UNIVERSAL – WALTER LANTZ ORIGINAL TITLES
Welcome to my UNIVERSAL-WALTER LANTZ Original Titles page.
I will be adding more examples in the weeks and months to come.
The original Walter Lantz cartoons have been off U.S. television for years – and their only presence is on DVD: Universal Home Video’s THE WOODY WOODPECKER AND FRIENDS CLASSIC CARTOON COLLECTION. I urge you to buy these two volumes.
1930s MAIN TITLES: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and miscellaneous Cartunes.
1940s MAIN TITLES: Lantz did not have consistent title cards. Which was great – because each picture was its own delightful event. On ocassion they would stick to a standard opening, but they changed formats often, and they were as varied as his cartoon managerie. Walter Lantz was sometimes billed as Walt Lantz.
1950s MAIN TITLES: Lantz got a little more standard in the fifties.
1960s MAIN TITLES: At this point, Lantz got really boring.
For more Walter Lantz information (and original titles) go to Toonzone’s WALTER LANTZ CARTUNE ENCYCLOPEDIA and the The Walter Lantz Cartunes Group on Facebook.
This page is written, compiled and copyright © 2013 by Jerry Beck
SPECIAL THANKS to Thad Komorowski and James Tucker for certain frame grabs.
Jerry Beck is a writer, animation producer, college professor and author of more than 15 books on animation history. He is a former studio exec with Nickelodeon Movies and Disney, and has written for The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He has curated cartoons for DVD and Blu-ray compilations and has lent his expertise to dozens of bonus documentaries and audio commentaries on such. Beck is currently on the faculty of USC in Los Angeles, CalArts in Santa Clarita, and UCLA in Westwood – teaching animation history. More about Jerry Beck [
