1953 in animation
Events in 1953 in animation.
Events
January
- January 3: Chuck Jones's Don't Give Up the Sheep premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, 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, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[3]
March
- March 19: 25th Academy Awards: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Johann Mouse, produced by MGM, 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 Poklad ptačího ostrova (The Treasure of Bird Island) premiers.[7]
April
- April 8: Jiří Trnka's Old Czech Legends premiers.
- April 15–29: 1953 Cannes Film Festival:
- Walt Disney receives a "Legion of Honour" during the opening ceremony.[8][9]
- The Romance of Transportation in Canada by Colin Low wins the Short Film Palme d'Or.[10]
- April 25: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short That's My Pup! premiers, produced by MGM.[11]
May
- May 2: Friz Freleng's short Southern Fried Rabbit premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.[12]
July
- July 25: Chuck Jones' Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[13]
August
- August 8: Chuck Jones' Bully for Bugs premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, in which Bugs Bunny becomes a bull-fighter.[14]
- August 29: Bob McKimson's Cat-Tails For Two is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, marks the debut of Speedy Gonzales.[15][16]
September
- September 5: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Just Ducky premiers, produced by MGM.[17]
- September 11: Jiří Trnka's Old Czech Legends premiers.
- September 26: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny short Lumber Jack-Rabbit premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, a cartoon made in 3-D.[18]
October
- October 3: Chuck Jones' Duck! Rabbit, Duck! premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the third film in the "hunting season" trilogy starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.[19]
- 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.[20]
- October 30: Jean Image's Bonjour Paris premiers.[21]
November
- November 10:
- Hamilton Luske's Ben and Me, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released, a cartoon about Benjamin Franklin.[22]
- 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.[23]
December
- December 17: Ted Parmelee's The Tell-Tale Heart, produced by UPA, premiers.[24]
- December 21: Walter Lantz productions releases Chilly Willy, directed by Paul J. Smith, which marks the debut of Chilly Willy the penguin.[25]
Specific date unknown
- Carl Urbano's promotional cartoon A Is for Atom is released, which explains how atomic energy works.[26]
Films released
Television series
Births
January
- January 30: Patricia Alice Albrecht, (speaking voice of Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor on Jem), (d. 2019).
April
- April 5: Keiko Han, Japanese voice actress (voce of Queen Beryl and Luna in the japanese dub of Sailor Moon).
- April 15: Larry Latham, American storyboard director, animator, animated film producer and animated film director (worked for Hanna-Barbera, Disney Television Animation as director of TaleSpin), (d. 2014).[27]
- April 25: Ron Clements, American animator, screenwriter, film director and producer (Walt Disney Animation Studios).
May
- May 18: Alan Kupperberg, American comics artist and animator (Don Bluth), (d. 2015).[28][29]
- May 27: Louis Scarborough Jr., American animator and storyboard artist (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, ChalkZone), (d. 2013).[30]
June
- June 13: Tim Allen, American actor and comedian (voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story franchise).
July
- July 16: Philece Sampler, American actress (voice of Older Toph Beifong in The Legend of Korra, Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk, Sabine Chang in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, English voice of Mimi Tachikawa in Digimon Adventure) (d. 2021).
August
- August 10: Yoni Chen, Israeli actor (Hebrew dubber of various Looney Tunes characters and the Tin Man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), (d. 1995).[31]
- August 14: James Horner, American composer and conductor (did the scores for An American Tail, The Land Before Time, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Once Upon a Forest, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, The Pagemaster, and Balto), (d. 2015).
September
- September 20: Doug Preis, American voice actor (voice of Phil Funnie, Chalky Studebaker, Willie White, Walter "Skunky Beaumont", Mr. Bluff, and Vice Principal Lamar Bone on Doug, Jovny the Stork in commercials for Vlasic Pickles, Alluro and Lynx-O on ThunderCats).
November
- November 4: Peter Lord, English animator, director and producer (co-creator of Morph and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio).
- November 8: John Musker, American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (Walt Disney Animation Studios).
- November 27: Richard Stone, American composer (Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky and the Brain), (d. 2001).[32]
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.[33]
November
- November 29: Milt Gross, American cartoonist and animator (Count Screwloose), dies at age 58.[34]
References
- "Don't Give up the Sheep (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "Peter Pan (Walt Disney Studios)".
- "Duck Amuck (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "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.
- "Joseph Barbera". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Johann Mouse (MGM)".
- Peter Hames: Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition. Edynburg: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, s. 196.
- "Opening of the 1953 festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- Wong, Cindy Hing-Yuk (29 August 2011). Walt Disney honoured at 1953 cannes film festival. ISBN 9780813551104. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- "THE ROMANCE OF TRANSPORTATION IN CANADA". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "That's My Pup!". 25 April 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Southern Fried Rabbit". 2 May 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century". 25 July 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Bully for Bugs". 8 August 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Cat-Tails For Two (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Just Ducky". 5 September 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Lumber Jack-Rabbit". 25 September 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!". 3 October 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Winky-Dink and You (TV Series 1953–1957) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Bonjour Paris ! (1953)". www.unifrance.org. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Ben and Me". 10 November 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom". 10 November 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The Tell-Tale Heart". 17 December 1953. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Walter Lantz". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "A Is for Atom (1953) - IMDb". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Rites set for Larry Latham, award-winning animation producer-director".
- Johnston, Rich (July 17, 2015). "Alan Kupperberg Dies, Aged 62". BleedingCool.com. Archived from the original on August 10, 2015.
- "Alan Kupperberg". lambiek.net. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- "Lou Scarborough (1953-2013)". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved October 15, 2021.
- יוני חן (in Hebrew)
- "Richard Stone; Won Emmys as Composer of Cartoon Music". Los Angeles Times. March 15, 2001. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
- "Harry Lang". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "MILT GROSS DEAD; NOTED CARTOONIST; ' Nize Baby' Stories, Drawings Brought Him Success and Influenced U. S. Slang (Published 1953)". The New York Times. 1953-12-01. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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