THE EXPOSURE SHEET (1940) – Vol. 2 #8&9
Apparently there was a fire at the Warner lot earlier in the month. Hopeful no nitrate celluloid was destroyed…
Apparently there was a fire at the Warner lot earlier in the month. Hopeful no nitrate celluloid was destroyed…
These newsletters unveil a closer look at the Schlesinger personnel during a year (1940) that birth’s the biggest cartoon superstar of the 20th Century: Bugs Bunny.
This week: Chuck Jones, recuperating from appendix surgery, sends a note to the staff; Cal Dalton takes bubble baths; and Michael Maltese starts a column on the History of Animation!
In this issue, the editors of The Exposure Sheet pin their Oscar hopes on Detouring America; Chuck Jones has an appendectomy; and much much more.
Issue #19 of The Exposure Sheet is the final one of the year. Bios include animator Vive Risto, inbetweener Murray Hudson, and painters Eleanor Minett and Mildred O’Blenis.
This week we see brief bios for animators Rudy Larriva, Lloyd Vaughn, Warren Batchelder and Keith Darling – and opinions on Inki from historian William K. Everson in 1963!
Late August through mid-September 1939 at the Leon Schlesinger studio as production on The Mighty Hunters (aka Canyon Kiddies) has the studio excited.
August 1939 at the Leon Schlesinger studio. The in-house newsletter continues to note Old Glory is getting rave reviews; and intriguing “quotes” from Friz Freleng and Tex Avery.
Old Glory got special treatment in 1939 – including press notices and reviews. As noted by the studio newsletter: “Old Glory is well on on it’s way to being slightly terrific!!”
Once again we peek into the daily lives of the artists, animators, inkers, painters and employees of Leon Schlesinger Productions.