Cab Calloway in Cartoons – Part 2
Cab Calloway could enliven a movie–whether feature-length or a musical or cartoon short–with the same energy he displayed on stage.
Tag Archives: Warner Bros. Cartoons
Quiz Show Cartoons: 1960s – Part 5
By the early 1960’s, theatrical Hollywood cartoons still found occasional inspiration in the idea of the game show–which was gong through its own crisis at the time.
Jim Korkis on Bob Clampett’s “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs” (1943)
Bob Clampett was responsible for a still-controversial cartoon short, a scathing parody of Disney’s Snow White – with black caricatures.
Robert McKimson’s “The Hole Idea” (1955)
Today, we present what Robert McKimson recalled as one of the most “cleverest” stories he directed at Warners — The Hole Idea.
Robert McKimson’s “Little Boy Boo” (1954)
This week’s installment of “Warners Wednesday” features Foghorn Leghorn, “a natural born father”, and his attempts to entertain Miss Prissy’s little egg-head.
Quiz Show Cartoons – Part 3: “The Ducksters” (1950)
Director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese have Duffy Duck as the downright sadistic host of “Truth or AAAAHHH!” – sponsored by the Eagle Hand Laudry.
Bugs Bunny in “Devil May Hare” (1954)
It’s the first of “All-Warners Wednesday” which means we breakdown a Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies short each Wednesday this month. Today: the debut of the Tasmanian Devil!
Those Warner Bros. ‘Gremlin’ Cartoons
Two Warner Bros. animated shorts were already too far into production when Roy Disney made a request to Leon Schlesinger not produce any gremlins shorts.
Animation Anecdotes #302
When voice artist Mel Blanc passed away, Warner Brothers bought trade ads of characters Bugs, Porky and Daffy, their heads bowed near a microphone and the word “Speechless”.
Robert McKimson’s “The Turn-Tale Wolf” (1952)
Here’s another fairy-tale spoof from Bob McKimson, this one in which the Big Bad Wolf tells his version of ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
