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1960 Arthur Rankin Jr
debuts its stop-motion TV series PINOCCHIO.
This is one of the first U.S.A./Japan's joint works ever made.
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1962 Toei releases a
short written by Toru Hara: MOGURA NO MOTORO.
The animation was actually supervised by veteran Yasuji Mori.
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1963 Osamu Tezuka's animated series ASTRO
BOY debuts on NBC.
It was the first time of Japanese cel animation in the U.S.A.'s
televison.
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1965 Daikichiro Kusube enters
A-Production, a newly-formed subcontracting studio.
Takahata and Miyazaki, after a brief permanence in this
one, join Yasuji Mori at Zuiyo.
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1966 SPEED RACER, the popular anime
series, debuts in the U.S.A.
It will become one of the most-rated TV series to come out of Japan.
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1967 Rankin/Bass release a stop-motion
movie titled MAD MONSTER PARTY.
It soon becomes a cult hit and is a big
influence on Tim Burton's works.
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1970 Toei Doga dismisses dozens of employees to save
the highest production costs.
Kazuo Komatsubara and Koichi Murata found the famous Oh! Production.
