July 30:Walt Disney releases the studio's first animated short in color:Flowers and Trees. While not the historical first, it will lead to other animation studios also gradually switching to color in the following years.[3]
Walt Disney produces a special animated reel to announce some of the nominees forBest Actor,Parade of the Award Nominees. During the same ceremony, Disney receives aHonorary Academy Award for the creation ofMickey Mouse,[4] marking the first time an Oscar is given to an animator and his animated cartoon star.
February 29:Edward Faulkner, American actor (voice of Elf Ziggy inElf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse, Chef Best inElf Sparkle and the Special Red Dress) and director (Elf Sparkle and the Special Red Dress), (d.2025).[25][26]
^Jack De Bellis (ed.), "Mortality and Immortality",The John Updike Encyclopedia (2000), pp. 286. See here for many subsequent quotes and citations on death.
^"Deaths elsewhere: Ted Cassidy".Toledo Blade. Ohio. Associated Press. January 24, 1979. p. 12.Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. RetrievedMay 13, 2016.
^Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société (in French). Montreal: Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.
^L’Académie Julian et ses élèves canadiens Paris, 1880-1900 par Samuel Montiège, Thèse de doctorat, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Faculté des arts et sciences, Montréal, mai 2011.
