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Merrie Melodies
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Merrie Melodies is an American animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. between 1931 and 1969, during the golden age of American animation. As with its parent series, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies featured some of the most famous cartoon characters ever created, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd. Merrie Melodies was originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures from 1931 to 1933, Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944, and the newly renamed Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies was outsourced to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Format Films from 1964 to 1967, cartoons resumed production for the series final two years. Three of the Merrie Melodies films won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, in 2013, TV Guide ranked the Warner Bros. Cartoons the third Greatest Cartoon of All Time, producer Leon Schlesinger had already produced one cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, based on music, and its success prompted him to try to sell a sister series to Warner Bros. His selling point was that the new cartoons would feature music from the soundtracks of Warner Bros. films and would serve as advertisements for Warner Bros. recordings. The studio agreed, and Schlesinger dubbed the series Merrie Melodies, walt Disney Productions had already scored with their Silly Symphonies. Since cartoon production usually began with a soundtrack, animating a piece of music made it easier to plot elements. The origins of the Merrie Melodies series begin with the failure of an action series of musical shorts called Spooney Melodies. These shorts were basically a type of music video that included segments with a popular artist singing along with appropriate background sequences. Warner Bros. wanted to promote this music because they had acquired the ownership of Brunswick Records along with four music publishers for US $28 million. Because of the success of their Looney Tunes series, Warner Bros. decided to develop a new series of animated shorts called Merrie Melodies. Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising led the development and it was meant to be a series of musical cartoons that featured hit songs of the day, especially those then owned by Warner Bros. and featured in their musical films. In 1931, many of the featured the orchestra of Abe Lyman. The first cartoon of the new Merrie Melodies series was Lady, Ising attempted to introduce several characters in his Merrie Melodies films, such as Piggy, Foxy, and Goopy Geer. Eventually however, the series continued without any recurring characters, the shorts proved to be enormously popular with the public. In 1932, a Merrie Melodies cartoon, entitled Its Got Me Again. was nominated for the first Academy Award to be given for animation, when Harman and Ising left Warner Bros. in 1933, they took with them all rights to the characters they had created
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Bob Clampett
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Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood, and early on expressed an interest in animation and puppetry. Among Clampetts most acclaimed films are Porky in Wackyland, Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, Cartoons in 1946 and turned his attention to television, creating the famous puppet show Time for Beany in 1949. A later animated version of the series, titled Beany and Cecil, well-loved by millions, the animated series carried the byline a Bob Clampett Cartoon. In his later years, Clampett toured college campuses and animation festivals as a lecturer on the history of animation and his Warner cartoons have seen renewed praise in decades since for their surrealistic qualities, energetic and outrageous animation, and irreverent humor. Animation historian Jerry Beck lauded Clampett for putting the word looney in Looney Tunes, Robert Emerson Clampett was born in San Diego, California on May 8,1913. Clampett was displaying extraordinary art skills by the age of five, while living in Hollywood as a young boy, Clampett and his mother Joan lived next door to Charlie Chaplin and his brother Syd. Clampett also recalled watching his father play handball at the Los Angeles Athletic Club with another of the great silent comedians, from his early teens Clampett showed an interest in animation and puppetry. In high school, Clampett drew a comic about the nocturnal adventures of a pussycat. King Features took note and offered Clampett a cartoonists contract to begin a seventy-five dollars a week after high school, King Features allowed Clampett to work in their Los Angeles art department on Saturdays and vacations during high school. On occasion, King Features would print one of Clampetts cartoons for encouragement, in addition, they paid his way through Otis Art Institute, where Clampett learned to paint with oils and to sculpt. Clampett attended both Glendale High School and Hoover High School in Glendale, California but left Hoover a few months short of graduating in 1931, afterwards, Clampett found a job working at a doll factory owned by his aunt, Charlotte Clark. Clark was looking for an item to sell and Clampett suggested Mickey Mouse due to growing popularity. Unable to find a drawing of the character anywhere, Clampett took his sketchpad to the movies, Clark was concerned with the copyright, so the two drove to the Disney studio. Walt and Roy Disney were delighted and they set up a business not far from the Disney studio, I helped him load the dolls in the car. One time his car, loaded with Mickeys, wouldnt start, and I pushed while Walt steered, until it caught, and he took off. Clampett was, in his words, so enchanted by the new medium of cartoons that he instead joined Harman-Ising Studios in 1931 for ten dollars a week. Schlesinger viewed one of Clampetts 16mm films and was impressed, offering him an assistant position at the studio and his first job was animating secondary characters in the first Merrie Melodie, Lady, Play Your Mandolin. The same year, Clampett began attending story meetings after submitting an idea used for Smile, Darn Ya
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Leon Schlesinger
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Leon Schlesinger was an American film producer, remembered for founding Leon Schlesinger Studios, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation and he was also a distant relative of the Warner Brothers. Schlesinger was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, after working at a theater as an usher, songbook agent, actor, and manager, he founded Pacific Title & Art Studio in 1919, where most of his business was producing title cards for silent films. As talking pictures replaced them in 1929 and 1930, Schlesinger looked for ways to capitalize on the new technology, some film historians claim that he helped finance the Warner Brothers first talkie, The Jazz Singer. Schlesinger was a businessman with a keen eye for talent. When Harman and Ising left Warner Bros. with Bosko in 1934, sunset Boulevard lot at the corner of Van Ness and Fernwood. He wooed animators away from other studios, including some of those who had departed with Harman, one of these was Friz Freleng, whom Schlesinger promoted to oversee production of Looney Tunes and to develop the sister series, Merrie Melodies. Frelengs talent quickly shone through, and Schlesingers hiring of Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and he later added Carl Stalling and Mel Blanc, and collectively these men created such famous characters as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Schlesinger largely took a hands off approach to the animation unit, Schlesinger sold Pacific Title & Art Studio in 1935 to concentrate on his animation studio. Schlesingers hard-nosed business practices cannot be overstated and his animators worked in a dilapidated studio, and Schlesinger briefly shut down the studio in mid-1941 when unionized employees demanded a pay raise. On another occasion, he boycotted the Academy Awards for what he claimed was preferential treatment for the Walt Disney and he also farmed some of the Looney Tunes out to his brother-in-law, Ray Katz, for tax breaks. Schlesinger was also known for his lisp, one oft-repeated official story states that Mel Blanc patterned the voices of both Daffy Duck and Sylvester the cat on Schlesinger. However, in Mel Blancs autobiography, Thats Not All Folks and he contradicts that conventional belief, writing It seemed to me that such an extended mandible would hinder his speech, particularly on words containing an s sound. Daffys slobbery, exaggerated lisp was developed over time, animators who worked with Schlesinger also found him conceited and somewhat foppish, wearing too much cologne and dressing like a dandy. Leon Schlesinger appeared as himself in Frelengs short You Ought to Be in Pictures, in this short, Mel Blanc voices Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and all other characters, except Schlesinger who dubbed his voice because the studio did not have a sound camera. As with other Warner cartoon staffers, Schlesinger appeared in form in such cartoons as Hollywood Steps Out, Russian Rhapsody. Schlesinger remained head of the studio until 1944 when he sold his assets to Warner Bros. He continued to market the characters and headed Warners Theater Services unit until his death from an infection on Christmas Day,1949 at the age of 65
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Dr. Seuss
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Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, cartoonist, animator, book publisher, and artist best known for authoring childrens books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes several of the most popular books of all time, selling over 600 million copies. Geisel adopted his Dr. Seuss pen name during his university studies at Dartmouth College and he left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various other publications. He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil and he published his first childrens book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. After the war, Geisel focused on books, writing classics such as If I Ran the Zoo. If I Ran the Circus, The Cat in the Hat and he published over 60 books during his career, which have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg, Geisels birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association. Geisel was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Henrietta, all four of his grandparents were German immigrants. His father managed the brewery and was later appointed to supervise Springfields public park system by Mayor John A. Denison after the brewery closed because of Prohibition. Mulberry Street in Springfield, made famous in Dr. Seuss first childrens book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, is less than a mile southwest of his home on Fairfield Street. He enrolled at Springfield Central High School in 1917 and graduated in 1921 and he took an art class as a freshman and later became manager of the school soccer team. Geisel attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1925, at Dartmouth, he joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the humor magazine Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, eventually rising to the rank of editor-in-chief. While at Dartmouth, he was caught drinking gin with nine friends in his room, at the time, the possession and consumption of alcohol was illegal under Prohibition laws, which remained in place between 1920 and 1933. As a result of this infraction, Dean Craven Laycock insisted that Geisel resign from all extracurricular activities, to continue work on the Jack-O-Lantern without the administrations knowledge, Geisel began signing his work with the pen name Seuss. He was encouraged in his writing by professor of rhetoric W. Benfield Pressey, upon graduating from Dartmouth, he entered Lincoln College, Oxford intending to earn a PhD in English literature. At Oxford, he met Helen Palmer, who encouraged him to give up becoming an English teacher in favor of pursuing drawing as a career. Making use of his time in Europe, he pitched a series of cartoons called Eminent Europeans to Life magazine and his first nationally published cartoon appeared in the July 16,1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. This single $25 sale encouraged Geisel to move from Springfield to New York City, later that year, Geisel accepted a job as writer and illustrator at the humor magazine Judge, and he felt financially stable enough to marry Helen
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Kent Rogers
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Kent Byron Rogers was an American actor and impressionist who appeared in several live-action shorts and features, and a voice actor for Warner Bros. and Walter Lantz Productions. Rogers amassed an impressive resume of roles during his short career, 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, for Walter Lantz Productions he voiced Woody Woodpecker in five theatrical cartoon shorts released from 1942 to 1943. Rogers died in the crash of a flight at Pensacola, Florida. Stan Freberg and Mel Blanc replaced Rogers as the voice of Beaky Buzzard, Rogers is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, HI. Kent Rogers at the Internet Movie Database Kent Rogers at Find a Grave
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Sara Berner
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Sara Berner was an American film, television and radio actress. Her supporting roles included two for Alfred Hitchcock and she played the upstairs neighbor in the 1954 feature Rear Window. Her final film role as the voice of a telephone operator in the 1959 film North by Northwest. Born Lillian Herdan in Albany, New York, the first of the five children of Sam Herdan and Sarah Herdan, examples of her work include the voice of Mama Buzzard in The Bashful Buzzard and in Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid, the singing voice of one-time character A. Flea in the 1943 short, An Itch in Time and the voices in 1946s Book Revue. In the 1943 propaganda short Tokyo Woes, she voiced the titular character and she worked for the Walter Lantz studios as the title character in a number of Andy Panda shorts, as well as voicing Chilly Willy in his first film appearance. For MGM she voiced Jerry Mouse a few times, most notably in the dance sequence with Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh. A newspaper article in 1950 described Berner as one of radios most versatile actresses, bea Benaderet played another ditzy CBS telephone operator, Gertrude Gearshift on the same program. They were at the board and had conversations, often at the expense of Jack Benny - who was often impatiently waiting on the other end of the line for one of them to complete his call. Her other radio work included roles on Arthurs Place, Burns and Allen, Berner had her own program, Saras Private Caper, on NBC beginning June 15,1950. In 1937, Berner was one of a 16-member all-girl unit that toured with Major Edward Bowes, Berner married Milton Rosner, a theatrical agent, August 11,1951, and they had one daughter, Eugenie. They were divorced May 2,1958, Berner died on December 19,1969 at aged 57. She was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles
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Mel Blanc
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Melvin Jerome Mel Blanc was an American voice actor, actor, radio comedian, and recording artist. Coyote, Road Runner, the Tasmanian Devil, and many of the characters from the Looney Tunes. He was, in fact, the voice for all of the major male Warner Bros. cartoon characters except for Elmer Fudd and he later worked for Hanna-Barberas television cartoons, most notably as the voices of Barney Rubble on The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons. Blanc was also the voice of Woody Woodpecker for Universal Pictures. Having earned the nickname The Man of a Thousand Voices, Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry, Blanc was born in San Francisco, California to Russian-Jewish parents Frederick and Eva Blank, the younger of two children. He grew up in the neighborhood of Western Addition in San Francisco, growing up, he had a fondness for voices and dialect which he began voicing at the age of 10. He claimed that he changed the spelling of his name when he was 16, from Blank to Blanc, because a teacher told him that he would amount to nothing and be like his name, a blank. Blanc joined The Order of DeMolay as a man, and was eventually inducted into its Hall of Fame. He moved to Los Angeles in 1932, where he met Estelle Rosenbaum and he moved to KEX in 1933 to produce and co-host his Cobweb and Nuts show with his wife Estelle, which debuted on June 15. The program played Monday through Saturday from 11,00 pm to midnight, with his wifes encouragement, Blanc returned to Los Angeles and joined Warner Bros. –owned KFWB in Hollywood in 1935. He joined The Johnny Murray Show, but the year switched to CBS Radio. The first role came from a mishap when the recording of the automobiles sounds failed to play on cue, prompting Blanc to take the microphone, the audience reacted so positively that Benny decided to dispense with the recording altogether and have Blanc continue in that role. One of Blancs most memorable characters from Bennys radio programs was Sy, the Little Mexican, sue. sew routine was so effective that no matter how many times it was performed, the laughter was always there, thanks to the comedic timing of Blanc and Benny. Blanc continued to work with him on radio until the series ended in 1955 and they last appeared together on a Johnny Carson Tonight Show in January 1974. A few months later, Blanc spoke highly of Benny on a Tom Snyder Tomorrow show special aired the night of the comedians death, by 1946, Blanc appeared on over 15 radio programs in supporting roles. His success on The Jack Benny Program led to his own show on the CBS Radio Network, The Mel Blanc Show. Blanc played himself as the owner of a fix-it shop. Blanc also appeared on other national radio programs as The Abbott and Costello Show, the Happy Postman on Burns and Allen
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Carl W. Stalling
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Carl W. Stalling was an American composer and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros. where he averaged one complete score each week, Stalling was born to Ernest and Sophia C. His parents were from Germany, his father arrived in the United States in 1883, the family settled in Lexington, Missouri where his father was a carpenter. He started playing piano at six, by the age of 12, he was the principal piano accompanist in his hometowns silent movie house. For a short period, he was also the theatre organist at the St. Louis Theatre, by his early 20s, he was conducting his own orchestra and improvising on the organ at the Isis Movie Theatre in Kansas City. His actual job at the time was to play organ accompaniment for silent films, during that time, he met and befriended a young Walt Disney, who was producing animated comedy shorts in Kansas City. According to music critic Neil Strauss, the meeting between Stalling and Disney in the early 1920s was of great importance to the development of music for animation. Stalling was at his job at the Isis Movie Theatre, demonstrating his ability to combine well-known music by other creators with his own, Disney stepped into the movie theater and was reportedly impressed with his style. He approached Stalling to introduce himself, and their acquaintance was mutually beneficial, Stalling was able to arrange the screening of a few Disney animated shorts at the Isis, and Disney ensured that Stalling would play the accompaniment for his films. Disney eventually left Kansas City and moved to California in order to open a new studio, Stalling and Disney kept in touch through correspondence, and considered each other friends. In 1928, Disney was on a journey from California to New York City in order to record the sound and make the preview of Steamboat Willie, during the journey he stopped at Kansas City to hire Stalling to compose film scores for two other animated shorts. Stalling composed several early cartoon scores for Walt Disney, including Plane Crazy, Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho were originally silent films and were the first two Mickey Mouse animated short films in production. When finishing composing the scores, Stalling went to New York City to record them for Disney. Walt was apparently pleased with the results, and offered to hire Stalling as his studios first music director, in order to get the job, Stalling had to move to California, where the studio was located. According to Martha Sigall, Stalling accepted because the job offer was an opportunity for him. He probably realized that his career as an organist for a silent movie theatre was coming to an end, sound films were the new trend. Stalling soon followed Disney in moving to Hollywood, in order to work for his friend, animation historian Allan Neuwirth credits Stalling for basically inventing the process of creating a film score for cartoons. According to Neil Strauss, the wildly talented Stalling was suitable as a score composer for animated films
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Robert McKimson
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He was also well known for defining Bugs Bunnys look in 1943. Born in Denver, Colorado, McKimson spent 10 years getting an art education and he then went to work for Walt Disney. Several cartoons were animated at the Romer Grey Studio, but due to the Great Depression, none of the shorts was released, with only a handful of them being completed. At that time he had an accident that gave him a concussion, as a result, he was able to visualize better, thus increasing his production and animation. He was the animator and go-to guy in the late 1930s at the studio. Eventually he worked exclusively with Bob Clampett and he was offered a directorial position by Leon Schlesinger in 1937, but declined, allowing the position to go to animator Chuck Jones. He accepted his own position in late 1944, when Frank Tashlin left Warner Bros. to direct live-action films. McKimson created characters like Foghorn Leghorn and the Tasmanian Devil, as well as directing every Hippety Hopper/Sylvester pairing and he also created Speedy Gonzales for the 1953 short Cat-Tails for Two and directed many others periodically for the remainder of his theatrical career. McKimsons first directorial work, Daffy Doodles, wherein Daffy draws moustaches on all the faces in his sight, was released in early April 1946. In 1953, the Warner Bros. cartoon studio laid off most of its staff for a period of six months, at the start of this period, McKimson animated on three of his own shorts, The Hole Idea, Dime to Retire, and Too Hop to Handle. Soon, McKimson assembled a new team of artists, including layout man/background painter Robert Gribbroek and animators Warren Batchelder, Ted Bonnicksen, Tom Ray, Russ Dyson, and Keith Darling helped at various points. McKimson soldiered on at Warners cartoon studio as it began to lose people in 1962, over this time, he directed his share of shorts and worked on the feature The Incredible Mr. Limpet. After the studio closed, he joined DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, co-owned by his old associate Friz Freleng and David H. DePatie, at DePatie-Freleng, McKimson directed several The Inspector shorts and worked on some of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies contracted out to DePatie-Freleng by Warner Bros. In 1967, Warner opened its animation studio again, McKimson went back in 1968 and his last Warner Bros. cartoon was Injun Trouble with Cool Cat. Injun Trouble was also the last of the original Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies cartoon to be produced before the Warner Bros. cartoon studio was closed. McKimson was the one person to be at the studio from the start of the Looney Tunes series through its finish in 1969, first as an animator and then as a director. After a sabbatical, he went back to DePatie-Freleng in 1972 to direct The Pink Panther Show shorts, McKimson died on September 29,1977, from a massive heart attack while eating lunch with Freleng and DePatie. A few days earlier, he was given a bill of health during a physical
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Warner Bros. Cartoons
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Cartoons, Inc. was the in-house division of Warner Bros. Pictures during the Golden Age of American animation, one of the most successful animation studios in American media history, Warner Bros. Cartoons was primarily responsible for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short subjects, in 1944, Schlesinger sold the studio to Warner Bros. who continued to operate it as Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were briefly subcontracted to Frelengs DePatie-Freleng Enterprises studio from 1964 until 1967, Cartoons studio briefly re-opened in 1967 before shutting its doors for good two years later. That company continues to produce Looney Tunes-related works, in addition to television shows, hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising originated the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short subjects in 1930 and 1931, respectively. Both cartoon series were produced for Leon Schlesinger at the Harman-Ising Studio on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, pictures releasing the films to theaters. The first Looney Tunes character was the Harman-Ising creation Bosko, The Talk-ink Kid, despite the fact that Bosko was popular among theater audiences, he could never match the popularity of Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse, or even Max Fleischers Betty Boop. In 1933, Harman and Ising parted company with Schlesinger over financial disputes, as a result, Schlesinger set up his own studio on the Warner Bros. lot on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. The Schlesinger studio got off to a start, continuing their one-shot Merrie Melodies. In 1935, Freleng helmed the Merrie Melodies cartoon I Havent Got a Hat, hardaway and King departed, and a new arrival at Schlesingers, Fred Tex Avery, took Frelengs creation and ran with it. Avery directed a string of cartoons starring Porky Pig that established the character as the studios first bona fide star, Schlesinger also gradually moved the Merrie Melodies cartoons from black and white, to two-strip Technicolor in 1934, and finally to full three-strip Technicolor in 1936. The Looney Tunes series would be produced in black-and-white for much longer, because of the limited spacing conditions in the Schlesinger building at 1351 N. From 1936 until 1944, animation directors and animators such as Freleng, Avery, Clampett, Jones, Arthur Davis, Robert McKimson, and Frank Tashlin worked at the studio. During this period, these creators introduced several of the most popular characters to date, including Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny. A few months earlier he banished all unionized employees in what became known in retrospective as the Looney Tune Lockout, by 1942, the Schlesinger studio had surpassed Walt Disney Productions as the most successful producer of animated shorts in the United States. Between 1942 and 1945, the Schelsinger studio produced a number of films for the United States military in support of its efforts in World War II, in 1944, Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. which renamed the company Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. and Edward Selzer, was appointed by Warner Bros. as the new head of the studio after Schlesinger retired. In September 1944 Frank Tashlin left, and in October 1946, tashlins unit was initially taken over by Robert McKimson who later took over Clampetts unit
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Technicolor
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Technicolor is the name applied to a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. It was the major color process, after Britains Kinemacolor. As the technology matured it was used for less spectacular dramas. Occasionally, even a film noir—such as Leave Her to Heaven or Niagara —was filmed in Technicolor, Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color motion picture processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, now a division of the French company Technicolor SA. The Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1914 by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, the Tech in the companys name was inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where both Kalmus and Comstock received their undergraduate degrees and were later instructors. Technicolor, Inc. was chartered in Delaware in 1921, most of Technicolors early patents were taken out by Comstock and Wescott, while Kalmus served primarily as the companys president and chief executive officer. The term Technicolor historically has been used to describe at least five concepts, Technicolor, Technicolor process or format, several custom image origination systems used in film production, culminating in the three-strip process in 1932. Technicolor IB printing, a process for making color motion picture prints that allows the use of dyes which are more stable, originally used for printing from color separation negatives photographed on black-and-white film in a special Technicolor camera. This meaning of the name applies to nearly all Wikipedia articles about films made from 1954 onward in which Technicolor is named in the credits, Technicolor originally existed in a two-color system. Because two frames were being exposed at the time, the film had to be photographed and projected at twice the normal speed. Exhibition required a special projector with two apertures, two lenses, and a prism that aligned the two images on the screen. The results were first demonstrated to members of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in New York on February 21,1917, the near-constant need for a technician to adjust the projection alignment doomed this additive color process. Only a few frames of The Gulf Between, showing star Grace Darmond, are known to exist today, convinced that there was no future in additive color processes, Comstock, Wescott, and Kalmus focused their attention on subtractive color processes. This culminated in what would eventually be known as Process 2, the difference was that the two-component negative was now used to produce a subtractive color print. Because the colors were present in the print, no special projection equipment was required. The frames exposed behind the filter were printed on one strip of black-and-white film. After development, each print was toned to a color nearly complementary to that of the filter, orange-red for the green-filtered images, the two prints, made on film stock half the thickness of regular film, were then cemented together back to back to create a projection print. The Toll of the Sea, which debuted on November 26,1922, the second all-color feature in Process 2 Technicolor, Wanderer of the Wasteland, was released in 1924
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Adult animation
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Adult animation or mature animation is a genre of animation geared towards adults and sometimes also teenagers, acting as a contrast to most animated films and TV series being aimed at children. Works in this genre may be considered adult for any number of reasons and they may be noted for using risqué themes, graphic violence, profane language, sexuality, or dark humor. Works in this genre may explore philosophical, political, or social issues, some productions are noted for sophisticated and/or experimental storytelling and animation techniques. Before the enforcement of the Hays Code, some cartoon shorts contained humor that was aimed at adult audience rather than children. Following the introduction of the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, the earliest cartoon series were based upon popular comic strips, and were directed at family audiences. The assumed audience of these cartoons, particularly Looney Tunes, has alternated from their initial unspecific audience, to children. One of the earliest animated films was Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure. It has often suggested that the film was produced for a private party in honor of Winsor McCay. Rumors suggest that the film was developed in Cuba years after it was completed, when a print was screened in San Francisco in the late 1970s, the program notes attributed the animation to George Stallings, George Canata, Rudy Zamora, Sr. and Walter Lantz. Until the Hays Code was enforced, many animated shorts featured suggestive content, including sexual innuendo, references to alcohol and drug use, and mild profanity. In the 1933 short Boskos Picture Show, Bosko appears to use the word fuck, although it has also suggested that the character is saying fox. The Betty Boop series was known for its use of jokes that would eventually be considered following the enforcement of the Hays Code. Betty Boop was initially drawn as a dog, and cast as the girlfriend of another Fleischer character, Betty was redesigned as a human, but the series continued to suggest a love relationship between the two that went farther than the normal relationship between humans and their pets. The short Is My Palm Read contains a scene in which Betty is shown as a child between the ages of four and five, bathing in the nude, in the 1970s, this scene was shown out of context in performances by The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. Concert audiences were not aware that Betty was supposed to be a baby in the sequence, another short, Bamboo Isle, contains a sequence in which Betty dances the hula topless, wearing only a lei over her breasts and a grass skirt. According to animator Shamus Culhane, Fleischer Studios and Paramount Pictures were shocked by the sequence, Culhane also states that he does not remember any instance in which the film was censored. Betty’s hula animation was reused for an appearance with Popeye the Sailor in his self-titled animated debut short. Following the enforcement of the Hays Code, Bettys clothing was redesigned, shorts produced following the enforcement of the Hays Code were also less surreal in nature, and Betty was portrayed as a rational adult
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Peter Lorre
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Peter Lorre was an Austro-Hungarian-American actor. In Austria, he began his career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he had his breakthrough, first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s. Lorre caused a sensation in the German film M, in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. Because he was Jewish, he left Germany after 1933 and his first English-language film was Alfred Hitchcocks The Man Who Knew Too Much made in Great Britain. Eventually settling in Hollywood, he became a featured player in many Hollywood crime. In his initial American films, Mad Love and Crime and Punishment, he continued to play murderers, but he was then cast playing Mr. Moto, from 1941 to 1946 he mainly worked for Warner Bros. The first of these films at Warners was The Maltese Falcon and this was followed by Casablanca, the second of the nine films in which Lorre and Greenstreet appeared. Lorres other films include Frank Capras Arsenic and Old Lace and Disneys 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner, his later career was erratic. Lorre was the first actor to play a James Bond villain as Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale, some of his last roles were in horror films directed by Roger Corman. Lorre was born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904, the first child of Jewish couple Alajos Löwenstein and his parents had recently moved there following his fathers appointment as chief bookkeeper at a local textile mill. Alajos Löwenstein also served as a lieutenant in the Austrian army reserve, lászlós mother died when he was only four years old, leaving Alajos with three very young sons, the youngest only a couple of months old. He soon married his wifes best friend Melanie Klein, with whom he had two more children, however, Lorre and his stepmother never got along, and this colored his childhood memories. At the outbreak of the Second Balkan War in 1913, anticipating that this would lead to a larger conflict and he was serving on the Eastern Front during the winter of 1914–1915 before being put in charge of a prison camp due to heart trouble. Lorre began acting on stage in Vienna aged 17, where he worked with Viennese Art Nouveau artist and he then moved to the German town of Breslau, and later to Zürich. In the late 1920s, the moved to Berlin, where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, including a role in Brechts Mann ist Mann. The actor became much better known after director Fritz Lang cast him as child killer Hans Beckert in M, a film reputedly derived from the Peter Kürten case. Lang said that he had Lorre in mind while working on the script, the director believed that the actor gave his best performance in M and that it was among the most distinguished in film history. Sharon Packer observed that Lorre played the loner, schizotypal murderer with raspy voice, bulging eyes, in 1932, Lorre appeared alongside Hans Albers in the science fiction film F. P.1 antwortet nicht about an artificial island in the mid-Atlantic
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Storyboard
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Traditional animation is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation in cinema until the advent of computer animation, Animation productions begin by deciding on a story. The oral or literary source material must then be converted into a film script. The storyboard has a somewhat similar to a comic book, and it shows the sequence of shots as consecutive sketches that also indicate transitions, camera angles. The images allow the team to plan the flow of the plot. The storyboard artists will have meetings with the director and may have to redraw or re-board a sequence many times before it meets final approval. Before true animation begins, a soundtrack or scratch track is recorded. A completed cartoon soundtrack will feature music, sound effects, often, an animatic or story reel is made after the soundtrack is created, but before full animation begins. An animatic typically consists of pictures of the storyboard synchronized with the soundtrack and this allows the animators and directors to work out any script and timing issues that may exist with the current storyboard. The storyboard and soundtrack are amended if necessary, and a new animatic may be created and reviewed with the director until the storyboard is perfected, advertising agencies today employ the use of animatics to test their commercials before they are made into full up spots. Animatics use drawn artwork, with moving pieces, video storyboards are similar to animatics but do not have moving pieces. Photomatics are another option when creating test spots, but instead of using drawn artwork, there is a shoot in which hundreds of digital photographs are taken. The large amount of images to choose from may make the process of creating a test commercial a bit easier, as opposed to creating an animatic, because changes to drawn art take time and money. Photomatics generally cost more than animatics, as they may require a shoot, however, the emergence of affordable stock photography and image editing software permits the inexpensive creation of photomatics using stock elements and photo composites. Once the animatic has been approved, it and the storyboards are sent to the design departments, character designers prepare model sheets for all important characters and props in the film, these are used to help standardize appearance, poses, and gestures. These model sheets will show how a character or object looks from a variety of angles with a variety of poses, sometimes, small statues known as maquettes may be produced, so that an animator can see what a character looks like in three dimensions. While design is going on, the director takes the animatic and analyzes exactly what poses, drawings. An exposure sheet is created, this is a table that breaks down the action, dialogue
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Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress. Known for her independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from comedy to literary drama. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema, raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years in the theatre, favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Hepburn masterminded her own comeback, buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the rights to The Philadelphia Story. In the 1940s, she was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy, the screen-partnership spanned 25 years and produced nine movies. Hepburn challenged herself in the half of her life, as she regularly appeared in Shakespearean stage productions. She found a niche playing middle-aged spinsters, such as in The African Queen, three more Oscars came for her work in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond. In the 1970s, she began appearing in films, which became the focus of her career in later life. She remained active into old age, making her screen appearance in 1994 at the age of 87. After a period of inactivity and ill health, Hepburn died in 2003 at the age of 96, Hepburn famously shunned the Hollywood publicity machine and refused to conform to societys expectations of women. She was outspoken, assertive, athletic, and wore trousers before it was fashionable for women to do so and she married once, as a young woman, but thereafter lived independently. A 26-year affair with her co-star Spencer Tracy was hidden from the public, Hepburn was born on May 12,1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of six children. Her parents were Thomas Norval Hepburn, a urologist at Hartford Hospital, and Katharine Martha Houghton, as a child, Hepburn joined her mother on several Votes For Women demonstrations. The Hepburn children were raised to exercise freedom of speech and encouraged to think and her parents were criticized by the community for their progressive views, which stimulated Hepburn to fight against barriers she encountered. Hepburn said she realized from an age that she was the product of two very remarkable parents, and credited her enormously lucky upbringing with providing the foundation for her success. She remained close to her throughout her life
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Horace Heidt
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Horace Heidt was an American pianist, big band leader, and radio and television personality. His band, Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights, toured vaudeville and performed on radio, born in Alameda, California, Heidt attended Culver Academies. At the University of California, Berkeley, he was a guard on the football team, a broken back suffered in a practice session caused him to give up football, leading him to turn his attention to music. He and some formed a band, The Californians. From 1932 to 1953, he was one of the popular radio bandleaders. He began on the NBC Blue Network in 1932 with Shell Oils Ship of Joy, during the late 1930s on CBS he did Captain Dobbsies Ship of Joy and Horace Heidts Alemite Brigadiers before returning to NBC for 1937–39 broadcasts. Singer Matt Dennis got his start with Heidts band, and Art Carney was the bands singing comedian, the Heidt bands recordings were highly successful, with Gone with the Wind going to No.1 in 1937 and Ti-Pi-Tin to No.1 in 1938. In 1939, The Man with the Mandolin ranked No.2 on the charts and his and his band played on the NBC Pot o Gold radio show. The 1941 film of the title, produced by James Roosevelt and directed by George Marshall, starred James Stewart and Paulette Goddard. Carney can be glimpsed in some of the musical numbers. The movie gives an accurate depiction of Heidts radio show but features staged sequences. From 1940 to 1944 he did Tums Treasure Chest, followed by 1943–45 shows on the Blue Network, lucky Strike sponsored The American Way on CBS in 1953. On December 7,1947, NBC began The Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program and accordionist Dick Contino, Heidts talent search catapulted such performers as Art Carney, Frankie Carle, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Gordon MacRae, Frank DeVol, Johnny Standley and Al Hirt. When the program expanded from radio to television in 1950, it was one of the first talent shows on TV, other winners included the Philharmonics, vocalist Ralph Sigwald, and blind marimbist Pierce Knox. With fame, Heidt moved into the then-new Brentwood neighborhood of West Los Angeles at 1525 San Vicente Boulevard. He bought the mansion from the widow of a retired dentist, it offered stunning views of Santa Monica Canyon, overlooking the Riviera Country Club and Catalina Island on a clear day. The expansive chateau-style residence, featured in 1927 on the cover of the rotogravure magazine Pictorial California, has long since been razed, Horace Heidt died in 1986 and was interred at Forest Law Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. In 1936 Horace Heidt conducted an ensemble of eight all of whom played harmonica on Saturday evenings at the Drake Hotel in Chicago
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Jack Owens (singer-songwriter)
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Some of his music even appeared in such movies as San Antonio Rose in 1941 and From Here to Eternity in 1953. Overlooked or forgotten by many today, Owens was Americas 10th favorite male vocalist from 1936 to 1944. He was best known for writing or co-writing such successful tunes as The Hut-Sut Song, Hi, Neighbor, How Soon, The Hukilau Song, and Ill Weave a Lei of Stars for You. He either wrote, co-wrote, composed, recorded, or some combination of music credits. He also had his own TV show, The Jack Owens Show, during the days of TV of the early 1950s. Jack Owens retired from business in 1957 and worked in real estate in Phoenix. Other interesting things about Jack Owens include, He was also the uncle of Roger Owens and he appeared in a Mae West movie, The Heats On. His music publishing company, Owens-Kemp Music Co. was located in Hollywood where the present day Walk of Fame is located. allmusic
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The Butter Battle Book
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The Butter Battle Book is a rhyming story written by Dr. Seuss. It was published by Random House on January 12,1984 and it is an anti-war story, specifically, a parable about arms races in general, mutually assured destruction and nuclear weapons in particular. The Butter Battle Book was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and this book was written during the Cold War era, and reflects the concerns of the time, especially the perceived possibility that all life on Earth could be destroyed in a nuclear war. It can also be seen as a work, with its depiction of a deadly war based on a senseless conflict over something as trivial as a breakfast food. The Yooks and the Zooks live on opposite sides of a curving wall. The Yooks wear blue clothes, the Zooks wear orange, the primary dispute between the two cultures is that the Yooks eat their bread with the butter-side up, while the Zooks eat their bread with the butter-side down. The conflict between the two leads to an escalating arms race, which results in the threat of mutual assured destruction. The race begins when a Zook patrolman named Van Itch slingshots the Yook patrolmans Tough-Tufted Prickly Snick-Berry Switch, the Yooks then develop a machine with three slingshots interlinked, called a Triple-Sling Jigger. This works once, but the Zooks counterattack with their own creation, The Jigger-Rock Snatchem, the Yooks then create a gun called the Kick-A-Poo Kid, loaded with powerful Poo-A-Doo powder and ants eggs and bees legs and dried-fried clam chowder, and carried by a dog named Daniel. The Zooks counterattack with an Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz, a machine that shoots high-explosive sour cherry stone pits, the Yooks then devise the Utterly Sputter, a large blue vehicle intended to sprinkle blue goo all over the Zooks. The Zooks counterattack with a Sputter identical to the Yooks, eventually, each side possesses a small but extremely destructive red bomb called the Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo, and neither has any defense against it. No resolution is reached by the end, with the generals of both sides on the wall poised to drop their bombs and waiting for the other to strike. There was an animated TV special by animator and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, narrated by Charles Durning and produced by, the special followed the book closely, notably in its preservation of its original cliffhanger ending, with the title card The end. Maybe at the conclusion of the story, Seuss himself called the short the most faithful adaptation of his work. On the other hand, Roger S. Clark, a professor at Rutgers University School of Law, captures the arms race and the development of weapons of war. The book struck such a chord with me when it came out in 1984, while its message is timeless, I suspect Seuss was well aware of the context he was writing in. N. The Butter Battle Book at the Internet Movie Database
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Daisy-Head Mayzie
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Daisy-Head Mayzie is a childrens book written by Dr. Seuss and illustrated in his style. It was published in 1995, after Seusss death and it was republished on July 5,2016 with Seusss original drawings. The book is about a 12-year-old warmhearted schoolgirl named Mayzie who one day suddenly sprouts a bright white daisy from her head and it causes alarm in her classroom, family, and town, until an agent makes her a celebrity. The Cat in the Hat who serves as the narrator to this story helps Mayzie to understand her problem, the book has a mini-song titled Daisy-Head Mayzie which her classmates chant. In 1995, prior to its publication, the book was adapted into a special for television on TNT. The special, which was produced by Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. can be found as a feature on the Horton Hears a Who. In 2011, Daisy-Head Mayzie was made a character at Seuss Landing at Universals Islands of Adventure. The book was republished with Seuss original text and illustrations, as such, there are several differences between the editions. The Cat in the Hat does not appear as the narrator, the characters are all designed differently and are given normal hairstyles, as opposed to the wild hairstyles in the 1995 edition. The principal is named Grumm instead of McGrumm, instead of catching all of the bees in his hat, the police officer puts a fishbowl over Mayzies head to protect her from the bees. Mrs. McGrew is a housewife instead of a welder, the plot in which the agent gives Mayzie a contract to be rich and famous is completely absent. Because of the absence of the Cat in the Hat, the daisy instead assures Mayzie that everyone loves her, Daisy-Head Mayzie at the Internet Movie Database
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 6 is a four-disc DVD box set collection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Following the pattern of one each year of the previous volumes. Warner Home Video had announced that this will be the release in the Golden Collection series. Succeeding the Golden Collection series would be the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection series on Blu-ray, on July 3,2012, a two-disc DVD version of Volume 1 of the Platinum Collection was released. Volume 6 is far less child-friendly than the five volumes in the series. However, Volume 6s disclaimer states that it is not suitable for children, while Volumes 4 and 5 each had a couple explicitly WWII themed cartoons, Volume 6 is notable for having an entire disc dedicated to the subject, including several of its bonus cartoons. Volume 6 was originally released in North America due to the poor sales of Volume 5. However, the discs in this volume were not region-coded, making it easy for collectors outside of North America to import, the set was released in the UK on 12 September 2011. Original opening and closing sequences and title cards are restored for this release, Original opening and credits restored, as the reissue originally kept the ending title. - Dubbed 1995 version - Restored Hare Trigger by Greg Ford Birth of a Notion by Mark Kausler My Favorite Duck by Jerry Beck Raw. Also, Dog Gone South and A Ham in a Role have their opening ring titles restored, public domain, and both these cartoons are unrestored. All bonus cartoons on disc are one-shots and are in the Merrie Melodies series. - Original opening has been restored for this release, previously released on Horton Hears a Who. Previously released on the Warner Bros, Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection. All bonus cartoons on disc are in the post-1948 package. Sorry, Looney fans – thats all folks, Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol 6 on DVD. www. dvdtown. com
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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The Cat in the Hat
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The Cat in the Hat is a childrens book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and first published in 1957. The story centers on an anthropomorphic cat, who wears a red and white-striped hat. The Cat shows up at the house of Sally and her brother one rainy day when their mother is away. Ignoring repeated objections from the fish, the Cat shows the children a few of his tricks in an attempt to entertain them. In the process he and his companions, Thing One and Thing Two, the children and the fish become more and more alarmed until the Cat produces a machine that he uses to clean everything up. He then says his goodbyes and disappears just before the childrens mother walks in, Geisel created the book in response to a debate in the United States about literacy in early childhood and the ineffectiveness of traditional primers such as those featuring Dick and Jane. Geisel was asked to write a more entertaining primer by William Spaulding, whom he had met during World War II, the words he found were cat and hat. The book met with critical acclaim and financial success. Reviewers praised it as an alternative to traditional primers. Three years after its debut, the book had sold over a million copies. The books success led to the creation of Beginner Books, a publishing house centered on producing books for young children learning to read. In 1983, Geisel said, It is the book Im proudest of because it had something to do with the death of the Dick, the book was adapted into a 1971 animated television special and a 2003 live-action film. The story begins as a girl named Sally and her unnamed brother, then they hear a loud bump which is quickly followed by the arrival of the Cat in the Hat, a tall anthropomorphic cat in a red and white striped hat and a red bow tie. The Cat proposes to entertain the children with some tricks that he knows, the childrens pet fish refuses, insisting that the Cat leave. The Cat responds by balancing the fish on the tip of his umbrella, the fish admonishes him again, but the Cat in the Hat just proposes another game. The Cat brings in a big red box from outside, from which he releases two identical creatures with blue hair and red suits called Thing One and Thing Two. The Things cause more trouble, such as flying kites in the house, knocking pictures off the wall, all this comes to an end when the fish spots the childrens mother out the window. In response, Sallys brother catches the Things in a net, and he takes it out the front door as the fish and the children survey the mess he has made
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Grinch
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The Grinch is a fictional character created by Dr. Seuss. He is best known as the character of the childrens book How the Grinch Stole Christmas. In 2002, TV Guide ranked The Grinch number 5 on its 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time list, the Grinch is depicted as a furry recluse living in seclusion on a cliff overlooking the cheerful, optimistic town of Whoville. Aided by his pet dog, Max, he himself as Santa Claus and breaks into the Whos homes to steal their holiday decorations. Although his plan works, he is infuriated on Christmas morning to find the Whos singing cheerfully despite his actions. Convinced that the holiday must carry a distinct from its decorations and gifts. Nevertheless, the Grinch is still portrayed as a bitter and ill-tempered character in artwork or other media, with the characters anti-holiday spirit followed by the transformation on Christmas morning, scholars have noted similarity to Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. Seuss, published as both a Random House book and in an issue of Redbook magazine, boris Karloff serves as both the storys narrator and the voice of the Grinch. In 1977, Seuss responded to the fan request for more Grinch tales by writing Halloween is Grinch Night, that serves as a prequel to the 1966 film. This was followed in 1982, when Marvel green-lit The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat a TV film starring The Cat in the Hat, although not as successful as the original, the two films both received Emmy Awards. A video game based on the film, simply entitled The Grinch, was released on several consoles and it was followed in 2007 with the release of a Nintendo DS version that went under the full title of the movie. The Grinch was portrayed on the stage when the story was turned into a musical by the Childrens Theater Company out of Minneapolis, the show made it to Broadway by way of a limited run in 2006, with Patrick Page playing the Grinch. In television and film, the Grinch has been played or voiced by six actors, the Grinch also appears in Glee in the episode A Very Glee Christmas. The Grinch was played by Sue Sylvester, who seeks revenge on Will Schuester, the Grinchs story will be adapted in animated form in 2018, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character. A similar Grinch-like creature, known as the Grumple, is the subject of Homers Christmas fears in The Simpsons episode Kill Gil, Volumes I & II. Episode 10 of the season of Just Shoot Me. is titled How the Finch Stole Christmas. The Grinch, along with Cindy Lou Who and Max, appears in Seussical, the Grinch briefly cameos in the Psych episode The Polarizing Express, during Shawns dream sequence. While Shawn is speaking to his superego, the Grinch can be seen stealing the presents of passing pedestrians outside the office, the Grinch makes a brief appearance on Home Alone 2, Lost in New York, on the limo TV that Kevin is watching
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Horton the Elephant
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Horton the Elephant is a fictional character from the 1940 book Horton Hatches the Egg and 1954 book Horton Hears a Who. Horton is a kind, sweet-natured elephant who cares about animals or people. He is very popular because of his big heart and respectful compassion, in 1942, Warner Bros. made the animated short film, Horton Hatches the Egg, in which Horton is voiced by Kent Rogers. In 1970, MGM Animation/Visual Arts made a 30 minute TV Special of Horton Hears a Who, Horton is voiced by Hans Conried, who also leads his voice as the narator. Horton is also a character on the TV series The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Kent Rogers voiced the character in Horton Hatches the Egg. Horton is also a character in Seussical the Musical, which uses most of the two Horton books as its primary plot. Horton is voiced by Jim Carrey in the adaptation of Horton Hears A Who. Where he is shown as being eccentric and imaginative, and sort of absent-minded, Horton appeared in a new Dr. Seuss book, Horton and the Kwuggerbug, which came out on September 9,2014, the second Dr. Seuss book published after his death in 1991. Mayzie, A lazy bird who convinces Horton to sit on her egg, when Horton and his egg visit near Palm Beach, she demands it, until it hatches into an elephant bird. In the Broadway musical production Seussical, her name is given as Mayzie La-Bird. Hunters, Three game hunters who planned to shoot Horton, in the Seuss book, they are illustrated as gentle folk, but in the 1942 cartoon, they look more like Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd. Morton the Elephant Bird, A small animal, resembling an elephant, hatched by Horton from Mayzies egg. In The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, he is part of the main cast, jane Kangaroo, A local bully who does not believe that the Whos and Whoville exist, and attempts to destroy its locus in the hope of convincing Horton. Voiced by Carol Burnett in the film, junior Kangaroo, Sour Kangaroos young joey, who supports his mother in all her speeches. In the film, his name is changed to Rudy and he believes in the Whos. Hes voiced by Josh Flitter in the film, Mayor of Whoville, The mayor of the microscopic world of Whoville, Hortons principal contact therein, and the source of information thereof. In the film, the mayor is named Ned McDodd and is the latest of a lineage of mayors, and is the father of 96 daughters. In the animated special, he is replaced with a scientist character named Dr. Hoovey, voiced by Steve Carell in the film
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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is Theodor Seuss Geisels first childrens book. It was published under the pen name Dr. Seuss, however, when he arrives home he decides instead to tell his father what he actually saw—a simple horse and wagon. Geisel conceived the core of the book aboard a ship in 1936, the rhythm of the ships engines captivated him and inspired the books signature lines, And that is a story that no one can beat And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street. At least 20 publishers rejected the book before Geisel ran into an old college classmate, Vanguard agreed to publish the book, and it met with high praise from critics upon release, though sales were not as impressive. Later analyses of the book have focused on its connections to Geisels childhood, Geisel returned to fictionalized versions of Springfield in later books, and Marco appeared again in 1947 in the Dr. Seuss book McElligots Pool. The story begins as a boy named Marco walks home from school, thinking of his fathers advice, Marco, however, the only thing Marco has seen on his walk is a horse pulling a wagon on Mulberry Street. To make his story more interesting, Marco imagines progressively more elaborate scenes based around the horse and he imagines the horse is first a zebra, then a reindeer, then an elephant, and finally an elephant helped by two giraffes. The wagon changes to a chariot, then a sled, then a holding a brass band. Marcos realization that Mulberry Street intersects with Bliss Street leads him to imagine a group of police escorts, now almost home, he snaps back to reality and rushes up the front steps, eager to tell his father his imagined story. However, when his father questions him about what he saw on his way home, his face red and he says, Nothing. but a plain horse. Geisel was 33 and had ten years of experience in cartooning, illustrating and advertising when he work on Mulberry Street. He had an established and prosperous career in advertising, including a contract with Standard Oil for Flit bug spray, Geisels popular campaign featured the line Quick, Henry, the Flit. He had also made forays into book publishing, for Viking Press in 1931 he illustrated Boners and More Boners. The books positive sales encouraged Geisel to create his own childrens book, in 1932, Geisel wrote and illustrated an alphabet book featuring a collection of odd animals, but was unable to interest publishers in it. As the Kungsholm endured a storm and Geisel suffered from sea sickness, he jotted down a plot that started with a stupid horse. For days after they landed, he had the rhythm of the ships engine stuck in his head, so, at Helens suggestion, he decided to write a story based around it. The Morgans based this account on interviews with Geisel, who had given similar accounts of the creation to journalists throughout his career. In one version, he had already been working on the book for six months before the European trip, in another, he claimed he had the book about half finished when they landed in the US
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a childrens book, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard Press in 1938. Unlike the majority of Geisels books, it is written in rather than rhyming. Geisel concluded that the man was so stuffy he would just grow a new one, set in feudal times, the story begins in the Kingdom of Didd, when King Derwin is riding through a street past peasant protagonist Bartholomew Cubbins. Ultimately the 500th hat, studded with gems and gilding. Stunned by the beauty of the hat, King Derwin grants him reprieve, the book received positive reviews from critics. The New York Times reviewer called the book a bit of tomfoolery which keeps up the suspense and surprise until the end. Somewhere between the Sunday supplements and the Brothers Grimm, Dr. Seuss has produced a book combining features of both. That he is a rare and loopy genius has been common knowledge from an epoch of his undergrad troubles. It now becomes plain that his is the self-consistent, happy madness beloved by children, I do not see what is to prevent him from becoming the Grimm of our times. Not long after publication, the story was adapted for an album issued by RCA Victor, narrated by Paul Wing, the audio adaptation had a running time of 13 minutes and 37 seconds. The dramatization featured music and sound effects on two 10 78rpm records in a bi-fold sleeve and this recording was played in elementary school classrooms during the early 1940s. Geisel wrote the script for the 1943 puppetoon short of the name for Paramount Pictures. It also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short, the company has produced it nearly a dozen times since Theodor Geisel and his estate provided Childrens Theatre with the rights. The company has toured the play across the United States, in China, Russia, the last time the company produced the play was to sold-out houses in 2010 at their Minneapolis home. The characters of Bartholomew and King Derwin returned a decade later in Bartholomew, Dr. Seuss Mr. Geisel, A Biography. RCA Victor, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Hats Off to Dr. Seuss
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The King's Stilts
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The Kings Stilts is a childrens book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss, and published in 1939 by Random House. Unlike many Dr. Seuss books, it is narrated in prose rather than verse, the Kings Stilts tells the story of King Birtram of Binn, who dedicates himself to safeguarding his kingdom, which lives in a precarious existence. It is surrounded by water, which is back from flooding the land by a ring of dike trees. To protect the kingdom, a legion of Patrol Cats is organized to keep the nizzards at bay, when not attending to his royal duties, the King enjoys himself with a rigorous cavorting on his personal red stilts, which distresses his minister Lord Droon. When Droon manipulates the Kings page boy Eric to steal and hide the stilts, as a result, the Patrol Cats become less vigilant, and soon the nizzards make headway in eating away the dike trees. Seeing the results of his actions, Eric resolves to return the stilts to the King, King Birtram then summons the energy to mobilize the Patrol Cats to fight off the nizzards and save the kingdom. Lord Droon is imprisoned and forced to eat every day while Eric is rewarded with his own pair of red stilts. The moral of the story is presented through the repetition of the phrase. And when he played, he played, as well as the kingdoms eventual decay due to the kings inability to pursue his hobby. The Kings Stilts was published in 1939, as Geisels second book for Random House, although it was considerably more successful than his previous book, The Seven Lady Godivas, its sales were still a disappointment,4,648 copies were sold in 1939 and 394 in 1940. The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers
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The Seven Lady Godivas
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The Seven Lady Godivas, The True Facts Concerning Historys Barest Family is a picture book of the tale of Lady Godiva, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. One of Seusss few books written for adults, its original 1939 publication by Random House was a failure and was eventually remaindered, however, it later gained popularity as Seuss himself grew in fame, and was republished in 1987. The book recounts in prose the tale of not one, but seven Godiva sisters, the explanation for their nakedness, even when walking in snow, is that they were simply themselves and chose not to disguise it. The story opens with the father, Lord Godiva, deciding to leave for the Battle of Hastings on horseback. This upsets the sisters, as horses are wild and untamed animals, sure enough, before Lord Godiva even manages to leave the castle walls, he is flung from his horse and killed. The book then follows the sisters as they set out on individual quests for horse truths, Seuss, by calling Cerf a sap, was apparently implying that Cerf was being too nice in allowing the book to be published. The initial 1939 publishing had a print run of 10,000 copies, Seuss himself called it his greatest failure and a book that nobody bought. To another interviewer he said It was all full of naked women, I put their knees in the wrong places. It became one of only two Dr Seuss books, along with The Cat in the Hat Songbook, to be allowed to go out of print. The remaining copies were remaindered in the chain of Schultes Cigar Stores for twenty-five cents, the books initial failure has been attributed to several factors, at two dollars, it was priced relatively high for the Great Depression era. Also, the depiction of nudity, though it was intended for adults and was very restrained, led to cold reception. In 1974, Carolyn See wrote in Esquire that America was feeling too blue to be cheered up by pictures of silly ladies, Seuss said he tried to draw the sexiest-looking women he could, but they came out just ridiculous. The failure of The Seven Lady Godivas, Seusss fourth book and he stated that he would rather write for kids, who were more appreciative, and was no longer interested in writing for adults. Indeed, his contempt for adults is evident in his oft-repeated quote, Adults are obsolete children. When he eventually did publish a book aimed at adults
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Horton Hatches the Egg
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Horton Hatches the Egg is a childrens book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1940 by Random House. The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who is tricked into sitting on an egg while its mother, Mayzie. Horton endures a number of hardships but persists, often stating, I meant what I said, an elephants faithful, one hundred percent. Ultimately, the egg hatches, revealing an elephant-bird, a creature with a blend of Mayzies, however, according to later biographer Charles Cohen, this account is probably apocryphal. He found elements of Horton in earlier Dr. Seuss works, most notably the 1938 short story Matilda, Horton Hatches the Egg was published to immediate critical acclaim and financial success and has remained popular with the general public. The book has also used as the basis for academic articles on a variety of topics, including economics, Christianity, feminism. Horton appeared again in the 1954 Dr. Seuss book Horton Hears a Who and these two books later provided the thrust of the plot for the 2000 Broadway musical Seussical. An elephants faithful, one hundred per cent, the traveling circus ends up visiting near Mayzies new Palm Beach residence. She visits the circus just as the egg is due to hatch and demands that Horton should return it and this account was based on interviews with Geisel, who had told similar stories about the books creation to reporters asking about his creative process since as early as 1957. The story had changed with each telling but always involved the fortuitous juxtaposition of drawings of an elephant, Charles Cohen, on the other hand, found traces of Horton Hatches the Egg in early Dr. Seuss works. In an early installment of Geisels cartoon feature Boids and the Beasties, which began in Judge magazine in 1927, he juxtaposed a bird, a few weeks later, he drew a story in which a whale ends up passed out in a catalpa tree. In a 1959 cartoon for Life magazine, he depicted a dachshund who sits on eggs for storks, in 1961, he drew an illustration for Judge that showed a walrus sitting in a tree, trying to hatch the eggs in a bird nest. Some of his work also featured elephant-bird hybrids, which prefigured the elephant-bird that hatches at the end of Horton Hatches the Egg. In early drafts, the name changed from Osmer to Bosco to Humphrey. The final choice, Horton, was apparently after Horton Conrad, the birds name changed from Bessie to Saidie and finally Mayzie. In the first draft, the elephant character volunteered to sit on the eggs for the bird, Horton Hatches the Egg was published by Random House in fall 1940 to immediate success. It received primarily positive notice from critics, kirkus Reviews called it sheer nonsense, but good fun. The reviewer for The New York Times Book Review wrote, A moral is a new thing to find in a Dr. Seuss book, the book also found early success with book buyers and the general public
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McElligot's Pool
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McElligots Pool is a childrens book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House in 1947. The story begins as a boy named Marco fishes in a small, trash-filled pond, a local farmer laughs at the boy and tells him that he is never going to catch anything. Nevertheless, Marco holds out hope and begins to imagine a scenario in which he might be able to catch a fish, first, he suggests that the pool might be fed by an underground brook that travels under a highway and a hotel to reach the sea. Marco then imagines a succession of fish and other creatures that could be in the sea and he imagines, among others, a fish with a checkerboard stomach, a seahorse with the head of an actual horse, and an eel with two heads. When Marco is done imagining, he tells the farmer, Oh, Geisel painted some of the water colors that illustrate McElligots Pool while vacationing with his wife, Helen, at the summer home of their friend Kelvin Vanderlip, in southern California. Geisel dedicated the book to his father, whom the dedication refers to as the Worlds Greatest Authority on Blackfish, Fiddler Crabs, and Deegel Trout. According to Dr. Seuss biographers Judith and Neil Morgan, deegel trout was a joke between Geisel and his father that was started during a fishing trip when Geisel was a boy. His father had bought large trout from Deegel hatchery and pretended that they had caught them, McElligots Pool, Geisels first book in seven years, was published by Random House in 1947 and was well received. It became a Junior Literary Guild selection and garnered Geisel his first Caldecott Honor, johnson of Library Journal called the book as diviniely idiotic as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss Mr. Geisel, a biography. Pease, Donald E. Theodor Seuss Geisel, one Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
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Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
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Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose is a 1948 childrens book by Dr. Seuss. The bug takes advantage of the kindness and settles in as a permanent resident, inviting various other animals to live on. When one of the guests, a woodpecker, begins drilling holes in Thidwicks horns, when Thidwicks sense of proper etiquette forces him to forgo the comforts of herd life in favor of being kind to his guests, his herd leaves him. Even facing starvation, Thidwick refuses to break etiquette, and remains on the cold, the residents of Thidwicks antlers, paying no regard to the increasing physical or psychological load that the moose has to endure, once again continue inviting other animals to live with them. The situation comes to a head when hunters attack Thidwick with the goal of mounting his head on the wall of the Harvard Club. Thidwick attempts to outrun the hunters, but the heavy load, just before his imminent capture, however, Thidwick remembers that it is time for him to shed his antlers. He does so by promptly shedding his antlers, making a comment to his former guests. His former guests are captured by the hunters and are stuffed and mounted with his antlers on the Harvard Club wall, the story explores the limits of hospitality and sharing. Neil Reynolds had discussed it as a parable of immigration issues, aeon J. Skoble discusses Thidwick at length as an exemplification of the idea of property rights, and particularly of Lockes formulation of property rights. Skoble argues that Thidwick is badly mistaken in viewing the animals as guests. In a later essay in the volume, Henry Cribbs makes a similar point. The genius of the story, however, lies in its finale, incidentally, this is also what the child expects. Welcome, a 1986 Soviet animated film Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose at Seuss Dude Thidwick, the Big-hearted Moose at Google Books
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a 1949 book by Dr. Seuss. It follows the adventures of a boy named Bartholomew, who must rescue his kingdom from a sticky substance called Oobleck. The book is a sequel of sorts to The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, unlike most of Geisels books, which are written in anapestic tetrameter, Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a prose work, like its predecessor. Geisel said he drew inspiration for the book from a conversation he overheard while stationed in Belgium during World War II, during a rainstorm, one of his fellow soldiers remarked, Rain, always rain. Why cant we have something different for a change, the book was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1950. Throughout the year, Bartholomew sees the king getting angry at rain in spring, sun in summer, fog in autumn, the king gets the idea that ruling the sky is the task of his Royal Magicians so he orders Bartholomew to summon them. When he expresses his wish to the magicians, they announce they can make something called Oobleck which wont look like the regular weather, next morning Bartholomew sees the first sign that the Oobleck is falling. The king orders Bartholomew to tell the Royal Bell Ringer that today will be a holiday, when the bell ringer tries to ring the bell, it doesnt ring because Oobleck has gotten into it. When Bartholomew sees a bird trapped in her nest by the Oobleck. When the Royal Trumpeter tries to sound the alarm, Oobleck gets into the trumpet, Bartholomew tries to go to the Royal Stables for a horse to warn the kingdom on his own, but they are covered in Oobleck. But he cannot remember the incantation, and, in any case, Bartholomew finally gets the courage to tell the king off for making such a foolish wish and tells him to use simple words, like Im sorry, instead of magic words. Straight after the king says those simple words, the Oobleck storm breaks up, a version recorded by the actor Marvin Miller varies slightly from the book. The king encounters the crisis personally in his bathtub, when the oobleck comes out of the water faucet. Oobleck, a mixture of starch and water that exhibits non-Newtonian properties, was named after the substance in Dr. Seuss books
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If I Ran the Zoo
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If I Ran the Zoo is a childrens book written by Dr. Seuss in 1950. The book is written in anapestic tetrameter, Seusss usual verse type, the book is likely a tribute to a childs imagination, because it ends with a reminder that all of the extraordinary creatures exist only in McGrews head. If I Ran the Zoo is often credited with the first printed modern English appearance of the nerd, although the word is not used in its modern context. In the book, Gerald McGrew is a child who, when visiting a zoo and he says that if he ran the zoo, he would let all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and exotic ones. He also imagines the praise he receives from others, who are amazed at his new Zoo, some of the animals featured in If I Ran the Zoo have been featured in a segment of The Hoober-Bloob Highway, a 1975 CBS TV Special. The small play area is located inside the area of the known as Seuss Landing. An animation short directed and produced by Ray Messecar and narrated by Brett Ambler
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Scrambled Eggs Super!
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Scrambled Eggs Super. is a 1953 book by American childrens author Dr. Seuss. It tells of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs of various exotic birds. At the beginning of the story, Peter T. Hooper brags to a girl, Liz and he tells the story of how, when he became fed up with the taste of regular scrambled eggs using hens eggs, he decided to scramble eggs from other birds. He tells of how he travelled great distances and discovered a variety of exotic birds and he explains his criteria for choosing some eggs, because of their sweetness, and avoiding others. He takes the eggs home but decides that he needs more. After each bird Peter finds he states the famous phrase. Scrambled Egg Super Dee Dooper Dee Booper Special Deluxe a la Peter T. Hooper, barlow of the Christian Science Monitor called it a gay extravaganza. It also received reviews from Chicago Sunday Tribune and The New York Herald Tribune for Seusss illustrations of the birds. Phillip Nel, in the book Dr. Seuss, American Icon, wrote that Scrambled Eggs Super. was one of Seusss less politically oriented books
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Horton Hears a Who!
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Horton Hears a Who. is a childrens book written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and was published in 1954 by Random House. It is the second Dr. Seuss book to feature Horton the Elephant, the Whos would later make a reappearance in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who, while splashing in a pool, Horton surmises that a small person lives on the speck and places it on a clover, vowing to protect it. He later discovers that the speck is actually a planet, home to a community called Whoville. The Mayor of Whoville asks Horton to protect them from harm, in his mission to protect the speck, Horton is ridiculed and harassed by the other animals in the jungle for believing in something that they are unable to see or hear. He is first criticized by the sour kangaroo and her little kangaroo in her pouch, the splash they make as they jump into the pool almost catches the speck, so Horton decides to find somewhere safer for it. However, news of his odd new behavior spreads quickly, and they steal the clover from him and give it to Vlad Vladikoff, a vulture. Vlad flies the clover a long distance, Horton in pursuit, after a long search, Horton finally finds the clover with the speck on it. However, the Mayor informs him that Whoville is in bad shape from the fall, and Horton discovers that the sour kangaroo and they tie Horton up and threaten to boil the speck in a pot of Beezle-Nut oil. To save Whoville, Horton implores the people to make as much noise as they can. So almost everyone in Whoville shouts, sings, and plays instruments, so the Mayor searches Whoville until he finds a very small shirker named JoJo, who is playing with a yo-yo instead of making noise. The Mayor carries him to the top of Eiffelberg Tower, where Jojo lets out a loud Yopp. which finally makes the kangaroo, now convinced of the Whos existence, the other jungle animals vow to help Horton protect the tiny community. Geisel began work on Horton Hears a Who. in the fall of 1953, the books main theme, a persons a person no matter how small, was Geisels reaction to his visit to Japan, where the importance of the individual was an exciting new concept. He dedicated the book to a Japanese friend, Horton Hears a Who. is written in anapestic tetrameter, like many other Dr. Seuss books. Unlike some of his books, however, Horton contains a moral message. The story, along with Horton Hatches the Egg, also provides the plot for the 2000 Broadway musical Seussical. In this direction, the Sour Kangaroos name is Jane, while her son is named Junior, Jane was voiced by June Foray. Horton Hears a Who. was adapted into a computer-animated feature-length film of the name in 2008, using computer animation from Blue Sky Studios
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On Beyond Zebra!
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On Beyond Zebra. is an illustrated childrens book by Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. In this boundary-pushing take on the genre of book, Seuss presents, instead of the twenty-six letters of the conventional English alphabet. The young narrator, not content with the confines of the alphabet, reports on additional letters beyond Z. For example, the letter FLOOB corresponds to the Floob-Boober-Bab-Boober-Bubs, which have large buoyant heads and float serenely in the water. In order, the letters, followed by the creatures that correspond to them, are YUZZ, WUM, UM, HUMPF, FUDDLE, GLIKK, NUH, SNEE, QUAN, THNAD, SPAZZ, FLOOB, ZATZ, JOGG, FLUNN, ITCH, YEKK, VROO, and HI. The book ends with a letter which is substantially more complicated than those with names. A list of all the letters is shown at the end. Judith and Neil Morgan, Geisels biographers, note that most of the letters resemble elaborate monograms and these letters are not officially encoded in Unicode, but the independent ConScript Unicode Registry provides an unofficial assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Area for them. Some of the animals from On Beyond Zebra. appear in the 1975 CBS TV Special The Hoober-Bloob Highway, such as a Jogg-oon, a Sneedle, a Zatz-it, the Man Who Was Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss Mr. Geisel, a biography, pease, Donald E. Theodor Seuss Geisel
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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Is a childrens story by Theodor Dr. Seuss Geisel written in rhymed verse with illustrations by the author. It follows the Grinch, a grouchy, solitary creature who attempts to put an end to Christmas by stealing Christmas-themed items from the homes of the nearby town Whoville on Christmas Eve. Despite his efforts, Whovilles inhabitants still celebrate the holiday, so the Grinch returns everything that he stole and is the guest of honor at the Whos Christmas dinner. The story was published as a book by Random House in 1957, the book criticizes the commercialization of Christmas. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named it one of its Teachers Top 100 Books for Children. In 2012 it was ranked number 61 among the Top 100 Picture Books in a survey published by School Library Journal – the fourth of five Dr. Seuss books on the list. There will also be a film adaptation, starring Benedict Cumberbatch scheduled for release on November 9,2018. His only companion is his unloved, but loyal dog, Max, from his cave, the Grinch can hear the noisy Christmas festivities that take place in Whoville. Annoyed, he decides to stop Christmas from coming by stealing their presents, trees and he crudely disguises himself as Santa Claus, and forces Max, disguised as a reindeer, to drag a sleigh to Whoville. Once there, the Grinch slides down the chimney and steals all of the Whos Christmas presents, the Christmas tree, and he is briefly interrupted in his burglary by Cindy Lou, a little Who girl, but concocts a crafty lie to effect his escape from her home. The Grinch then takes his sleigh to the top of Mount Crumpit, as dawn breaks, he expects to hear the Whos bitter and sorrowful cries, but is confused to hear them singing a joyous Christmas song instead. He puzzles for a moment until it dawns on him that maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a bit more than just presents. The Grinchs shrunken heart suddenly grows three sizes, the reformed Grinch returns all of the Whos presents and trimmings and is warmly invited to the Whos feast, where he has the honor of carving the Roast Beast. The Grinch first appeared in a 32-line illustrated poem by Dr. Seuss called The Hoobub and the Grinch, Dr. Seuss began work on How the Grinch Stole Christmas. A couple years later, around the beginning of 1957 and he had recently completed The Cat in the Hat and was in the midst of founding Beginner Books with Phyllis and Bennett Cerf and his wife, Helen Palmer Geisel. Helen, who had ongoing medical problems and had suffered a stroke in April 1957, nevertheless acted as an unofficial editor. Dr. Seuss wrote the book quickly and was finished with it within a few weeks. Biographers Judith and Neil Morgan wrote, It was the easiest book of his career to write, according to Dr. Seuss, I got hung up getting the Grinch out of the mess
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back is a childrens book written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House in 1958. The book is a sequel to The Cat in the Hat, once again, Sally and her brother are home alone for the day, but this time, their mother has left them with instructions to clear away a large amount of snow while she is out. However, they are interrupted in their work by the arrival of the Cat in the Hat. Sally warns her not to talk to the Cat, saying. Dont you let him come near and you know what he did the last time he was here. But the Cat lets himself into their house, and when the brother follows him in and he yells at the cat, turns off the water, and drains the tub only to find that a long pink ring has formed around the sides of the bath tub. Unsure of how to remove the stain from the bed, the Cat calls on the help of Little Cat A, who lives inside his hat, who lifts his hat to reveal Little Cat B, who reveals Little Cat C. The three Little Cats go to work, sending the stain to the television, then a pan, seeing the spot cover the snow, Little Cat C lifts his hat to reveal Little Cats D through G. All the Little Cats wage war on the spots, shooting at pink snowballs with pop guns. The cats work more, but the spot keeps spreading and all the snow is pink, so Little Cat V takes off his hat to uncover Little Cats W, X, Y and the microscopic Little Cat Z. Z takes his hat off and unleashes a Voom, which cleans up the spot, clears all the snow from the paths, the Cat leaves, with the promise that he and the Little Cats, A through Z, will return someday. The book ends in a burst of flamboyant versification, with the full list of little cats arranged into a metrically perfect rhymed quatrain, Little Cats A, B and C were also characters in the 1996 TV series The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss. The Cat in The Hat Comes Back was part of the Beginner Book Video series along with Theres a Wocket in My Pocket. and Fox in Socks. Adrian Edmondson narrated The Cat in the Hat Comes Back for a Harper Collins audiobook that also includes The Cat in the Hat, Fox in Socks and Green Eggs and Ham. Universal Pictures was set to adapt the book, as a sequel to the film adaptation. Dr. Seuss Mr. Geisel, a biography, the Annotated Cat, Under the Hats of Seuss And His Cats
