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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
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.
[Identification of item], Walter Lantz Animation Archive, 47, Performing Arts
Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
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.
Arranged in the following series:
- Lantz Productions, 1930-1972
- Commercials and Television Productions, 1950-1955
- Government and Industrial Productions, 1937-1953
- Character Sketches, 1927-1972
- Merchandising and Scrapbooks, 1930-1972
- Personal Papers, 1927-1972
- Institutional Relationships: Papers and Records, 1927-1972
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Walter Lantz---Archives.
Animators --Archival resources.
Cartoonists --Archival resources.