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Last updated: 2023 December 20.

1945

January 5

• The Goofy film Tiger Trouble is released to theaters. [16] [23] [501.558]

January

• Walt Disney resigns as president of Walt Disney Productions. He appoints Roy as new president. [34.184] [113.320] [228.126]

January 26

• The Donald Duck film The Clock Watcher is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.143]

February 3

• RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film The Three Caballeros to theaters in the US. After a brief initial run, Walt pulls the film from general release, due to bad press reviews. It includes the animated short films The Cold-Blooded Penguin, The Flying Gauchito, Baia, and Le Pinata, all with Donald Duck. (Gross theater receipts: US$3.4 million.) [8] [11] [13] [15] [16] [25] [34.180] [97.187] [113.212] [176.117] [191] [230.31] [250.98] [370.64] [395.63] [501.552]

February 5

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film How to Play Football for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons. [39.417]

February 12

• Disney delivers the film The Right Spark Plug in the Right Place to the Electric Auto-Lite Company. [23] [501.471]

March 14

• Disney delivers the film A Historia de José to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. This is Portuguese Reading Film no. 1. [23] [228.235]
• Disney delivers the film José Come Bien to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. This is Portuguese Reading Film no. 2. [23] [228.266]

March 16

• The Pluto film Dog Watch is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.143]

March 30

• The Donald Duck film The Eyes Have It is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [228.170]

April 12

• Disney delivers the film Prevention and Control of Distortion in Arc Welding to the Lincoln Electrical Company. [23] [228.399]

April 20

• The Goofy film African Diary is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.12]

May 28

• Disney delivers the film The Dawn of Better Living to Westinghouse Electric. [23] [1378.176]

June 11

• Disney delivers the film Something You Didn't Eat for the Cereal Institute (Office of War Information, War Food Administration). [23] [501.512]

June 29

• The Donald Duck film Donald's Crime is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.147]

June 30

• Disney delivers the film Hookworm to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. [23] [97.103] [228.240]
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• Disney delivers the film Cleanliness Brings Health to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. [23] [1378.142]
• Disney delivers the film Insects as Carriers of Disease to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. [23] [228.256]

(month unknown)

• Dell Publishing Company produces Dell Four Color Comics comic book #71, "The Three Caballeros". [113.152]
• Dell Publishing Company produces Dell Four Color Comics comic book #92, "Pinocchio". [113.152]
• Disney announces that Ginger Rogers will star in an upcoming live-action/animated version of Alice in Wonderland. [37.93] [85.101]
• Disney produces the film Another Chance [UN Peace Charter] for the US Army. [23]
• Disney produces the film Burma Campaign [The Stilwell Road] for the US Army. [23]
• Disney produces the film Dental Health for the US Army. [23]
• Disney produces the film On to Tokyo for the US Army. [23]
• Disney produces the film War Comes to America in part for the US Army. [23]
• Disney story artists propose merging the film projects Chanticleer and Reynard into one film. [176.82]

July 13

• The Goofy film Californy 'er Bust is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.111]

July 27

• The Pluto film Canine Casanova is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.115]

July 31

• Disney delivers the film Infant Care to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. [23] [228.255]

August 8

• Disney delivers the film Hold Your Horsepower to The Texas Company. [23] [228.236]

August 10

• The Donald Duck film Duck Pimples is released to theaters. [16] [15] [23] [228.152]

August 13

• Disney delivers the film The Human Body to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. [23] [228.246]
• Disney delivers the film What is Disease? to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. The film is also known as El Enemigo Invisible or The Unseen Enemy. [23] [501.604]
• Disney delivers the film Tuberculosis to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. [23] [501.574]
• Disney delivers the film How Disease Travels to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. [23] [228.244]

August

• Jack Reeder is hired as new vice-president and general manager, to coordinate the studio's operations. Salary: $30,000 per year. [1102.419]

August 18

• Disney re-releases the film Pinocchio in theaters in New York. (The film runs there for 22 weeks.) [581.S2.3]

August 24

• The Pluto film The Legend of Coyote Rock is released to theaters. [16] [23] [97.105] [228.284]

September 7

• The Donald Duck and Goofy film No Sail is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.360]

September

• Fred Leahy is hired as production and studio manager. [1102.419]

September 21

• The Goofy film Hockey Homicide is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.235]

October 14

• The Sunday color comic strip, "Uncle Remus" is first published. [113.18,327]

October

• The film Pinocchio is re-released to theatres in the US. [25] [42.1665] [228.388]

October 26

• The Donald Duck film Cured Duck is released to theaters. Daisy also appears. [16] [23] [1378.165]

(month unknown)

• Arthur Babbit applies to be rehired at the studio. Walt refuses, despite a National Labor Relations Board order to rehire him. [34.185]

December 3

• Disney delivers the film Light Is What You Make It to the National Better Light Better Sight Bureau. [23] [228.288]

December 7

• The Pluto film Canine Patrol is released to theaters. [16] [1378.115]

December

• Aldous Huxley produces a draft script for a live-action/animated Alice in Wonderland film. [23]

December 21

• The Donald Duck film Old Sequoia is released. [16] [23] [228.367]

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