• Mary Blair begins working at Disney studio

• Due to the huge popularity of the Superman comic book, Paramount asks the Fleischers to produce the cartoons. Dave Fleischer says it would be virtually impossible to do quoted the price of $100,000.00 per episode (4 times the amount of an average cartoon at the time). Paramount said yes and the Fleischers were obliged to produce the series.

• Columbia changes the name of it's studio to Screen Gems.

• Tex Avery storms out of Warner Bros. after he and Schlesinger get into an argument over Avery's "Speaking of Animals" idea. Schlesinger puts Avery on an 8 week suspension, Avery quits and goes to Paramount to produce the "Animals" series but after 3 cartoons he sells out and moves to MGM

• May 28th, Disney animators go on strike and stay out until December. Art Babbit and Bill Tytla leave the studio. Many younger animators also leave the studio and later form the nucleus of UPA.

• Hugh Harman leaves MGM.

• Chinese Cartoon Association founded. (Hong Kong)

• Fernando Morales founds a studio in Madrid. (Spain)

• Norman McLaren joins the NFB. (Canada)

• Marcell Jankovics, Hungarian animator is born (Sisyphus 1974, John the Hero 1973)

• Jannik Hastrup (director, writer, animator) born in Naestved, Denmark

• Yuri Norstein (director, animator) born in Moscow.

• Eduard Nazarov (director, art director, voice actor) born in Moscow.

• Yoshiyuki Tomino (director, writer, storyboards) born in Odawara City, Kangawa.

• Rintaro (Rin Taro, Shigeyuki Hayashi) (director, animator, art director, supervisor, writer, producer, inbetweener) born in Tokyo.