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With the advent of the 3-D film craze in 1953, Warner Bros. shut its cartoon studio down in June of that year, fearing that 3-D cartoon production would be too expensive (only one Warner Bros. cartoon was ever produced in 3-D, Jones' Lumber Jack-Rabbit starring Bugs Bunny).
- Introduction
- Universal
- Bosko and Looney Tunes
- Merrie Melodies
- Replacements
- I Love to Singa
- Mel Blanc
- Conclusion
How did animation start at Warner Brothers, and what factors led to its evolution over the ensuing years? It’s a long story. A story that begins with Walt Disney, albeit indirectly. Charles Mintz, a cartoon producer, was working with Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks on the Alice Comedies from 1924 to 1927 at Walt Disney Studios. Mintz was unhappy with the...
From 1927 to 1929, Mintz produced Oswald cartoons for Universal. The leaders of Mintz’s animation department were Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, both of whom despised Mintz for his tyrannical ways. Harmon and Ising went to the top of Universal’s food chain and told Carl Laemmle that he should get rid of Mintz, allowing them to fully take over on Osw...
Jack Warner hired Leon Schlesinger to produce cartoons for Warner Brothers. Schlesinger brought on Harman and Ising to run his animation department after seeing their independently produced cartoon, Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid. This short was never released theatrically, and as part of the deal, Harman and Ising kept the rights to the character to avoi...
Soon after, the Merrie Melodies line of cartoons was introduced. The difference between Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodieswas the latter used hit songs from the Warner Brothers catalog, especially those featured in their movies. Many of the shorts featured Abe Lyman’s orchestra, who was one of the most famous bandleaders of his day. In 1931, Harman a...
With all of his star characters and animators gone, Schlesinger needed replacements before his contract with Warner Brothers became imperiled. He would lure several animators from Disney, including Earl Duvall and Tom Palmer. Schlesinger told the animators to create a star character for the studio. Soon “Buddy” was born. His first animated short wa...
Music sales were a key driving force of these cartoons. A prime example of this was the animated short I Love to Singa (1936), directed by Tex Avery. The song “I Love to Singa” was used 3 times in the movie The Singing Kid, starring Al Jolson, released earlier that year. This short sees a young owl named “Owl Jolsen” who is supposed to sing opera b...
Both characters were voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc in this short. This was a tradition that would continue for the next fifty-two years. Blanc would reminisce years later on how he came up with Daffy’s voice: 1937 also saw the first appearance of “Elmer Fudd” who was named “Egghead” in his early appearances. In 1938, a prototype character for B...
During the Great Depression, the industry that Walt Disney forged with a mouse driving a steamboat evolved at a rapid pace. It did this in many new and exciting ways with the animation produced at Warner Brothers being just as entertaining as what came out of Disney’s studio.
Jan 26, 2024 · Q1: What is the origin of cartoons? A1: Cartoons have a rich history dating back to the early 20th century. The term initially referred to humorous illustrations but evolved to include animated films. The first animated cartoon is often credited to Winsor McCay’s “Gertie the Dinosaur” in 1914. Q2: How did cartoons evolve in the silent ...
Dec 21, 2020 · Mitenbuler explains that the familiar form of the cartoon arose, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, because the same persistence of vision that enables a rapid sequence of...
Even Warner Bros. and Disney, with occasional exceptions, stopped making short theatrical cartoons after 1969. Walter Lantz was the last of the classic cartoon producers to give up when he closed his studio in 1973.
Feb 27, 2020 · End of the Golden Age of Warner Bros. Cartoons . Like other studios, Warner Bros. began phasing out theatrically-released cartoon shorts with the increasing popularity of television in the late 1950s. During this period, the studio underwent several major changes.
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