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Finding Aid for the Walter Lantz Productions Collection of Music for Woody Woodpecker Cartoons and Other Productions, 1940-1960
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Title: Walter Lantz Productions Collection of Music for Woody Woodpecker Cartoons and Other Productions
Date (inclusive): 1940-1960
Collection number: 35-M
Creator:
Walter Lantz Productions, Inc.
Extent:
87 boxes.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. 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
Transferred from the Theater Arts Library in 1977.
Collection originally a gift of Walter Lantz Productions, Inc.
[Identification of item], Walter Lantz Productions Collection of Music for Woody Woodpecker Cartoons and Other Productions
(Collection Number 35-M). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
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 Will,
and Andy Panda, received an honorary Academy award, 1978; died Mar. 22, 1994, in Burbank,
CA.
The bulk of the collection consists of materials related to the music production process
at the Lantz Studios from 1951-70. Includes the holographs of scores, parts, and detail
sheets for Woody Woodpecker cartoons and various commercials. Also includes music
sketches, recording routines, reports, and sorted printed classical and popular sheet
music used as source material for various productions. Production scores include the work
of Lantz music directors Darrell Calker, Frank Churchill, Walter Greene, James Dietrich,
Frank Marsales, Eugene Poddany, and Clarence Wheeler.
Arranged in the following series:
- Production scores
- Miscellaneous scores.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Walter Lantz Productions --Archives.
Production music --Archival resources.
Production music --Scores.
Television music --Scores.
Music manuscripts.
Scores.
Walter Lantz Animation Archive (Collection 47).
Available at Library Special
Collections, University Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.