1972 in animation

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The year 1972 in animation involved some events.

Events

January

• January 13: The first episode of The Adventures of Sir Prancelot airs.[1]
• January 24: The first episode of Loeki de Leeuw is broadcast, a series of stop-motion shorts which serve as bumpers before and after commercial breaks on Dutch television. The shorts will continue until 31 December 2004.[2]

February

• February 14:
  • The first episode of Fingerbobs airs.[3]
  • DePatie-Freleng Enterprises broadcasts The Lorax, based on Dr. Seuss' eponymous children's book.[4]

April

• April 8: The first episode of The Most Important Person is broadcast.[5]
• April 10: 44th Academy Awards: The Crunch Bird by Ted Petok wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[6]
• April 12: Ralph Bakshi's debut film, Fritz the Cat, is released, based on the eponymous comic strip by Robert Crumb. The picture is the first animated film to receive an X-rating and be strictly marketed for adults. It manages to become a surprise box office hit.[7]

August

• August 9: Bill Melendez' second Peanuts animated feature film Snoopy, Come Home is released.[8][9]

September

• September 1: The final Woody Woodpecker animated short Bye, Bye, Blackboard is released, after which Walter Lantz Productions closes down its studio as the last (other than Disney) of all the classic animation film studios.[10]
• September 9:
  • The first episode of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is broadcast.[11]
  • The first episode of Sealab 2020 is broadcast, produced by Hanna-Barbera.[12]
  • The first episode of The Osmonds is broadcast, an animated series based on the popular pop group The Osmonds.[13]
• September 12: Hanna-Barbera first broadcasts Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, an animated TV sitcom trying to reach a more adult audience.[14]
• September 14: Manuel García Ferré releases Anteojito y Antifaz, mil intentos y un invento.[15]
• September 16: The first episode of Kid Power is broadcast, an animated adaptation of the newspaper comic strip Wee Pals by Morrie Turner.[16]

October

• October 1: The first episode of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (also known as Battle of the Planets) is broadcast, produced by Rankin/Bass.[17]
• October 31: Ryan Larkin's Street Musique is released.[18]

November

• The first Annie Awards ceremony is held.[19]

December

• December 3: The first episode of Mazinger Z is broadcast on Fuji Television.[20]
• December 13: Belvision releases Tintin and the Lake of Sharks.[21]
• December 14: Hal Sutherland's Journey Back to Oz premiers.[22]
• December 21: Giuliano Cenci's The Adventures of Pinocchio premiers.[23]
• Eric Porter's Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon is first released, the first Australian animated feature film.[24]

Specific date unknown

• Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke create the earliest computer animated film: A Computer Animated Hand.[25]
• The first episode of The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel is broadcast.[26]
• Břetislav Pojar's Balablok is first released.[27]
• Nedeljko Dragić's Tup Tup is first released.[28]
• Peter Lord and David Sproxton establish Aardman Animations.[29]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 1972

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of 1972

Births

• June 17: C. H. Greenblatt, American animator (creator of Chowder, Harvey Beaks) [30]

Deaths

January

• January 1: Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (sang the title song to The Aristocats), dies at age 83.[31]

February

• February 19: Tedd Pierce, American animation writer (Fleischer Studios, Warner Brothers Animation) and voice actor (King Bombo in Gulliver's Travels, C. Blagley Beetle in Mr. Bug Goes to Town, Tom Dover in The Dover Boys, tall ship wreck survivor in Wackiki Wabbit), dies at age 65.[32]

March

• March 19: Carl Meyer, American voice actor (voice of Smack in Mr. Bug Goes to Town), animator and animation writer (Fleischer Brothers, Paramount Animation), dies at age 78.[33]
• March 31: Aleksandar Denkov, Bulgarian illustrator, animator and comics artist (Bolen (The Little Thief)), dies at age 47.[34]

April

• April 25: George Sanders, British actor (voice of Shere Khan in The Jungle Book), dies at age 65.[35]

May

• May 5: Frank Tashlin, American cartoonist, comics artist, illustrator, screenwriter, film director and animator (Van Beuren Studios, Terrytoons, Warner Bros. Animation, Walt Disney Company, Columbia Pictures, United Artists), dies at age 59.[36]
• May 23: Nino Pagot, Italian comics artist and animator (Calimero), dies at the age of 64.[37]

June

• June 26: David Lichine, Russian-American ballet dancer and choreographer (co-served as dance model during the Dance of the Hours segment in Fantasia and Two Silhouettes segment in Make Mine Music), dies at age 61.[38]

August

• August 14: Roland Crandall, American animator (Fleischer Studios), dies at age 79.[39]

September

• September 12: Max Fleischer, American animator, film director, animated film producer and comics artist (Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor), dies at age 89.[40]

October

• October 21: Felix Felton, British actor (voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol), dies at age 61.[41]

November

• November 27: Carl W. Stalling, American composer (composed music for the early Walt Disney cartoons and later the Warner Brothers Animation studio, more particularly Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes) and co-inventor of the click track, dies at age 81.[42]

See also

• 1972 in anime

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