1953

1953 is another year in the Golden Age of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. The Warner Bros. studio experiments with the new 3D technology by releasing a test-run cartoon featuring the new innovation, "Lumber Jack-Rabbit". However, with a heavy backlog of releases and an ongoing budget crisis during the 3D craze, the studio would briefly shutdown for half of the year. Thirty-one cartoons are released this year.
==Events==
*Robert McKimson's unit at Warner Bros. Cartoons is disbanded early in April.http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-shutdown.html
*The Warner Bros. animation studio is shut down on June 19, and would remain shut down until January 4, 1954. Everybody is laid off, save for ten unnamed staffers. The reasons given for the shutdown are a heavy backlog of releases until late 1954 and uncertainty about whether to make the cartoons in 2D or 3D.Daily Variety June 16, 1953. Readable at 
*Chuck Jones goes to work at the Walt Disney studio on the film Sleeping Beauty.http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/WhatsNewArchivesNov07.htm
*Michael Maltese heads to Walter Lantz Productions and is credited as writer on several Woody Woodpecker cartoons.
*"Punch Trunk" is the final cartoon to use the older-styled, larger rings in its opening credits, however, the closing credits would continue to use them through 1955.
==Theatrical Shorts==
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== Blue Ribbon Reissues ==
=== 1952-53 Season ===
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=== 1953-54 Season ===
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==Character Debuts==
* January 3 - Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog in "Don't Give Up the Sheep"
* August 8 - Toro the Bull in "Bully for Bugs"
* August 22 - The Weasel in "Plop Goes the Weasel!"
* August 29 - Speedy Gonzales in "Cat-Tails for Two"
== People == 
=== Births ===
* January 14 - Gail Matthius
* March 25 - Mary Gross
* August 10 - Yoni Chen
* October 28 - Keith Scott
* November 27 - Richard Stone
* December 8 - Roy Firestone
==Warner Club News Stories and Art==
WCN - January 1953.jpg|January 1953
WCN - December 1953.jpg|December 1953
==References==
Category:Timeline