1971 in animation

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The year 1971 in animation involved some events.

Events

April

• April 15: 43rd Academy Awards: Is It Always Right to Be Right? by Nick Bosustow wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[1]

September

• September 11: The first episode of The Jackson Five is broadcast.[2]

October

• October 7: Bedknobs and Broomsticks is first released.[3]

November

• November 10: Frank Zappa's film 200 Motels premiers, which features an animated sequence by Cal Schenkel.[4][5]

December

• December: The first Lucky Luke feature film, Daisy Town, directed by René Goscinny and Morris is released.
• December 21: Richard Williams's TV special A Christmas Carol first airs.[6]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 1971

• Daisy Town (France)
• March 6 – Benny's Bathtub (Denmark)
• December 13 – Bedknobs and Broomsticks (United States)

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of 1971

Debuts

• September 11:
  • Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! debuts on CBS (1971–1972).
  • The Funky Phantom debuts on ABC (1971–1972).
  • The Jackson 5ive debuts on ABC (1971–1973).

Specials

• March 10 – The Cat in the Hat, a television special, airs on CBS (United States).
• April 4 – Here Comes Peter Cottontail, an Easter television special, airs on ABC (United States).

Births

• February 1: Hynden Walch, American actress, voice actress, singer and writer (Starfire in Teen Titans, Penny Sanchez in ChalkZone, Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time)
• March 31: Craig McCracken, American animator (creator of The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Wander Over Yonder)
• May 26: Matt Stone, American actor, voice actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, and composer (South Park)
• October 2: Chris Savino, American animator (The Loud House)

Deaths

March

• March 12: Roy Glenn, American actor (voice of the Bullfrog in Song of the South), dies at age 56 from a heart attack.

July

• July 6: Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer (played a huge head in the skies in the Betty Boop cartoon I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You), dies at age 69.[7][8]
• July 7: Ub Iwerks, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company, Ub Iwerks Films, creator of Mickey Mouse), dies at age 70.[9]
• July 15: Bill Thompson, American voice actor (voice of Droopy, Adolf Wolf in Blitz Wolf, White Rabbit and Dodo in Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Smee in Peter Pan, Jock, Bull, Dachsie, Joe the cook and the Irish policeman in Lady and the Tramp, King Hubert in Sleeping Beauty, Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore in Humphrey the Bear cartoons, Professor Owl in Melody and Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, Uncle Waldo in The Aristocats, voice of Tom's cousin George in the Tom & Jerry short Timid Tabby, Touché Turtle in Touché Turtle and Dum Dum), dies at age 58.
• July 17: Cliff Edwards, American singer, musician and actor (voice of Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, Fun and Fancy Free and From All of Us to All of You, voice of Jim Crow in Dumbo), dies at age 76 from cardiac arrest.

August

• Specific date unknown: Julius Svendsen, Norwegian-American comics artist and animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 51 or 52.[10]

September

• September 7: Spring Byington, American actress (model for Merryweather in Sleeping Beauty), dies at age 84.
• September 23: Billy Gilbert, American comedian and actor (voice of Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 77.[11]

October

• October 25: Paul Terry, American animator, film director, film producer and comics artist (Terrytoons, Farmer Alfalfa, Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Deputy Dawg), dies at age 84.[12]
• October 31: Robert Gribbroek, American animator, lay-out artist and background painter (Warner Bros. Cartoons), dies at age 65.

December

• December 13: Warren Foster, American screenwriter, animator and composer (Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 67.
• December 20: Roy Disney, American film producer (Walt Disney Company) and brother of Walt Disney, dies at age 78 from an intracranial hemorrhage.[13]
• December 28: Burt Gillett, American animator and film director (Walt Disney Company, Walter Lantz Productions), dies at age 80 from a heart attack.

See also

• 1971 in anime

Sources

1. "The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
2. The Jackson 5ive on IMDb
3. "Bedknobs and Broomsticks". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
4. "200 Motels". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
5. "Cal Schenkel". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
6. "A Christmas Carol". Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
7. Meckna, Michael; Satchmo, The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Connecticut & London, 2004.
8. Krebs, Albin. "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies", The New York Times, July 7, 1971. Accessed October 1, 2009. "Louis Armstrong, the celebrated jazz trumpeter and singer, died in his sleep yesterday morning at his home in the Corona section of Queens."
9. "Ub Iwerks". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
10. "Julius Svendsen". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
11. "Billy Gilbert". latimes.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
12. "Paul Terry". lambiek.net. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
13. Jones, Jack (December 21, 1971). "Roy O. Disney". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 24, 2014.