Carl Laemmle Opens Universal City, 1915
When the day was over, a pall had been cast over the studio. Perhaps the karmic fate of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit had been foreshadowed too.
Category Archives: WALTER LANTZ ARCHIVE
Oswald Strings a Treasure, 1936
The premise of Puppet Show is that Oswald is a puppeteer who loses control of his puppet’s strings. Various live-action marionettes were used, comprising some very unfortunate cultural stereotypes, yet remains a rare filmed record of a 1936 puppet show.
Witch Crafty for Halloween, 1955
For Halloween, a cartoon that makes us SCREAM: it marks the moment when the Walter Lantz cartoons take a precipitous turn for the worse, commencing a nosedive from which they never recovered.
Paul Whiteman Tops a Jazz Rabbit, 1930
The assignment that really accelerated the Lantz studio’s sophistication with musical sync was the animated introduction to “The King of Jazz”, a feature film that showcased the music of Paul Whiteman.
Alex Lovy is All Aces, 1942
In concluding these posts on the first-ever study of cartoon violence, a look at the original report reveals a surprise: the data shows the opposite of what is typically reported today.
Sid Siegel Brings Home a Television, 1948.
This is the second of three posts on Alberta Siegel’s earliest research on cartoon violence. What began as a simple inquiry has evolved into something much more revealing and surprising.
Alberta Siegel Sets a Rubber Knife, 1955
No one who worked on Walter Lantz’ “Ace in the Hole” could possibly have anticipated what it would unleash when the cartoon became part of a controlled experiment to gauge children’s behavior.
Stanley Kubrick and Violent Cartoons, 1956
As Stanley Kubrick’s directorial career progressed the argument could be made that he had studied some Walter Lantz cartoons. Not just any cartoons, but specifically the brutal ones directed by Shamus Culhane.
Shamus Culhane Makes it Modernism, 1943
There it was, a hidden treasure inside of a cartoon explosion, a desperate few seconds of avant-garde filmmaking that played to millions of post-war moviegoers and then to Baby Boomers…
Walter Lantz Plays it Lucky, 1928
Walt Disney liked to say that it all started with a Mouse, but there exists a Bizarro universe where the story goes differently. Here is the flip-side of that Mickey origin tale, where Walter Lantz is the guy at the table left holding all the chips.
