1933 in animation
Events in 1933 in animation.
Events
January
January 21: The Mickey Mouse short The Mad Doctor, produced by Walt Disney, is released.February
February 17: The Betty Boop cartoon Is My Palm Read premiers, gaining much notoriety for its risqué content.May
May 25: Burt Gillett's Disney cartoon Three Little Pigs premieres. The cartoon becomes a huge hit, also thanks to the catchy song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, co-composed by Frank Churchill and Ann Ronell.July
July 14: The Fleischer Studios' Popeye the Sailor is released, marking the animated debuts of Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto.- Ub Iwerks studio releases the first Willie Whopper cartoon.
August
August 26: Hugh Harman and Friz Freleng's Bosko's Picture Show produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions is released, It's the final Bosko cartoon at Warner Bros. as well as the last for Harman-Ising before taking the character to MGM, It's also notable for having Bosko apparently saying the word "fuck".September
September 9: Tom Palmer's Buddy's Day Out produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions is released, it marks the debuts of Buddy and his girlfriend Cookie.Specific date unknown
- Ub Iwerks invents the multiplane camera.
Films released
- 2 January – Merry Dog
- 6 January:
- *Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
- *Tight Rope Tricks
- 7 January:
- *Building a Building
- *The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
- 8 January – Jealous Lover
- 10 January – Wedding Bells
- 16 January – The Plumber
- 21 January:
- *Coo Coo the Magician
- *The Mad Doctor
- 22 January – Robin Hood
- 25 January – Sassy Cats
- 27 January – Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
- 30 January – The Terrible Troubadour
- 3 February – Magic Mummy
- 5 February – Hansel and Gretel
- 7 February – The Medicine Show
- 11 February – Bosko in Person
- 13 February – Scrappy's Party
- 17 February – Is My Palm Read
- 19 February – The Tale of a Shirt
- 25 February – Wooden Shoes
- 27 February – The Shriek
- 4 March – The Beer Parade
- 5 March – Down On the Levee
- 10 March – Betty Boop's Penthouse
- 11 March – Birds in the Spring
- 13 March – The Lumber Champ
- 18 March – Mickey's Mellerdrammer
- 19 March – Who Killed Cock - Robin
- 29 March – Bunnies and Bonnets
- 31 March:
- *Happy Hoboes
- *Puzzled Pals
- *Snow-White
- 2 April – Oh! Susanna
- 3 April – Flip's Lunch Room
- 8 April:
- *Father Noah's Ark
- *Ye Olden Days
- 10 April – Going to Blazes
- 13 April – Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka
- 16 April – Romeo and Juliet
- 18 April – The Broadway Malady
- 21 April – Betty Boop's Birthday Party
- 22 April – The False Alarm
- 28 April – Hook and Ladder Hokum
- 30 April – Pirate Ship
- 1 May – Russian Dressing
- 8 May – Techno-Cracked
- 9 May – The Match Kid
- 12 May – Betty Boop's May Party
- 13 May – Wake Up the Gypsy in Me
- 14 May – Tropical Fish
- 20 May – Technoracket
- 22 May – Beau Best
- 25 May – Three Little Pigs
- 26 May – In the Park
- 28 May – Cinderella
- 30 May – Bulloney
- 1 June – House Cleaning
- 2 June – Betty Boop's Big Boss
- 3 June – Bosko's Knight-Mare
- 5 June:
- *Nature's Workshop
- *The World's Affair
- 11 June – King Zilch
- 14 June:
- *I Like Mountain Music
- *Antique Antics
- 17 June – Mickey's Mechanical Man
- 19 June – Ham and Eggs
- 23 June – Mother Goose Land
- 24 June – A Chinaman's Chance
- 25 June – The Banker's Daughter
- 1 July – Mickey's Gala Premier
- 3 July – Pin Feathers
- 7 July – Doughnuts
- 9 July – The Oil Can Mystery
- 14 July – Popeye the Sailor
- 23 July – Fanny In the Lion's Den
- 28 July – The Phantom Rocket
- 29 July – Old King Cole
- 31 July – Confidence
- 4 August – The Old Man of the Mountain
- 11 August – Hypnotic Eyes
- 12 August:
- *Bosko the Musketeer
- *Pale-Face
- 14 August – Hot and Cold
- 19 August – Lullaby Land
- 25 August – Grand Uproar
- 26 August – Bosko's Picture Show
- 1 September – I Heard
- 4 September – King Klunk
- 5 September – Out of the Ether
- 8 September:
- *Movie Struck
- *Pick-Necking
- 9 September – Buddy's Day Out
- 16 September – The Pied Piper
- 18 September – Five and Dime
- 22 September:
- *Pick-Necking
- *Whacks Museum
- 23 September – I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
- 29 September – I Yam What I Yam
- 6 October:
- *A Gypsy Fiddler
- *Fanny's Wedding Day
- *Morning, Noon and Night
- *Sandman Tales
- 9 October – She Done Him Right
- 12 October – Soda Squirt
- 13 October – Krazy Spooks
- 20 October – Beanstalk Jack
- 27 October – Blow Me Down!
- 3 November:
- *Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party
- *The Village Blacksmith
- 6 November – The Zoo
- 10 November – Hollywood Babies
- 11 November – Buddy's Beer Garden
- 13 November – Stage Krazy
- 17 November:
- *I Eats My Spinach
- *Robinson Crusoe
- *Streamlined Robinson Crusoe
- 24 November – The Bill Poster
- 25 November:
- * Giantland
- * Jack and the Beanstalk
- 27 November – The Merry Old Soul
- 30 November – Little Boy Blue
- 1 December – Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
- 8 December – Scrappy's Auto Show
- 9 December:
- *Buddy's Show Boat
- *The Night Before Christmas
- 15 December:
- *In Venice
- *The Curio Shop
- 16 December – Sittin' on a Backyard Fence
- 17 December – Seasin's Greetinks!
- 18 December – Parking Space
- 29 December:
- *The Sunny South
- *''Wild Elephinks''
Births
January
January 6: John Clive, English actor,.January 8: Charles Osgood, American news anchor,.January 11: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor,.January 12: Carlos Vogt, Argentine comic artist and animator,.January 14: Stan Brakhage, American film director and animator,.January 16: Julio Medina, Colombian actor,.January 17: Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and actress,.January 23: Chita Rivera, American actress,.February
February 2: Tony Jay, English actor,.February 24: Toshiya Ueda, Japanese actor,.March
March 1: Inessa Kovalevskaya, Soviet and Russian animation director.March 14:- * Michael Caine, English actor.
- * Quincy Jones, American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer,.March 19:
- * Richard Williams, Canadian-English animator and director,.
- * Renée Taylor, American actress.March 23: Dave Frishberg, American composer and lyricist,.March 24: Lee Mendelson, American animation producer,.March 30: Joe Ruby, American animator, animation writer, and animation producer,.
April
April 5: Frank Gorshin, American actor, impressionist, and comedian,.April 6: Yasuo Muramatsu, Japanese voice actor, and founder of Office Kaoru,.April 14: Shani Wallis, British actress and singer.April 15: Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress,.April 16: Takeo Watanabe, Japanese musician and composer,.April 17: Ron W. Miller, American businessman, film producer, football player,.April 26: Carol Burnett, American actress, comedian, singer and writer.April 29: Marvin Goldhar, Canadian actor,.May
May 3: James Brown, American singer, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader,.May 7: Johnny Unitas, American football quarterback,.May 14: Vladimiro Missaglia, aka Miro, Italian comics artist and animator,.May 21: Richard Libertini, American actor,.May 28: Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist,.June
June 5: Jimmy T. Murakami, American film director and animator,.June 8: Joan Rivers, American actress and comedian,.June 11: Gene Wilder, American actor and comedian,.June 17: Bill Kresse, American animator and comics artist,.July
July 4: Charles Degotte, Belgian comics artist and animator,.July 15: Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist and animator,.July 26: Lance Percival, English actor, comedian and singer,.July 27: Stu Gilliam, American actor,.July 29:- * Lou Albano, Italian-American wrestler and actor,.
- * Anne Rogers, English actress.July 31: Per Lygum, Danish animator and comics artist,.
August
August 1: Dom DeLuise, American actor,.August 16: Julie Newmar, American actress.September
September 1:- * Ann Richards, American politician,.
- * Tsai Chin, Chinese actress, singer, director, teacher, and author.September 5: Eddie Carroll, Canadian actor,.September 14: Zoe Caldwell, Australian-American actress,.September 18: Fred Willard, American actor and comedian,.September 19: David McCallum, Scottish actor and musician,.September 24: Robert Ellis, American actor,.
October
October 16: Nobuyo Ōyama, Japanese actress,.October 20: Nonnie Griffin, Canadian actress,.November
November 3: Ken Berry, American actor, dancer and singer,.November 4: Jacqueline Cohen, French voice actress,.November 6: Bob Kaliban, American actor, singer, and musician,.November 7: Jackie Joseph, American actress and writer.November 15: Jack Burns, American comedian and actor,.November 19: Larry King, American actor and radio host,.November 23: Paul Maslansky, American producer,.November 25: Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer,.November 26: Robert Goulet, American singer and actor,.November 28: Paul Gruwell, American animator, background artist, storyboard artist, sheet timer and director,.December
December 1:- * Lou Rawls, American actor and singer,.
- * Hiroshi Fujimoto, Japanese manga artist,.December 4: Wink Martindale, American disc jockey and game show host,.December 5: Adolph Caesar, American actor,.December 8:
- * Ana Ofelia Murguia, Mexican actress,.
- * William Frederick Knight, American voice actor,.December 10: Mako, Japanese-American actor,.December 12: Josy Eisenberg, French film producer,.December 15: Tim Conway, American actor and comedian,.December 17: Fernando Laverde, Colombian animator and film director,.December 26: Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, voice actor, comics artist and animator,.December 29: Joseph Maher, Irish actor,.
Deaths
February
- February 15: Pat Sullivan, Australian-American cartoonist, animator, and producer, dies at age 47.