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February Cinderella (f), Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi /Disney. (drawn animation) |
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February Arthur Rank of Gaumont-British film company closes GB Animation. (Great Britain) |
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February Changchun Studio animation section is moved to Shanghai and becomes the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (Shanghai mei shu dian ying zhi pian chang). Te Wei is named its first president. (China) |
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March Quack a Doodle Doo (ss), Isadore Sparber /Famous. (drawn animation) first Baby Huey series (1950-1959) |
March Martin Short (voice actor) born in Hamilton, Ontario. (Canada) |
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March Yoshifumi Kondo (Kondo Yoshifumi 近藤喜文) (March 31, 1950-January 21, 1998) (animator, director, character designer) born in Niigata. |
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April Jay Leno (April 28, 1950- ) (voice actor) born in New Rochelle, New York. Ron Perlman (April 13, 1950- ) (voice actor) born in New York, New York. |
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May Howard Ashman (May 3, 1950-March 14, 1991) (composer, producer, writer) born in Baltimore, Maryland. Mark Mothersbaugh (composer) born in Akron, Ohio. |
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May Jean Chalopin (Jean Jacques Pierre Chalopin (producer, writer) born in Tours. (France) |
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August Cat Happy (ss), Connie Rasinski /Terrytoons. (drawn animation) first Little Roquefort series (1950-1955) Crusader Rabbit (tv)/(tvss), Jay Ward and Alexander Anderson, Jr. /Television Arts. |
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August Robert Sahakyants (August 30, 1950- ) (director, writer, art director) born in Baku. (Soviet Union [Armenia]) |
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September Trouble Indemnity (ss), Pete Burness /UPA. (drawn animation) |
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November Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Kawajiri Yoshiaki 川尻善昭) (November 18, 1950- ) (director, animator, writer) born in Yokohama, Kanagawa. |
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December Jeffrey Katzenberg (December 21, 1950- ) (producer) born in New York, New York. |
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December Jeannot l'intrepide ("Fearless Jeannot"; "Johnny the Giant Killer") (f), Jean Image /Image. (France) (drawn animation) |
December Kobito to Aomushi [小人と青虫] ("The Dwarf and the Green Catterpillar" (ss), Hideo Furasawa /Nihon Doga. (drawn animation) Jô Hisaishi (Joe Hisaishi, Hisaishi Jô) (composer) born in Nagano. |
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no date Official Films Cartoons (tv), Van Beuren. (drawn animation) collection of various Van Beuren cartoons broadcast by ABC Pastorale (ss), Mary Ellen Bute, Hilary Harris, and Ted Nemeth. |
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no date Erase una Vez ("Once Upon A Time") (f), Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer /Estela Film. (Spain) (drawn animation) "It Serves Him Well" (ss), Dimitar Todorov-Jarava /Sofia Animation. (Bulgaria) Jak pejsek s kocickou myli podlahu ("How the Cat and the Dog Washed the Floor") (ss), Eduard Hofman /Studio Bratri v triku. (Czechoslavakia [Czech Republic]) Skazka o rybake i rybke [Сказка О Рыбаке И Рыбке] ("The Tale of the Fisherman and the Little Fish") (sf), Mikhail Tsekhanovsky /Soyuzmultfilm. (Soviet Union [Russia]) Suenos de Tai Py (f), Jose Maria Blay and F. Winterstein /Balet y Blay. (Spain) Tobias Knopp, Abenteur Eines Junggesellen ("Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor") (f), Gerhard Fieber /E.O.S. Filmproducktion. (Federal Republic of Germany [Germany]) Louis Hagen, Jr. founds Primrose Films. (Great Britain) |
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