Warner Club News (1961) – Part 2
Continuing on in the last few years of the original Warner Bros. Cartoon studio… as seen via these in-house columns in the studio employees magazine, Warner Club News.
Continuing on in the last few years of the original Warner Bros. Cartoon studio… as seen via these in-house columns in the studio employees magazine, Warner Club News.
In this weeks in-house columns is the acknowledgment of the serious auto accident involving Mel Blanc. Jones, McKimson, DePatie and Freleng were among his first visitors at the hospital.
The October column notes the September premiere of The Bugs Bunny Show on ABC prime time. One of longest running cartoon TV shows of all time.
And so, John Burton retires – and David DePatie steps in with the immediate job of producing The Bugs Bunny Show for ABC in September.
Among the tidbits this week: Maurice Noble returns to the studio, and free subscriptions to the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies comic book are offered to the employees.
My occasional round-up of books I recently received, read and really enjoyed includes Mickey Mouse comics, The Marx Brothers in animation and cartoons from the 80s, 50s and 1920s.
1959 may not have been a banner year for Looney Tunes, but a question emerges: Was “Beep Beep” the studio’s actual ‘character name’ for The Road Runner?
I’m afraid the Bugs Bunny Lari-Loop Larriette was no hula-hoop or coon-skin cap… but nice try!
That didn’t mean they couldn’t enlist the standard characters (Mickey, Donald, Pluto, Goofy, etc) to help promote the picture. In fact, I don’t think they could help it.
A final word from Eddie Selzer… Lou Scheimer, Owen Fitzgerald and Sam Armstrong join the studio as layout men… and the new Warner Bros. Commercial and Industrial Films Division opens.