1939 in animation

This is a list of events related to film and television animation of 1939.

Events

Animated cartoon character Betty Boop appears in her last film, Yip Yip Yippy, on August 11

Deaths

French illustrator, comic book artist and animator Benjamin Rabier
Swedish animator Victor Bergdahl, creator of the animated character Captain Grogg^[1]

Films released

Feature films

December 22: Gulliver's Travels (1939 film), the second American feature-length animated film^[2]

Short films

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
Swinging the Lambeth Walk, directed by Len Lye
January 28: My Friend the Monkey
March 31: So Does an Automobile
May 12: Musical Mountaineers
June 9: The Scared Crows
June 10: The Bear That Couldn't Sleep
July 7: Rhythm on the Reservation
July 21: The Pointer, a short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and featuring Mickey Mouse and Pluto, is released in theatres by RKO Radio Pictures
August 11: Yip Yip Yippy
September 9: Life Begins for Andy Panda, produced by Walter Lantz and released by Universal Pictures, marking the film debut of the cartoon character Andy Panda

Notes

↑ Bendazzi, p. 45
↑ Bendazzi, p. 91

References

Bendazzi, Giannalberto (1994). Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation. Translated by Anna Taraboletti-Segre. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20937-4.

Years in animation

20th century

1910s

1920s

1930s	1937 1939

1940s	1940 1948 1949

1950s	1957 1959

1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1969

1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1977 1979

1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

21st century

2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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