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October 22: Taiji Yabushita and Kazuhiko Okabe's The White Snake Enchantress is first released. It is Toei Animation's feature debut and the first anime feature film in color. The film pushed Japanese animation technology to the limit. The film was a large scale major project, involving a total of 13,590 staff; surprisingly, it only took eight months to finish. [12] The film is an adaptation of the Chinese tale Legend of the White Snake.[13]The decision of a Chinese story being used as the concept blueprint came from Toei's president Hiroshi Ōkawa, who wanted to strike a tone of reconciliation with the Asian neighbors.[14]
February 16: Ice-T, American rapper and actor (voice of Peggy in UglyDolls, Garbage Khan in the Bubble Guppies episode "A Load of Litterbugs!", Ramrod in the Batman Beyond episode "Splicers").
Denise Dowse, American actress and director (voice of Officer Shirley in Rocket Power, Sheila Swann in the Rugrats episode "Tommy for Mayor"), (d. 2022).[27]
August 28: Scott Hamilton, American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (voice of Buzz in Nine Dog Christmas, himself in the King of the Hill episode "Dances with Dogs" and The Fairly OddParents episode "The Fairly Oddlympics").
^Newspapers.com obituary index- The Los Angeles Times; Publication Date: 25/ Aug/ 1958; Publication Place: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
