May 19: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck short Rabbit Fire premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, the first short in his Hunting Season trilogy.[3] It also marks a significant change in Daffy's personality, where the originally mad character now transforms into a more selfish, unsympathetic loser.
The U.S. government educational short Duck and Cover, by Anthony Rizzo, begins airing in U.S. schools. The film teaches children what to do in case of a nuclear attack and features an animated sequence starring Bert the Turtle.[7]
February 13: David Naughton, American actor and singer (voice of Commander Locke and Dr. Noah in Sky Blue, The Streak in the Justice League episode "Legends", Orchestra Conductor Hero in the Higglytown Heroes episode "Higgly Harmonies", himself in the SuperMansion episode "Comicarnage").[12]
February 24: Debra Jo Rupp, American actress and comedian (voice of Mrs. Helperman in Teacher's Pet, Kitty Forman in the Robot Chicken episode "Gold Dust Gasoline").
April 21: Tony Danza, American actor (voice of Siggy in Rumble, himself in the King of the Hill episode "Peggy's Fan Fair" and the Family Guy episode "Ready, Willing and Disabled").
March 30: Edwin George Lutz, German-American cartoonist, illustrator, and non-fiction writer of training manuals about art and drawing techniques, (wrote the training manual Animated Cartoons - How they are made, their origin and development, which offered practical ideas for streamlining the production of animated drawings and influenced the techniques used by early animation studios; aspiring animator Walt Disney first read Lutz's book at the age of 19. The book was one of the primary animation guides used by Disney's Laugh-O-Grams studio team in Kansas City, Missouri, throughout the 1920s), dies at age 82.[62][63][64][65]
April
April 5: Harry Hemsley, English comedian, radio presenter, comics artist, illustrator, actor and animator (made a 1940 animated short based on the characters from his Ovaltiney's Concert Party radio show and comics in which he also voiced himself), dies at age 73.[66]
November 20: Lou Skuce, Canadian cartoonist, illustrator and animator (animator for the animation studio Bray Productions), dies at age 65.[74][75][76]
↑ Barrier, Michael (2008). The animated man: a life of Walt Disney (1st pbk. print.ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p.52. ISBN978-0520256194.
↑ Fields, Armond (1983). Henri Rivière. Henri Rivière (1sted.). Salt Lake City: G.M. Smith/Peregrine Smith Books. p.6. ISBN978-0-87905-133-4. OCLC9759446.
↑ Catalogue, Henri Rivière: The Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888-1902), Watermarks Gallery, Pittsboro, NC, 1995.
↑ Phillip Dennis Cate and Mary Shaw (eds), The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor and the Avant-Garde, 1875-1905, Rutgers University Press, 1996, pp.55-58 excerpted on line as Henri Riviere: Le Chat noir and 'Shadow Theatre' .
↑ Jouvanceau, Pierre (2004). The Silhouette Film. Pagine di Chiavari. trans. Kitson. Genoa: Le Mani. ISBN88-8012-299-1.
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