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 Encyclopedia: Walter Lantz Studio
Walter Lantz, who was Laemmle's part time chauffer and a veteran of the John R. Bray Studios with considerable experience in all elements of animation production, was selected to run the department.
Walter Lantz (April 27, 1900 – March 22, 1994) was an animator and cartoonist, best-known for the Walter Lantz Studio founding.
The biggest characters for the studio were Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
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Walter Lantz Studio was an American (The condition of living or the state of being alive) animation studio.
It was in operation in from 1929 to 1972 and was the principal supplier of animation for (additional info and facts about Universal Studios) Universal Studios, now part of the media conglomerate (additional info and facts about NBC Universal) NBC Universal.
The studio was formed originally as Universal Studio Cartoons on the initative of Universal movie mogul, (additional info and facts about Carl Laemmle) Carl Laemmle who was tired of the continuous company politics he was dealing with concerning contracted outside animation studios.
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 Walter Lantz
Lantz inherited the character of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, whose cartoons had been distributed by Universal up to that point (made first by Walt Disney, and then by a splinter group of Disney animators working for M. Winkler).
Lantz's output was steady but unspectacular through the 1930s, though such talents as Tex Avery and Preston Blair were among his animators.
In the early 1950s, Walter's wife Grace Stafford assumed the job and was the voice of Woody the rest of her life.
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 The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1941
By this time, Poppa Panda had become such a success that Lantz decided to have him star in his own cartoon.
It should be noted that Andy Panda himself does not appear here at all.
Pinto Colvig, who previously worked for Lantz as an inbetweener and animator in the studio's days of infancy, returned to voice the hunter in this cartoon.
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