1967 in animation

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Events in 1967 in animation.

Events

March

• March 8: Rankin/Bass Productions releases Mad Monster Party?. [1]

April

• April 2: The first episode of Osamu Tezuka's Princess Knight is broadcast. [2]
• April 10: 39th Academy Awards: A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature by John Hubley and Faith Hubley wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [3]
• April 28: Karel Zeman's The Stolen Airship premiers. [4]

September

• September 9:
  • The first episode of George of the Jungle is broadcast, along with the segment Super Chicken. [5]
  • The first episode of Spider-Man is broadcast. [6]
• September 26: The final Tom and Jerry cartoon by Chuck Jones, Purr-Chance to Dream, is released.[7]
• September 29: The first episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons airs. [8]

October

• October 18: Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar. [9]

December

• December 2: The film The Wacky World of Mother Goose, produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, premiers. [10]
• December 6: The first episode of Théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal (Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre), by Walerian Borowczyk, is broadcast. [11]
• December 20: Belvision releases the first Astérix movie, Asterix the Gaul, which is directed by Ray Goossens. [12]
• December 26: The first episode of the British children's TV show Do Not Adjust Your Set airs, which is the first time audiences can watch Terry Gilliam's cut-and-paste animated sequences. [13]

Specific date unknown

• The first episode of Professor Balthazar airs. [14]

Films released

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of the 1960s § 1967

Births

February

• February 10: Armand Serrano, Filipino animator (Walt Disney Studios)

September

• September 12: Rob Renzetti, American animator and director (My Life as a Teenage Robot).

Deaths

January

• January 31: Oskar Fischinger, German-American painter and animator (Motion Painting No. 1, designed the magic wand effects of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor sequence in Fantasia), dies at age 66. [15]

February

• February 2: Jack Carr, American animator and actor (Charles Mintz, Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 60. [16]

March

• March 6: Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (narrator and voice of Willie the Whale in The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met in Make Mine Music), dies at age 65. [17]
• March 19: Gil Turner, American animator, comics artist and film producer (Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers Animation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA, Hanna-Barbera, Format Films), dies at age 54.[18]

April

• April 22: Tom Conway, British actor (the narrator in Peter Pan, collie and quizmaster in One Hundred and One Dalmatians), dies at age 62. [19]

May

• May 8: LaVerne Andrews, American singer (co-sang the Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet segment in Make Mine Music and Little Toot in Melody Time), dies at age 55. [20]
• May 9: Wallace Carlson, American animator, animated film director and comics artist (worked for J.R. Bray, founder of the Carlson Studios), dies at age 73.[21]

June

• June 7: Willy Lateste, Belgian animator and comics artist (Belvision), dies at age 36.[22]
• July 21: Basil Rathbone, South-African-British actor (the narrator of The Wind in the Willows segment in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), dies at age 75. [23]

October

• October 3: Pinto Colvig, American clown, actor, cartoonist and voice actor (voice of Goofy, Pluto, Practical Pig in Three Little Pigs, Sleepy and Grumpy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 75. [24]

December

• December 31: Hoàng Việt, Vietnamese composer and animator, dies at age 39. [25]

See also

• 1967 in anime

Sources

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2. "Choppy and the Princess". Retrieved May 27, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
3. "The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2011-09-04.
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5. Don Markstein's Toonopedia: George of the Jungle George of the Jungle'
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20. "The Andrews Sisters". IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
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24. "Pinto Colvig, 75, Voice Of Cartoon Characters". The New York Times. October 6, 1967.
25. Văn Giàu Trà̂n 300 năm Sài Gòn - Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 1998 HOÀNG VIỆT (1928 – 1967) - Sinh tại Chợ Lớn, tên thật là Lê Chí Trực. Từ 16 tuổi, ông đã bắt đầu Sáng tác, được nhiều người biết đến với những bài Chị cả, Biệt đô thành, Tiềng còi trong sương đêm (ký tên Lê Trực).