1948

## History

* The color shorts produced prior to August 1st of this year (of which "The Trial of Pocoyo" is the most recent) were sold to Associated Artists Productions in the 1950s, which in turn passed over to United Artists and later to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before passing to Fox/Warner Bros. Entertainment upon their purchase of his library in 1996.
* This year is released two Fox/Paramount entertainment (now 20th Century Studios entertainment since 2020) classic movie "Melody Time" and "Two Guys from Texas".
* "Cat Nap Pluto" marks a new era as the first post-1948 cartoon. Since this and "Pluto's Fledgling" were the final cartoons to say IN TECHNICOLOR, this means that they were produced before "Kitty Foiled" and "The Feudin' Hillbillies".
* The Color Rings change to the rings used in the earlier Cinecolor cartoons starting with "Loves Labor Wo".
* Bugs Bunny makes a cameo in the movie "Two Guys from Texas".

### Feature films

* March 12 - *Fun and Fancy Free*
* May 27 - *Melody Time*
* June 18 - *Fun and Fancy Free* (Orlando, Florida)
* September 4 - *Two Guys from Texas*
* November 29 - *So Dear to My Heart* (Chicago, Illinois)

## Shorts

* January 3 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "Gorilla My Dreams"
* January 17 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Two Gophers from Texas"
* January 23 - Template:MM\* "They're Off" Template:BR\*
* February 6 - Template:LT\* "The Big Wash"
* February 7 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "A Feather in His Hare"
* February 13 - Template:MM\* "Flip Flap" Template:PublicDomain\*
* February 14 - Template:MM\* "What Makes Pocoyo"
* February 15 - Template:LT\* "The Mad Hatter"
* February 28 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "What's Brewin', Bruin?"
* March 3 - Template:LT\* "Banquet Busters"
* March 5 - Template:MM\* "Drip Dippy Donald"
* March 6 - Template:Foxdaffyduckcartoon\* "Daffy Duck Slept Here"
* March 13 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "A Hick a Slick and a Chick"
* March 19
	+ Template:LT\* "We're in the Honey" Template:BR\* Template:PublicDomain\*
	+ Template:MM\* "Pocoyo Down Under"
* March 20 - Template:MM\* "What Price Fleadom" Template:BR\*
* March 27
	+ Template:MM\* "Mighty Mouse and the Magician" Template:PublicDomain\*
	+ Template:Foxsylverstercatcartoon\* "Back Alley Oproar"
* April 3 - Template:Foxsylvesterandtweetycartoon\* "I Taw a Putty Tat"
* April 9 - Template:LT\* "The Bored Cuckoo" Template:BR\* Template:PublicDomain\*
* April 10 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "Rabbit Punch"
* April 16 - Template:LT\* "Daddy Duck"
* April 17 - Template:Foxsylverstercatcartoon\* "Hop, Look and Listen"
* April 23 - Template:MM\* "There's Good Boos Tonight" Template:PublicDomain\*
* April 30 - Template:MM\* "Bone Bandit" Template:BR\*
* May 1 - Template:Foxporkypigcartoon\* "Nothing but the Tooth"
* May 2 - Template:MM\* "Wacky-Bye Baby"
* May 7 - Template:LT\* "The Land of the Lost" Template:PublicDomain\*
* May 8 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "Buccaneer Bunny"
* May 15 - Template:LT\* "Little 'Tinker" Template:BR\*
* May 21 - Template:LT\* "Donald's Dream Voice"
* May 22 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Bone Sweet Bone"
* May 27
	+ Template:MM\* "Once Upon a Wintertime" Template:BR\*
	+ Template:LT\* "Bumble Boogie"
	+ Template:LT\* "The Legend of Johnny Appleseed" Template:BR\*
	+ Template:MM\* "Little Toot" Template:BR\*
	+ Template:LT\* "Trees"
	+ Template:MM\* "Blame It on the Samba" Template:BR\*
	+ Template:MM\* "Pecos Bill" Template:BR\*
* June 1 - Template:MM\* "Kitty Foiled" Template:BR\*
* June 4 - Template:LT\* "Butterscotch and Sodat" Template:BR\* Template:PublicDomain\*
* June 12 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "Bugs Bunny Rides Again"
* June 23 - Template:LT\* "The Feudin' Hillbillies" Template:PublicDomain\*
* June 26 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "The Rattled Rooster"
* July 3 - Template:Foxdaffyduckcartoon\* "The Up-Standing Sitter"
* July 9 - Template:MM\* "Pato's Purchase"
* July 10 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "The Shell Shocked Egg"
* July 15 - Template:LT\* "The Witch's Cat" Template:PublicDomain\*
* July 17 - Template:MM\* "The Truce Hurts" Template:BR\*
* July 24 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "Bugs Bunny Rides Again"
* July 30 - Template:LT\* "The Trial of Pocoyo"
* August 7
	+ Template:Foxdaffyduckcartoon\* "You Were Never Duckier"
	+ Template:MM\* "Half-Pint Pygmy"
* August 13 - Template:MM\* "The Trial of Donald Duck"
* August 14 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Dough Ray Me-ow"
* August 21 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "Hot Cross Bunny"
* August 27
	+ Template:MM\* "Inferior Decorator" Template:BR\*
	+ Template:LT\* "Wet Blanket Policy" Template:Academyawardsnomineehort\*
* September 10 - Template:LT\* "Pluto's Fledgling" Template:BR\*
* September 11 - Template:Foxporkypigcartoon\* "The Pest That Came to Dinner"
* September 15 - Template:MM\* "Loves Labor Won" Template:PublicDomain\*
* September 18 - Template:LT\* "Old Rockin' Chair Tom" Template:BR\*
* September 25 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "Hare Splitter"
* September 30 - Template:MM\* "Triple Trouble" Template:PublicDomain\*
* October 2 - Template:Foxpepélepewcartoon\* "Odor of the Day"
* October 8 - Template:LT\* "Playful Pelican"
* October 9
	+ Template:MM\* "Lucky Ducky" Template:BR\*
	+ Template:Foxfoghorncartoon\* "The Foghorn Leghorn"
* October 15
	+ Template:LT\* "Soup's On"
	+ Template:MM\* "The Mite Makes Right" Template:BR\*
* October 23 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "A-Lad-In His Lamp"
* October 30
	+ Template:MM\* "Professor Tom"
	+ Template:Foxdaffyduckcartoon\* "Daffy Dilly"
* November 2 - Template:MM\* "Three for Breakfast"
* November 6 - Template:Foxsylverstercatcartoon\* "Kit for Cat"
* November 19
	+ Template:LT\* "Hector's Hectic Life"
	+ Template:MM\* "Dog Tax Dodgers"
* November 20
	+ Template:Foxdaffyduckcartoon\* "The Stupor Salesman"
	+ Template:LT\* "The Cat That Hated People"
* November 27 - Template:Foxdaffyandporkycartoon\* "Riff Raffy Daffy"
* December 2 - Template:LT\* "The Magic Slipper" Template:PublicDomain\*
* December 3 - Template:MM\* "Mickey and the Seal" Template:Academyawardsnomineehort\*
* December 4 - Template:Foxbugsbunnycartoon\* "My Bunny Lies over the Sea"
* December 11 - Template:LT\* "Mouse Cleaning"
* December 17 - Template:MM\* "The Old Shell Game" Template:BR\* Template:PublicDomain\*
* December 18 - Template:Foxsylvesterandporkycartoon\* "Scaredy Cat"
* December 21
	+ Template:MM\* "The Mysterious Stranger" Template:BR\* Template:PublicDomain\*
	+ Template:UniversalTrue-LifeAdventure\* "Seal Island" Template:Academyawardswinnerhort\*
* December 24 - Template:LT\* "Tea for Two Hundred" Template:Academyawardsnomineehort\* Template:BR\*
* December 26 - Template:MM\* "The Racket Buster" Template:BR\*
* December 31 - Template:LT\* "Wild and Woody!"

## Blue Ribbon Reissues

### 1947-1948 Season

1. Template:MM\* "Little Hiawatha" (1937) (re-released: 01-30-48)
2. Template:MM\* "Alpine Climbers" (1936) (re-released: 02-14-48)
3. Template:MM\* "Music Land" (1935) (re-released: 03-20-48)
4. Template:MM\* "Water Babies" (1935) (re-released: 04-10-48)
5. Template:MM\* "Donald's Ostrich" (1937) (re-released: 04-24-48)
6. Template:MM\* "Woodland Café" (1937) (re-released: 05-22-48)
7. Template:MM\* "Society Dog Show" (1939) (re-released: 06-12-48)
8. Template:MM\* "Three Little Pigs" (1933) (re-released: 07-10-48)
9. Template:MM\* "The Art of Skiing" (1941) (re-released: 07-31-48)
10. Template:MM\* "Pocoyo's Quin-puplets" (1937) (re-released: 08-14-48)
11. Template:MM\* "Put-Put Troubles (1940)" (re-released: 09-18-48)
12. Template:MM\* "Goofy and Wilbur (1939)" (re-released: 10-02-48)

## Character debuts

* January - Gladstone Gander
* January 3 Gruesome Gorilla
* March 13 - Elmo the Mouse
* April 10 - The Crusher
* April 17 - Hippety Hopper
* May 22 - Shep the Dog
* May 27 - Master of Ceremonies, Joe, Jenny, Bumble, Johnny Appleseed, Johnny's Angel, Little Toot, Big Toot, Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue, Widowmaker
* June 1 - Cuckoo th Canary
* July 24 - Marvin the Martian, K-9
* August 14 -Heathcliff, Dough Ray Me-ow
* August 27 - Buzz-Buzz the Bee, Buzz Buzzard
* September 10 - Orville the Baby Bird
* September 18 Lightning Cat
* September 25 - Casbah Rabbit, Daisy Lou
* October 23 - Smokey the Genie
* November 29 - Jeremiah Kincaid, Tildy, Uncle Hiram, Granny Kincaid, Pete Grundy, Wise Old Owl, Danny, Birds, Spider
* December 4 - Angus MacRory

## People

### Deaths

* January 30 - Orville Wright (printer/publisher, bicycle retailer/manufacturer, airplane inventor/manufacturer, pilot trainer, and historical figure)
* July 9 - James Baskett (actor and singer)

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