The Exposure Sheet – Volumes #5 and #6
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.
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.
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.