Timeline

The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend

Filed under: animation, 1970s, Canada, National Film Board of Canada, Painted Animation, 1974

Producer(s): Pierre Moretti

Release Date: 1974

"From the National Film Board of Canada: Please note that this is an archival film that makes use of the word “Eskimo,” an outdated and offensive term. While the origin of the word is a matter of some contention, it is no longer used in Canada. Th..."

The Skeleton Dance

Filed under: animation, 1920s, Silly Symphonies, U.S.A., Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, 1929

Producer(s): Walt Disney

Release Date: 22/08/1929

"As we hear the chimes at midnight and bats flutter from a belfry; as a hound howls at the full moon and black cats brawl on the tombstones; Through the gloom, white skeletons pass, Running and leaping in their shrouds!"

The Street

Filed under: animation, 1970s, Canada, National Film Board of Canada, Painted Animation, 1976

Producer(s): Wolf Koenig Guy Glover

Release Date: 01/01/1976

""This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.""

The Tell-Tale Heart

Filed under: animation, 1950s, Technicolor, U.S.A., United Productions of America (UPA), 1953

Producer(s): John Hubley Stephen Bosustow

Release Date: 27/12/1953

"Based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same name. The caretaker of an old man suffers paranoid delusions surrounding his employer's blind eye. In a fit of rage, he murders the old man and hides his body under the floorboards. Facing police inv..."

The Wan Brothers (万氏兄弟)

Filed under: people, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, China, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Silent, Technicolor, Animator, Cartoonist, Character Designer, Director, Screenwriter, Writer

"The Wan Brothers (万氏兄弟) are the group entitlements of a total of brothers—Wan Jiazong (万嘉综), Wan Jiaqi (万嘉淇), Wan Jiajie (万嘉结), and Wan Jiakun (万嘉坤)—who later took aliases as Wan Laiming, Wan Guchan, Wan Chaochen, ..."

The Wanted 18 (2014): Run Yara Run

Filed under: animation, 2010s, Amer Shomali, animated documentary, Canada, National Film Board of Canada, Palestine, Stop Motion, 2014

Producer(s): Saed Andoni Ina Fichman Dominique Barneaud Nathalie Cloutie

Release Date: 12/09/2014

"The Wanted 18 (2014) is a Palestinian-Canadian animated documentary about the effort of Palestinians in Beit Sahour engaging in the First Intifada (1987-1993), a series of acts of collective civil disobedience and protests against Israeli military oc..."

The Yogi Bear Show: Ring-a-Ding Picnic Basket

Filed under: animation, 1960s, Color, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Joe Barbera, 1961

Producer(s): William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

Release Date: 1961

"Ranger Joe buys a new booby-trapped picnic basket to discourage Yogi Bear's picnic-stealing habits, but it's all for naught. However, when Yogi hears Ranger Joe talking on the phone about shooting an animal and shipping it to the zoo, he assumes that..."

Three Little Pigs

Filed under: animation, 1930s, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios, 1933

Producer(s): Walt Disney

Release Date: 27/05/1933

"The story of the three little pigs with minor variations including the wolf's attempts to outsmart the pigs."

Three Monks (三个和尚)(1980)

Filed under: animation, 1980s, China, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Technicolor, 1980

Release Date: 01/01/1980

"Based on a Chinese proverb of the same name, Three Monks depicts the perpetual shift between conflict and collabouration among three Buddhist monks regarding water delivery to the temple they live in. The young monk, in red, who is the first to arriv..."

Tom Sito

Filed under: people, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 3D Animation, Color, Hanna-Barbera Studios, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Animator

"Tom Sito is a highly influential American animator, animation historian and teacher, who has often been considered one of the key figures in the Disney Renaissance."

Tommy Bond

Filed under: people, 1930s, 1940s, Warner Bros., Actor

"Tommy Bond was an American actor who got his start in the industry as a child at the age of 5. Bond passed away in 2005 due to heart disease. "

Typhoid Sufferers (Tifusari)(1963)

Filed under: animation, 1960s, Croatia, Vatroslav Mimica, World War 2 ( WW2 ), Yugoslavia, 1963

Release Date: ?/?/1963

"Based on a poem of the same name by Jure Kastelan, Tifusari is a Yugoslav-Croatian animation depicting typhoid sufferers who endlessly wander across a dreadful wasteland of death and despair in hope of a sense of resilience. The short animated film t..."

Ub Iwerks Studio

Filed under: studio, 1930s, Cinecolor, Color, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Technicolor, Ub Iwerks, 1930

"Ub Iwerks Studio was a short lived animation studio in the 1930s.  Ub Iwerks, one of the closest partners of Walt Disney in the 1920s, decided to open his own animation studio after he was offered financial support from Pat Powers. Flip the Frog was..."

Unidentified Fiendish Object

Filed under: animation, 1960s, Hanna-Barbera Studios, U.S.A., 1966

Producer(s): William Hanna Joseph Barbera

Release Date: 15/10/1966

"Buzz Conroy and Frankenstein Jr. face off against an evil alien and his robotic minion."

Van Beuren Studios

Filed under: studio, 1920s, 1930s, Amadee J. Van Beuren, Color, Early Sound, Felix the Cat, Racial representation, Rainbow Parade, Tom and Jerry, Tom and Jerry, U.S.A., 1929

"Van Beuren Studios was an animation studio in the 1930s.  After Paul Terry left Aesop's Fables Studio, due to a disagreement over sound with his partner, Amadee J. Van Beuren, Van Beuren reorganized the studio, prepared it for the production of soun..."

Vatroslav Mimica

Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Anime, Croatia, Technicolor, Vatroslav Mimica, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (Croatia), Zagreb Film, Author, Director, Screenwriter, Writer

"Vatroslav Mimica is a Croatian screenwriter and director who is considered one of the pioneers of the Zagreb school animation originated from Croatia and former Yugoslavia. Mimica entered the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before joining ..."

Vladimir William (“Bill”) Tytla

Filed under: people, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Casper the Ghost, Color, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Little Lulu, Musical, Popeye, Terrytoons Animated Shorts, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Animator, Artist

"Vladimir Tytla worked as an animator for several studios, including his own. His happiest times, and best work, were done at Disney Studios where he felt a certain atmosphere of artistry and care for the animated product, which fed his deep interest ..."

Walt Disney Studio

Filed under: studio, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Silly Symphonies, U.S.A., Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, 1923

"Walt Disney's Studio first found its headquarters in Burbank, California. A personal winner of of twenty Academy Awards within his lifetime, with a total of 63 total nominations, as well as 4 Special or Honorary Oscars, Disney is remembered as an ico..."

Walter Tournier

Filed under: people, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Documentary, Stop Motion, Technicolor, Tournier Animation, Uruguay, Walter Tournier, Animator, Artist, Director, Puppeteer

"Walter Tournier is a Uruguayan animator, director, and sculptor known for his specialization in stop-motion animation.  Tournier studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo when he discovered his true interest in film (“Walter Tournier..."

Ward Walrath Kimball

Filed under: people, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Color, Musical, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Animator, Artist, Character Designer

"Ward Kimball was a prolific animator for Walt Disney, part of the earliest team of core animators known as "Disney's Nine Old Men." While extremely influential, his importance in the early days of Disney has meant that biographers have encountered se..."

What’s Cookin’ Doc?

Filed under: animation, 1940s, Animation Series, Bob Clampett, Bugs Bunny, Color, Leon Schlesinger Studios, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, U.S.A., Warner Bros., 1944

Producer(s): Leon Schlesinger

Release Date: 08/01/1944

""When James Cagney wins the Oscar, Bugs shows a clip from "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (1941) and demands a recount of the voting.""

What’s Opera, Doc?

Filed under: animation, 1950s, All Music, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Looney Tunes, Technicolor, U.S.A., Warner Bros., 1957

Producer(s): Edward Seizer

Release Date: 06/07/1957

"In this parody of Wagner's The Ring Cycle, Elmer Fudd plays a viking endowed with a spear, magic helmet, and undying drive to kill the rabbit."

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Bill Hanna, Color, Droopy, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Joe Barbera, Tom and Jerry, Tom and Jerry, U.S.A., Animation Supervisor, Animator, Cartoonist, Director

"William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two animators from MGM who began their own animated television studio, Hanna-Barbera Productions; a studio which would dominate and transform the industry from the 60s to the end of the century.William Denby “B..."

Yan Dingxian (严定宪)

Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, China, Color, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Technicolor, Animator, Character Designer, Director

"Yan Dingxian (严定宪) is the most renowned animator, character designer and director of early Chinese animation. He is the former president of Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS, 上海美术电影制片厂), China Film Association (中国影协..."

Yōji Kuri (久里洋二)

Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, black-and-white ink, Color, Japan, Technicolor, Yōji Kuri, Animator, Artist, Cartoonist, Director

"Yōji Kuri is a Japanese animator, painter, and cartoonist. He was one of the most active and internationally prominent independent artists known for his satirical reflection on Japanese society through surrealist and extreme images of violence, deat..."