Chronology of Animation 1954 | |||||
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January Warner Bros. repopens its animation studio. |
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February Shigeru Chiba (Chiba Shigeru 千葉繁, Masaharu Maeda, Maeda Masaharu 前田正治) (February 4, 1954- ) (voice actor, sound director) born in Kikuchi, Kumamoto. |
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March Kousagi Monogatari [子うさぎものがたり] ("Story of the Little Rabbit") (ss), Yasuji Mori /Nihon Doga. (drawn animation) Kazuhiko Inoue (Inoue Kazuhiko 井上和彦) (March 26, 1954- ) (voice actor) born in Kanagawa. Minoru Maeda (Maeda Minoru, 前田実) (March 24, 1954- ) (animator, character designer, mecha designer) born in Hokkaido. |
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April Glen Keane (April 13, 1954- ) (animator, character designer) born in Abington, Pennsylvania. |
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April Katsuhiro Otomo (Otomo Katsuhiro 大友 克洋) (April 14, 1954- ) (director, writer, character designer) born in Tome-gun, Miyagi. |
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May Pigs Is Pigs (ss), Jack Kinney /Disney. (drawn animation) Townsend Coleman (May 28, 1954- ) (voice actor) born in New York, New York. |
May Dig That Dog (ss), Grant Simmons and Ray Patterson /Grantray-Lawrence. (Canada) (drawn animation) (one of two cartoons made for Walter Lantz) |
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June Devil May Hare (ss), Robert McKimson /Warner Bros. (drawn animation) first appearance of the Tasmanian Devil Jim Belushi (James Belushi) (June 15, 1954- ) (voice actor) born in Chicago, Illinois. |
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July J. Michael Straczynski (Joseph Michael Straczynski) (July 17, 1954- ) (writer, composer) born in Patterson, New Jersey. |
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August Yuko Mita (Mita Yuko) [三田 ゆう子] (voice actress) born in Tokyo. |
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September Hy Mayer (Henry Mayer) (1868-September 27, 1954) (director, animator, writer, producer) dies of a heart attack in South Norwalk, Connecticut. |
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October From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (ss), Charles M. Jones /Warner Bros. (drawn animation) Hansel and Gretel (f), John Paul /Reeves. |
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November Lumber Jack Rabbit (ss), Charles M. Jones /Warner Bros. (drawn animation) experimental 3-D cartoon |
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December Dixieland Droopy (ss), Tex Avery /MGM. (drawn animation) Touche Pussy Cat (ss), William Hanna and Joseph Barbera /MGM. |
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December Belvision studio founded by Raymond Leblanc in Brussels. (Belgium) |
December Kazunori Itou (Itou Kazunori) (writer) born in Yamagata. Sumi Shimamoto (Shimamoto Sumi) (voice actress) born in Kouchi. |
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no date first Speedy Alka-Seltzer series (tvss)/(adv), Five Star. (model animation) |
no date Grantray-Lawrence Animation studio founded by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson, and Robert Lawrence. (Canada) |
no date Cesta Do Praveku ("Journey to the Beginning of Time") (f), Karel Zeman /Filmové Studio Gottwaldov. (Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic]) (live action; some model animation) Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten ("The State Musicians of Bremer") (ss), Bruno J. Bottge /DEFA Animation. (People's Republic of Germany [Germany]) Dobry Vojak Svejk ("The Good Soldier Schweik") (f), Jiri Trnka /Studio Loutkového Filmu. (Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic]) The Grasshopper and the Ant (ss), Lotte Reiniger /Primrose. (Great Britain) Watch the Birdie (ss), Bob Godfrey, Keith Learner, Vera Linnecar, and Richard Taylot /Biographic. (Great Britain) Zolotaya antilopa [Золотая Антилопа] ("The Golden Antelope") (sf), Lev Atamanov /Soyuzmultifilm. (Soviet Union [Russia]) Paul Films founded in Modena by Paolo Campani and Giorgio Massimino-Garniér. (Italy) Igor Kovalyov (director, art director, character designer, writer) born in Kiev. (Soviet Union [Ukraine]) |
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no date Bimbo's Auto (ss), Eric Porter /Porter. (Australia) (drawn animation) |
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