Events in 1916 in animation.
Films released
Unknown date – Domestic Difficulties (United States) 6 January – Colonel Heeza Liar's Waterloo (United States) 27 January – Police Dog On the Wire (United States) 3 February – Farmer Al Falfa's Catastrophe (United States) 18 February – Introducing Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse (United States) 21 February – Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse Believe in Signs (United States) 25 February – Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter 'G' (United States) 29 February – Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (United States) 3 March – Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: A Duet, He Made Me Love Him (United States) 5 March – Colonel Heeza Liar And The Pirates (United States) 6 March – Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse in Their One-Act Tragedy: "The Tail of the Nude Tail" (United States) 12 March – Farmer Al Falfa Invents a New Kite (United States) 14 March – Krazy Kat, Bugologist (United States) 17 March – Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the Circus (United States) 21 March – Krazy Kat Demi-Tasse (United States) 27 March – Krazy Kat Invalid (United States) 2 April – Police Dog Turns Nurse (United States) 3 April – Krazy Kat at the Switchboard (United States) 14 April: A Tale That is Knot (United States) Farmer Al Falfa's Scientific Diary (United States) Krazy Kat the Hero (United States) Krazy Kat to the Rescue (United States) 27 April – Colonel Heeza Liar Wins The Pennant (United States) 7 May – Police Dog in the Park (United States) 25 May – Colonel Heeza Liar Captures Villa (United States) 3 June – Farmer Al Falfa and his Tentless Circus (United States) 6 June – Working Out with the Police Dog (United States) 17 June – Krazy Kat at Looney Park (United States) 22 June – Colonel Heeza Liar And The Bandits (United States) 29 June – Farmer Al Falfa's Watermelon Patch (United States) 3 July – A Tempest in a Paint Pot (United States) 20 July – Colonel Heeza Liar's Courtship (United States) 4 August – Farmer Al Falfa's Egg-Citement (United States) 17 August – Colonel Heeza Liar On Strike (United States) 24 August – Colonel Heeza Liar Plays Hamlet (United States) 14 September – Colonel Heeza Liar Bachelor Quarters (United States) 16 September – Farmer Al Falfa's Wolfhound (United States) 9 October – Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York (United States) 11 October – Colonel Heeza Liar Gets Married (United States) 3 November – Farmer Al Falfa's Prune Plantation (United States) 15 November – Colonel Heeza Liar, Hobo (United States) 27 November – The Missing One (United States) 1 December – Farmer Al Falfa's Blind Pig (United States) 21 December – Colonel Heeza Liar at The Vaudeville Show (United States) 23 December: Krazy Kat Takes Little Katrina For an Airing (United States) Zepped (United States)
Births
January
January 3: Maxene Andrews, American singer (co-sang the "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" segment in Make Mine Music, and "Little Toot" in Melody Time), (d. 1995). January 18: Vladimir Degtyaryov, Russian film director and animator (Beloved Beauty), (d. 1974).
February
February 8: Larz Bourne, American animation writer (Famous Studios, Gene Deitch, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Terrytoons), (d. 1993). February 12: Rudy Larriva, American animator and director (Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA, the opening credits of The Twilight Zone), (d. 2010). February 23: Retta Scott, American artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1990). February 29: Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (sang the "Two Silhouettes" segment in Make Mine Music, and narrated and sang the "Bongo the Bear" segment in Fun and Fancy Free), (d. 1994).
March
March 6: Virginia Gregg, American actress (voice of Tara in The Herculoids), (d. 1986). Rochelle Hudson, American actress (voice of Honey in the Bosko cartons), (d. 1972). March 15: Tom Okamoto, Japanese-American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 1978). March 31: Lucille Bliss, American actress (voice of the title character in Crusader Rabbit, Anastasia Tremaine in Cinderella, Nibbles in Tom and Jerry, a sunflower and tulip in Alice in Wonderland, Smurfette in The Smurfs, Mrs. Beth Fitzgibbons in The Secret of NIMH, Ms. Bitters in Invader Zim), (d. 2012).
April
April 26: Eyvind Earle, American artist, author and illustrator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2000). Vic Perrin, American actor (voice of Dr. Zin in Jonny Quest), (d. 1989).