My top 30 favorite Bob Clampett cartoons. Bob Clampett is one of my all time favorite Looney Tunes directors, these are my own personal choices. 1. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) Error: please try again.
A list of cartoons that were directed by Bob Clampett: Porky and Gabby (1937) (with Ub Iwerks and Chuck Jones (assistant director) (uncredited)) (assistant director) (uncredited) Porky's Super Service (1937) (with Ub Iwerks and Chuck Jones (assistant director) (uncredited)) (assistant director) (uncredited) Porky's Badtime Story (1937) (with Chuck Jones (assistant director) …
Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer.He was best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil.Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood and, early in his life, showed an interest in …
Robert Emerson "Bob" 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 …
Apr 07, 2012 · Animator Mark Kausler blogs about his latest discovery – Bob Clampett’s first published cartoon art. It’s from 1925 and was published in the L.A. Junior Times, a children’s supplement to ...
In high school, Clampett drew a full-page comic about the nocturnal adventures of a pussycat, later published in color in a Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times. King Features took note and offered Clampett a "cartoonist's contract" to begin a seventy-five dollars a week after high school.
Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. (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. as well as the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil.
Among Clampett's most acclaimed films are Porky in Wackyland (1938) and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946). Clampett left Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1945 and turned his attention to television, creating the puppet show Time for Beany in 1949.
When he joined Harman-Ising, Bob Clampett was only 17 years old. By 1934, Schlesinger was in a bit of a crisis trying to find a well-known cartoon character.
Clampett submitted a drawing of a pig (Porky) and a black cat (Beans), and, in an imitation of the lettering on a can of Campbell's Pork and Beans, wrote "Clampett's Porky and Beans.". Porky debuted in the Friz Freleng-directed I Haven't Got a Hat in 1935.
From his early teens Clampett showed an interest in animation and puppetry. Clampett made hand puppets as a child and, before adolescence, had completed what animation historian Milt Gray describes as "a sort of prototype, a kind of nondescript dinosaur sock puppet that later evolved into Cecil.".
The elder Clampett was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1882, and he immigrated to the United States with his parents at age two in 1884. Clampett was displaying extraordinary art skills by the age of five.
Clampett with his animation unit probably taken in 1942. Bob Clampett with Mel Blanc. Clampett pictured with his colleagues Virgil Ross, Sid Sutherland, Tex Avery, and Chuck Jones.
In his later years, Bob Clampett toured college campuses and animation festivals as a lecturer on the history of animation. Clampett died of a heart attack in his hotel room in Detroit, Michigan, six days before his 71st birthday, while touring the country to promote the home video release of Beany & Cecil cartoons.
Early Years. Robert Emerson Clampett was born in San Diego, California, to Joan and Robert Clampett. When he was a toddler, he and his family moved to Hollywood, where they lived next door to actor Charlie Chaplin and his brother Syd. While growing up in Hollywood, Bob was interested in and influenced by actors Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney, ...
Later when Tex Avery joined in 1935, Clampett joined his unit alongside Chuck Jones , Virgil Ross, Sid Sutherland, Cecil Surry , Elmer Wait, and Robert Cannon. Clampett left Tex's unit in 1937 alongside Chuck Jones to work for Ub Iwerks at his studio in Beverly Hills where he directed his first cartoon " Porky's Badtime Story ".
He worked as a story editor on several cartoons including "Cockatoos for Two" and "Boston Beanie" which were both written by Warner Bros. storymen Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce. In 1947, he directed one cartoon titled "It's a Grand Old Nag" starring Charlie Horse.
Bob Clampett always held Walt Disney in high esteem and used him as a business model in creating his own brand. The Spies Report May 24, 2021 posted by Kamden Spies.
In 1936, Bob Clampett met author Edgar Rice Burroughs and tried to convince him he could sell a series of cartoons based on his John Carter of Mars stories. ANIMATION ANECDOTES August 17, 2018 posted by Jim Korkis.