In your opinion, what is the worst golden age cartoon? Mine is “Dumb Like a Fox” (1941)
Honestly, this film is awful.
Honestly, this film is awful.
In 1993, for an upcoming auction of some of Mel’s belongings, Noel talked a little about his father.
Perhaps the last public interview with Mel Blanc took place at the Los Angeles International Animation Celebration. I was lucky enough to be in the audience.
Here’s Mel Blanc in a bizarre and entertaining promotional film for Capitol Records.
Since Thursday is the 111th birthday of “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” let’s look at some of the later Looney Tunes recordings that Mel Blanc made especially for children.
Helen Kane and Danny Kaye sing “I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat” – and Mel Blanc sings a sequel tune!
When the “suits” at Capitol Records saw the sales of Mel Blanc’s “I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat” in the United Kingdom, they must have thought “it’ll sell like hotcakes here!”. They were right!
To what must have been the great surprise of all concerned, a Bugs Bunny/Tweety record took off–and not just with the children’s-record audience.
You can’t blame the people at the Walter Lantz studio for hoping that lightning would strike twice. But it didn’t happen with “The Woody Woodpecker Polka”.
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.