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The Screwdriver
This is a list of animated cartoons that star Woody Woodpecker, who appeared in 203 cartoons (196 Woody shorts and 7 miscellaneous shorts) during and after the Golden age of American animation. All the cartoons were produced by Walter Lantz Productions, and were distributed by Universal Pictures, United Artists and Universal International. Also listed are miscellaneous cartoons that feature Woody but are not a part of the main short series, and the 2018 Woody Woodpecker web series. 1940s = Academy Award nominee/winner 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Starting this year until the studio's hiatus, all shorts are distributed by United Artists. 1949 {, class="wikitable" , - !style="width:3em", # !style="width:15em", Title !style="width:7em", Date !style="width:10em", Director ! Notes , - , 31 , ''Drooler's Delight'' , April 25 , Dick Lundy , {{Plainlist, * Final Woody short distributed by United Artists. * Final Woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker. Biography Early years and start in animation Lantz was born in New Rochelle, New York, to Italian immigrant parents Francesco Paolo Lantz (formerly Lanza) and Maria Jarvis (changed to Jarvis to avoid prejudice) from Calitri. According to Joe Adamson's biography ''The Walter Lantz Story'', Lantz's father was given his new surname by an immigration official who anglicized it. Walter Lantz was always interested in art, completing a mail-order drawing class at age 12. He was inspired when he saw Winsor McCay's animated short "Gertie the Dinosaur". While working as an auto mechanic, Lantz got his first break. Wealthy customer Fred Kafka liked his drawings on the garage's bulletin board and financed Lantz's studies at the Art Students League of New York. Kafka also helped him land a job as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Panda
Andy Panda is a cartoon character who starred in his own series of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Walter Lantz. These "cartunes" were released by Universal Pictures from 1939 to 1947, and United Artists from 1948 to 1949. The title character is an anthropomorphic cartoon character, a cute panda. Andy became the second star of the Walter Lantz cartoons after Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. He achieved considerable popularity until being eventually supplanted by Woody Woodpecker. History When Oswald the Lucky Rabbit retired in 1938, following a nine-year run, Walter Lantz's studio went for months without recurring characters. It wasn't until late 1937, when Lantz had a trip to a zoo. There, the main attraction of the place was a young panda which Lantz drew pictures of. He would then use his drawings to construct a new character. Andy's first cartoon was the aptly titled ''Life Begins for Andy Panda'' in 1939. (This was obvious wordplay on the perky titles of the popular An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ration Bored
This is a list of animated cartoons that star Woody Woodpecker, who appeared in 203 cartoons (196 Woody shorts and 7 miscellaneous shorts) during and after the Golden age of American animation. All the cartoons were produced by Walter Lantz Productions, and were distributed by Universal Pictures, United Artists and Universal International. Also listed are miscellaneous cartoons that feature Woody but are not a part of the main short series, and the 2018 Woody Woodpecker web series. 1940s = Academy Award nominee/winner 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Starting this year until the studio's hiatus, all shorts are distributed by United Artists. 1949 {, class="wikitable" , - !style="width:3em", # !style="width:15em", Title !style="width:7em", Date !style="width:10em", Director ! Notes , - , 31 , ''Drooler's Delight'' , April 25 , Dick Lundy , {{Plainlist, * Final Woody short distributed by United Artists. * Final Woody s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dizzy Acrobat
''The Dizzy Acrobat'' is the eighth animated cartoon short subject in the ''Woody Woodpecker'' series. Released theatrically on May 21, 1943, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. Plot Woody Woodpecker visits a traveling circus. He attempts to sneak into the big top but a caretaker kicks him out. He says that if Woody wants to see the show, he will have to water the elephant. Woody attaches the elephant to a water spout and attempts again to enter the tent. The caretaker chases him around the circus and into the big top. He continues to try to catch Woody but finds himself caught in several circus performance contraptions, including a trapeze, a tightrope, a perch pole, a lion's cage and a bicycle. Academy Award This film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1943 for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. It lost to MGM's ''The Yankee Doodle Mouse'', the first of seven ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons to win this award. It was the fifth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Screwball
This is a list of animated cartoons that star Woody Woodpecker, who appeared in 203 cartoons (196 Woody shorts and 7 miscellaneous shorts) during and after the Golden age of American animation. All the cartoons were produced by Walter Lantz Productions, and were distributed by Universal Pictures, United Artists and Universal International. Also listed are miscellaneous cartoons that feature Woody but are not a part of the main short series, and the 2018 Woody Woodpecker web series. 1940s = Academy Award nominee/winner 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Starting this year until the studio's hiatus, all shorts are distributed by United Artists. 1949 {, class="wikitable" , - !style="width:3em", # !style="width:15em", Title !style="width:7em", Date !style="width:10em", Director ! Notes , - , 31 , ''Drooler's Delight'' , April 25 , Dick Lundy , {{Plainlist, * Final Woody short distributed by United Artists. * Final Woody s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loan Stranger
This is a list of animated cartoons that star Woody Woodpecker, who appeared in 203 cartoons (196 Woody shorts and 7 miscellaneous shorts) during and after the Golden age of American animation. All the cartoons were produced by Walter Lantz Productions, and were distributed by Universal Pictures, United Artists and Universal International. Also listed are miscellaneous cartoons that feature Woody but are not a part of the main short series, and the 2018 Woody Woodpecker web series. 1940s = Academy Award nominee/winner 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Starting this year until the studio's hiatus, all shorts are distributed by United Artists. 1949 {, class="wikitable" , - !style="width:3em", # !style="width:15em", Title !style="width:7em", Date !style="width:10em", Director ! Notes , - , 31 , ''Drooler's Delight'' , April 25 , Dick Lundy , {{Plainlist, * Final Woody short distributed by United Artists. * Final Woody s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ace In The Hole (1942 Film)
''Ace in the Hole'' is the fifth animated cartoon short subject in the ''Woody Woodpecker'' series. Produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures, the short was released theatrically on June 22, 1942. Like many other animation and film studios in the 1940s, Walter Lantz Productions through its iconic character, Woody Woodpecker, became part of the war effort. Plot Woody Woodpecker is at an U.S. Army Air Corps military air base, and is dreaming of taking one of the aircraft up in the air. His enthusiasm in this respect gets him into a lot of trouble with his sergeant. Finally, the sergeant, fed up with Woody's actions in trying to imitate a pilot, throws Woody out of the barracks and into the pilots' quarters. Woody reads a textbook ("How to Fly a Plane From the Ground Up"). In the quarters, he stumbles over a clothes tree and into a flying suit. Woody's attempts to zipper the suit get him into more trouble as he knocks over a box of flares, one of whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Rogers
Kent Byron Rogers (July 31, 1923 – July 9, 1944) was an American actor who appeared in several live-action features and shorts, and a voice actor for Warner Bros. Cartoons and Walter Lantz Productions. Career For Warner Bros. Cartoons, Rogers portrayed several Hollywood stars in ''Hollywood Steps Out'', and lent his voice to ''The Heckling Hare'', ''Porky's Pastry Pirates'', ''Horton Hatches the Egg'', ''The Squawkin' Hawk'' and '' Super-Rabbit''. Rogers also provided the original voice of Beaky Buzzard in '' Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid'' and ''The Bashful Buzzard''. He also provided the voice of Junior Bear in ''Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears'', the initial 1944 entry of Chuck Jones' The Three Bears series. He also appeared occasionally on radio sitcoms, generally doing one-off characters. In 1941, he had a rare on-camera role as Henry, a boy who had a talent for doing impressions, in the film '' All-American Co-Ed''. For Walter Lantz Productions he voiced Woody Woodpecke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Lovy
Alexander Lovy (September 2, 1913 – February 14, 1992) was an American animator. He spent the majority of his career as an animator and director at Walter Lantz Productions. He was later a producer at Hanna-Barbera, and also supervised the cartoon unit at Warner Bros. during its final days. Life and career Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Lovy's early career was spent as a comic artist at DC Comics. Later, he became an animator at the Lantz studio in the late 1930s. His first credit as a director was for ''Feed the Kitty'' in 1938. Studio head Walter Lantz was taking a hiatus from directing at this time, this gave Lovy an opportunity to direct many of the studio's shorts in the 1938–1940 period. He stepped down to become an animator in 1940 after Lantz reverted to being director. However, he continued to play an important role in the production of the shorts, and stepped up to being the studio's lead director of Woody Woodpecker shorts when Lantz retired from directing in 1942. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Matador
This is a list of animated cartoons that star Woody Woodpecker, who appeared in 203 cartoons (196 Woody shorts and 7 miscellaneous shorts) during and after the Golden age of American animation. All the cartoons were produced by Walter Lantz Productions, and were distributed by Universal Pictures, United Artists and Universal International. Also listed are miscellaneous cartoons that feature Woody but are not a part of the main short series, and the 2018 Woody Woodpecker web series. 1940s = Academy Award nominee/winner 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Starting this year until the studio's hiatus, all shorts are distributed by United Artists. 1949 {, class="wikitable" , - !style="width:3em", # !style="width:15em", Title !style="width:7em", Date !style="width:10em", Director ! Notes , - , 31 , ''Drooler's Delight'' , April 25 , Dick Lundy , {{Plainlist, * Final Woody short distributed by United Artists. * Final Woody s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
$21 A Day (Once A Month)
''Swing Symphony'' is an American animated musical short film series produced by Walter Lantz Productions from 1941 to 1945. The shorts were a more contemporary pastiche on Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies, and often featured top boogie-woogie musicians of the era. While the first cartoon include the characters Woody Woodpecker and Andy Panda, it mainly features a variety of different characters created exclusively for the series, with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit making an appearance in one cartoon. Background Walter Lantz Productions first developed the format with ''Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat'', released on March 28, 1941. The short is considered a precursor as it contains many elements seen in the series, such as utilizing a popular boogie-woogie song. Lantz also produced ''Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B later in September which followed the same formula, and would be nominated for an Academy Award. The first cartoon that would go under ''Swing Symphony'' wouldn't be rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Webb (American Actor)
David "Danny" Weberman (May 24, 1906 — September 16, 1983) was an American voice actor. Early life Webb was born on May 24, 1906, in New York City to Herman Weberman, a Hungarian Jewish furrier, and Lena (née Rubin) Weberman. Herman left Budapest and moved to the United States in 1887 and worked as a salesman. Career When Webb arrived in Hollywood, he was using the name Dave Weber. He did celebrity impersonations on the Burns & Allen anniversary show along with doing voice work for a Screen Gems cartoon called ''Sing Time'', where he impersonated Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Andy Devine and others. He started working for Warner Bros. in the mid-1930s and his first cartoon was '' The Coo-Coo Nut Grove''. He also voiced Egghead in ''Daffy Duck & Egghead'', Elmer Fudd in ''Cinderella Meets Fella'' (1938) and in ''Believe It or Else'' (1939). And Webb also did voices for the 1939 ''Merrie Melodies'' short ''A Day at the Zoo''. Webb, for a brief time, voiced the Disney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
