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January The Rasslin' Match (ss), George Stallings /Van Beuren. (drawn animation) first Amos 'n' Andy series (1934) |
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January Treasure Island (ss), Brian White /Raycol Films. (Great Britain) (drawn animation) |
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February Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising start making cartoons for MGM. |
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March Norakuro Gocho [のらくろ伍長] ("Corporal Norakuro") (ss), Yasuji Murata /Yokohama Cinema Kyokai. (drawn animation) |
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April Brian Cosgrove (Brian Joseph Cosgrove) (producer, director, animator) born. (Great Britain) |
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May Hollywood Party (f), Roy Rowland /MGM (Disney). (live action, some drawn animation) film contains Mickey Mouse (Fred Moore) in a short sequence with live actors and The Hot Choc-late Soldiers (ss), Jack Kinney and others /Disney. |
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June The Wise Little Hen (ss), Wilfred Jackson /Disney. (drawn animation) first appearance of Donald Duck Grandfather's Clock (ss), Burt Gillett /Van Beuren. |
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July Pastry Town Wedding (ss), Burt Gillett and Ted Eshbaugh /Van Beuren. (drawn animation) first Rainbow Parade series (1934-1936) Winsor McCay (Zenis Winsor McKay) (September 26, 1967-July 26, 1934) (animator, director, producer) dies in Brooklyn, New York. |
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August Poor Cinderella (ss), Dave Fleischer /Fleischer. (drawn animation) first Color Classics series (1934-1940) Contains the first use of the Stereoscopic process invented by technician John Burks under the direction of Max Fleischer. It allowed for the combination of animation with a live minature set (composed of drawn objects) to create more realistic background effects. |
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September Discontented Canary (ss), Rudolph Ising /Harman-Ising. (drawn animation) first Happy Harmonies series (1934-1938) |
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October The Headless Horseman (ss), Ub Iwerks /Iwerks. (drawn animation) Contains the first use of a multiplane camera invented by Iwerks. The camera could photograph several layers of background cels that were several inches apart, giving the final result a more realistic three-dimensional appearance. Jolly Little Elves (ss), Walter Lantz /Universal. |
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November Holiday Land (ss), Art Davis (animator) /Screen Gems. (drawn animation) first Color Rhapsodies series (1934-1949) |
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December Daikichirou Kusube (Kusube Daikichirou 楠部大吉郎) (December 12, 1934-August 8, 2005) (animator, producer, director) born. |
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no date The Eternal Triangle (ss), Dennis Connolly /Champion Pictures. (Great Britain) (drawn animation) Das gestohlene Herz ("The Stolen Heart") (ss), Lotte Reiniger. (Germany) La Joie de vivre ("Joy of Life") (ss), Anthony Gross. (France) Muratti greift ein ("Muratti Gets in the Act") (ss)/(adv), Oskar Fischinger. (Germany) Skazka o tsare Durandae [Сказка о царе Дурандае] ("Tale of Tsar Durandai") (ss), Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Valentina Brumberg, and Zinaida Brumberg /Mezhrabpomfilm. (Soviet Union [Russia]) "Sleeping Beauty" (ss)/(adv), George Pal /Pal. (Netherlands) Manfredo Manfredi (director, art director, writer, producer) born in Palermo. (Italy) |
no date Genroku Koi Moyou: Sankichi To Otoyo ("Love in the Genroku Era") (ss), Mitsuyo Oze /Nihon Manga Film Kenkuyo. (drawn animation) Tsukinomiya no Oojosama ("Princess of the Moon Palace") (ss), Yasuji Murata /Yokohama Cinema Kyokai. |
no date "On A Moonlit Night" (ss) R. C. Boral. (India) (drawn animation) (first Indian sound cartoon) A Da (Xu Jingda 阿达; 徐景达) (1934-February 15, 1987) (director, animator, designer) born in Shanghai. (China) |
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