April 12: The first Japanese feature-length animated film, a war-time propaganda cartoon called Momotaro: Sacred Sailors, directed by Mitsuyo Seo, is first released.[8]
October 15: The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Stripfilm is published. It also offers information about animation techniques, provided by the animation studio Stripfilm.[25] The magazine will last until 23 November.[26]
Stamatis L. Polenakis releases O Ntoútse afigeítai, translated as The Duce Narrates, an animated film which satirizes Benito Mussolini and his invasion of Greece.[38]
August 28: Bob Segarini, American-Canadian musician and radio presenter (voice of Woodchuck Berry in The Raccoons episode "Second Chances!"), (d. 2023).[58]
^De España Renedo, Rafael (7 June 2007). De la Mancha a la pantalla: aventuras cinematográficas del ingenioso hidalgo (in Spanish). Edicions Universitat Barcelona. pp. 58–59. ISBN978-8447532032.