Tag Archives: Walter Lantz

Animation Anecdotes #154
ANIMATION ANECDOTES
March 21, 2014 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #154

Story Behind Mickey and the Seal. “Walt had seen ‘Mickey and the Seal’ storyboards and in his own way raved about it, saying: ‘That is like the old-time shorts; who…

Animation Anecdotes #153
ANIMATION ANECDOTES
March 14, 2014 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #153

Bedroom Story. According to legend, while Walter Lantz was on his honeymoon at a cabin at Sherwood Lake in California, his marital bliss was interrupted repeatedly by an annoying woodpecker….

“Wild And Woody” (1948)
Animation History
February 5, 2014 posted by

“Wild And Woody” (1948)

Long before Pixar and and Toy Story, another “Sheriff Woody” roamed the wild west. And when he did, he was accompanied by master animators Freddy Moore, Ed Love and Pat…

Animation Anecdotes #145
ANIMATION ANECDOTES
January 17, 2014 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #145

Charlie Chaplin and Walter Lantz. Actor Charlie Chaplin was an influence on Walt Disney but also on Walter Lantz. Lantz told an interviewer: “What I used to do was project…

Cartoons Of Christmas Past
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January 2, 2014 posted by

Cartoons Of Christmas Past

Today: The last vestige of Christmas Cartoons before putting them away for the year. Many years back, the landlord for the house we were renting stopped over just a week…

Animation Anecdotes #131
ANIMATION ANECDOTES
October 11, 2013 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #131

The Fourth Dimension. Chuck Jones directed five cartoons for Warner Brothers that featured a little African boy named Inki trying to capture an elusive Mynah Bird. “Those cartoons really baffled…