Events in 1952 in animation.
Events January January 1: Norm McLaren releases Voisins (Neighbours). January 5: Robert McKimson's Sylvester and Hippety Hopper cartoon Who's Kitten Who? premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Also starring Sylvester Jr.Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pg. 141 . Retrieved 6 June 2020 – via Archive.org. January 12: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon The Flying Cat is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. January 19: Chuck Jones' cartoon Operation: Rabbit premieres, starring Bugs Bunny & Wile E. Coyote, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Wile E. Coyote's name was revealed in this short.
February February 2: Chuck Jones' Feed the Kitty premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Starring Marc Anthony and the debut of the kitten Pussyfoot. February 8: Jack Hannah's Lambert the Sheepish Lion, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. February 9: Tex Avery's Magical Maestro premieres, produced by MGM. It features Butch Dog as a canine opera singer. In 1993, Magical Maestro was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", making it the only Tex Avery cartoon so far to be inducted. February 16: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon The Duck Doctor is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Friz Freleng's Tweety and Sylvester cartoon Gift Wrapped premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Also starring Granny & Hector the Bulldog.Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pg. 152. . Retrieved June 6, 2020. February 23: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Foxy by Proxy premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The short is a remake of Tex Avery's cartoon Of Fox and Hounds.
March March 1: Robert McKimson's Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cartoon Thumb Fun premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pg. 126. . Retrieved 6 June 2020. March 15: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoon 14 Carrot Rabbit premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon The Two Mouseketeers is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. It is the first of several shorts in which the characters appear as musketeers.The short is a parody of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers and its film adaptations. March 20: 24th Academy Awards: The Two Mouseketeers wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. March 29: Chuck Jones' Pepé Le Pew cartoon Little Beau Pepé premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Also starring Penelope Pussycat.Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 117. . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
April
April 12: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Smitten Kitten is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. The short features footage from the following previous cartoons: Salt Water Tabby, The Mouse Comes to Dinner, Texas Tom, & Solid Serenade. April 19: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Triplet Trouble is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Chuck Jones' cartoon Water, Water Every Hare, starring Bugs Bunny & Gossamer, is first released. Was produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. This is Gossamer's final appearance in the Golden Age of Animation.
May
May 3: Friz Freleng's Sylvester cartoon Little Red Rodent Hood premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. May 24: Chuck Jones' second Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon Beep, Beep premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pg. 129 . Retrieved 6 June 2020 – via Archive.org.
June June 7: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon The Hasty Hare produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons is released. It marks the second appearance of Marvin the Martian now with his iconic nasally voice. June 14: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Little Runaway is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. June 21: Friz Freleng's Tweety and Sylvester cartoon Ain't She Tweet premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Also starring Granny & Hector the Bulldog.
July
July 5: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoon Cracked Quack premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. This was Freleng's last short to star Porky. July 26: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Fit to Be Tied is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Robert McKimson's Bugs Bunny cartoon Oily Hare premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.
August
August 9: Robert McKimson's Sylvester and Hippety Hopper cartoon Hoppy-Go-Lucky premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. August 23: Chuck Jones' third Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon Going! Going! Gosh! produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons is released. August 30: Friz Freleng's Tweety and Sylvester cartoon A Bird in a Guilty Cage premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.
September September 6: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Push-Button Kitty is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. This was the final short in the franchise to feature the controversial character Mammy Two Shoes. September 20: Chuck Jones' Rabbit Seasoning is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons; starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd. It is the second short in The Hunting Trilogy.
October October 4: Friz Freleng's Sylvester cartoon Tree for Two premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. This short marks the debut of Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier. October 10: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat premieres, produced by the Walt Disney Company. It features the debut of Witch Hazel who would become a recurring character in Disney comics. October 18: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Cruise Cat is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. October 31: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Two Weeks Vacation, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.
November November 15: Robert McKimson's Bugs Bunny short Rabbit's Kin premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons which marks the debut of Pete Puma. November 29: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon The Dog House is first released, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio.
December
December 13: Robert McKimson's Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cartoon Fool Coverage premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. December 20: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoon Hare Lift premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.
Specific date unknown Lev Atamanov's film The Scarlet Flower is first released. Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya's The Snow Maiden is first released. Colin Low's The Romance of Transportation in Canada is first released. Norman McLaren's Neighbours premieres.
Films released
September - The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (France) December 22 - The Visions of Tay-Pi (Spain) December 31: The Scarlet Flower (Soviet Union) The Snow Maiden (Soviet Union)
Television series
Births January January 19: Beau Weaver, American voice actor (voice of Superman in Superman, Mister Fantastic in Fantastic Four). January 20: Dave Fennoy, American actor (voice of Dick Scott in New Kids on the Block, Tetrax in the Ben 10 franchise, Pong Krell in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Pietro Polendina in RWBY). January 28: Bruce Helford, American television writer and producer (The Oblongs). January 30: Steve Bartek, American guitarist, composer (Family Dog, Cabin Boy, Nightmare Ned, An Extremely Goofy Movie), orchestrator (The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Tigger Movie, Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, Meet the Robinsons, The Simpsons Movie, Bee Movie, Frankenweenie, Epic, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, The Grinch) and music producer (Harvey Beaks).
February February 2: Ryuji Mizuno, Japanese voice actor (voice of Giichi in Naruto, Meme Midgard in Turn A Gundam, B'T Radio in B't X, Master in Zombie Land Saga Revenge, Julius in Berserk), (d. 2022). February 5: Yoshinori Kanada, Japanese animator (Birth, worked for Hayao Miyazaki), (d. 2009). February 16: James Ingram, American singer and actor (voice of Buster in the English version of The Fearless Four, performed the songs "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail, and "Our Time Has Come" from Cats Don't Dance), (d. 2019). February 17: Garry Chalk, English-born Canadian actor (voice of Optimus Primal in Beast Wars: Transformers, Optimus Prime in the Unicron trilogy, He-Man in The New Adventures of He-Man, Slash, Herr Doktor, and Turbo in ReBoot, Grounder in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr. Robotnik in Sonic Underground, Dr. Light in Mega Man: Fully Charged, King Hippo and Donkey Kong in Captain N: The Game Master, Man-At-Arms in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Hercules in Class of the Titans, Mungus in Dragon Tales, Prince Rutherford in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic). February 18: Salene Weatherwax, American animator (Heidi's Song, Garfield's Feline Fantasies, Tom and Jerry: The Movie), character designer (Hanna-Barbera, The Critic, Animaniacs) and prop designer (Garfield and Friends, Freakazoid!, The Angry Beavers, Family Guy). February 23: Brad Whitford, American musician and member of Aerosmith (voiced himself in The Simpsons episode "Flaming Moe's"). February 24: Steve Rudnick, American writer and producer (Space Jam). February 28: William Finn, American composer and lyricist (The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina), (d. 2025).Hall, Margaret. "Tony Winner William Finn Has Died at 73" Playbill, April 8, 2025 Specific date unknown: Marcelo Tubert, Argentine actor (voice of Mr. Alvarez in Handy Manny, Marty Mendez in King of the Hill, Doc in Hellsing, Hector Papdopolis in the Pinky and the Brain episode "Dangerous Brains", additional voices in The Book of Life and Over the Hedge).
March March 1: Janice Burgess, American television writer, producer and executive (The Backyardigans, Winx Club, Bubble Guppies, Little Bill), (d. 2024).Janice Burgess, creator of 'The Backyardigans,' dies BNO News, March 4, 2024.Janice Burgess, Nickelodeon Executive and 'Backyardigans' Creator, Dies at 72 New York Times, March 5, 2024. March 2: Laraine Newman, American actress, writer and comedian (voice of Connie in The Coneheads, Lois Foutley in As Told by Ginger, Queen Jipjorrulac in The Fairly OddParents, Miss Information in Histeria!, Ella Plankton in SpongeBob SquarePants, Ms. Hubbard in The Oblongs, Queen Ligea in Winx Club, Glummox Mom in Horton Hears a Who!, the Wicked Witch of the West in Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, Gran in Dawn of the Croods, Peaches in Ridley Jones, Baby Doll in The New Batman Adventures episode "Love is a Croc", Toby Raynes in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Apokolips... Now!", Lily in the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", Lacey Ladybug in The Buzz on Maggie episode "Ladybugged"). Mark Evanier, American television writer (Garfield and Friends, Dungeons & Dragons, The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show). March 19: Harvey Weinstein, American convicted sex offender and former film producer (Princess Mononoke, Clerks: The Animated Series, Tokyo Pig, Unstable Fables, The Nutty Professor, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, Escape from Planet Earth, Underdogs, Paddington, voiced himself in My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie).