May 29: Disney animators' strike: At the Walt Disney Animation Studios a five-week strike breaks out to ask for higher payment and privileges. While the demands are eventually met, several animators are either fired by Disney or quit.[9]
February 11: Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician (voice of Samba School Director in Rio, Street Vendor in Rio 2, composed songs for both films), (d. 2024).[45][46][47]
Ann-Margret, Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer (portrayed Bebe DeBarge in Happy!, voice of Ann-Margrock in The Flintstones episode "Ann-Margrock Presents").
May 13: Dwi Koendoro, Indonesian comics artist, animator (made an animated series based on his comics series Legenda Sawung Kampret) and film producer (head of Indonesian Animation Association), (d. 2019).[64]
April 25: Alexander Shiryaev, Russian animation director, ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer, (grom 1906 to 1909, Shiryaev produced a number of pioneering stop motion and traditionally animated films. He recreated various ballets by staging them through using hand-made dolls which he created from either clay or papier-mâché; they were 20–25cm (7.9–9.8in) tall, and their body parts were connected by thin wire which provided plasticity. He then filmed them on camera, frame by frame. In the process he also made thousands of sketches, catching every movement, also turning them into a filming reel so that one could watch the entire dance in the form of a cartoon. dies at age 73.[99][100][101]
July
July 15: Walter Ruttmann, German film director and cinematographer (pioneer of abstract animation, directed the animated short film Lichtspiel: Opus I, the "oldest fully abstract motion picture known to survive, using only animated geometric forms, arranged and shown without reference to any representational imagery"; served as a special effects artist in the animated feature film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, making the film's moving backgrounds and magic scenes), dies at age 53.[102][103][104][105]
↑ Cohen, Karl F. (2004). Forbidden animation: censored cartoons and blacklisted animators in America. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-2032-2.
↑ Du, Daisy Yan (2012). "A Wartime Romance: Princess Iron Fan and the Chinese Connection in Early Japanese Animation," in On the Move: The Trans/national Animated Film in 1940s–1970s China, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
↑ Shull, Michael S. and David E. Wilt. Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945 (2nd ed.) Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2004. ISBN978-0-7864-1555-7.
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