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January Eggs Don't Bounce (ss), Isadore Sparber /Famous. (drawn animation) first Little Lulu series (1944-1948) |
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February Wreck of the Hesperus (ss), Mannie Davis /Terrytoons. (drawn animation) first Mighty Mouse series (1944-1961) |
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April Screwball Squirrel (ss), Tex Avery /MGM. (drawn animation) first Screwy Squirrel series (1944-1946) |
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April Mitsuki Nakamura (Nakamura Mitsuki, Mitsuyoshi Nakamura, Nakamura Mitsuyoshi 中村光毅) (April 7, 1944- ) (art director, character designer (mechanical), animator) born in Tokyo. |
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May Jungle Jive (ss), Shamus Culhane /Lantz. (drawn animation) My Boy Johnny (ss), Eddie Donnelly /Terrytoons. The Swooner Crooner (ss), Frank Tashlin /Schlesinger. Russi Taylor (Russie Taylor) (May 4, 1944- ) (voice actress) born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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May Hiroyuki Hoshiyama (Hoshiyama Hiroyuki, 星山 博之) (May 13, 1944-February 7, 2007) (series composition, writer) born in Tokyo. |
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June Fish Fry (ss), Shamus Culhane /Lantz. (drawn animation) |
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July And to Think that I Saw It On Mulberry Street (ss), George Pal /Pal. (model animation) Hell Bent for Election (ss)/(adv), Chuck Jones /Industrial Films and Poster Service. Leon Schlesinger sells his studio to Warner Bros. |
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August Birdy and the Beast (ss), Bob Clampett /Schlesinger. (drawn animation) first Tweety and Sylvester series (1944-1964) |
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September How to Play Football (ss), Jack Kinney /Disney. (drawn animation) |
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September Akio Sugino (Sugino Akio 杉野昭夫) (September 19, 1944- ) (character designer, animation director) born in Sapporo. |
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October Dave Allen (David Allen, David W. Allen) (October 22, 1944-August 16, 1999) (animator, special effects director) born. |
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October Ferd'nand på fisketur (ss), Henning Dahl Mikkelsen /ASA Film. (Denmark) (drawn animation) |
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November Linda Gary (November 4, 1944-October 5, 1995) (voice actress) born in California. |
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December Mouse Trouble (ss), William Hanna and Joseph Barbera /MGM. (drawn animation) Academy Award: Best Short Subjects, Cartoons |
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no date Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (ss), Max Fleischer /Jam Handy. (drawn animation) Industrial Films and Poster Service formed by Zachary Schwartz, David Hilberman, and Stephen Bosustow in Los Angeles, California. The company later became United Productions of America (UPA). |
no date Grim Pastures (ss), George Dunning /NFB. (Canada) (drawn animation) Keep Your Mouth Shut (ss), Norman McLaren /NFB. (Canada) Let's All Sing Together No.1 (ss), Norman McLaren /NFB. (Canada) |
no date Garabatos Greta Garbo (ss), Josep Escobar /Dibujos Animados Chamartin. (Spain) (drawn animation) one of the Garabatos series (1943-1945) David Hand leaves Disney and founds Gaumont-British Animation (GB Animation) Studios for J. Arthur Rank. Studio located in Cookham Village, Berkshire. (Great Britain) |
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