Miyazaki left Toei in 1971 for Mushi Production, A Pro, Nippon Animation, and TMS Entertainment where he co-directed six episodes of the first Lupin III series with Isao Takahata.

In 1971, to make the animated feature Pippi Longstocking, Takahata left Toei Animation with Yoichi Kotabe and Hayao Miyazaki and transferred to " A Production " ( present: Shin-Ei Animation ), an animation studio founded by his former superior,.

Then, they produced several other longrunning series, starting with the Kamen Rider Series in 1971, the Super Sentai series in 1975, the Metal Hero series in 1982, and the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series in 1981.

The success of the tokusatsu superhero TV series Kamen Rider, produced by Toei Company Ltd. in 1971, led to the birth of the " Transforming " ( henshin ) superhero ( human-sized superheroes who transform by doing a pose, and use martial arts to fight henchmen and the weekly monster ), and resulted in many sequel shows to this day.

In 1971, Nikkatsu moved into the pink film business, and to avoid this, Kaji moved to Toei.

It was later adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which first aired on Yomiuri TV on October 2, 1969 and ended its run on September 30, 1971, airing 105 episodes.

Longer term successes began with the founding of Nelvana Animation in 1971.

Twelve years later, in 1971, Don McLean released his single, " American Pie ”, to commemorate Buddy Holly ’ s death and further accentuate the loss of the United States ’ innocence.

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit processor released in 1971, but in 1973 the Intel 8080, an 8-bit processor, made the first personal computer, the Altair 8800, possible.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

The resulting debut album The Electric Light Orchestra was released in 1971.

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures.

* 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.

Led Zeppelin's fourth album was released on 8 November 1971.

The first single-chip microprocessor was the 4-bit Intel 4004 released in 1971, with the Intel 8008 and other more capable microprocessors becoming available over the next several years.

The band's debut album, REO Speedwagon, was released on Epic Records in 1971.

This motif is evidenced in the era of " paranoid soul " such as " Smiling Faces Sometimes " ( released by The Temptations in April 1971, and made a hit by The Undisputed Truth in July 1971 ), " I'll Take You There " ( The Staples Singers, 1972 ), " Don't Call Me Brother " ( The O ' Jays, 1973 ), " Back Stabbers " ( The O ' Jays ), and " You Caught Me Smilin ( Sly and the Family Stone, 1971 ).

* The Modern Lovers ( recorded September 1971 and March 1972, released 1976 )

In late December 1971, The Band recorded the live album Rock of Ages, which was released in the summer of 1972.

THX 1138 was released to theaters on March 11, 1971 and was initially commercially unsuccessful, earning back $ 945, 000 in rentals for Warner Bros, but still leaving the studio in the red.

The 1971 studio cut version has never been released on any home media format.

Tensions between members during the recording of 666 eventually caused the split of the band in 1971, but the album was still released in 1972.

In 1971, some jam sessions with a group of musicians at Marquee Studios in London had resulted in two albums ' worth of material, unofficially released without Vangelis ' permission in 1978, titled Hypothesis ( aka Visions of the Future ), and The Dragon.

In 1971, Ono released Fly – a double album.

The group's debut album, ZZ Top's First Album, was released in January 1971 ; the single, "( Somebody Else Been ) Shakin ' Your Tree ", peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The 32-year-old Bogdanovich was hailed by critics as a " Wellesian " wunderkind when his best-received film, The Last Picture Show, was released in 1971.

Mars 2 released the descent module 4. 5 hours before reaching Mars on November 27, 1971.

Mars 3's descent module was released at 09: 14 UT on December 2, 1971, 4 hours 35 minutes before reaching Mars.

Another early system, the Kenbak-1, was released in 1971.

The Captain and the Kids version of the strip was also animated for television as a back-up segment on Filmation's Archie's TV Funnies in 1971.

A comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, Albertson is perhaps best known for his roles as Manny Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ), Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 ), Amos Slade in the 1981 animated film The Fox and the Hound ( 1981 ), and as Ed Brown in the 1974 – 1978 television sitcom Chico and the Man.

* 7 Up recreated the short for a 1971 animated commercial, " Go On Out To The Lobby ".

On The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, which ran from 1971 to 1974, director Chris Bearde enlisted animator John David Wilson to direct animated segments of current hits of the day reinterpreted by the duo.

Around the same time – from 1967 to 1971 – five Russian short animated films were made by Soyuzmultfilm, collectively known as Adventures of Mowgli.

Nilsson's next project was an animated film, The Point !, created with animation director Fred Wolf, and broadcast on ABC television on February 2, 1971, as an " ABC Movie of the Week ".

In 1971, he revisited the character, voicing an Academy Award-winning animated film version of Dickens's story.

" In each book, the Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2, teach Dick ( the boy's name in The Cat in the Hat was not revealed, but the 1971 animated special suggested it was Conrad ) and Sally about the book's topic.

* The Cat in the Hat, a 1971 American animated musical television special, starring Allan Sherman as the Cat.

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series spin-off of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran for 16 half-hour episodes from September 11, 1971, to September 2, 1972, and four 8-minute episodes ( as part of The Flintstone Comedy Hour ) from September 9, 1972, to September 1, 1973, on CBS.

Five animated shorts of about 20 minutes each were released between 1967 and 1971, and combined into a single 96-minute feature film in 1973.

Some of the songs from the album were used in 1971 in an animated film, also called Shinbone Alley.

* Original animated old LWT " River " logo of 1971 ( Requires Macromedia Flash version 6 or later ).

** Evolution ( 1971 film ), an animated short by Michael Mills

From 1971 to 1972, the company released the animated series, The Magic Ball, which they created in a renovated shed located in the yard of Cosgrove's father-in-law.

* Karlos K. Krinkelbein ( from the 1971 animated TV special version of The Cat in the Hat )

Roland and Rattfink is a series of animated shorts produced and released from 1968 to 1971.

In 1971, Bob and Ray lent their voices to the children's television program The Electric Company in a pair of short animated films ; in one, explaining opposites, Ray was the " writer of words ", first for elevators, then doors, finally faucets.

In 1971, Chalopin created the company DIC Audiovisuel, which later evolved into DIC Entertainment, and wrote and produced programs animated by Japanese studios.

Around 1971, the official mascots became " The Apple Jacks Kids ", a simplistically drawn animated boy and girl duo.

Mr Benn is a character created by David McKee who appears in several children's books, and an animated television series of the same name transmitted by the BBC in 1971 and 1972.

He appears as a character in the 1971 ballet film, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, in the animated BBC anthology series, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, and the upcoming 2012 animated Nickelodeon TV series.

Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern reprised their roles two decades later, lending their voices to Richard Williams's 1971 animated version of the tale.