… or Happy 75th Birthday, Donald Duck!
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Category Archives: classic animation
Jones Letters
I can’t say I’m a fan of most of the artwork being posted at the Chuck Redux blog, but I absolutely love the reprinting of the letters Chuck Jones wrote in the early 1950s. The tone of them is the same as what we’d later read in his autobiographies, so the guy was like this long before the accolades came in, when he was still putting out brilliant work on a regular 9 to 5 schedule. I like this one in particular, about some incident that started with Mr. Warner’s wife mistaking the Bugs Bunny Bond Rally she saw on TV for Krazy Kat, with his “bricks of freedom”.
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Not So Merrie
Some real history is up for grabs on eBay… Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising writing to Leon Schlesinger that his rights on the “Merrie Melodies” series title were about to expire. I follow these sorts of auctions on occasion, but am always outbid by someone (usually the same person, I think). I hope that the spendthrift who wins this will offer a scan for history’s sake, but I doubt it. Best to just wait a few years and wait for whoever it is to die and score it from the estate sale for a couple of quarters. That’s how you get the good shit!
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Animator Reels Return
Since none of the online video sharing sites are safe from purging, I’ve re-uploaded the animator ‘reels’ to my own server. I’ll try and have them all up eventually, but here they are again.
Art Davis
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Emery Hawkins
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John Gentilella
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Jim Tyer
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Ken Harris
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Rod Scribner
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