Schlesinger’s Exposure Sheet 1.1
I have been enjoying Michael Sporn and Richard O’Connor’s ongoing reprinting of the NY Animation Union newsletter, Top Cel. If you haven’t already been leafing through these vital pages, you…
Tag Archives: Looney Tunes
The Last Days of “Looney Tunes”
It was an odd, confusing time for Hollywood studio theatrical cartoon shorts in the 1960s. The world had completely changed and though the traditional animated short (popular with movie goers…
The Life and Death of Looney Tunes Producers: Schlesinger and Selzer
Today, a tribute to the two men who made it happen. No, not Avery or Clampett, Jones or Freleng… Schlesinger and Selzer. Leon Schlesinger was he original man behind Warner…
The 1981 Looney Tunes Character Chart
Back in 1981, when Friz Freleng was again at Warner Bros. finishing up The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) and starting work on Bugs Bunny’s Third Movie: 1001…
8mm Looney Tunes
In a quick follow-up to my post on AAP last week, lets take a look how AAP, later United Artists (UA), exploited the pre-1948 Warner Bros. cartoons library to the…
Warner Cartoon Postcards
I got a lot of positive response to my post about The Bugs Bunny Show last week – including this postcard from reader DJ Anderson. The image above is a…
WANTED: The Bugs Bunny Show
Yesterday I hosted a Looney Tunes marathon screening (six hours!) in Los Angeles. I devoted one hour of it to running a bunch of ABC’s Bugs Bunny Show (1960) bumpers…
