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

References

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