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January The Dog, Cat and Canary (ss), Howard Swift /Screen Gems. (drawn animation) first Flippy series (1945-1947) The Odor-Able Kitty (ss), Charles M. Jones /Warner Bros. |
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February The Three Caballeros (f), Norman Ferguson /Disney. (drawn animation, some live action) contains: The Cold Blooded Penguin (ss) William Roberts, The Flying Gauchito (ss), Norm Ferguson and Eric Larson, and several unnamed short sequences |
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March Life With Feathers (ss), Friz Freleng /Warner Bros. (drawn animation) first appearance of Sylvester Ed Catmull (Edwin Catmull) (March 31, 1945- ) (producer, software designer, animator, character designer) born in Parkersburg, West Virgina. Micky Dolenz (George Michael Dolenz) (March 8, 1945 - ) (voice actor) born in Los Angeles, California. |
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March Moriyasu Taniguchi (Taniguchi Moriyasu, 谷口 守泰) (March 30, 1943- ) (animator, character designer) born in Hyogo Prefecture. |
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April The Shooting of Dan McGoo (ss), Tex Avery /MGM. (drawn animation) |
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May John Weldon (John F. Weldon) (May 11, 1945- ) (director, producer, animator, writer, voice actor) born in Belleville, Ontario. (Canada) |
May Studio Bratri v triku (Trick Brothers) founded by Jiri Trnka and Eduard Hofman in Prague. (Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic]) |
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June Donald's Crime (ss), Jack King /Disney. (drawn animation) Rippling Romance (ss), Bob Wickersham /Screen Gems. |
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July Katsuji Mori (Mori Katsuji 森功至) (July 7, 1945 - ) (voice actor) born in Tokyo. |
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August Gypsy Life (ss), Connie Rasinski /Terrytoons. (drawn animation) |
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October The Cross-Eyed Bull (ss), Robert Newman /John Sutherland Productions. (model animation) first Daffy Ditties series (1945-1947) Jasper and the Beanstalk (ss), George Pal /Pal. |
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November The Friendly Ghost (ss), Isadore Sparber /Famous. (drawn animation) first Casper, The Friendly Ghost series (1945-1959) first of a number of cartoons, television series, feature films, and oavs featuring Casper and associated characters |
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November Garbancito de la Mancha ("Garbancito of La Mancha"; "The Enchanted Sword") (f), José Marķa Blay and Arturo Moreno /Diarmo. (Spain) (drawn animation) (first Spanish feature animation) |
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no date Das dumme Gänslein ("The Silly Goose") (ss), Hans Fischerkoesen /Fischerkoesen. (Germany) (drawn animation) Handling Ships (f)/(edu), John Halas and Alan Crick /Halas & Batchelor. (Great Britain) Hochzeit im Korallenmeer // Svatba v korálovém moři ("Wedding in the Coral Sea") (ss), Jiri Brdecka. (Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic]) Propavshaya gramota [Пропавшая Грамота] ("The Missing Diploma") (sf), Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, and Lamis Bredis /Soyuzmultifilm. (Soviet Union [Russia]) |
no date Shin Nihon Doga studio founded by Kenzo Masaoka, Sanae Yamamoto, and Yasuji Murata. |
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