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The first episode of Paddington is broadcast, based on the eponymous children's books by Michael Bond.[3]
January 11: An animated TV special based on the 2000 Year Old Man sketch is broadcast on CBS, with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner reprising their characters. The animation is produced by Leo Salkin Films.[4]
August 20: Ralph Bakshi's film Coonskin, a combination of animation and live-action, premieres. It flops at the box office due to accusations of racism,[11] but decades later became a cult classic and shed its undeserved bad reputation.[12]
The first episode of The Tom and Jerry Show airs, which is Tom and Jerry’s first television show. This show gained negative attention by fans of the theatrical shorts from the Golden era due to the result that the duo are shown as friends as slapstick violence were grounded by the Seal of Good Practices at the time. This cartoon ended after one season while regarding these issues.[18]
December 19: Bob Clampett releases the anthology filmBugs Bunny: Superstar, directed by Larry Jackson which is the first Looney Tunes package film. The film will attract controversy amongst some of Clampett's colleagues, most obviously Chuck Jones, because Clampett takes credit for many contestable claims.[28][29]
June 9: Tommy Karlsen Sandum, Norwegian actor (Norwegian dub voice of Shrek and Pinocchio in the Shrek franchise, Wildmutt in the Ben 10 franchise, Eddy in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Armando in Rio, General Gato and General Mono in TMNT), (d. 2024).[46]
December 7: Hardie Albright, American actor (voice of adolescent Bambi in Bambi), dies at age 71.[73]
December 18: Ray Bailey, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Brothers), dies at age 62.[74]
December 24:
Harold Mack, British animator and comics artist (worked for Gaumont British Animation, British Animated Pictures and Marten Toonder's animation studio, founder of the Anglo-Dutch Group), dies at age 67.[75]
^Gibson, Jon M.; McDonnell, Chris (2008). "Coonskin". Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi. Universe Publishing. pp. 106, 108–109, 114, 127. ISBN978-0-7893-1684-4.
^Cohen, Karl F (1997). Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America. North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 90–92. ISBN0-7864-0395-0.
