July 2: Carl Urbano's animated documentary filmA Is for Atom received a theatrical release, opening at the Pantages and Hillstreet Theatres in Los Angeles on July 2, 1953.[12] The distributor was Al O. Bondy, who made the short available for free.[13] The short documentary, which is now in the public domain, explains what an atom is, how nuclear energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of nuclear power, and the by-products of nuclear fission. The film is Sutherland's most-decorated film of the film producer John Sutherland, having won numerous honors at film festivals.[14]
Hamilton Luske's Ben and Me, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released, a cartoon about Benjamin Franklin. It was adapted from the book of the same name written by the author and illustratorRobert Lawson and first published in 1939. Though both book and film deal with the relationship between a mouse and American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, the book, with illustrations by Lawson, focused more heavily on actual historical events and personages, and included incidents from Franklin's French career at Versailles.[26] This short was also notable for being the second release on the Buena Vista Distribution label, with the first being Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, released on the same day. On its release, Ben and Me was packaged with the feature-length True-Life Adventures nature documentary film The Living Desert. When Disney's regular distributor RKO Radio Pictures resisted Disney's idea of releasing a feature-length True-Life Adventures nature documentary film, Disney formed his own distribution company to handle future Disney releases.[27]
August 1: Mark Dailey, American-born Canadian actor, television journalist and announcer (voice of Crag in The Ripping Friends, Rokusho, Roks and Eddie in Medabots, Brad Best in Beyblade, Omega Steed in the Spliced episode "Stupid Means Never Having To Say I'm Sorry"), (d. 2010).[65][66]
September 20: Doug Preis, American actor (voice of Phil Funnie, Chalky Studebaker, Willie White, Walter "Skunky Beaumont", Mr. Bluff, and Vice Principal Lamar Bone in Doug, Alluro and Lynx-O in ThunderCats, Jovny the Stork in commercials for Vlasic Pickles).
October
October 5: Bever-Leigh Banfield, American actress (voice of the Mayor of Bedrock in The Flintstone Kids, Dr. Simon in Pound Puppies, Ms. Wepman in the Static Shock episode "The New Kid", Denise Lund in the Bionic Six episode "Back to the Past").
↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p.251. ISBN0-8050-0894-2.
↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p.266. ISBN0-8050-0894-2.
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