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January Run Adolf Run (ss), Joe Noble /Pathe. (drawn animation) John Hurt (January 22, 1940- ) (voice actor) born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. (Great Britain) |
January Ippei Kuri (Kuri Ippei, 九里一平, Toyoharu Yoshida, Yoshida Toyoharu, 吉田豊治) (January 1, 1940- ) (producer, director) born in Tokyo. |
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February Pinocchio (f), Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske /Disney. (drawn animation) Puss Gets the Boot (ss), William Hanna and Joseph Barbera /MGM. |
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March Paul Driessen (March 30, 1940- ) (director, animator, writer) born in Nijmegen. (Netherlands) |
March Nobutaka Nishizawa (Nishizawa Nobutaka 西沢 信孝) (March 8, 1940- ) (director, producer, planner, writer) born in Kumamoto. |
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May John Halas and Joy Batchelor found the Halas & Batchelor Animation Studio in London. (Great Britain) |
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July A Wild Hare (ss), Tex Avery /Schlesinger. (drawn animation) first named Bugs Bunny series (1940-1964) |
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July Adolf's Busy Day (ss), Lance White /Lance White Productions. (Great Britain) (drawn animation) Musical Poster No.1 (ss), Len Lye /Crown Film Unit. (Great Britain) Patrick Stewart (July 13, 1940- ) (voice actor) born in Mirfield, Yorkshire. (Great Britain) |
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August Co Hoedeman (Jacobus-Willem Hoedeman) (director, animator) born in Amsterdam. (Netherlands) |
August Gisaburo Sugii (Sugii Gisaburo) (August 20, 1940- ) (director, animator, writer) born in Numazu City, Shizuoka. |
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September The Dandy Lion (ss), Dave Fleisher /Fleisher. (drawn animation) first Animated Antics series (1940-1941) Earl Hurd (February 14, 1880-September 28, 1940) (inventor, animator, director, character designer, writer, producer) dies in Los Angeles, California. |
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October King for a Day (ss), Dave Fleischer /Fleischer. (drawn animation) first Gabby series (1940-1941) Prehistoric Porky (ss), Robert Clampett /Schlesinger. |
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November Fantasia (f), Ben Sharpsteen (production supervisor) /Disney. (drawn animation) contains: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (ss), Samuel Armstrong; Nutcracker Suite (ss), Samuel Armstrong; The Sorcerer`s Apprentice (ss), James Algar; Rite of Spring (ss), Bill Roberts and Paul Satterfield; "Pastoral" Symphony (ss), Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley and Ford Beebe; Dance of the Hours (ss), T. Hee and Norm Ferguson; Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria (ss), Wilfred Jackson Knock, Knock (ss), Walter Lantz /Lantz. Poopdeck Pappy (ss), Dave Fleischer /Fleischer. |
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no date A Busy Day (ss), Ub Ibwerks /Cartoons Films Limited. (drawn animation) first Gran' Pop Monkey series (1940) Tarantella (ss), Mary Ellen Bute. Ub Iwerks closes his studio and returns to the Disney studio to work on various technical processing problems. He also did some animating for the studio on special projects. |
no date La caza del puma ("Hunting the Puma") (ss), Juan Oliva /Compana Argentina. (Argentina) (drawn animation) Compana Argentina goes out of business. (Argentina) |
no date Dokdok (ss), Antoine Selim Ibrahim. (Egypt) (drawn animation) El diablo oportuno (ss), Salvador Mestres /Hispano Grafic Films. (Spain) SOS Doctor Marabu (ss), Eric Diban Ferran /Dibsono. (Spain) Der Störenfried ("The Troublemaker") (ss), Hans Held. (Germany) Train Trouble (ss)/(adv), John Halas and Joy Batchelor /Halas & Batchelor. (Great Britain) The Washing On the Siegfried Line (ss), Kimberley. (Great Britain) Pino Van Lamsweerde (animator, director) born. (Italy) Alejandro Fernandez de la Reguera founds Dibsono Films. (Spain) William Larkins founds the Larkins studio. (Great Britain) |
no date Kintaro Taiiku Nikki [キンタロー体育日記] ("Kintaro's Physical Education Diary") (ss), Hiromasa Suzuki /Hiromasa Manga Eiga. (drawn animation) |
no date Bertie the Airplane (ss)/(adv), Eric Porter /Porter. (Australia) (drawn animation) |
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