Give a Whit

How’s this for a cast—Cesar Romero, Sid Melton, Acquanetta, Whit Bissell and Hugh Beaumont?

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Black Beauty Explodes

The Happy Harmonies staff writers used venerable old “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” as a starting point for The Old Plantation (released Sept. 21, 1935).

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Today's Inside Jokes

Since we had a Porky post a few days ago, let’s check out backgrounds from some early P. Pig Looney Tunes.



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Tally Ho Ho Ho Backgrounds

Fernando Montealegre was among the first staffers at Hanna-Barbera, jumping over from MGM where he started as an assistant animator and became a background artist. In keeping with the times, his work on Mike Lah’s Droopy shorts (in Cinemascope) at MGM are quite stylised.

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The Real Jack Benny

It’s a tribute to Jack Benny’s acting skill that people actually believed what they heard on his radio programme.

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Worstistatsootstuh....

Animated commercials were extremely popular in the 1950s, and cartoon studios popped up in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere to make them.

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Tail Fail

Chilly Willy plots to cut off a watchdog’s tail in I'm Cold, a 1955 short for Walter Lantz.



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