1953

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1953 is another year in Looney Tunes history.

Events

• Robert McKimson's unit at Warner Bros. Cartoons is disbanded early in April.
• 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.
• Chuck Jones goes to work at the Walt Disney studio on the film Sleeping Beauty.
• Michael Maltese heads to Walter Lantz Productions and is credited as writer on several Woody Woodpecker cartoons.

Filmography

1. Don't Give Up the Sheep (Jones/Jan 3/1:3)
2. Snow Business (Freleng/Jan 17/2:3)
3. A Mouse Divided (Freleng/Jan 31)
4. Forward March Hare (Jones/Feb 4/4:1)
5. Kiss Me Cat (Jones/Feb 21/4:4)
6. Duck Amuck (Jones/Feb 28/1:2)
7. Up-Swept Hare (McKimson/Mar 14)
8. A Peck o' Trouble (McKimson/Mar 28/4:4)
9. Fowl Weather (Freleng/Apr 4)
10. Muscle Tussle (McKimson/Apr 18)
11. Southern Fried Rabbit (Freleng/May 2/4:1)
12. Ant Pasted (Freleng/May 9)
13. Much Ado About Nutting (Jones/May 23)
14. There Auto Be a Law (McKimson/Jun 6)
15. Hare Trimmed (Freleng/Jun 20)
16. Tom Tom Tomcat (Freleng/Jun 27)
17. Wild Over You (Jones/Jun 11)
18. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Jones/Jul 25/1:2)
19. Bully For Bugs (Jones/Aug 8/1:1)
20. Plop Goes the Weasel! (McKimson/Aug 22)
21. Cat-Tails For Two (McKimson/Aug 29/4:3)
22. A Street Cat Named Sylvester (Freleng/Sep 5)
23. Zipping Along (Jones/Sep 19/2:2)
24. Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (Jones/Oct 3/3:1)
25. Easy Peckins (McKimson/Oct 17)
26. Catty Cornered (Freleng/Oct 31)
27. Of Rice and Hen (McKimson/Nov 14)
28. Cat's A-Weigh (McKimson/Nov 28)
29. Robot Rabbit (Freleng/Dec 12)
30. Punch Trunk* (Jones/Dec 19)

* Final cartoon to use both of the series' old-style opening and closing sequences

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