Breaking Stories from Warner Club News!
Here’s a special treat for fans of Warner Bros. cartoons!
Here’s a special treat for fans of Warner Bros. cartoons!
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.
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.
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.