1921 in animation
Events in 1921 in animation.
Events
June 28: Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks establish another animation studio, the Laugh-O-Gram Studio, which will last three years.Films released
- Unknown date:
- *The Centaurs
- *Rhythmus 21 Completed this year, but not released until 1923.
- 8 January – The Hinges on the Bar Room Door
- 21 January – The Awful Spook
- 26 January – How I Became Krazy
- 6 February – Felix the Gay Dog
- 13 February – Down on the Farm
- 26 February – The Wireless Wire-Walkers
- 20 March:
- *Cleaning Up!!?
- *Kansas City Girls Are Rolling Their Own Now
- *Did You Ever Take a Ride over Kansas City Street 'in a Fliver'
- *Kansas City's Spring Clean-up
- *Felix the Hypnotist
- 17 April – Free Lunch
- 8 May – The First Circus
- 15 May – Felix Goes on Strike
- 5 June – Felix Out of Luck
- 3 July – The Love Punch
- 17 July – Felix Left at Home
- 11 September – I Do. Live-action film with an animated scene.
Births
January
January 5:- * Tissa David, Romanian-American film director,.
- * Monty Wedd, Australian comics artist and animator.January 16: Andre Le Blanc, Haitian-American-Brazilian comics artist and animator,.January 17: Thomas Chastain, American author,.January 24: Peggy DeCastro, American singer,.January 31: Carol Channing, American actress and singer,.
February
February 1: Peter Sallis, English actor,.February 17: Børge Ring, Danish animator, jazz musician and comics artist,.February 21: Zdeněk Miler, Czech animator, film director and illustrator,.February 24: Abe Vigoda, American actor,.February 25: Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Russian animator,.February 27: Yevgeniy Migunov, Russian film director, caricaturist, children's book illustrator, and animator,.March
March 4: John Ryan, English comics artist and animator,.March 8:- * József Romhányi, Hungarian writer, animation writer and translator,.
- * Alan Hale Jr., American actor,.March 15: Milt Stein, American animator and comics artist,.
April
April 7: Bill Butler, American cinematographer,.April 9: George David Weiss, American songwriter,.April 16: Peter Ustinov, English actor,.May
May 3: Gordon Murray, English puppeteer, animator, and film and television producer,.May 27: Bob Godfrey, English animator,.June
June 3: Emanuele Luzzati, Italian painter, illustrator, animator and film director,.June 17: Earl Hammond, American actor,.June 28: David Weidman, American animator and poster designer,.July
July 6: Bill Shirley, American actor and singer,.July 29: Chris Marker, French film director and animator,.August
August 14:- * Audrey Geisel, American businesswoman, philanthropist, producer, and widow of Dr. Seuss,.
- * Bill Draut, American comics artist and animator,.August 28: Nancy Kulp, American actress,.