1935 in animation
Events in 1935 in animation.
Events
January
January 5: Wilfred Jackson's The Tortoise and the Hare, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.February
February 23: Wilfred Jackson's The Band Concert, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres. It stars Mickey Mouse performing an orchestra in the park, while Donald Duck and later a tornado cause mayhem. The short is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon animated entirely in color.February 27: 7th Academy Awards: Wilfred Jackson's The Tortoise and the Hare, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.March
March 2: Friz Freleng's I Haven't Got a Hat, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions premieres. The film marks the debuts of Porky Pig and Beans the Cat.March 16: Ben Sharpsteen's Mickey's Service Station, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Peg-Leg Pete and Goofy, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.March 25: Alexander Ptushko's The New Gulliver premieres, a stop-motion adaptation of Gulliver's Travels.May
May 25: Ben Sharpsteen's The Cookie Carnival, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.June
June 22: Jack King's Buddy's Bug Hunt, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions is released, it's notable for being the first cartoon in the Looney Tunes franchise to feature the Acme name.June 26: David Hand's Who Killed Cock Robin?, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.June 28: The Fleischer Studios release For Better or Worser, which marks the first use of their patented stereoptical process, where a diorama is used to give the illusion of characters walking in front of it.July
July 13: Wilfred Jackson's Mickey's Garden, starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.August
August 3: Ben Sharpsteen's Mickey's Fire Brigade, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.August 10–September 1: 3rd Venice International Film Festival: The Disney cartoon The Band Concert, directed by Wilfred Jackson, is awarded a special Golden Medal and an award for Best Animation.August 16: Betty Boop and Grampy, directed and produced by the Fleischer Brothers, premieres. In this cartoon Betty Boop visits Grampy, who makes his debut.August 31: David Hand's Pluto's Judgement Day, starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Despite being an official Mickey Mouse cartoon, the plot revolves around Pluto, with him being tortured by hellish cats in a nightmare.September
September 6: Len Lye's experimental animated film A Colour Box premieres, produced by GPO Film Unit.September 14: Jack King's A Cartoonist's Nightmare, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released. This self-reflexive animated cartoon features an animator being tormented by his creations in a nightmare.September 28: Ben Sharpsteen's On Ice, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.September 30: Ub Iwerks' Balloon Land premieres. In this cartoon an evil pincushion man tries to kill anthropomorphic balloons.October
October 5: Wilfred Jackson's Music Land, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres. In this short the Land of Symphony and the Isle of Jazz fight a battle.October 26: David Hand's Three Orphan Kittens, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.November
November 2: Tex Avery's Gold Diggers of '49, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, premieres. It's Avery's directional debut for Warners. It marks the start of a wackier style of comedy at Warners' animation studio.November 16: Friz Freleng's Billboard Frolics, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, features the first use of the song Merrily We Roll Along which will later become their theme music.November 22: Betty Boop with Henry, the Funniest Living American, directed and produced by the Fleischer Brothers, features an animated adaptation of Carl Anderson's comic series Henry.November 30: Ben Sharpsteen's Cock o' the Walk, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.December
December 14: Ben Sharpsteen's Broken Toys, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.Specific date unknown
The Camel's Dance is released, directed by the Wan Brothers. It's the first sound cartoon produced in China.Films released
- 5 January – The Tortoise and the Hare
- 7 January – Robinson Crusoe Isle
- 9 January – Hey-Hey Fever
- 11 January – The First Snow
- 12 January – Buddy of the Legion
- 18 January:
- *Baby Be Good
- *The Gloom Chasers
- 19 January:
- *Mickey's Man Friday
- *Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
- *The Shoemaker and the Elves
- 25 January:
- *Beware of Barnacle Bill
- *What A Night
- 1 February:
- *The Bird Man
- *'
- 2 February – Little Black Sambo
- 6 February – The Bull Fight
- 9 February – Country Boy
- 15 February – Taking the Blame
- 16 February:
- *Buddy's Theatre
- *'
- 22 February:
- *Be Kind to "Aminals"
- *Fireman, Save My Child
- 23 February – The Band Concert
- 1 March:
- *The Gold Getters
- *The Song of the Birds
- 2 March:
- *I Haven't Got a Hat
- *The Bremen Town Musicians
- 8 March:
- *The Lost Chick
- *The Moth and the Spider
- 9 March – Buddy's Pony Express
- 11 March – Two Little Lambs
- 15 March:
- *Hotcha Melody
- *Stop That Noise
- 16 March – Mickey's Service Station
- 21 March – Old Dog Tray
- 22 March:
- *Pleased to Meet Cha!
- *The Golden Touch
- 25 March:
- *Do a Good Deed
- *Make Believe Revue
- 30 March:
- *Old Mother Hubbard
- *The Calico Dragon
- 5 April – Flying Oil
- 6 April:
- *Along Flirtation Walk
- *My Green Fedora
- 12 April – Graduation Exercises
- 13 April:
- *Good Little Monkeys
- *Mickey's Kangaroo
- 19 April:
- *Peg Leg Pete, The Pirate
- *Swat the Fly
- 20 April:
- *Buddy in Africa
- *The Robber Kitten
- 26 April:
- *The "Hyp-Nut-Tist"
- *The Peace Conference
- 27 April:
- *Mary's Little Lamb
- *The Chinese Nightingale
- 29 April – Elmer the Great Dane
- 3 May - Modern Red Hood
- 11 May:
- *Poor Little Me
- *Water Babies
- 14 May – A Cat, a Mouse and a Bell
- 17 May – Five Puplets
- 18 May – Buddy's Lost World
- 19 May – The Kids in the Shoe
- 20 May – The King's Jester
- 24 May:
- *No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
- *Scrappy's Ghost Story
- 25 May:
- *Barnyard Babies
- *The Cookie Carnival
- 31 May:
- *Choose Your "Weppins"
- *Opera Night
- 8 June – Into Your Dance
- 14 June – King Looney XIV
- 15 June – Summertime
- 17 June – '
- 21 June:
- *A Little Soap and Water
- *The Puppet Murder Case
- 22 June – Buddy's Bug Hunt
- 26 June:
- *Little Rover
- *Who Killed Cock Robin?
- 28 June:
- *For Better or Worser
- *Moans and Groans
- 4 July:
- *’’ The Gummy Sour Kids Factory Year
- 12 July:
- *Amateur Night
- *Dancing on the Moon
- 13 July:
- *Country Mouse
- *Mickey's Garden
- 19 July – A Language All My Own
- 20 July – Buddy Steps Out
- 22 July – At Your Service
- 26 July:
- *Dizzy Divers
- *Sinbad the Sailor
- *The Foxy-Fox
- 28 July – Scrappy's Big Moment
- 1 August – Garden Gaieties
- 3 August – Mickey's Fire Brigade
- 9 August – Chain Letters
- 16 August – Betty Boop and Grampy
- 17 August:
- *Neighbors
- *The Merry Old Soul
- 19 August – Bronco Buster
- 23 August – Birdland
- 24 August – Buddy the Gee Man
- 29 August – Scrappy's Trailer
- 30 August – The Three Bears
- 31 August:
- *Pluto's Judgement Day
- *You Gotta Be a Football Hero
- 6 September:
- *A Colour Box
- *Circus Days
- *Time for Love
- 7 September – '
- 14 September:
- *'
- *Monkey Love
- 20 September:
- *Hey Diddle Diddle
- *Judge for a Day
- 21 September – The Old Plantation
- 23 September – Amateur Broadcast
- 27 September:
- *A Happy Family
- *King of the Mardi Gras
- 28 September – On Ice
- 30 September – Balloon Land
- 5 October – Music Land
- 13 October – The Bon Bon Parade
- 14 October – Foiled Again
- 15 October – Football
- 18 October – Making Stars
- 19 October:
- *Hollywood Capers
- *Honeyland
- *Little Dutch Plate
- 25 October – Adventures of Popeye
- 26 October – Three Orphan Kittens
- 28 October – The Quail Hunt
- 1 November – A June Bride
- 2 November – Gold Diggers of '49
- 7 November – Let's Ring Doorbells
- 8 November – Musical Memories
- 15 November:
- *Aladdin's Lamp
- *Simple Simon
- 16 November:
- *Alias St. Nick
- *Billboard Frolics
- 18 November – '
- 22 November – Henry, the Funniest Living American
- 29 November – Southern Horse - Pitality
- 30 November – Cock o' the Walk
- 2 December – Case of the Lost Sheep
- 7 December – The Spinach Overture
- 13 December – Ye Olde Toy Shop
- 14 December:
- *Broken Toys
- *
- *Run, Sheep, Run!
- 18 December – Little Nobody
- 23 December – Doctor Oswald
- 27 December:
- *Humpty Dumpty
- *Kannibal Kapers
- *''The Mayflower''
Films released
- March 25 - ''The New Gulliver''
Births
January
January 1: Kenji Yoshida, Japanese anime producer, manga artist and illustrator.January 6: Nino Tempo, American singer and saxophonist,.January 7: Tommy Johnson, American orchestral tuba player,.January 9: Bob Denver, American actor,.January 22:- * Seymour Cassel, American actor,.
- * Valentina Talyzina, Soviet and Russian actress,.January 27: Vladimir Zuykov, Russian animator and illustrator,,.
February
February 16:- *Brian Bedford, English actor,.
- * Sándor Reisenbüchler, Hungarian film director, animator and graphic artist,.February 17: Kurt-Hans Goedicke, German-born English timpanist,.February 18:
- * Gennady Gladkov, Soviet and Russian composer,.
- * Vlasta Pospíšilová, Czech animator, screenwriter and director,.
March
March 11: Michie Kita, Japanese voice actress,.March 13: Jim Thurman, American actor, writer, director, cartoonist, and producer,.March 22: M. Emmet Walsh, American actor,.April
April 4: Kenneth Mars, American actor,.April 9:- * Avery Schreiber, American actor and comedian,.
- * Motomu Kiyokawa, Japanese voice actor,.April 14: Barbara Frawley, Australian actress,.April 18: Jerry Dexter, American actor,.April 19: Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, musician and composer,.April 29: Lennie Weinrib, American voice actor,.
May
May 2: Lance LeGault, American actor,.May 3: Ron Popeil, American inventor and marketing personality,.May 8: Prescott Wright, American film distributor and animation producer,.May 15:- * Burny Mattinson, American writer, director, and animator,.
- * Radna Sakhaltuev, Ukrainian animator,.May 18: Allan Burns, American television producer and writer,.May 27: Lee Meriwether, American actress.May 28: Anne Reid, English actress.May 30: Lee Gunther, American film editor,.
June
June 9: Peter Renaday, American actor,.June 12: Joe Mazzuca, American television producer,.June 15: Doug Crane, American comics artist and animator,.June 22: Floyd Norman, American comic book artist, animator, storyboard artist and writer.July
July 13: Paul Hüttel, Danish actor,.July 15: Campbell Lane, Canadian actor,.July 17: Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor,.July 19: Vasily Livanov, Soviet and Russian actor and animation director.July 22: Stanley Ralph Ross, American writer, and actor,.July 25: István Pathó, Hungarian actor,.July 29: Joan Gerber, American actress,.July 30: Nick Meglin, American comics writer, theater lyricist and animation scriptwriter,.August
August 8: John Laws, Australian radio and television presenter,.August 9: Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Japanese actress,.August 21: Yuri Entin, Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, and lyricist.August 29: William Friedkin, American film director,.September
September 5: Lucille Soong, Chinese-American actress.September 9: Michiko Hirai, Japanese voice actress,.September 10: Paul van Vliet, Dutch comedian, actor and singer,.September 14: Henry Gibson, American actor,.September 16: Jules Bass, American director, producer, composer, lyricist and author,.September 18: Román Arámbula, Mexican comic book artist, animator, storyboard artist and sheet timer,.September 24: Sean McCann, Canadian actor,.September 26: Cullen Blaine, American animator, storyboard artist, sheet timer, writer, producer and director,.October
October 1: Julie Andrews, English actress and singer.October 2: Noriko Ohara, Japanese voice actress,.October 20: Jerry Orbach, American actor,.October 26: Renato Casaro, Italian film poster artist and title designer,.October 29: Isao Takahata, Japanese animator, film director and producer,.October 31: Thomas Warkentin, American comics artist, comics writer and animator,.November
November 7: Lubomír Beneš, Czech animator and director,.November 30: Woody Allen, American film director, writer, actor, and comedian.December
December 9: Beverly Hope Atkinson, American actress,.December 14: Barbara Leigh-Hunt, English actress,.December 28: William H. Bassett, American actor,.December 30: Jack Riley, American actor,.Specific date unknown
- Fernando Krahn, Chilean artist, comics artist, illustrator and animator,.