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January Beany and Cecil (tv)/(tvss), Bob Clampett. (drawn animation) some of the shorts were released in non-US theatres before they appeared on televison Frog's Legs (ss), Seymour Kneitel/Famous. |
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January Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Sadamoto Yoshiyuki) (character designer, animator, layout artist, inbetweener) born in Yamaguchi. Tezuka Osamu Production is renamed Mushi Production. |
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February The Peter Potamus Show (tv), Hanna-Barbera. (drawn animation) contains: Peter Potamus (tvss) and Breezly and Sneezly (tvss).
Space Angel (tv), Cambria Studios.
Where There's Smoke (ss), Bob Kuwahara /Terrytoons. |
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February Anson Dyer (Ernest John Anson Dyer( (July 18, 1876-February 22, 1962) (director, writer, animator, producer) dies in Cheltenham. (Great Britain) Joanna Quinn (February 4, 1962- ) (director, animator, writer, producer, voice actress) born in Birmingham, West Midlands. (Great Britain) |
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February Doug Chiang (February 16, 1962- ) (designer, director) born in Taipei. (Taiwan) |
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March Fowled-Up Birthday (ss), Jack Hannah /Lantz. (drawn animation) first Beary Family series (1962-1971) |
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March Kazuki Akane (Akane Kazuki 赤根和樹) (March 24, 1962- ) (director, storyboard artist, writer) born in Osaka. |
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May Hayato Date (Date Hayato) (director) born. |
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June Adventures of the Road-Runner (ss), Charles M. Jones, Maurice Noble, and Tom Ray /Warner Bros. (drawn animation) This long short was originally created as a pilot for a television series. |
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June Otogi Manga Calendar [まんがカレンダー] (tvss), Ryuichi Yokoyama /Otogi Productions. (drawn animation) (1962-1964) Seki Toshihiko (Toshihiko Seki, 関 俊彦) (June 11, 1962- ) (voice actor) born in Tochigi. |
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July Carlos Alazraqui (Carlos Jaime Alazraqui) (July 20, 1962- ) (voice actor, writer) born in Sacramento, California.) Tom Kenny (Thomas James Kenny) (July 13, 1962- ) (voice actor) born in East Syracuse, New York. |
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July Arabian Night Sinbad no Boken ("Arabian Night, The Adventures of Sinbad"; "Adventures of Sinbad") (f), Taiji Yabushita /Toei. (drawn animation) |
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August The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (f), Henry Levin and George Pal /MGM. (model animation and live action) Dee Bradley Baker (August 31, 1962- ) (voice actor) born in Indiana. |
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August Otogi no Sekai Ryoko ("Otogi's Voyage Around the World") (f), Ryuichi Yokoyama /Otogi. (drawn animation) |
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September The Adventures of Lariat Sam (tvss), Terrytoons. (drawn animation) appeared within the Captain Kangaroo program The Jetsons (tv), Hanna-Barbera. Lippy the Lion (tv)/(tvss), Hanna-Barbera. Out of the Inkwell (tv)/(tvss), Video House. Touche Turtle (tv)/(tvss), Hanna-Barbera. Wally Gator (tv)/(tvss), Hanna-Barbera. E. G. Daily (Elizabeth Guttman Daily) (voice actress) born in Los Angeles, California.
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September Julie Lemieux (December 4, 1962- ) (voice actress) born in Toronto, Ontario. (Canada) |
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September Aru Machikado no Monogatari ("The Story of A Certain Street Corner") (sf), Osamu Tezuka /Mushi. (drawn animation) |
September Scott McNeil (September 15, 1962- ) (voice actor) born in Brisbane. (Australia) |
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October Gay Purr-ee (f), Abe Levitow /UPA. (drawn animation) Jeff Bennett (Jeff Glenn Bennett) (October 2, 1962- ) (voice actor) born in Burbank, California. |
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October Miki Itou (Itou Miki) (voice actress) born in Tokyo.
Tatsunoko Productions founded by Tatsuo Yoshida, Kenji Yoshida, and Toyoharu Yoshida (Ippei Kurei) as a studio to make manga. A year later the company was approached about making one of its mangas into a television anime. |
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November Willis O'Brien (Willis H. O'Brien) (animator, director, writer) dies in Los Angeles, California. |
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November Svinedrengen og prinsessen på ærten (sf), Poul Ilsøe /Bent Christensen Filmproduktion. (Denmark) (drawn animation) |
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December Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (tvsp), Abe Levitow /UPA. (drawn animation) A Symposium of Popular Songs (ss), Bill Justice /Disney. |
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December Nobuteru Yuki (Yuki Nobuteru 結城 信輝) (December 24, 1962- ) (character designer, animator) born in Tokyo. |
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no date Mu Di (ss), Te Wei and Qian Jajun /Shanghai Animation. (China) (drawn animation) Xuong phim Viet Nam (Vietnamese Animated Cartoon Film Studio) becomes Xuong phim Hoat hoa bup be Viet Nam (Vietnamese Animated Cartoon and Puppet Film Studio). (North Viet Nam) |
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