The Exposure Sheet – Vols #15 & #16
Late August through mid-September 1939 at the Leon Schlesinger studio as production on The Mighty Hunters (aka Canyon Kiddies) has the studio excited.
Late August through mid-September 1939 at the Leon Schlesinger studio as production on The Mighty Hunters (aka Canyon Kiddies) has the studio excited.
We continue our close look at Leon Schlesinger Productions, circa mid-March/early April 1939, with the fifth and sixth issue of their in-house newsletter, The Exposure Sheet.
Once again we get to hang with the gang at Termite Terrace – through the pages of their zany in-house newsletter, The Exposure Sheet.
One of the animated sequences in a live action film I really like is the ‘Walrus and the Carpenter’ scene from the bizarre 1933 Paramount Alice in Wonderland.
For some of you this is a ‘double-dip’, a reprint – but I’m going to post all 40 issues of Warner Bros. Cartoons 1939-1940 in-house newsletter – two issues each week.
A golden age cartoon that none of you have ever seen before, featuring some of the top talents of the era, from an ill-fated studio formed in the wake of the post-war era.
These columns usually didn’t acknowledge when a person left the studio – or any dramatic changes of company status – but it was undeniable at this point.
The studio is transitioning away from its regular schedule of theatrical shorts – and towards a new direction with commercials and The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Well, it’s 1962 – and we know that its the beginning of the end. Milt Franklyn dies – and Jones and Freleng would depart before the year’s end.
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.