Portal:Animation/Anniversaries/April/April 19

Films released

• 1928 – Eskimotive (United States)
• 1930 – Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the very first Warner Bros. theatrical animated short (pictured) and the first of the Looney Tunes series is released.
• 1941 – Porky's Preview (United States)
• 1946 – Service with a Guile (United States)
• 1952 – Water, Water Every Hare (United States)
• 1954 – The Lone Chipmunks (United States)

Television series and specials

• 1989 – Dragon Ball, an Japanese animated television series finishes airing on Fuji TV
• 1987 – Matt Groening's The Simpsons debuts as a series of short animated segments on The Tracey Ullman Show.
• 1997 - The Angry Beavers, an American animated sitcom begins airing on Nickelodeon