Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6
Disc 4 : Most Requested Assorted Nuts and One-Shots
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Title

Director

Year

Series

1

Horton Hatches the Egg (featuring Horton and other Dr. Seuss characters) (acquired)

Bob Clampett (acquired)

April 11, 1942 (acquired)

MM

2

Lights Fantastic (featuring the mascots)

Friz Freleng

May 23, 1942

MM

3

Fresh Airedale

Chuck Jones

August 25, 1945

MM

4

Chow Hound

Chuck Jones

June 16, 1951

LT

5

The Oily American

Robert McKimson

July 10, 1954

MM

6

It's Hummer Time

Robert McKimson

July 22, 1950

LT

7

Rocket-bye Baby

Chuck Jones

August 4, 1956

MM

8

Goo Goo Goliath (featuring Drunken Stork)

Friz Freleng

September 18, 1954

MM

9

Wild Wife

Robert McKimson

February 20, 1954

MM

10

Much Ado About Nutting

Chuck Jones

May 23, 1953

MM

11

The Hole Idea

Robert McKimson

April 16, 1955

LT

12

Now Hear This

Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble (co-direction)

April 27, 1963

LT

13

Martian Through Georgia

Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble (co-director), and Abe Levitow

December 29, 1962

LT

14

Page Miss Glory

Tex Avery - uncredited

March 7, 1936

MM

15

Norman Normal

Alex Lovy

February 3, 1968

CS

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Horton Hatches the Egg is a ten-minute animated short film based on the book by Dr. Seuss ( which marked the first cartoon for being based on Dr. Seuss ' work ) , by Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1942 , released as part of Warner Bros. ' Merrie Melodies series . The short , like with many cartoons at the time , and in contrast to the original children 's book , was more adult-oriented and was directed by Bob Clampett . Horton was voiced by Kent Rogers along with the Peter Lorre fish , Sara Berner voiced Mayzie and the elephant bird , Frank Graham narrated , and Mel Blanc performed most of the other voices . In producing the cartoon , Clampett 's unit did not use a storyboard , as was the customary practice ; instead , they sketched and wrote additional ideas for the cartoon in Clampett 's copy of Seuss ' book . Several elements that do not appear in the original book were added to the cartoon , including ;
Robert Emerson Clampett ( May 8 , 1913 - May 2 , 1984 ) was an American animator , producer , director , and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros. , and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil . Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood , and early on expressed an interest in animation and puppetry . After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931 , Clampett joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio 's newest short subjects , titled Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies . Clampett was promoted to a directorial position in 1937 and during his fifteen years at the studio , directed 84 cartoons later deemed classic and designed some of the studio 's most famous characters , including Porky Pig , Daffy Duck , and Tweety . Among Clampett 's most acclaimed films are Porky in Wackyland ( 1938 ) and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery ( 1946 ) . Clampett left Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1946 and turned his attention to television , creating the puppet show Time for Beany in 1949 . A later animated version of the series , titled Beany and Cecil , was initially broadcast on ABC in 1962 and was rerun until 1967 . The series is considered the first fully creator-driven television series , and 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 . 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 .
Isadore Friz Freleng ( August 21 , 1906 - May 26 , 1995 ) , often credited as I. Freleng , was an American animator , cartoonist , director , producer , and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons . He introduced and/or developed several of the studio 's biggest stars , including Bugs Bunny , Porky Pig , Tweety , Sylvester the Cat , Yosemite Sam ( to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance ) , and Speedy Gonzales . The senior director at Warners ' Termite Terrace studio , Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio ( a total of 266 ) , and is also the most honored of the Warner directors , having won five Academy Awards and three Emmy Awards [ disputed - discuss ] . After Warners closed down the animation studio in 1963 , Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises , which produced cartoons ( including The Pink Panther Show ) , feature film title sequences , and Saturday-morning cartoons through the early 1980s . The nickname Friz came from his friend , Hugh Harman , who initially nicknamed him Congressman Frizby after a fictional senator who appeared in satirical pieces in the Los Angeles Examiner . Over time , this shortened to Friz .
Charles Martin Jones ( September 21 , 1912 - February 22 , 2002 ) was an American animated filmmaker and cartoonist , best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts . He wrote , produced , and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck , Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner , Pepé Le Pew , Porky Pig , Michigan J. Frog , the Three Bears , and a slew of other Warner characters . After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962 , Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions , and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas ! . He later started his own studio , Chuck Jones Enterprises , which created several one-shot specials , and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works . Jones was nominated for eight Academy Awards , winning three times . He won for the cartoons For Scent-imental Reasons , So Much for So Little , and The Dot and the Line . Robin Williams presented Jones with an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his iconic work in the animation industry . Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones ' work at Warner Bros. , MGM and Chuck Jones Enterprises . He also said that the feud that there may have been between Jones and colleague Bob Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other . In Jerry Beck 's The 50 Greatest Cartoons , ten of the entries were directed by Jones , with four out of the five top cartoons ( including first place ) being Jones shorts .
Chow Hound is a Looney Tunes ( reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies in 1959 ) animated short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese . Released June 16 , 1951 , the voices are performed by Mel Blanc , Bea Benaderet and John T. Smith . Unlike many Warner Bros.-series cartoons featuring cats , such as Sylvester , as the antagonists of their targets ( such as birds ) and dogs serving to discourage their behavior , Chow Hound uses a different formula , wherein a large bulldog is the merciless bully , and the cat ( along with a mouse ) is his hapless victim.Chowhound is a German shepherd .
Robert Porter Bob McKimson Sr. ( October 13 , 1910 - September 29 , 1977 ) was an American animator and illustrator , best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. Cartoons and later DePatie-Freleng Enterprises . He wrote and directed many animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck , Porky Pig , Foghorn Leghorn , Hippety Hopper , The Tasmanian Devil and among other characters . He was also well known for defining Bugs Bunny 's look in the 1943 short Tortoise Wins by a Hare .
It 's Hummer Time is a cartoon in the Looney Tunes series directed by Robert McKimson and written by Warren Foster . Released on July 22 , 1950 , the cartoon stars a tuxedo cat who attempts to catch a hummingbird , only to get in the way of a bulldog who subjects him to various forms of torture for disturbing his sleep while doing so to the tune of Raymond Scott 's Powerhouse , the cat seeming to know what 's in store for him each time . All voice characterizations are performed by Mel Blanc .
Rocket-Bye Baby is a 1956 animated cartoon short in the Merrie Melodies series , directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros. Cartoons . The Michael Maltese story follows the adventures of a baby from Mars who ended up on Earth after the planets passed close to each other . It was Warner Brothers ' take on the borderline hysteria surrounding UFOs in the 1950s , augmented by the Russian space program and the Roswell Incident . The cartoon is one of very few Warner Brothers short films of the era that did not use Mel Blanc 's voice talent . Instead , Daws Butler , famous for the voices of Yogi Bear , Huckleberry Hound and other characters in the Hanna-Barbera oeuvre , and June Foray , most famous as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel , provided the vocal content of the film . No recurring characters were used .
Goo Goo Goliath is a 1954 Merrie Melodies mockumentary cartoon short directed by Friz Freleng , which features the drunk stork ( a.k.a . the steadfastly stinko stork from Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol . 6 ) as the main character .
The Hole Idea is a 1955 Looney Tunes cartoon directed and animated by Robert McKimson with character layout and background layout and paint by Richard H. Thomas . McKimson was only the sole animator on the short , as this was during the time he was re-assembling his unit after the brief 1953 shutdown of Warner Bros . Animation . It was a one-shot short ; that is , a short that does not feature a regular Looney Tunes character . This was the last Looney Tunes cartoon containing sequences ( the cartoon is in technicolor , but the newsreel film-within-the-film is in black-and-white , as was still common for newsreels in the era ) .
Now Hear This is a 1963 animated short film in the Looney Tunes series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons , Inc . It was directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble , and written by Jones and John Dunn . The title comes from a phrase used aboard American naval ships as an instruction to cease activity and listen to the announcement that will follow . The phrase was referred into another WB cartoon , Now Hare This , five years before this one . This cartoon is notable in that it has no rings at the opening title sequence ( see Title Sequence below ) . In addition , this cartoon is notable for resembling a UPA cartoon ( whose cartoons had used limited animation techniques ) more than a typical Warner Bros. short of the time .
Maurice Noble ( May 1 , 1911 - May 18 , 2001 ) was an American animation production designer , background artist and layout designer whose contributions to the industry spanned more than 60 years . He was a long-time associate of animation director Chuck Jones , especially at Warner Bros. in the 1950s . His work contributed to such cartoon classics as Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century , What 's Opera , Doc ? , and the Road Runner series .
Martian Through Georgia is a 1962 Looney Tunes cartoon , directed by Chuck Jones , Maurice Noble ( credited as a co-director ) , and Abe Levitow , and produced by Warner Bros. , although it features none of the established Warner Bros. characters . It is a one-off tale of a sad and bored Martian who travels to Earth in search of happiness . He lands his spaceship in the state of Georgia , hence the title . Once there , he decides he must impart his knowledge upon Earthlings ; indeed he believes this is what will bring him happiness . However , the people of Earth panic from the minute he lands , perceiving him as a monster . Ultimately , he realizes that he does not belong and returns home . The title is a pun on the song Marching Through Georgia .
Abraham Levitow ( July 2 , 1922 - May 8 , 1975 ) was an American animator who worked at Warner Bros. Cartoons , UPA and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) . Levitow was born in Los Angeles , California . He began working as an in-betweener at Warner Brothers Studios in 1940 . Levitow briefly left Warner Brothers when he was drafted during World War II , returning in 1945 . He first received animation credit in 1953 while working under the direction of Chuck Jones . He worked steadily for Jones over the remainder of the 1950s , and directed several cartoons for release in 1959 , including the Pepé Le Pew cartoon Really Scent . While working under Jones , he made characters ' joints more angular than most other animators . Those characters with fur ( Wile E. Coyote , for example ) looked especially shaggy in Levitow 's scenes . In 1961 , he moved to UPA and directed a series of Dick Tracy cartoons . Then in 1962 , he directed the first feature-length animated television special , Mr. Magoo 's Christmas Carol . 1962 also saw the release of his theatrical feature Gay Purr-ee , with the voices of Robert Goulet , Judy Garland , and others . By 1965 , he was working with Jones at MGM as an animator and a director in the Tom and Jerry series .
Page Miss Glory ( sometimes called Miss Glory to prevent confusion with the 1935 film of the same name ) is a 1936 cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions . The voices in this cartoon were provided by members of the Our Gang series . Most of this short takes place in the form of a dream sequence .
Frederick Bean Tex Avery ( February 26 , 1908 - August 26 , 1980 ) was an American animator and director , known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation . His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios , where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck , Porky Pig , Elmer Fudd , Droopy , Screwy Squirrel , George and Junior , and Chilly Willy . Gary Morris described Avery 's innovative approach :
Norman Normal is a 1968 animated cartoon short , produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation . It was produced as a collaboration between musician Paul Stookey ( of Peter , Paul and Mary fame ) and the studio 's animation department . Rather than being released as part of the Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies series , it was released as a one-time Cartoon Special . The short has been released on disc 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection : Volume 6 . The theme song , Norman Normal , was previously featured on Peter , Paul and Mary 's album The Peter , Paul and Mary Album ( released in 1966 ) . The title character was initially designed by pop artist Milton Glaser , and then refined by animator Volus Jones to create a character that would be easier to animate . Further cartoons starring Norman were envisaged by Stookey , although the studio 's closure the following year prevented these plans coming to fruition .
Alex Lovy ( September 2 , 1913 - February 14 , 1992 ) was an American animator . He spent the majority of his career as an animator and director at Walter Lantz Productions . He was later a producer at Hanna-Barbera , and also supervised the cartoon unit at Warner Bros. during its final days .