Did Walter Lantz Meet the Giant?
Walter Lantz held a cartoon script by Captain George Auger, a famous vaudeville and circus star known as The Cardiff Giant, who died just as he was breaking into the movies.
Walter Lantz held a cartoon script by Captain George Auger, a famous vaudeville and circus star known as The Cardiff Giant, who died just as he was breaking into the movies.
Almost seventy years after it closed, an exhibit will open soon to celebrate the influence of a long-ago art gallery that had a big influence on cinema – and especially Woody cartoons.
Harding was part of a collective effort by the Universal animators that resulted in Walter Lantz taking his studio fully independent, just one of the many understated accomplishments of this remarkable woman.
What did Susie of the comics pages have in common with her creator, animator LaVerne Harding? She fixed things. And maybe more than anyone thinks.
A game of horseshoe that started at the Iwerks studio and ended at Lantz, played between two animation legends, Grim Natwick and Bugs Hardaway.
A cartoon that time forgot and a sequence that was never made, featuring a Buck Rogers rocket ride and an airborne finale way up in the clouds.
A favorite theme of this Lantz storyman was the unusual feat of riding a barrel over Niagara Falls, yet the unlikely path of this river leads all the way to Brazil.
Burt Gillett made a lost classic that very few are aware of, being the oddball entry within a short-lived animated series, but here’s betting you enjoy watching his delusional hero voiced by Mel Blanc.
The villainous Rudolf Ratbone was outdone by the heroine Nellie in this short-lived Lantz Cartune series that spoofed 1890s melodramas.
Prior to his fame as the creator of Dennis the Menace, this cartoonist put in his time working in obscurity in what he called the “Black Hole” of the Lantz studio.