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January La Genese ("Genesis") (f), Pierre Alibert /Les Films du Cyprès. (France) (drawn animation) |
January Flanders no Inu [フランダースの犬] ("A Dog of Flanders") (tv), Zuiyo Eizo and Nippon Animation. (drawn animation) Kirin Monoshiri Tachi [キリンものしり館] ("Kirin Building of Knowledge") (tvss)/(edu), Makoto Nagasawa /Office Uni. Manga Nihon Mukashi Banashi [まんが日本昔ばなし] ("Animated Ancient Japanese Fairy Stories") (tv), Yasunori Sendai /Group TAC. |
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February Dr. Seuss' The Hoober-Bloob Highway (tvsp), Alan Zaslove /DePatie-Freleng. (drawn animation) Really Rosie (tvsp), Maurice Sendak /Sherris Productions. |
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March The White Seal (tvsp), Chuck Jones /Jones. (drawn animation) |
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March Robinson Columbus (sf), Ib Steinaa /Steinaa Film. (Denmark) (drawn animation, some live action) |
March Andersen Dôwa Ningyo Hime [アンデルセン童話 にんぎょ姫] ("Andersen's Children's Story: The Mermaid Princess"; "The Little Mermaid") (f), Tomoharu Katsumata /Toei. (drawn animation) Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo [グレートマジンガー対ゲッターロボ] ("Great Mazinger versus Getter Robo") (sf), Masayuki Akihi /Toei. Studio Deen founded in Tokyo by Hiroshi Hasegawa. It began as a subsidiary studio for Sunrise productions. Later it did work for Studio Pierrot, Shin'ei Productions, and other studios. |
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April Don Chuck Monogatari [ドンチャック物語] ("Don Chuck's Story") (tv), Knack Productions. (drawn animation) Ganba no Bouken [ガンバの冒険] ("Adventures of Gamba") (tv), Osamu Dezaki /TMS. Mitsubachi Maya no Boken ("Adventures of Maya the Honeybee") (tv), Hiroshi Saito, Mitsuo Kaminashi, Seiji Endo /Zuiyo Eizo, later Nippon Animation. La Seine no Hoshi ("Planet of La Seine") (tv), Masaki Osumi and Tomino Yoshiyuki /Sunrise. Shonen Tokugawa Ieyasu [少年徳川家康] ("Young Ieyasu Tokugawa") (tv), Takeshi Tamiya and Kimio Yabuki /Toei. Yuushu Raideen [勇者ライディーン] ("Brave Raideen") (tv), Yoshiyuki Tomino and Tadao Nagahama /Sunrise. |
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May Abe Levitow (Abraham Levitow) (July 2, 1922-May 8, 1975) (animator, director, producer) dies.
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May Getter Robo G [ゲッターロボG] ("Force Five: Starvengers") (tv), Toei. (drawn animation) |
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June Koichi Motohashi renames Zuiyo Eizo as Nippon Animation in Tokyo. Sony begins distributing the first home video cassette recorder/players (Beta format).
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July Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo G Kuchu Dai-Gekitotsu [グレートマジンガー対ゲッターロボG 空中大激突] ("Great Mazinger versus Getter Robo G The Great Space Encounter") (ss), Masayuki Akehi /Toei. (drawn animation) Uchi no Kishi Tekkaman [宇宙の騎士テッカマン] ("Space Knight Tekkaman"; "Tekkaman the Space Knight") (tv), Hiroshi Sagawa and Hisayuki Toriumi /Tatsunoko. Uchu Enban Dai-Senso [宇宙円盤大戦争] ("The Great Battle of the Flying Saucer") (ss), Toei. |
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August Coonskin ("Street Fight") (f), Ralph Bakshi /Bar Productions. (drawn animation) |
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August Flåklypa Grand Prix ("The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix") (f), Ivo Caprino /Caprino Filmcenter. (Norway) (model animation) |
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September Fraidy Cat (tvss), Don Towsley /Filmation. (drawn animation) M-U-S-H (tvss), Filmation. The Oddball Couple (tv)/(tvss), Gerry Chiniquy and Robert McKimson /DePatie-Freleng. Return to the Planet of the Apes (tv), DePatie-Freleng. The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty (tv), Filmation. The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show (tv), Hanna-Barbera.
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September Dick Deadeye - Or Duty Done (f), Bill Melendez /Melendez. (Great Britain) (drawn animation) Tarzoon, la Honte de la Jungle ("Shame of the Jungle") (f), Jean-Paul Picha and Boris Szulzinger. (Belgium) |
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October You're A Good Sport, Charlie Brown (tvsp), Phil Roman /Mendelsohn-Melendez. (drawn animation) |
October The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (tvss), Al Guest and Jean Mathieson /Rainbow Animation. (Canada) (drawn animation) |
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October Andes Shonen Pepero no Boken [アンデス少年ペペロの冒険] ("Adventures of Pepero the Andes Boy") (tv), Kazuhiko Udakowa /Wako. (drawn animation) Arabian Nights Sinbad no Boken [アラビアンナイト シンドバッドの冒険] ("The Arabian Nights Adventures of Sinbad") (tv), Fumio Kurokawa /Nippon Animation. Ganso Tensai Bakabon [元祖・天才バカボン] ("The Original Bakabon the Foolish Genius") (tv)/(tvss), TMS. Ikkyuu-san [一休さん] (tv)/(edu), Kimio Yabuki /Toei. Kotetsu Jeeg [鋼鉄ジーグ] ("Steel Jeeg") (tv), Masayuki Akihi /Toei. Sougen no Shojo Laura [草原の少女ローラ] ("Laura the Prairie Girl"; "Little House on the Prairie") (tv), Mitsuharu Endo /Nippon Animation. Phenakistiscope (ss), Taku Furukawa /Takun Jikken Manga Box. Time Bokan [タイムボカン] ("Time Machine"; "Timefighters") (tv), Hiroshi Sasagawa /Tatsunoko. UFO Robo Grendizer [UFOロボ グレンダイザー] ("Force Five: Grandizer") (tv), Tomoharu Katsumata /Toei Doga. Wanpaku Omukashi Kum Kum [わんぱく大昔クムクム] ("Naughty Prehistoric Kum Kum") (tv), Sunrise. |
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November Valentina Brumberg (Valentina Semyonovna Brumberg Валентина Семёновна Брумберг) (August 2, 1899-November 28, 1975) (animator, director) dies in Moscow. (Soviet Union [Russia]) |
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November The Last of the Mohicans (tvsp), Chris Cuddington /Hanna-Barbera Australia. (Australia) (drawn animation) |
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December The First Christmas (tvsp), Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass /Rankin-Bass. (model animation) The Tiny Tree (tvsp), Chuck Couch /DePatie-Freleng. Danny Cooksey (November 2, 1975- ) (voice actor) born in Moore, Oklahoma. |
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December Bod (tvss), Bodfilms. (Great Britain) (drawn animation) Kalles Klätterträd ("Charlie's Climbing Tree") (tvss), Olof Landström and Peter Cohen /POJ-filmproduktion. (Sweden) Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton (tvsp), Per Ahlin /Pennfilm. (Sweden) |
December Houko Kuwashima (Kuwashima Houko 桑島 法子) (December 12, 1975- ) (voice actress, singer) born in Iwate. Toshihiko Sato founds Ashi Productions in Tokyo.
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no date Kick Me (ss), Robert Swarthe. (drawn animation) Davey & Goliath: To the Rescue (tvsp), Art Clokey /Clokey. |
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no date Mysterious Island (tvsp), Leif Gram /Air Programs International. (Australia) (drawn animation) |
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