Mel Blanc Presents Listening and Learning with Bugs & Friends
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.
Tag Archives: Warner Bros. Cartoons
Holy Matrimony/A Stack Of Storks – Part 2
We resume our marriage and stork survey from last week, as our trail veers into wartime romances, baby boomers, and beyond!
Holy Matrimony! …and a Stack of Storks – Part 1
Today, we begin a two-part exploration of two different trails: cartoon character weddings and subsequent visits from the “stork”.
Animation Profiles: VIRGIL ROSS
Today’s animation profile goes into an overview of one of the greats, Virgil Ross – whose work sustained an elegance and subtlety throughout his career.
Radio Round-Up: AD SLOGANS
“Is this trip really necessary?” Yes it is – as we examine the various references to product advertising slogans frequently heard in cartoons in the 1930s and 40s.
Robert McKimson’s “Hillbilly Hare” (1950)
Time to breakdown one of animation’s greatest hoedowns—Bob McKimson’s feudin’ an’ square-dancin’ cult classic, Hillbilly Hare!
THE EXPOSURE SHEET (1940) – Vol. 2 #8&9
Apparently there was a fire at the Warner lot earlier in the month. Hopeful no nitrate celluloid was destroyed…
The Exposure Sheet #19 & #20
Issue #19 of The Exposure Sheet is the final one of the year. Bios include animator Vive Risto, inbetweener Murray Hudson, and painters Eleanor Minett and Mildred O’Blenis.
The Exposure Sheet #17 & #18
This week we see brief bios for animators Rudy Larriva, Lloyd Vaughn, Warren Batchelder and Keith Darling – and opinions on Inki from historian William K. Everson in 1963!
The Exposure Sheet – Vols #15 & #16
Late August through mid-September 1939 at the Leon Schlesinger studio as production on The Mighty Hunters (aka Canyon Kiddies) has the studio excited.
