Walter Lantz Animation Archive, Date (Inclusive): 1927-1972 Collection Number: 47 Creator: Lantz, Walter 1900-1994 Extent: Ca
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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1x0nb0d6 No online items Finding Aid for the Walter Lantz Animation Archive 1927-1972 Processed by Collection processed and machine-readable finding aid created by UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections staff. Performing Arts Special Collections UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections Young Research Library, Room 22478 Box 95175 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 Phone: (310) 825-7253 Fax: (310) 825-1210 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/performingarts/index.cfm ©2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Finding Aid for the Walter Lantz 47 1 Animation Archive 1927-1972 Descriptive Summary Title: Walter Lantz Animation Archive, Date (inclusive): 1927-1972 Collection number: 47 Creator: Lantz, Walter 1900-1994 Extent: ca. 800 boxes Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Performing Arts Special Collections Los Angeles, California 90095-1490 Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information. Abstract: Collection consists of materials related to the career of cartoon animator, Walter Lantz. Includes production files, subject files, cels, drawings, backgrounds, exposure sheets, and comic books and posters. Production files contain writer's and director's materials used in pre-and early production. Subject files contain correspondence, clippings, photographs and personal material. Comic books consist largely of foreign language publications from the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s including El Pajaro Loco, Haccke Hackspett, Nakke Nakuttaja, O Pica-Pau, Picchiarello, Pico, and Soren Spaette, and English language comics published from the 1940s-50s including Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Woody Woodpecker, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and New Funnies. Language of Material: Collection materials in English Restrictions on Access COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information. Restrictions on Use and Reproduction Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright. Provenance/Source of Acquisition Gift of Walter Lantz Productions, Inc., 1977, 1980, 1985. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Walter Lantz Animation Archive, 47, Performing Arts Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Lantz was born in New Rochelle, NY, Apr. 27, 1900; at 12 years old he took his first mail-order cartoon drawing course which affected his entire life and career; he began working as a copyboy for the Hearst newspaper, New York American, where he was recommended to Gregory LaCava; from that point he started his career as a cartoonist drawing characters such as the Katzenjammer kids, Happy Hooligan, Krazy Kat, and Mutt and Jeff; produced and directed his first cartoon series, Colonel Heeza Liar, at J.R. Bray Studios in NY (1922); moved to Hollywood, CA in 1926 and wrote for Max Sennet comedies; started with Universal Studios in 1928 where he produced Oswald Rabbit for 10 years; in 1930, he produced The king of jazz, the first technicolor cartoon and Bing Crosby's first sound recording in a film; married Grace Stafford in 1941 who later became the voice of Woody Woodpecker; Lantz started his own production company in 1935 and served as its president into the 1970s; Lantz who is best remembered for Woody Woodpecker, Chilly Willy, and Andy Panda, received an honorary Academy award, 1978; died Mar. 22, 1994, in Burbank, CA. Scope and Content Collection consists of materials related to the career of cartoon animator, Walter Lantz. Includes production files, subject files, cels, drawings, backgrounds, exposure sheets, and comic books and posters. Production files contain writer's and director's materials used in pre- and early production. Subject files contain correspondence, clippings, photographs and personal material. Comic books consist largely of foreign language publications from the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s including El pajaro loco, Haccke Hackspett, Nakke Nakuttaja, O Pica-Pau, Picchiarello, Pico, and Soren Spaette, and English language comics published from the 1940s-50s including Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Woody Woodpecker, Oswald the lucky rabbit, and New funnies. Includes a master index of materials by year and a chronology of productions, 1927-1972. Organization and Arrangement Finding Aid for the Walter Lantz 47 2 Animation Archive 1927-1972 Arranged in the following series: 1. Lantz Productions, 1930-1972 2. Commercials and Television Productions, 1950-1955 3. Government and Industrial Productions, 1937-1953 4. Character Sketches, 1927-1972 5. Merchandising and Scrapbooks, 1930-1972 6. Personal Papers, 1927-1972 7. Institutional Relationships: Papers and Records, 1927-1972 Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Subjects Walter Lantz---Archives. Animators --Archival resources. Cartoonists --Archival resources. Box 706 Mexican posters of Woody Woodpecker, Knothead, and Splinter circa 1972 (15 copies). Oversized material. Series 1. Lantz Productions 1930-1972 Scope and Content Note Items in this series consist of one or more of the following: backgrounds, cels, drawings, exposure sheets, layout drawings, music, pan backgrounds, pan cels, photostat models, promotional stills, scene/footage sheets, script synopsis, storyboards, etc. Arrangement Items are arranged alphabetically by production title. Subseries 1. $21 A Day Once A Month (Prod. #1007) 1941 Scope and Content Note Subseries 1 contains color pencil storyboard sketches, synopsis, promotional still, lyrics and sheet music for Lantz production, "$21 A Day Once A Month" (Prod. #1007). This is the first cartoon in Lantz's Swing Symphony Series and is built around the performance of the title song, an original by Felix Bernard and Ray Klages about life in the Army. It's set at "Camp Pain," situated within the Toyland Army section of the Toy Department of the "Maybe So Dept. Store" and features the toy soldiers and animals on the shelves coming to life and joining in to do all the orchestral and vocal parts. There are brief cameos by Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, and Snuffy Skunk. DIRECTOR: Walter Lantz. ANIMATION: Alex Lovy and Frank Tipper. STORY: Ben Hardaway and L.E. Elliot. MUSIC ARRANGEMENT: Darrell Calker. MUSIC: Felix Bernard. LYRICS: Ray Klages. RUNNING TIME: 7 minutes. "$21 A Day Once A Month" was released theatrically on December 1, 1941 and distributed by Universal Pictures. Box 27P, Folder 5 Color storyboard sketches and lyric sheet 1941 Physical Description: 4 1/2 x 7 3/4 storyboard (150 items); lyric sheet (1 item) Scope and Content Note Color pencil storyboard sketches and lyric sheet for Prod. #1007 "$21 A Day Once A Month." Finding Aid for the Walter Lantz 47 3 Animation Archive 1927-1972 Series 1.Lantz Productions 1930-1972 Subseries 1.$21 A Day Once A Month (Prod. #1007) 1941 Box 55P, Folder 4 Sheet music 1941 Physical Description: sheet music (2 items) Scope and Content Note Sheet music for the title song for Prod. #1007 "$21 A Day Once A Month." Box 74P, Folder Synopsis 1941 35 Physical Description: 8 1/2 x 11 synopsis (6 items) Scope and Content Note Synopsis for Prod. #1007 "$21 A Day Once A Month." Box 139P, Folder Promotional still 1941 18 Physical Description: 8 x 10 stills (1 item) Scope and Content Note Promotional still for Prod. #1007 "$21 A Day Once A Month." Subseries 2. 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda (Prod. #986) 1940 Scope and Content Note Subseries 2 contains pencil storyboard sketches and model sheets for Lantz production, "100 Pygmies and Andy Panda" (Prod. #986). Andy Panda (still an infant) pesters Papa, who's trying to take a nap. When he gets his magic wand in the mail, he practices on Papa and competes against the witch doctor of the Pygmies, who wants to see who has more magic. The production marks the final appearance of Dr. Whippletree and includes reused animation from "Life Begins for Andy Panda" (Prod. #974). This cartoon is rarely seen because of its black stereotype characters. DIRECTOR: Alex Lovy. MUSIC: Frank Marsales. RUNNING TIME: 7 minutes. "100 Pygmies and Andy Panda" was released theatrically on April 22, 1940 and was distributed by Universal Pictures. Box 59P, Folder Pencil storyboard sketches 1940 12 Physical Description: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 storyboard sketches (89 items) Scope and Content Note Pencil storyboard sketches for Prod. #986 "100 Pygmies and Andy Panda." Box 147P, Folder Color model sheet 1940 33 Physical Description: 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 model sheet (1 item) Scope and Content Note Color model sheet for Rochester Turtle. Box 148P, Folder Model sheet 1940 43 Physical Description: 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 model sheets (1 item) Scope and Content Note Original model sheet for Papa Panda. Finding Aid for the Walter Lantz 47 4 Animation Archive 1927-1972 Series 1.Lantz Productions 1930-1972 Subseries 3.Abou Ben Boogie (Prod. #D-7) 1944 Subseries 3. Abou Ben Boogie (Prod. #D-7) 1944 Scope and Content Note Subseries 3 contains color pencil storyboards, scene/foot sheets, model sheets, photostat model sheets, lyrics and sheet music for Lantz production "Abou Ben Boogie" (Prod. #D-7). In this Swing Symphony cartoon, things are hopping on an Arabian desert when local tribesmen gather at the Adobe Club for an evening of middle-eastern jitterbugging, boogie-woogie and truckin'. A very-shapely-indeed girl is dancing to a song about Abou Ben Boogie, the Oriental Rug Cutter, whose advances toward the girl are thwarted by a dancing horse.