1940 in animation

This is a list of events related to film and television animation of 1940.

Events

The Walt Disney Company has expanded to include more than 1,600 employees^[1]

Deaths

Anglo-Swiss artist Jean Varé (born Maurice Hayward, 1939)^[2]
January 4: American Academy Award-nominee and film producer Charles Mintz
July 2: German filmmaker Guido Seeber
September 28: American animator Earl Hurd

Films released

Barudda è fuggito (Barudda Has Escaped) created by Gino Parenti^[3]
Il vecchio lupo di mare norvegese e il vecchio lupo di mare americano (The Old Salt from Norway and the Old Salt from America) by Roman painter Luigi Giobbe (1907‌–1945)
Musical Poster Number One, directed by Len Lye
January 22: Andy Panda Goes Fishing
April 20: A Rainy Day
April 22: 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda
September 23: Crazy House, featuring Andy Panda
November 25: Knock Knock, featuring Andy Panda

Notes

↑ Bendazzi, p. 66
↑ Bendazzi, p. 77
↑ Bendazzi, p. 79

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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