1944 in animation

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Events in 1944 in animation.

January

• January 8: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny short What's Cookin' Doc? premiers, in which Bugs competes for an Academy Award for Best Actor.[1]
• January 28: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon How to Be a Sailor premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Company.[2]

February

• February 3: Hans Fischerkoesen's Der Schneemann premiers.[3]
• February 18: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Trombone Trouble, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[4]
• February 26:
  • Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears premiers, which marks the debut of The Three Bears.[5]
  • Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Zoot Cat premiers.[6]

March

• March 2: 16th Academy Awards:
  • Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short The Yankee Doodle Mouse wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short, the first of seven Oscars the franchise will win over the years.[7]
  • George Pal wins the Academy Honorary Award.[7]
• March 10: Jack Kinney's Goofy short How to Play Golf, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[8]
• March 25: Chuck Jones' war-time cartoon The Weakly Reporter premiers.[9]
• March 31: Jack King's Donald Duck and the Gorilla, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[10]

April

• April 1: Tex Avery's Screwball Squirrel premiers, which marks the debut of Screwy Squirrel.[11]
• April 22:
  • The classic Woody Woodpecker short The Barber of Seville premiers, produced by Walter Lantz Productions.[12]
  • Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips premiers, a war propaganda cartoon in which Bugs Bunny fights the Imperial Japanese Army.[13]

May

• May 20: Bob Clampett's Russian Rhapsody premiers, a wartime propaganda short in which a group of gremlins ridicule Adolf Hitler.[14]
• May 27: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoon Duck Soup to Nuts premiers.[15]

June

• June 2: Jack King's Donald Duck short Commando Duck premiers, a wartime propaganda cartoon , produced by the Walt Disney Company, in which Donald fights Japanese soldiers.[16]
• June 3: Chuck Jones's Angel Puss premiers, a one-shot cartoon which will later become part of the Censored Eleven.[17]
• June 23: Charles Nichols' Springtime for Pluto, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[18]
• June 24:
  • Tex Avery's Screwy Squirrel cartoon Happy-Go-Nutty is first released.[19]
  • Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny short Hare Ribbin' premiers.[20]

July

• Chuck Jones directs Hell-Bent for Election, a propaganda cartoon to promote U.S. presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt.[21]

August

• August 26: Bob Clampett's Buckaroo Bugs premiers.[22]

September

• September 2: Friz Freleng's Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears premiers.[23]
• September 15: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon How to Play Football , produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.[24]
• September 16: Frank Tashlin's war-time propaganda cartoon Plane Daffy is first released, in which Daffy Duck fights a female Nazi spy and fools Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring.[25]

November

• November 3: The Hungarian film Svatba v korálovém moři premiers.[26]
• November 8: Hans Fischerkoesen's Das dumme Gänslein premiers.[27]
• November 23: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Mouse Trouble premiers.[28]
• November 25: Frank Tashlin's Daffy Duck short The Stupid Cupid premiers.[29]

December

• December 21: The Walt Disney Company releases The Three Caballeros, which marks the debut of Panchito Pistoles.[30]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of the 1940s

Deaths

July

• July 9: Kent Rogers, American voice actor (voice of Beaky Buzzard and Junior Bear in Looney Tunes, continued the voice of Woody Woodpecker in Walter Lantz's cartoons), dies in a military training flight at age 20.[31][32]

November

• November 27: Willard Bowsky, American animator (Fleischer Studios), dies in combat at age 37.[33][34]

References

1. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "What's Cookin' Doc? (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
2. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "How To Be A Sailor (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
3. "Snowman in July". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
4. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Trombone Trouble (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
5. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Bugs Bunny And The Three Bears (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
6. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Zoot Cat (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
7. "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
8. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "How To Play Golf (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
9. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Weakly Reporter (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
10. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Donald Duck And The Gorilla (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
11. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Screwball Squirrel (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
12. "Walter Lantz". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
13. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
14. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Russian Rhapsody (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
15. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Duck Soup To Nuts (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
16. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Commando Duck (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
17. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Angel Puss (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
18. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Springtime For Pluto (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
19. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Happy-Go-Nutty (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
20. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Hare Ribbin' (Leon Schlesinger Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
21. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Hell-Bent For Election (UPA, United Auto Workers, Industrial Films)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
22. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "User Comments About Buckaroo Bugs Theatrical Cartoon". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
23. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Goldilocks And The Jivin' Bears (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
24. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "How To Play Football (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
25. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Plane Daffy (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
26. "Hochzeit im Korallenmeer". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
27. "Das dumme Gänslein". Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
28. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "Mouse Trouble (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
29. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Stupid Cupid (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
30. The Big Cartoon DataBase. "The Three Caballeros (Walt Disney Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 18, 2020.
31. https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kent-Rogers/
32. https://www.myheritage.nl/names/kent_rogers
33. Bendazzi, Giannalberto (Oct 23, 2015). "Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age". CRC Press. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
34. Pointer, Ray (Jun 9, 2017). "The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer". McFarland. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Google Books.

See also

• List of anime by release date (1939–1945)