Woody Woodpecker & the Avant-Garde
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.
Tag Archives: Woody Woodpecker
LaVerne Harding: Drawing with Resolve
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.
Grim and Bugs: The Art of the Pitch
A game of horseshoe that started at the Iwerks studio and ended at Lantz, played between two animation legends, Grim Natwick and Bugs Hardaway.
Woody Woodpecker in “Well Oiled” (1947)
Today’s breakdown features a comic chase between Woody Woodpecker and Wally Walrus!
Dick Kinney: Taking Falls in a Barrel
A favorite theme of this Lantz storyman was the unusual feat of riding a barrel over Niagara Falls, yet the unlikely path of this river leads all the way to Brazil.
Walter Lantz “Barber Of Seville” (1944)
Today’s Thanksgiving feature is Shamus Culhane’s first Woody Woodpecker! “Seville” marked the first appearance of a polished incarnation of Woody, designed by animator Emery Hawkins and layout artist Art Heinemann.
Witch Crafty for Halloween, 1955
For Halloween, a cartoon that makes us SCREAM: it marks the moment when the Walter Lantz cartoons take a precipitous turn for the worse, commencing a nosedive from which they never recovered.
“Woody The Giant Killer” (1947)
Today, we look at one of Dick Lundy’s best Walter Lantz cartoons – The immortal tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, as filtered through Woody Woodpecker.
Alex Lovy is All Aces, 1942
In concluding these posts on the first-ever study of cartoon violence, a look at the original report reveals a surprise: the data shows the opposite of what is typically reported today.
Sid Siegel Brings Home a Television, 1948.
This is the second of three posts on Alberta Siegel’s earliest research on cartoon violence. What began as a simple inquiry has evolved into something much more revealing and surprising.
