1955 in animation
Events in 1955 in animation.
Contents
Events
January
- January 29: A pilot episode of Art Clokey's Gumby airs. It will become a full-fledged TV series a year later. [1]
February
- February 12: Chuck Jones's Beanstalk Bunny premiers. [2]
March
- March 30: 27th Academy Awards: The Mr. Magoo short film When Magoo Flew, directed by Pete Burness, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. '[3]
April
- April 11: Tex Avery's The Legend of Rockabye Point premiers. [4]
- April 16: Bob McKimson's The Hole Idea is released, an animated short he directed and animated nearly entirely on his own. [5]
- April 26 - May 10 : 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Jiří Trnka's The Good Soldier Schweik premiers. [6]
June
- June 6: Tex Avery's animated short Sh-h-h-h-h-h is released. It will be his final theatrical animated short ever. Afterwards he retires from the animation industry for decades.
- June 16: The Walt Disney Company releases Lady and the Tramp, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. [7]
July
- July 18: In Anaheim, California, Disneyland opens its doors, the first theme park based completely on animated characters from one particular film studio. In this case the studio was Walt Disney Animation Studios.[8]
August
- August 5: Karel Zeman's Journey to the Beginning of Time premiers. [9]
September
- September 2: Art Clokey's short film Gumbasia premiers. [10]
- September 16: Vladimir Polkovnikov and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya's The Enchanted Boy premiers, an animated feature based on Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlöf. [11]
- September 17: Speedy Gonzales, who was earlier created by Bob McKimson, appears in a remodelled version in the Friz Freleng cartoon Speedy Gonzales, which launches the character as a star. [12]
October
- October 3: The first episode of The Mickey Mouse Club airs. [13]
November
- November 11: The Tom and Jerry short film Pecos Pest is first released. [14]
- November 12: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short film Roman Legion-Hare is first released. [15]
December
- December 10: The first episode of Mighty Mouse Playhouse airs. [16]
- December 15: The first episode of A Rubovian Legend airs. [17]
- December 31: Chuck Jones' most beloved animated short, One Froggy Evening, premiers, which also marks the debut of Michigan J. Frog. [18]
Specific date unknown
- Belvision Studios creates some animated television shorts for Belgian television, based on Suske en Wiske (English:Spike and Suzy) and Till Eulenspiegel by Willy Vandersteen, which are broadcast during the children's show Kom Toch Eens Kijken. [19]
Films released
Television series
Deaths
July
- July 4: Perce Pearce, American animation director, producer, writer (Walt Disney Company) and voice actor (voice of the mole in Bambi), dies at age 55. [20]
Specific date unknown
- Erich F.T. Schenk, German-American painter, children's book illustrator, animator and comics artist (worked for the Fleischer Studios), dies at age 53 or 54. [21]
References
- ^ "Art Clokey". KQED Public Media for Northern California. Archived from the original on March 7, 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047863/
- ^ "The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048292/
- ^ McCall, Douglas L. (2015-09-11). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. ISBN 9781476609669.
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