay Nielsen, Danish-American, painter, illustrator and animator (worked on Fantasia), passes away at age 71.[17]

November

• November 4: Norm Ferguson, American animator (Walt Disney Company, designed Peg-Leg Pete, the Big Bad Wolf and Pluto), dies at age 55 from a heart attack.[18]

References

1. "Hemo the Magnificent". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
2. "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
3. Maltin, Leonard (1980, rev. 1987) Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, New York: Plume Books. ISBN 0-452-25993-2
4. 1957 in animation at the Big Cartoon DataBase
5. Barrier, Michael (2003). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1980-2079-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
6. "The Woody Woodpecker Show". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
7. "The Snow Queen". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
8. "Ray Goossens". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
9. "Les aventures de Tintin (TV Series 1957– ) - Release Info - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020.
10. "Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Ruff and Reddy". Retrieved May 19, 2020.
11. "The Ruff & Reddy Show". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
12. "Colonel Bleep (TV Series 1956– ) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
13. "Ben Hardaway". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
14. "A.C. Hutchison". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
15. "Milestones". Time. 1957-04-15. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
16. "Digger O'Dell Dies". The Kansas City Times. Associated Press. May 18, 1957. p. 2. Retrieved April 26, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
17. David Larkin, ed. (1977). The unknown paintings of Kay Nielsen. Peacock Press/Bantam Book. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
18. "Norman Ferguson". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

See also

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