1953 in animation

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Events in 1953 in animation.

Events

January

• January 3: Chuck Jones's Don't Give Up the Sheep premiers, which marks the debut of Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog. [1]

February

• February 5: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske's Peter Pan, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. The film marks the debut of Tinkerbell within the Disney franchise, who will later become one of their mascots. [2]
• February 28: Chuck Jones' Daffy Duck cartoon Duck Amuck premiers. [3]

March

• March 19: 25th Academy Awards: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Johann Mouse wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[4] It is the seventh and final Tom & Jerry cartoon to win an Oscar. [5] The animated short receives its official public premier on 21 March. [6]
• March 27: Karel Zeman's first animated feature The Treasure of Bird Island premiers. [7]

April

• April 8: Jiří Trnka's Old Czech Legends premiers. [8]
• April 15-29: 1953 Cannes Film Festival:
  • Walt Disney receives a "Legion of Honour" during the opening ceremony. [9][10]
  • The Romance of Transportation in Canada by Colin Low wins the Short Film Palme d'Or. [11]
• April 25: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short That's My Pup! premiers. [12]

May

• May 2: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short Southern Fried Rabbit premiers. [13]

June

• June 19: The animated advertisement Let's All Go to the Lobby by Dave Fleischer premiers, intended to invite moviegoers to get themselves something to eat and drink during intermissions. [14]

July

• July 25: Chuck Jones' Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century premiers. [15]

August

• August 8: Chuck Jones' Bully for Bugs premiers, in which Bugs Bunny becomes a bull-fighter. [16]
• August 29: Bob McKimson's Cat-Tails For Two is first released, which marks the debut of Speedy Gonzales. [17][18]

September

• September 5: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Just Ducky premiers. [19]
• September 11: Jiří Trnka's Old Czech Legends premiers. [8]
• September 26: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny short Lumber Jack-Rabbit premiers, a cartoon made in 3-D. [20]

October

• October 3: Chuck Jones' Duck! Rabbit, Duck! premiers, the third film in the "hunting season" trilogy starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.[21]
• October 10: Winky Dink and You, the first interactive TV series, which invites viewers to use a special crayon to draw on the screen, is first broadcast. [22]
• October 30: Jean Image's Bonjour Paris premiers. [23]

November

• November 10:
  • Hamilton Luske's Ben and Me, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released, a cartoon about Benjamin Franklin. [24]
  • Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols' Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers. It is the first Disney cartoon to be filmed and released in widescreen Cinemascope. [25]

December

• December 17: Ted Parmelee's The Tell-Tale Heart, produced by UPA, premiers. [26]
• December 21: Walter Lantz productions releases Chilly Willy, directed by Paul J. Smith, which marks the debut of Chilly Willy the penguin. [27]

Specific date unknown

• Carl Urbano's promotional cartoon A Is for Atom is released, which explains how atomic energy works. [28]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of the 1950s

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of the 1940s and 1950s

Deaths

August

• August 3: Harry E. Lang, American voice actor (voice of Tom in a few Tom & Jerry cartoons), dies at age 58 from a heart attack. [29]

References

1. "Don't Give Up the Sheep". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
2. "Peter Pan". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
3. "Duck Amuck". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
4. "The 25th Academy Awards (1953) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
5. "Joseph Barbera". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
6. "Johann Mouse". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
7. "A Treasure on Bird Island". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
8. "Old Czech Legends". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
9. "Opening of the 1953 festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
10. "Walt Disney honoured at 1953 cannes film festival". books.google.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
11. "THE ROMANCE OF TRANSPORTATION IN CANADA". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
12. "That's My Pup!". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
13. "Southern Fried Rabbit". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
14. "Let's All Go to the Lobby". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
15. "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
16. "Bully for Bugs". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
17. DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Cat-Tails For Two (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
18. "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
19. "Just Ducky". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
20. "Lumber Jack-Rabbit". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
21. "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
22. "Winky-Dink and You (TV Series 1953–1957) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
23. "Bonjour Paris ! (1953)". www.unifrance.org. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
24. "Ben and Me". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
25. "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
26. "The Tell-Tale Heart". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
27. "Walter Lantz". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
28. "A Is for Atom (1953) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
29. "Harry Lang". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.

See also

• List of anime by release date (1946–1959)