Walter Lantz’ “Jungle Jive” (1944)
Time for some boogie-woogie jungle rhythm! Shamus Culhane directs his crew – including Emery Hawkins, Les Kline, Paul Smith, Pat Matthews and Don Williams – in a jive-jumping’ Walter Lantz “Swing Symphony”.
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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.
Dick Lundy’s “Bathing Buddies” (1946)
Today, we’ll look into director Dick Lundy’s first Woody Woodpecker cartoon – with animation by Emery Hawkins, Paul Smith, Bernard Garbutt and Sidney Pillet.
Ed Kiechle Paints a Big Debut, 1940
The Lantz studio provided many artists the opportunity to develop their expertise, even if they might later have done their most notable work elsewhere. In the case of painter Ed…
Recalling An Afternoon With Walter and Gracie Lantz
For this week, I decided to turn my column over my colleague Chris Buchman – whom I wrote about here in May 2014. With Chris, Thunderbean produced and released “A…
Tex Avery Loses an Eye, 1933
This was a gruesome incident that gets whispered about in the annals of Golden Age animation, so perhaps it is time to point a forensic lens at that devastating paperclip…
Ed Benedict Draws a Smoke, 1933
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a new series of columns that will appear here twice a month (on Saturdays) that will delve into the archives of Walter Lantz…
Walter Lantz’ “The Beach Nut” (1944)
Today, the Lantz studio introduces a new comic foil for Woody Woodpecker! On paper, the concept for this cartoon seems thin, but director Shamus Culhane provides one of the finest…
