1932 in animation
Events in 1932 in animation.
Events
February
February 26: The Fleischer Studios release the Betty Boop cartoon Minnie the Moocher, which has jazz musician Cab Calloway as a special guest voice.April
April 16: Harman and Ising's Merrie Melodies cartoon Goopy Geer produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions premieres, it's marks the debut of the title character Goopy Geer.May
- May 27: Wilfred Jackson's Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Revue, premieres. Goofy makes his debut in this short film.
July
July 30: Walt Disney releases the studio's first animated short in color: Flowers and Trees. While not the historical first, it will lead to other animation studios also gradually switching to color in the following years.November
November 18: 5th Academy Awards:- * Walt Disney produces a special animated reel to announce some of the nominees for Best Actor, Parade of the Award Nominees. During the same ceremony, Disney receives a Honorary Academy Award for the creation of Mickey Mouse, marking the first time an Oscar is given to an animator and his animated cartoon star.
- * The first Academy Award for Best Animated Short is handed out. The winner is Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees.November 25: The Fleischer Studios release the Betty Boop cartoon I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You, which has jazz musician Louis Armstrong as a special guest voice.
Films released
- 4 January:
- *Any Rags?
- *Chinatown Mystery
- *Piano Mover
- 9 January:
- *Bosko at the Zoo
- *Sweet Jennie Lee
- 10 January – The Villain's Curse
- 16 January:
- *The Bird Store
- *Boop-Oop-a-Doop
- 24 January – Noah's Outing
- 30 January:
- *Love Krazy
- *Rocketeers
- *Show Me the Way to Go Home
- 31 January – Pagan Moon
- 6 February – Battling Bosko
- 7 February – The Spider Talks
- 13 February – Hollywood Goes Krazy
- 19 February – When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
- 20 February:
- *Freddy the Freshman
- *The Milkman
- 21 February – Peg Leg Pete
- 25 February – Treasure Runt
- 26 February – Minnie the Moocher
- 27 February – Rabid Hunters
- 4 March – Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
- 5 March:
- *Big-Hearted Bosko
- *Fire-Fire
- 6 March – Play Ball
- 11 March – Swim or Sink
- 14 March – What a Knight
- 19 March – Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee
- 20 March – Ye Olde Songs
- 25 March – Crazy Town
- 26 March:
- *In the Bag
- *What A Life
- 31 March – Railroad Wretch
- 1 April – Just One More Chance
- 2 April – Soldier Old Man
- 3 April – Bull-ero
- 8 April – The Dancing Fool
- 13 April:
- *Birth of Jazz
- *Chess-Nuts
- 16 April – Goopy Geer
- 17 April – Radio Girl
- 22 April – Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
- 23 April – Joint Wipers
- 28 April – The Pet Shop
- 30 April – Puppy Love
- 1 May – Woodland
- 6 May – Shine On Harvest Moon
- 9 May – Ritzy Hotel
- 14 May:
- *It's Got Me Again!
- *Pots and Pans
- *School Days
- 15 May – Romance
- 17 May – Stepping Stones
- 20 May – Let Me Call You Sweetheart
- 27 May – Mickey's Revue
- 28 May – Hic-Cups the Champ
- 29 May – Bluebeard's Brother
- 31 May – Battle of the Barn
- 4 June:
- *Plane Dumb
- *The Tuba Tooter
- 11 June – Moonlight for Two
- 12 June – Farmer Al Falfa's Bedtime Story
- 17 June – I Ain't Got Nobody
- 18 June – The Bully
- 21 June – Paper Hanger
- 26 June – The Mad King
- 2 July – Fare-Play
- 9 July – The Bears and the Bees
- 10 July – Cocky Cock Roach
- 16 July – The Office Boy
- 18 July – Mickey in Arabia
- 23 July – Redskin Blues
- 24 July – Spring Is Here
- 29 July – You Try Somebody Else
- 30 July:
- *Flowers and Trees
- *Just Dogs
- 5 August – Rudy Vallee Melodies
- 7 August – Farmer Al Falfa's Ape Girl
- 10 August – Camping Out
- 12 August – Stopping the Show
- 13 August:
- *Bosko's Store
- *Mickey's Nightmare
- *Room Runners
- 15 August – Lighthouse Keeping
- 19 August:
- *Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
- *Jolly Fish
- 21 August – Sherman Was Right
- 22 August – Stormy Seas
- 26 August – Down Among the Sugar Cane
- 27 August – Circus
- 2 September – Betty Boop, M.D.
- 3 September – Bosko the Lumberjack
- 4 September – Burlesque
- 9 September – Just a Gigolo
- 10 September:
- *King Neptune
- *Southern Rhythm
- 12 September – Seeing Stars
- 16 September – Barnyard Bunk
- 17 September:
- *Ride Him, Bosko!
- *The Black Sheep
- *The Whoopee Party
- 23 September – Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
- 30 September – School Days
- 1 October – Bugs in Love
- 2 October – Farmer Al Falfa's Birthday Party
- 3 October – The Goal Rush
- 7 October – A Spanish Twist
- 8 October – Prosperity Blues
- 14 October – Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
- 16 October – College Spirit
- 20 October – The Great Bird Mystery
- 21 October – Romantic Melodies
- 27 October – The Pony Express
- 29 October – The Music Lesson
- 30 October – Hook and Ladder No. 1
- 4 November – Betty Boop for President
- 7 November – The Crystal Gazebo
- 9 November – Flop House
- 11 November:
- *Piano Tooners
- *Sleepy Time Down South
- 12 November – A Great Big Bunch of You
- 13 November – The Forty Thieves
- 18 November – Parade of the Award Nominees
- 19 November – Babes in the Woods
- 21 November – The Minstrel Show
- 25 November – I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
- 26 November – Nurse Maid
- 27 November – Toyland
- 30 November – Snow Time
- 1 December – The Bad Genius
- 2 December – Sing a Song
- 9 December – Pencil Mania
- 10 December:
- *Santa's Workshop
- *Three's a Crowd
- 11 December – Hollywood Diet
- 16 December – Betty Boop's Museum
- 17 December – Mickey's Good Deed
- 23 December – Time on My Hands
- 24 December – Funny Face
- 25 December – Ireland Or Bust
- 29 December – ''The Wolf at the Door''
Births
January
January 3: Dabney Coleman, American actor,.January 11:- * Tadanari Okamoto, Japanese film director and producer,.
- * Alfonso Arau, Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer.January 13: Jon Cypher, American actor.January 14: Gloria Rocha, Mexican voice actress, and voice director,.January 24: Julie Bennett, American voice actress,.January 30: Gino Conforti, American character actor.
February
February 10: Barrie Ingham, English actor,.February 11: Bob Yerkes, American stuntman,.February 16: Harry Goz, American actor,.February 22: Ted Kennedy, American lawyer and politician,.February 23:- * Majel Barrett, American actress,.
- * Gerrianne Raphael, American former actress.February 24:
- * Michel Legrand, French composer,.
- * John Vernon, Canadian actor,.February 26: Johnny Cash, American country singer,.February 27: Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress,.February 28: Don Francks, Canadian actor,.February 29: Edward Faulkner, American actor and director,.
March
March 4:- * Ian Freebairn-Smith, American composer,.
- * Frank Wells, American businessman,.March 6: Tatsuo Yoshida, Japanese manga artist and animator,.March 14:
- * Hiroshi Ōtake, Japanese voice actor,.
- * Claude T. Smith, American composer,.March 18: John Updike, American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic and literary critic,.March 20: Tod Dockstader, American composer and sound effects artist,.
April
April 1: Debbie Reynolds, American actress and singer,.April 12: Tiny Tim, American singer, ukulele player and musical archivist,.April 14: Loretta Lynn, American singer and songwriter,.April 18: Nic Broca, Belgian animator and comics artist,.April 25: Yoshiko Ōta, Japanese voice actress,.April 27: Casey Kasem, American actor,.May
May 8: Martin Starger, American producer,.May 11: Josef Zima, Czech actor,.May 16: Brian Trueman, English screenwriter and actor,.May 27: Steve Franken, American actor,.June
June 9: Albert Cohen, Israeli actor,.June 18: Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist.June 22: Prunella Scales, English actress,.June 28: Pat Morita, Japanese-American actor and comedian,.June 29: Soon-Tek Oh, Korean actor,.July
July 23: Jorge Arvizu, Mexican actor,.July 31: Ted Cassidy, American actor,.August
August 1: Ron Friedman, American screenwriter, producer and actor,.August 2:- * Dennis Marks, American screenwriter, producer and voice actor,.
- * Peter O'Toole, English actor,.August 4: Guillermo Mordillo, Argentine cartoonist and animator,.August 5: Ja'Net DuBois, American actress and singer,.August 10: Murray Melvin, English actor,.August 24: W. Morgan Sheppard, English actor,.August 30: Shichirō Kobayashi, Japanese background artist, storyboard artist and art director,.
September
September 10: Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor,.September 13: Fred Wolf, American animator.September 15: Olga Orlova, Russian animator,.September 25: Brian Murphy, English actor,.September 27: Roger C. Carmel, American actor,.September 28: Len Birman, Canadian-American actor,.November
November 13: Richard Mulligan, American actor,.November 25: Takayo Fischer, American actress.October
October 3: Ken Shiroyama, Japanese voice actor,.October 10: Ron Feinberg, American voice actor .December
December 4: Tommy Morgan, American harmonicist and session musician,.December 5: Little Richard, American rock musician,.December 13: Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor,.December 28: Nichelle Nichols, American actress, singer and dancer,.December 29: Inga Swenson, American actress,.Specific date unknown
- Laurie Hanson, American animation checker,.