Animation Anecdotes #281
“Columbia did not like the cartoon at all,” said Bill Scott of UPA’s Rooty Toot Toot. “They really would have liked for us to go back to just doing more Fox and Crow”.
“Columbia did not like the cartoon at all,” said Bill Scott of UPA’s Rooty Toot Toot. “They really would have liked for us to go back to just doing more Fox and Crow”.
If revolution has a color, it’s red. Like the fiery topknot of Woody Woodpecker, who will appear soon in this unique exhibit.
A funny thing happened along the way and a little mouse hopped up to the cuspidor. Here’s the story behind this Tex Avery gag sketch.
This week’s breakdown is a Walter Lantz cartoon – starring a Dick Lundy/Freddy Moore redesigned Andy Panda!
A continuing look at a curious artifact, and whether Walter Lantz ever made a cartoon based on a play by that giant of a man, the circus star George Auger.
Walter Lantz held a cartoon script by Captain George Auger, a famous vaudeville and circus star known as The Cardiff Giant, who died just as he was breaking into the movies.
Almost seventy years after it closed, an exhibit will open soon to celebrate the influence of a long-ago art gallery that had a big influence on cinema – and especially Woody cartoons.
Harding was part of a collective effort by the Universal animators that resulted in Walter Lantz taking his studio fully independent, just one of the many understated accomplishments of this remarkable woman.
What did Susie of the comics pages have in common with her creator, animator LaVerne Harding? She fixed things. And maybe more than anyone thinks.
Lavelle Haines and Celine Miles, two women who were among the largely unsung grunts of the animation industry: final checkers and ink and paint artists.