1939 in animation

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

Events

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

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

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

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

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

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