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	Eddie Selzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward "Eddie" Selzer (January 12, 1893 - February 22, 1970) was producer of the Warner Bros. animation studio from 1944 to 1956.
		Selzer backed off the issue and apologized to Freleng the next day, a wise decision on two fronts: Warner Bros. did not lose Freleng's talents to a competing studio, and Sylvester and Tweety proved to be among the most endearing duos in Warner Bros. cartoons.
		Eddie Selzer died in 1970 at the age of 77.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eddie_Selzer (502 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Tasmanian Devil
		But Selzer's ban on Tasmanian Devils came in the form of a direct order — after Devil May Hare was released on June 19, 1954, he made it absolutely clear that there were to be no more cartoons about a stupid-looking, unfunny character like that.
		And since he was the man officially in charge of the Warner Bros. cartoon department, the boss of all the directors working there, that was the end of the matter.
		Selzer quickly issued new orders, and The Tasmanian Devil was back on the screen with Bedeviled Rabbit, which came out April 13, 1957.
	www.toonopedia.com /taz1.htm (547 words)

	MichaelBarrier.com -- Interviews: Lloyd Turner
		Selzer was suspicious; he'd go in to see George, and he was in the tank.
		Eddie drives up, and for some reason stops and talks to the guard for a minute.
		I think Eddie Selzer just wanted to cut the salaries by one half, and I don't think he liked Bill any more than he liked me. He didn't like either one of us, really.
	www.michaelbarrier.com /Interviews/Turner/interview_lloyd_turner.htm (9665 words)

	Re: Is it always the fault of the executives?
		Well, Jones' anecdote was about producer Eddie Selzer, not Leon Schlesinger (and technically speaking, I did only mention Schlesinger and Fred Quimby, not Selzer).
		Schlesinger usually went to the race track instead of interfering in the making of the cartoons.
		Selzer was appointed by Warners after Schlesinger retired in 1944, and he did try to interfere at first (according to McKimson, Selzer hated the Tasmanian Devil and told him not to make anymore after Taz' debut cartoon) but soon got the message when the animation crew ignored him.
	talkaboutanimation.com /group/rec.arts.animation/messages/135643.html (1258 words)

	Leon Schlesinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schlesinger also produced a number of B-movie Westerns in the 1930s.
		After Warner Bros. bought Schlesinger's studio, Eddie Selzer assumed Schlesinger's position as producer.
		This page was last modified 05:07, 15 July 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Schlesinger (618 words)

	LMT Tech Resource Store: Books : Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Eddie said "I don't want any gags about bullfights, bullfights aren't funny!", Jones and Mike Maltise had something.
		Though Eddie is quoted as saying about Pepe Le Pew, "Nobody'd laugh at that s**t!", he happily accepted the Oscar for "For Scent-imental Reasons", a Pepe Le Pew cartoon.
		That (and many more) hilarous titbits are spread throughout this superb book, including high-quality backgrounds and scenes for "Duck Dodgers in the 24th and 1/2 Century" and many others.
	www.elise.com /lmtstore/Reviews/ItemId/0374526206 (1076 words)

	Grave Hunter finds Friz Freleng burial place
		Freleng would successfully battle the feckless Eddie Selzer (successor to Leon Schlesinger) to produce cartoons starring Tweety (originally created by Bob Clampett) the way Freleng wanted.
		As usual, the artist was right, and Tweetie Pie (Freleng, 1947) proved to be a big hit, winning Freleng his first Oscar (although as producer, Selzer accepted and kept the Oscar as his own).
		This would be the start of a long string of cartoons co-starring the cat Sylvester, and a series that would win another Oscar (for Birds Anonymous in 1957), as well as other nominations.
	www.gravehunter.net /friz_freleng.htm (358 words)

	Animation Meat
		When the Warners producer who replaced Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, heard the plans to do a short about a skunk he thundered: "Absolutely Not!
		Nobody will like a cartoon skunk!" Chuck Jones recalled: "As soon as he said no, I knew we just had to do it." Selzer's final opinion:" Nobody'll laugh at that shit!" The short won an Oscar.
		Selzer later went on into network T.V. 1962- Bob Clampett's Beany and Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent premiered.
	www.animationmeat.com /funfacts/january/january.html (258 words)

	Edward Selzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Warner Bros. bought Leon Schlesinger's interest in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies in 1944, Selzer was assigned as studio head.
		Chuck Jones was immediately inspired by this idea and created BULLY FOR BUGS (1953), which is considered one of the best of the Bugs Bunny shorts.
		Despite the staff's loathing for him, Chuck Jones valued Selzer in retrospect as an essential nemesis that inspired them to do their best -- if only to oppose him.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho2/selzer_e.htm (276 words)

	The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: S
		Selzer had directed the Ripley’s Believe It or Not short subject series in the early 1930s, and had also been the publicist for Vitaphone between 1931 and 1933, before becoming head of studio publicity in the thirties.
		Chuck Jones in particular mocks Selzer in his autobiography, citing his reaction to Pépe le Pew (“Nobody would laugh at that sh*t”) and then gleefully accepting the Oscar won for the Pépe short For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) as his own.
		Curiously enough, it was Jones who put references to Selzer in his cartoons.
	www.conmicro.cx /~eocostello/wbcc/eowbcc-s.html (7129 words)

	Taz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These two films established the short-lived, very formulaic series, in which nearly every cartoon involves panic of animals or men, all fleeing the on-the-loose Devil, Taz encountering Bugs and craving the bunny as a meal, and Bugs outwitting the not-very-astute beast, usually by appealing to his gastronomic urges for other types of fauna.
		But in 1956, Selzer was asked by studio mogul Jack Warner what had become of the Tasmanian Devil, and Selzer replied that Taz had been a one-cartoon character.
		Warner commanded Selzer to produce more films with Taz, and Selzer passed the edict to McKimson, who, with writer Tedd Pierce, resumed Taz's career with "Bedevilled Rabbit" and shortly thereafter with "Ducking the Devil" (1957), pairing Taz with Daffy Duck.
	looney.goldenagecartoons.com /articles/tazarticle.html (1536 words)

	GAC Forums - Birthday greetings
		I think now would be the time to regale you with an excerpt from Chuck Jones' book "Chuck Reducks"...
		"Mike Maltese and I were in one of our dreamy reveries when the clatter of [Eddie Selzer's] dentures drew our attention to the stubby marplot of our stories standing a-tremble in a rage at our doorway.
		Eddie had the fascinating ability to foam at the eyes, which he did when he was happy about the faults of others.
	forums.goldenagecartoons.com /printthread.php?t=552 (391 words)

	January 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They are driven out by right wing mobs and chaos reigns in the streets.
		Selzer later went on into network T.V. Today is the end of the twelve days of Christmas when the three kings visited Bethlehem.
		The Magi were the priestly caste of ancient Persia and the Zoroastrian religion.They were believed to predate the Persians and come from the Chaldaeans,the people who invented the science of astronomy.
	www.mpsc839.org /_Info/ALMANAC/01JAN/06.HTM (477 words)

	Nuance and Suggestion in the Tweety and Sylvester Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In an earlier cartoon, Freleng had Sylvester chase a woodpecker, but now he saw Tweety as a likelier foe for the lisping cat.
		General producer Eddie Selzer, an appointee by the high echelons at Warner Brothers, knew little or nothing about cartoon production but nonetheless fancied himself to be an expert thereof, and he ordered Freleng not to pair Sylvester with Tweety, but to instead again use the woodpecker to contest Sylvester.
		The completed cartoon short, "Tweetie Pie", featured Tweety as an orphaned bird adopted on a cold winter's day by Sylvester's mistress.
	looney.goldenagecartoons.com /articles/tasarticle2.html (3602 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Love Letters" from Love Letters -- Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Eddie Heyman
		Captain Eddie -- Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen, Sol Halprin; Sound Effects by Roger Heman, Harry Leonard
		They Were Expendable -- Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Robert A. MacDonald; Sound Effects by Michael Steinore
	www.iowamovieguy.com /1945.html (1296 words)

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