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	Leon Schlesinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leon Schlesinger (1884 - December 25, 1949) was a producer at the Warner Bros. studio during the golden age of Hollywood animation.
		Leon Schlesinger gamely appeared as himself in Freleng's 1940 short You Ought to Be in Pictures, a short that combines live action with animation.
		Schlesinger remained head of the animation studio until 1944 when he sold his assets to Warner Bros. He continued to market the characters until his death in 1949.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Schlesinger (618 words)

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		Schlesinger, James Rodney Schlesinger, James Rodney, 1929-, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973-75) and Secretary of Energy (1977-79), b.
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	Tex Avery
		Leon Schlesinger originally approved of the ending, but then he screened the cartoon for Jack Warner, one of the heads of Warner Bros., who screened all cartoons before their release.
		To Schlesinger, though, it was not a work of art.
		It was this version of the cartoon that Schlesinger released, and he released it, as well as another Avery cartoon, Aviation Vacation, in the six-week suspension of Avery.
	lavender.fortunecity.com /fullmonty/22/avery.htm (1857 words)

	Leon Schlesinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Schlesinger largely took a "hands off" to the animation unit allowing his directors freedom to create what they wished.
		Schlesinger was also known his animators at least) for his lisp.
		Schlesinger remained head of the animation studio 1944 when he sold his assets to Bros. He continued to market the characters his death in 1949.
	www.freeglossary.com /Leon_Schlesinger (724 words)

	Bob Clampett, Boy Wonder Of Stage C
		In 1930, when Clampett was just seventeen years old, Leon Schlesinger viewed one of Bob's 16mm films and was so impressed with the young man's work, he offered him an assistant position at Harman-Ising Studio.
		He was filling in the gaps of that which he did not know with what he observed and was told, adding to his already extensive bank of know-how with information gleaned from the pros.
		When the Harman-Ising directing team broke with Schlesinger in the mid-1930's and made their move to MGM, Leon Schlesinger cut a deal with Jack Warner to put together and run an animation unit at Warner Bros. It was in the barely renovated outbuilding that Merrie Melodies was installed.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue4.06/4.06pages/storyclampett/storyclampett3.php3 (694 words)

	Merrie Melodies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1934, Schlesinger produced his first color Merrie Melodies shorts, Honeymoon Hotel and Beauty and the Beast, which were produced in Cinecolor (Disney had exclusive rights to the richer Technicolor process).
		In 1943, Schlesinger began producing Looney Tunes in color as well, and the two series became virtually indistinguishable except by their theme music and opening titles.
		By this time the theme music for Looney Tunes was "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by and and the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of "Merrily We Roll Along" by Charles Tobias, and Eddie Cantor.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Merrie_Melodies (501 words)

	Pacific Title and Art Studio - Leon Schlesinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Schlesinger refused Harman and Ising's requests for higher budgets to improve the quality of the cartoons, so the duo left for MGM and took their star character with them.
		Schlesinger assembled young talent from other studios, and since he had little interest in cartoon production, he allowed them to do pretty much whatever they wanted.
		Schlesinger sold his interest in the cartoon studio to WB in 1944, though he continued to supervise licensing and merchandising of the characters.
	www.pactitle.com /history/leon.php (246 words)

	ASIFA-Hollywood: The International Animated Film Society: Whatever Happened to Beans?:
		This cartoon was an early watershed for the Leon Schlesinger studio but now is mostly remembered as Porky`s first picture.
		Leon loved Porky because the audiences loved Porky and Leon was smart enough to know a good thing when he saw it.
		Leon Schlesinger was a lot smarter then his current reputation.
	www.asifa-hollywood.org /2004/10/whatever-happened-to-beans.html (502 words)

	Leon Schlesinger
		Schlesinger occasionally subcontracted to animation studios to produce animated titles, and one of these was Disney's.
		Schlesinger is said to have not wanted his animators on board his yacht, because he did not want any "poor people" on board.
		On the positive side, it was Schlesinger who selected the people that made Warner Bros. the cartoon studio that it was, giving the staff virtually no restrictions on material, aside from the pronouncement to put "loth of joketh" in the cartoons -- which leads to his most enduring memorial.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/schlesinger_l.htm (674 words)

	Those Wonderful Animation Restaurants
		Most animation fans are probably aware that Leon Schlesinger did not take an particularly active creative role in the production of his cartoon studio’s famous Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes.
		But when Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros., that company in 1944, that company concluded that the restaurant was outside its primary line of business.
		Leon Schlesinger and Ronald “the Gipper” Reagan (garbed for a costume ball) share a booth at Berrie Medleys in 1943.
	www.harrymccracken.com /stuffby/eats/eats3.htm (1440 words)

	Leon Schlesinger Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Schlesinger occasionally subcontracted to animation studios to produce titles, and at least one of these was for Disney.
		Schlesinger is said to have refused his directors the use of his yacht, on account of not wanting “poor people” on board.
		Leon Schlesinger Cartoons are referred to in Porky Pig’s Feat (Tashlin, 1943), and also in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (Freleng, 1944) by the Japanese soldier.
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	Volume 18 -- Sam Sheepdog to Sylvester Junior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Schlesinger is also said to have not wanted his animators on board his yacht, because he did not want any poor people there.
		On the positive side, it was Schlesinger who selected the people that made WB the studio it was, and gave the staff there virtually no restraints on the material, aside from an admonition to put loth of joketh in the cartoons.
		Schlesinger had a noticeable lisp, and the staffers creating Daffy Duck in the late 1930s (Jones credits Cal Howard) decided to base the ducks voice on Leon.
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	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Warner Bros. Cartoons
		Money man Leon Schlesinger saw this as his cue to get into the animation business.
		Warner liked the idea of doing sound cartoons, if only as a way of promoting their vast music library — each release, they stipulated in those early years, must highlight one or more of the songs they owned.
		Leon Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944, and retired, cutting out the middle man. By that time, the Looney Tunes had switched to color, just like the Merrie Melodies.
	www.toonopedia.com /warner.htm (1272 words)

	MichaelBarrier.com -- Interviews: Frank Tashlin
		He worked at the Schlesinger studio three times—the first time as an animator, when he was only twenty, and then twice as a director, once in the late thirties and again in the early forties.
		When they were working for Schlesinger, they had made several cartoons in which books would come to life to illustrate songs.
		Tashlin: No. No, I think all Leon was concerned about—I don't know how much he got for those cartoons, but we must have made them for a price, he made that profit in between, and that was it, and he made it on fifty-two cartoons a year, that was it.
	www.michaelbarrier.com /Interviews/Tashlin/tashlin_interview.htm (9821 words)

	MERRIE MELODIES FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The series was produced by Leon_Schlesinger Productions until 1944, when Schlesinger sold his studio to Warners.
		Producer Leon_Schlesinger had already produced one cartoon in the ''Looney_Tunes'' series, and its success prompted him to try to sell a sister series to Warner Bros. His selling point was that the new cartoons would feature music from the soundtracks of Warner Bros. films and would thus serve as advertisements for Warner Bros. recordings.
		Since cartoon production usually began with a soundtrack, animating a piece of music made it easier to devise plot elements and even characters.
	www.gottagetflowers.com /Merrie_Melodies (472 words)

	Anecdote - Leon Schlesinger - Daffy Duck: Funny Voithe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While brainstorming one day during the production of the animated short "Porky's Duck hunt" (1937), someone did an impersonation of producer Leon Schlesinger's lisp-laden voice, which the crew impulsively decided to use as the voice of a new character: Daffy Duck.
		Leon Schlesinger was going to have to see this film and - more important to our future - to hear his own voice emanating from that duck.
		Then the lights went on and Leon leaped to his feet, glared around, and said, 'Jeethus Christh, that'th a funny voithe!
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=15994 (263 words)

	Self-referential movies: You Ought To Be In Pictures
		In You Ought To Be in Pictures, made well into the era of production-line animation, the human involved is not the animator/creator, but "the Boss," Leon Schlesinger, the real-life head of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies unit at Warner Brothers.
		Schlesinger, unimpressed, says "Yeah, yeah, I'll think it over." Porky returns, gets his job back, and beats Daffy up.
		The notion of getting Leon Schlesinger to appear in a cartoon must have tickled the gag writers no end, and it's really funny to hear Daffy and Porky echoing thousands of disgruntled contract players as they kvetch about their careers and angle for that one big break.
	www.movies-seivom.org /YouOughtToBeInPictures.html (624 words)

	CARTOON RESEARCH: LEON SCHLESINGER COMICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This page has been established to collect the promotional comic strips of Leon Schlesinger.
		Schlesinger, producer of the classic Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies from 1930 to 1944, was not a cartoonist.
		Mark Evanier tells us that he suspects both strips were drawn by Chase Craig, a Schlesinger animator who would go on to become editor-in-chief at Western Publishing.
	www.cartoonresearch.com /kaz2.html (89 words)

	Warner Bros. Animation Chronology
		Schlesinger hires Fred "Tex" Avery, a Dallas cartoonist who had been working for Walter Lantz, as a supervisor for Merrie Melodies.
		Leon Schlesinger sells his interest in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies to Warner Bros. Jack Warner appoints Edward Selzer producer in charge of the animation department.
		Edward Selzer, executive producer of the cartoon division since the studio was bought from Leon Schlesinger, retires and is replaced by John Burton.
	www.hlla.com /reference/wb.html (4659 words)

	B-SIDE JOURNAL
		In 1932, with his Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series firmly established at Warner Bros., producer Leon Schlesinger made a deal with his distributor to remake a series of Ken Maynard silent movies (originally produced by First National Pictures which Warner Bros. acquired in 1928).
		Schlesinger's relationship with the Harman-Ising studio fell apart in early 1933, and he spent the next six months setting up Leon Schlesinger Productions to continue the popular Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies.
		For the next 11 years Leon devoted himself solely to his cartoon studio (or the racetrack), and left the features to Jack Warner.
	www.cartoonresearch.com /journal.html (3258 words)

	Looney Tunes interesting facts When you have seen just about every Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon there is
		Avery had been a blessing to Leon Schlesinger, WB cartoons' producer, because he had created Bugs Bunny.
		Due to Schlesinger's decision to cut the original ending to this cartoon (which is now lost) the headstrong Avery literally walked out on Schlesinger and moved to MGM.
		Now, the cartoon is seen on TV with the ending in which Bugs and the dog "brake" in midair before they are about to crash after falling off a cliff, and we hear Bugs say "Nyah, fooled ya didn't we?!" The original lost ending had Bugs fall of another cliff before the iris out.
	toolooney.goldenagecartoons.com /faq.htm (1389 words)

	Looney Tunes
		Below it appears "PRODUCED BY LEON SCHLESINGER." In 1944, this was changed to PRODUCED BY WARNER BROS. CARTOONS” and then "A WARNER BROS. CARTOON".
		End Titles: Until 1945, the "Porky In A Drum" closing was used, however on some Bugs Bunny cartoons a variant was used where Bugs broke the drum and said "And That's The End!" while sitting in the open drum and munching on a carrot.
		Near the bottom, either the Leon Schlesinger text/Released by WB combo was used (1943-44) or "A WARNER BROS. CARTOON" (1944-1963) was used.
	members.fortunecity.com /teamfx2000/Kids_Cartoons/looneytunes.htm (2360 words)

	The Straight Dope: What's the difference between a Looney Tune and a Merrie Melody?
		While there were differences between Tunes and Melodies, the main reason for having two separate series was that's the way they'd structured the deal.
		At the outset, the two series were made under separate agreements between Warner Brothers and producer Leon Schlesinger using different production teams.
		(4) Leon Schlesinger retired in 1944 and Warner Brothers began doing cartoon production in-house, after which time (and probably long before which time) there was no reason to maintain any distinction between Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a5_006.html (585 words)

	The Early Looney Tune Cartoons 1929-1935 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Harman and Ising used a pilot film (Bosko The Talk-Ink Kid) made in the Summer of 1929 to sell the idea of a cartoon series that would compete with Disney's Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies.
		Leon Schlesinger agreed to back the Harman and Ising cartoon series and contracted them.
		Leon Schlesinger took over as the credited producer of the Warner Brothers cartoons.
	www.vitaphone.org /bosko.html (362 words)

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