Portal:Animation/Anniversaries/December/December 25

Films released

• 1927 - Felix the Cat Behind in Front (United States)
• 1936 - I'm in the Army Now (United States)
• 1942 - Me Musical Nephews (United States)
• 1942 - Destruction, Inc. (United States)
• 1943 - Baby Puss (United States)
• 1953 - Canvas Back Duck (United States)
• 1953 - How to Sleep (United States)
• 1963 – Walt Disney releases his 18th feature-length animated motion picture The Sword in the Stone, about the boyhood of King Arthur. It is the penultimate animated film personally supervised by Disney.
• 1989 - A Grand Day Out (National Film and Television School, Aardman Animations, BBC, United Kingdom)
• 1993 - Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (DC Comics, Warner Bros., United States)
• 2008 - A Matter of Loaf and Death (Aardman Animations, United Kingdom)
• 2009 - The Gruffalo (BBC, United Kingdom)

Television series and specials

• 2014 - Johnny Test, an American animated television series finishes airing on Cartoon Network

Deaths

• 1949 - Leon Schlesinger, American film producer (b. 1884)