1943 in animation
Events in 1943 in animation.
Events
January
January 1: Jack Kinney's war-time propaganda Donald Duck cartoon Der Fuehrer's Face, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released.January 4: Bill Justice and Bill Roberts' war-time propaganda cartoon The Grain That Built a Hemisphere premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation.January 7: Jack King's war-time propaganda cartoon The Spirit of '43 premieres, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, in which Donald Duck promotes paying income taxes to help the war effort.January 15: Clyde Geronimi's war-time propaganda cartoon Education for Death, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.January 16:- * Bob Clampett's Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released.
- * Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Sufferin' Cats! premieres, produced by MGM, in which the alley cat Meathead debuts.January 22: The war-time propaganda Popeye cartoon Spinach Fer Britain, directed by Isadore Sparber, produced by Famous Studios, premieres, in which Popeye fights Nazi marines.January 23: Norman McCabe's Porky Pig cartoon Confusions of a Nutzy Spy, a war-time propaganda cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released.January 29: Dick Lundy's Donald Duck short Donald's Tire Trouble premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation. While not directly referencing World War II it does mention rationing.
February
February 2: Friz Freleng's Pigs in a Polka, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first seen in theaters.February 19: The war-time propaganda Popeye cartoon Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue, directed by Dan Gordon, produced by Famous Studios, premieres, in which Popeye and Bluto fight Japanese spies. Hirohito, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring have cameos too.February 20: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny cartoon Tortoise Wins by a Hare, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released.March
March 4: 15th Academy Awards: Der Fuehrer's Face, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.March 6:- * Friz Freleng's The Fifth-Column Mouse is first released, a war-time propaganda cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions.
- * Chuck Jones' To Duck or Not to Duck premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions which stars Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck eventually fighting it out in a boxing ring.
- March 12: Dick Lundy's Donald Duck cartoon The Flying Jalopy premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.March 20: Tex Avery's Dumb-Hounded is first released, produced by MGM, marking the debut of Droopy.March 25: The Japanese war-time propaganda short Momotarō no Umiwashi is first released.March 26: The Superman war-time propaganda short, Jungle Drums, produced by Famous Studios, has Superman fighting Nazis, with a caricature of Adolf Hitler appearing at the end.
April
April 2: Clyde Geronimi's Pluto cartoon Private Pluto, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres. It marks the debut of Chip 'n' Dale.April 3: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Super-Rabbit premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions.April 15: Kenzo Masaoka's Kumo to Tulip is first released.April 23: Jack King's war-time propaganda Donald Duck cartoon Fall Out Fall In, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres.May
May 1: Bob Clampett's Daffy Duck short The Wise Quacking Duck premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions.May 8: Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood premieres, produced by MGM, in which his recurring Wolf and Red debut.May 15: Norman McCabe's war-time propaganda cartoon Tokio Jokio premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions. It is his last picture for the studio before his enlistment in the Army.May 22: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Lonesome Mouse, produced by MGM, premieres. It features a moment where Jerry draws Adolf Hitler's hair and moustache on a picture of Tom.June
June 5: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoon Yankee Doodle Daffy, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions is first released.June 12: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions.June 19:- * Tex Avery's Who Killed Who? premieres, produced by MGM.
- * Chuck Jones' cartoon The Aristo-Cat produced by produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions. This short marks the debut of the characters Claude Cat & Hubie and Bertie.June 26: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Yankee Doodle Mouse premieres, produced by MGM. While not directly referencing World War II, much of their fight mirrors a military battle, making it a war-time propaganda short. The was the first cartoon in the series to win an Academy Award for Best animated short film.June 28: Leon Schlesinger Productions starts producing the Private Snafu wartime propaganda military instruction cartoons, of which the first entry in the series is Coming!! Snafu.
July
July 3: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Wackiki Wabbit, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released.July 17:- * Frank Tashlin's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoon Porky Pig's Feat, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released, It's the first cartoon in the Looney Tunes series to use "Powerhouse", and the first time Bugs Bunny appears onscreen with Daffy.
- * Bob Clampett's Tin Pan Alley Cats, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released.
- * H.C. Potter's live-action war-time propaganda film Victory Through Air Power, which features animated scenes directed by James Algar, Clyde Geronimi and Jack Kinney, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It also marks more focus by Disney on producing educational animated films.
August
August 21: Frank Tashlin's war-time propaganda Daffy Duck cartoon Scrap Happy Daffy premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions.August 28: Bill Roberts' war-time propaganda short Reason and Emotion, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.September
September 25: Bob Clampett's cartoon A Corny Concerto, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released. It stars Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck. It's also notable for being a parody of Disney's Fantasia.October
October 9: Hanna-Barbera's war-time propaganda short War Dogs, produced by MGM, premieres.October 30: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny cartoon Falling Hare premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, in which Bugs fights a Gremlin.November
November 5: Jack King's war-time propaganda Donald Duck cartoon The Old Army Game premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Also starring Pete.November 20: Friz Freleng's war-time propaganda cartoon Daffy - The Commando is first released, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions. In the cartoon Daffy Duck outsmarts a Nazi officer and memorably hits Adolf Hitler on the head with a mallet.November 27: Tex Avery's What's Buzzin' Buzzard premieres, produced by MGM.December
December 18: Clyde Geronimi's Chicken Little, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios is first released.December 25: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Baby Puss premieres, produced by MGM's Cartoon Studio in which Butch and Topsy debut.December 28: The Donald Duck war-time propaganda short Home Defense, directed by Jack King and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, premieres. Also starring Huey, Dewey, and Louie.Films released
- July 17 - ''Victory Through Air Power''
Births
January
January 1: Don Novello, American actor, comedian, singer, writer, film director and producer.January 3: Van Dyke Parks, American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer and composer.January 13: Richard Moll, American actor,.January 14: Holland Taylor, American actress.January 23: Gil Gerard, American actor,.February
February 2: Gay Autterson, American actress.February 3: Blythe Danner, American actress.February 25:- *George Harrison, English musician, singer-songwriter and member of The Beatles,.
- * Stanislav Holý, Czech graphic artist, caricaturist, animation designer, children's book illustrator and animator,.February 27: Gary Conrad, American animator, storyboard artist, sheet timer, writer, producer and director.February 28: Richard Romanus, American actor,.
March
March 12: Ed Scharlach, American television producer and writer.March 28: Conchata Ferrell, American actress,.March 29: Eric Idle, English actor, comedian and singer.March 31: Christopher Walken, American actor.April
April 6: Susan Tolsky, American actress,.April 10: Tom Pollock, American studio executive and film producer,.April 16: Ruth Madoc, English actress,.May
May 5: Michael Palin, English actor, comedian, writer, television presenter, and public speaker.May 13: Frederic Parke, American computer graphics researcher and academic.May 16: Dominique Benicheti, French film director and producer,.May 27:- *Diane Pershing, American actress.
- *Bruce Weitz, American actor.May 28: Jacques Drouin, Canadian animator and director,.May 31: Joe Namath, American former football quarterback.
June
June 2: Charles Haid, American actor.June 13: Malcolm McDowell, English actor.June 16: Joan Van Ark, American actress.June 17:- * Peter Orton, English media entrepreneur and television producer,.
- * Barry Manilow, American singer and songwriter.June 23: James Levine, American conductor,.
July
July 3: Kurtwood Smith, American actor.July 5: David Matalon, American studio executive,.July 11: Suzan Pitt, American animator,.July 12: Walter Murch, American film editor, director,, writer, and sound designer.July 20: John Lodge, English musician,.July 24: John Bryson, American politician and former director of The Walt Disney Company,.July 31: Ryan Larkin, Canadian animator .August
August 6: Ray Buktenica, American actor.August 13:- * Dell Hake, American conductor and orchestrator,.
- * Pauline Newstone, Canadian actress,.August 17: Robert De Niro, American actor.August 18: Martin Mull, American actor, comedian and musician,.August 20: Jim Self, American tubist and composer,.
September
September 8: Alvy Ray Smith, American computer scientist.September 16: Masami Suda, Japanese animator and character designer,.September 18: Gailard Sartain, American actor and screenwriter,.September 23: Cedric Smith, English-born Canadian actor.September 24: Randall Duk Kim, American actor.September 27: Enrico Bertorelli, Italian actor,.October
October 12: Katsue Miwa, Japanese voice actress,.October 15: Penny Marshall, American actress, film director and producer,.October 19: Rodger Parsons, American voice actor.October 27: Michel Ocelot, French writer, designer, storyboard artist and director.October 31: Melendy Britt, American actress.November
November 12: Wallace Shawn, American actor.November 14:- * Michèle Cournoyer, Canadian animator.
- * Michael Yama, American actor,.November 16:
- * Wai Ching Ho, Hong Kong actress.
- * Bob Foster, American animator, storyboard artist, comics writer, editor and president of The Animation Guild,.November 18: Osamu Dezaki, Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter,.November 28: Randy Newman, American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist.
December
December 12: Buster Jones, American actor,.December 14: Britt Allcroft, English writer, producer, director and voice actress,.December 16: Patti Deutsch, American actress and comedian,.December 23:- * Harry Shearer, American actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host, director, producer and member of Spinal Tap.
- * Elizabeth Hartman, American actress,.December 24: Kazuo Komatsubara, Japanese animator, character designer and director,.December 29: Jürgen Kluckert, German actor,.December 31:
- * Ben Kingsley, English actor.
- * Victor Raider-Wexler, American actor.
Specific date unknown
- John Canemaker, American independent animator, animator historian, author, teacher and lecturer.
Deaths
December
December 1: Julienne Mathieu, French actress, screenwriter, and special effects artist,, dies at age 69.Specific date unknown
- Graystone Bird, English photographer,, dies at age 80-81.