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adam garbuttOUGD505 looney tunes: world war II era

wartime looney tunes

During the war looney tunes turned

to create two types of cartoons:

ones to escape from realitity and

ones that played on the topicality of

it. working in a defence plant, being

drafted, etc.

Bugs bunny captured the american

spirit, bug’s can-do attitute gaveamericans relateble cartoon charac-

ter. As bugs had just been created in

the recent years, his development

during this period shaped what we

know as bugs today and is what

made him rise to success.

Typical trademarks of these car-

toons that are usually spoofed: pro-

paganda elements, racist carica-tures, outdated references to the

war effort (i.e., Shout Outs to save

scrap iron, buy war bonds, or grow a

Victory Garden). Adolf Hitler, Benito

Mussolini, and/or Emperor Hirohito

often make a cameo.



looney tunes: censorship/ poltical correctness adam garbuttOUG505

the censored eleven

cartoons are often edited to take out

parts that are unseenly for some

viewers and cut to make them more

appriopriate for their audiences .

sometimes, in the case of the Cen-

sored Eleven, racial themes are so

essential and so completely pervade

the cartoons that the copyright

holders believe that no amount ofselective editing could ever make

them acceptable for distribution.

‘All of the faces you see in Tin Pan

Alley Cats and Coal Black and de

Sebben Dwarfs are caricatures of

real musicians he hung out with at

the Central Avenue jazz and blues

clubs of the '40s. ’ The people shown

in some of the cartoons are simplycaricatures and innocent as that.

However with their recent release

they‘ve recently come to the atten-

tion to a lot of people due to the cul-

tural signfigance they hold.



looney tunes: mel blanc adam garbuttOUGD505

hanna barbera looney tunes

the man of a thousand voices

Having earned the nickname “The

Man Of 1,000 Voices,” Mel is regard-

ed as one of the most influential

people in the voice-acting industry.

Over the span of his career, he was

in over 5,000 cartoons and did over

400 different voices for each.

He didn’t only feature his voices inLooney tunes feature films and

Merry Melodies but also he worked

for Hanna Barbera voicing Barney

Grumble and other classic charac-

ters. (He is also the voice of Woody

the Woodpecker.

He rarely watched the cartoons bec-

uase he only really cared for the

characters he voiced and entertain-ing children.

Although now he’s dead (1989) he’s

still one of the most influencial and

achieved voice actors in the indus-

try.



looney tunes: lobby cards adam garbuttOUGD505

lobby cards

‘lobby cards are similar to posters

but smaller, usually 11 in × 14 in (28

cm × 36 cm), also 8 in × 10 in (20 cm

× 25 cm) before 1930. Lobby cards

are collected and their value de-

pends on their age, quality, and pop-

ularity. Typically issued in sets of

eight, each featuring a different

scene from the film.’

Looney tunes had their own lobby

cards back when they used to be

shown as feature films and they

have a HUGE array of beautiful work

that shows the development of the

series as a whole from character

design to the wonderful type work

on each card. Although now a col-

lecters Item I find them really inter-esting as both a concept and simply

wanting them on my wall.



looney tunes: bugs bunny adam garbuttOUGD505

eeeeeh, whats up doc?

Bugs Bunny (originally voiced by

Mel Blanc) is an animated car-

toon character, best known for

his starring roles in the Looney

Tunes and Merrie Melodies series

of theatrical short films pro-

duced by Warner Bros. during

the Golden Age of American Ani-mation. His popularity during

this era led to his becoming an

American cultural icon, as well as

a corporate mascot of the

Warner Bros. company.

Bug’s final debut was in 1940 in

‘the wild hare’, here was shown

the final incarnation for bugsbunny, Although he was created

as Happy hare in 1938 the next 2

years showed quick develop-

ment of the character who then

became popular through the

wartime.

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