Cartoon Crazys Goes to War

Starring: Arthur Q Bryan, Mel Blanc Director: Dan Gordon, Friz Freleng, Robert Clampett Dvd Release: 24th November, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Animated, Colour, Dolby, NTSC, Region 0 Encoding

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Arthur Q Bryan was a United States comedian & voice actor. Bryan was born & raised in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up with a deep desire to go into show business, he stumbled through the industry for several years before finding steady if unsatisfying work as a bit player & occasional film narrator in Hollywood. Bryan first came to prominence in his late 30s as a voice artist for Warner Brothers animation unit, headed by Leon Schlesinger. Before there was a Bugs or a Daffy, one of Warners biggest stars was Bryans Elmer Fudd, a slow-talking, slower-witted hunter whose Brooklynesque speech was exaggerated for memorable effect by his inability to employ the letter R Bryans Fudd was so popular, that the characters shorts were used to create & develop the character of Bugs Bunny, with the first official Bugs Bunny appearance coming in the Fudd cartoon, A Wild Hare. Bryans work in animation was not left unnoticed by radio producers.

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Melvin Jerome Blanc, better known as Mel Blanc, was a famous American voice actor for many animation studios, primarily the Warner Brothers & Hanna-Barbera studios. Blancs ability to create voices for multiple characters first attracted attention when he worked as a voice actor in radio. He was a regular on the Jack Benny Program in various roles, including Bennys automobile, violin teacher Professor LeBlanc, Polly the Parrot & Bennys pet polar bear Carmichael. Blanc also appeared on other national radio programs such as Burns & Allen as the Happy Postman, August Moon on Point Sublime, Sad Sack on G,I. Journal, Floyd the Barber on The Great Gildersleeve & later played various small parts on Bennys television show. Blancs most famous role on Bennys TV show was as Si, the Mexican in which he spoke one word at a time. The famous si-sy-sue routine was so hilarious that no matter how many times it was performed, the laughter was always there. Train leaving on Track Five for Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga. What made that phrase so funny was the spacing between Cu.camonga -- sometimes minu...

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Dan Gordon was an American storyboard atrist & film director, best known for his work at both Famous Studios & Hanna-Barbera Productions. While at Famous, Gordon wrote & directed several Popeye the Sailor & Superman cartoons. At Hanna-Barbera, Gordon worked on several cartoons featuring Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound & others. Gordon also directed several anti-Japanese propaganda pictures during World War II that have raised controversy among the Japanese-American community for the depiction of the Japanese in a racist, sub-human manner.

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Isadore Friz Freleng was an animator & cartoonist best known for his work on the Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced several of the studios biggest stars, including Porky Pig, Tweety Bird & Speedy Gonzalez. Freleng is also the most honored of the Warners directors, having won four Academy Awards & is famous for having collaborated with Tex Avery. Freleng was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he began his career in animation at Walt Disney Studios. He worked alongside other early animators, including Carmen Maxwell, Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harman & Rudy Ising. Freleng accompanied Disney to Hollywood, California, where they worked in the Charles Mintz studio on Disneys Alice Comedies & Oswald the Lucky Rabbit films. Freleng soon teamed up with Harman & Ising to try to create their own studio. The trio produced a pilot film starring a new Mickey Mouse -like character named Bosko.

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Robert Bob Clampett was an animator & puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. & the television show Time for Beany. Clampett showed an interest in animation & puppetry from his early teens in Los Angeles. He secured a job in 1931 at the studio of Hugh Harman & Rudolf Ising where he worked on the studios Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies series. In his first years at the studio, Clampett mostly worked for Friz Freleng, under whose guidance Clampett grew into an able animator. In 1935, he designed the studios first major star, Porky Pig, who appeared in Frelengs film I Havent Got a Hat. Clampett moved to Tex Avery s unit that same year & the two soon developed an insanely irreverent style of animation that would set Warner Bros. apart from its competitors. Clampett was promoted to director in late 1937 & he soon entered his personal golden age.

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