There’s no debate that animator Irving Spector was, like John Dunn, an under appreciated cartoonist and storyman — working in animation at a time when the finished product didn’t do justice to the talents behind it. Thanks to Spector’s son, Irv’s work is getting some long overdue appreciation in a blog dedicated to his work.

Among the best of the late Paramount output, Chew Chew Baby was produced during a brief period when the studio put some actual effort behind its limited animation. This particular film is one of my favorites, and contains one of Jackson Beck’s (no relation) best performances. It’s also notable as one of the last cartoons to ignore political correctness and feature a pygmy cannibal – as well as one of the last cartoons credited to Isadore Sparber, released a few days before his death in August 1958.

This is also one of the “Harveytoons” not contained in Classic Media’s Complete Harveytoons DVD collection. Mike Van Eaton (of Van Eaton Gallery) recently unearthed a cache of original Spector storyboards from this film (click thumbnails below to enlarge). These drawings are a lot of fun – and this film may be the closest representation of Spector’s design style to make it faithfully to the screen.

A
The Abominable Snow-Rabbit
Acrobatty Bunny
The Adventures Of The Road Runner
Africa Squeaks
A-Haunting We Will Go
Ain’t Nature Grand
Ain’t She Tweet
Ain’t That Ducky
Ain’t We Got Fun
A-Lad-In Bagdad
A-Lad-In His Lamp
Ali Baba Bound
Ali Baba Bunny
All This And Rabbit Stew
All A Bir-r-rd
All Fowled Up
Aloha Hooey
Along Came Daffy
Along Flirtation Walk
Alpine Antics
Angel Puss
Ant Pasted
Apes Of Wrath
Aqua Duck
The Aristo-Cat
Assault And Peppered
The Astro-Duck
At Your Service Madame
Aviation Vacation
Awful Orphan

B
Baby Bottleneck
Baby Buggy Bunny
Bacall To Arms
Backwoods Bunny
Back Alley Oproar
Bad Ol’ Putty Tat
Ballot Box Bunny
Banty Raids
Barbary Coast Bunny
Bars And Stripes Forever
Bartholomew Versus The Wheel
Baseball Bugs
The Bashful Buzzard
Baton Bunny
Battling Bosko
Beanstalk Bunny
Bear Feat
A Bear For Punishment
The Bear’s Tale
Beau Bosko
Beauty And The Beast
Bedeviled Rabbit
Bedtime For Sniffles
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
Beep Beep
Beep Prepared
Behind The Meat Ball
Believe It Or Else!
Bell Hoppy
Bewitched Bunny
Big Game Haunt
Big Hearted Bosko
Big House Bunny
Big Man From The North
The Big Snooze
Big Top Bunny
Bill Of Hare
Billboard Frolics
Bingo Crosbyana
The Bird Came C.O.D.
A Bird In A Bonnet
A Bird In A Guilty Cage
Birds Anonymous
Birds Of A Father
Birdy And The Beast
Birth Of A Notion
The Blow Out
Bonanza Bunny
A Bone For A Bone
Bone Sweet Bone
Boobs In The Woods
Booby Hatched
Book Revue
Boom Boom
The Booze Hangs High
Bosko And Bruno
Bosko And Honey
Bosko At The Beach
Bosko At The Zoo
Bosko In Dutch
Bosko In Person
Bosko Shipwrecked
Bosko The Doughboy
Bosko The Drawback
Bosko The Lumberjack
Bosko The Musketeer
Bosko The Sheepherder
Bosko The Speed King
Bosko The Talk-Ink Kid
Bosko’s Dizzy Date
Bosko’s Dog Race
Bosko’s Fox Hunt
Bosko’s Holiday
Bosko’s Knight-Mare
Bosko’s Mechanical Man
Bosko’s Party
Bosko’s Picture Show
Bosko’s Soda Fountain
Bosko’s Store
Bosko’s Woodland Daze
Boston Quackie
Boulder Wham!
Boulevardier From The Bronx
Bowery Bugs
Boyhood Daze
Box Car Blues
The Brave Little Bat
A Broken Leghorn
Broom-Stick Bunny
Brother Brat
Buccaneer Bunny
Buckaroo Bugs
Buddy And Towser
Buddy In Africa
Buddy Of The Apes
Buddy Of The Legion
Buddy The Dentist
Buddy The Detective
Buddy The Gee Man
Buddy The Gob
Buddy The Woodsman
Buddy Steps Out
Buddy’s Adventures
Buddy’s Bearcats
Buddy’s Beer Garden
Buddy’s Bug Hunt
Buddy’s Circus
Buddy’s Day Out
Buddy’s Garage
Buddy’s Lost World
Buddy’s Pony Express
Buddy’s Show Boat
Buddy’s Theatre
Buddy’s Trolley Troubles
Bug Parade
Bugged By A Bee
Bugs And Thugs
Bugs Bonnets
Bugs Bunny And The Three Bears
Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid
Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
Bugsy And Mugsy
Bully For Bugs
Bunker Hill Bunny
Bunny And Claude: We Rob Carrot Patches
Bunny Hugged
Bushy Hare
Busy Bakers
By Word Of Mouse
Bye Bye Bluebeard

C
The Cagey Canary
Calling Dr. Porky
Canary Row
Canned Feud
Cannery Woe
Captain Hareblower
A Cartoonist’s Nightmare
Case Of The Missing Hare
The Case Of The Stuttering Pig
The Cat Came Back
Cat Feud
Catch As Cats Can
Cats And Bruises
Cat’s A-Weigh
The Cat’s Bah
Cat’s Paw
The Cat’s Tale
Cat-Tails For Two
Catty Cornered
Caveman Inki
Ceiling Hero
Chaser On The Rocks
Cheese Chasers
Cheese It The Cat
The Chewin’ Bruin
Chili Corn Corny
Chili Weather
Chicken Jitters
Chimp And Zee
China Jones
Chow Hound
Cinderella Meets Fella
Circus Today
Claws In The Lease
Claws For Alarm
Clean Pastures
Clippety Clobbered
Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs
The Coo-Coo Nut Grove
Cool Cat
Compressed Hare
Confederate Honey
Confusions Of A Nutzy Spy
Congo Jazz
Conrad The Sailor
Corn On The Cop
Corn Plastered
A Corny Concerto
Count Me Out
Country Boy
Country Mouse
A Coy Decoy
Cracked Ice
Cracked Quack
The Crackpot Quail
Crazy Cruise
Crockett Doodle Doo
Crosby, Columbo And Vallee
Cross Country Detours
Crowing Pains
Crow’s Feat
The Curious Puppy
Curtain Razor

D
Daffy Dilly
The Daffy Doc
Daffy Doodles
Daffy Duck And Egghead
Daffy Duck And The Dinosaur
Daffy Duck Hunt
Daffy Duck In Hollywood
Daffy Duck Slept Here
The Daffy Duckaroo
Daffy Rents
Daffy The Commando
Daffy’s Diner
Daffy’s Inn Trouble
Daffy’s Southern Exposure
Dangerous Dan McFoo
A Day At The Zoo
Deduce, You Say
Design For Leaving
Detouring America
Devil May Hare
Devil’s Feud Cake
D’Fightin’ Ones
Dime To Retire
Ding Dog Daddy
The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
The Dixie Fryer
Dr. Devil And Mr. Hare
Dr. Jerkyl’s Hide
Dog Collared
Dog Daze
Doggone Cats
Dog Gone Modern
Dog Gone People
Dog Gone South
Dog Pounded
Dog Tales
Dog Tired
Don’t Axe Me
Don’t Give Up The Sheep
Don’t Look Now
The Door
Double Chaser
Double Or Mutton
Dough For The Do-Do
Dough-Ray-Meow
The Dover Boys…
The Draft Horse
Draftee Daffy
Drip-Along Daffy
Duck Amuck
Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
Duck Soup To Nuts
Ducking The Devil
The Ducksters
The Ducktators
Dumb Patrol (1931)
Dumb Patrol (1964)

E
Each Dawn I Crow
The Eager Beaver
Early To Bet
The Early Worm Gets The Bird
Easter Yeggs
Easy Peckins
Eatin’ On The Cuff
The Egg-Cited Rooster
The Egg Collector
Egghead Rides Again
An Egg Scramble
8 Ball Bunny
Elmer’s Candid Camera
Elmer’s Pet Rabbit

F
Fagin’s Freshman
Fair And Worm-er
Fair Haired Hare
Falling Hare
False Hare
Farm Frolics
Fast And Furry-ous
Fast Buck Duck
Fastest With The Mostest
Feather Bluster
Feather Dusted
Feather Finger
A Feather In His Hare
Feed The Kitty
Feline Frame-Up
The Fella With A Fiddle
A Feud There Was
Feud With A Dude
Fiesta Fiasco
The Fifth-Column Mouse
The Fighting 69-1/2th
The Film Fan
Fin ‘N Catty
The Fire Alarm
Fish And Slips
Fish Tales
Fistic Mystic
Flop Goes The Weasel
Flowers For Madame
Flying Circus
Fool Coverage
The Foghorn Leghorn
Foney Fables
For Scent-imental Reasons
14 Carrot Rabbit
Forward March Hare
Fowl Weather
A Fox In A Fix
Fox Terror
Fox Pop
Foxy By Proxy
The Foxy Duckling
A Fractured Leghorn
Freddy The Freshman
French Rarebit
Fresh Airedale
Fresh Fish
Fresh Hare
Freudy Cat
Frigid Hare
From A To Z-z-z-z-z
From Hand To Mouse
From Hare To Heir

G
A Gander At Mother Goose
The Gay Anties
Gee Whiz-z-z
Get Rich Quick Porky
Ghost Wanted
Gift Wrapped
The Girl At The Ironing Board
Go Away Stowaway
Go Fly A Kit
Go Go Amigo
Going! Going! Gosh
Goin’ To Heaven On A Mule
Gold Diggers Of ‘49
Gold Rush Daze
Golden Yeggs
Goldilocks And The Jivin’ Bears
Goldimouse And The Three Cats
Gone Batty
Gonzales Tamales
Goo Goo Goliath
The Good Egg
Good Night Elmer
Good Noose
The Goofy Gophers
Goofy Groceries
Gopher Broke
Gopher Goofy
Goopy Geer
Gorilla My Dreams
A Great Big Bunch Of You
The Great Carrot Train Robbery
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Greedy For Tweety
Greetings Bait
The Grey-Hounded Hare
A Gruesome Twosome
Guided Muscle

H
Hair-Raising Hare
Half Fare Hare
Hamateur Night
A Ham In A Role
The Hardship Of Miles Standish
Hare-Abian Nights
Hairied And Hurried
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
Hare-Breadth Hurry
Hare Brush
Hare Conditioned
Hare Do
Hare Force
A Hare Grows In Manhattan
Hare-Less Wolf
Hare Lift
Hare Remover
Hare Ribbin’
Hare Splitter
Hare Tonic
Hare Trigger
Hare Trimmed
Hare-Um Scare-Um
Hare-Way To The Stars
Hare We Go
Haredevil Hare
The Hasty Hare
The Haunted Mouse
Have You Got Any Castles
Hawaiian Aye Aye
He Was Her Man
Heaven Scent
The Heckling Hare
Heir Conditioned
Hen House Henery
The Henpecked Duck
The Hep Cat
Here Today, Gone Tamale
Herr Meets Hare
Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt
A Hick, A Slick, And A Chick
The High And The Flighty
High Diving Hare
High Note
Highway Runnery
Hillbilly Hare
Hip Hip Hurry
Hippety Hopper
Hippydrome Tiger
His Bitter Half
His Hare Raising Tale
Hiss And Make Up
Hittin’ The Trail For Hallelujah Land
Hobo Bobo
Hobo Gadget Band
Hobby Horse Laffs
Hocus Pocus Pow-Wow
Hold Anything
Hold The Lion Please
The Hole Idea
Holiday For Drumsticks
Holiday For Shoestrings
Holiday Highlights
Hollywood Canine Canteen
Hollywood Capers
Hollywood Daffy
Hollywood Steps Out
Home Tweet Home
Homeless Hare
Honeymoon Hotel
The Honey-Mousers
Honey’s Money
Hook, Line And Stinker
Hop And Go
Hop, Look And Listen
Hop, Skip, And A Chump
Hopalong Casualty
Hoppy Daze
Hoppy Go Lucky
Horse Hare
A Horsefly Fleas
Horton Hatches The Egg
Hot Cross Bunny
Hot Rod And Reel
A Hound For Trouble
House Hunting Mice
How Do I Know It’s Sunday
Hurdy Gurdy Hare
Hush My Mouse
Hyde And Go Tweet
Hyde And Hare
The Hypo-Chondri-Cat

I
I Gopher You
I Got Plenty Of Mutton
I Haven’t Got A Hat
I Like Mountain Music
I Love A Parade
I Love To Singa
I Only Have Eyes For You
I Taw A Putty Tat
I Wanna Be A Sailor
I Wanna Play House
I Was A Teenage Thumb
I Wish I Had Wings
I’d Love To Take Orders From You
I’m A Big Shot Now
I’ve Got To Sing A Torch Song
The Iceman Ducketh
The Impatient Patient
Injun Trouble (1938)
Injun Trouble (1969)
Inki And The Lion
Inki And The Minah Bird
Inki At The Circus
Into Your Dance
An Itch In Time
The Isle Of Pingo Pongo
It’s An Ill Wind
It’s Got Me Again
It’s Hummer Time
It’s Nice To Have A Mouse Around The House

J
Jack Wabbit And The Beanstalk
Jeepers Creepers
The Jet Cage
Joe Glow The Firefly
Johnny Smith And Poker-Huntas
Jumpin’ Jupiter
Jungle Jitters
Just Plane Beep

K
Katnip Kollege
A Kiddie’s Kitty
Kiddin’ The Kitten
Kiss Me Cat
Kit For Kat
Kitty Kornered
Knight-Mare Hare
Knights Must Fall
Knighty-Knight Bugs
Kristopher Kolumbus Jr.

L
The Lady In Red
Lady Play Your Mandolin
Land Of The Midnight Fun
The Last Hungry Cat
The Leghorn Blows At Midnight
Leghorn Swoggled
Let It Be Me
Lickety Splat
Life With Feathers
Lighter Than Hare
Lighthouse Mouse
Lights Fantastic
The Lion’s Busy
Little Beau Pepe
Little Beau Porky
Little Blabbermouse
Little Brother Rat
Little Boy Boo
Little Dutch Plate
Little Lion Hunter
Little Orphan Airedale
Little Pancho Vanilla
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Little Red Rodent Hood
Little Red Walking Hood
The Lone Stranger And Porky
Long Haired Hare
Lost And Foundling
Louvre Come Back To Me!
Love And Curses
Lovelorn Leghorn
Lumber Jack-Rabbit
Lumber Jerks
The Lyin’ Mouse

M
Mad As A Mars Hare
The Major Lied ‘Til Dawn
Malibu Beach Party
Martian Through Georgia
Meatless Flyday
Meet John Doughboy
Merlin The Magic Mouse
The Merry Old Soul
A Message To Gracias
Mexicali Shmoes
Mexican Boarders
Mexican Cat Dance
Mexican Joyride
Mexican Mousepiece
Mice Follies
The Mice Will Play
Mighty Hunters
The Miller’s Daughter
The Million Hare
Milk And Money
Miss Glory
Mississippi Hare
Mixed Master
Moby Duck
Moonlight For Two
Mother Was A Rooster
Mouse And Garden
A Mouse Divided
Mouse Mazurka
Mouse Menace
The Mouse-Merized Cat
The Mouse On 57th Street
Mouse-Placed Kitten
Mouse-Taken Identity
The Mouse That Jack Built
Mouse-Warming
Mouse Wreckers
Mr. And Mrs. Is The Name
Much Ado About Nutting
Mucho Locos
Muscle Tussle
The Music Mice-Tro
Mutiny On The Bunny
A Mutt In A Rut
Muzzle Tough
My Bunny Lies Over The Sea
My Favorite Duck
My Green Fedora
My Little Buckeroo
My Little Duckaroo

N
Napoleon Bunny-Part
Nasty Quacks
Naughty But Mice
Naughty Neighbors
Nelly’s Folly
The Night Watchman
No Barking
No Parking Hare
Norman Normal
Notes To You
Nothing But The Tooth
Now Hare This
Now Hear This
Now That Summer Is Gone
Nuts And Volts
Nutty News

O
Odor Of The Day
Odor-Able Kitty
Of Fox And Hounds
Of Rice And Hen
Of Thee I Sting
Often An Orphan
The Oily American
Oily Hare
Old Glory
The Old Grey Hare
One Froggy Evening
One Meat Brawl
One More Time
One Step Ahead Of My Shadow
Operation: Rabbit
The Organ Grinder
Out And Out Rout

P
Pagan Moon
Pancho’s Hideaway
Pappy’s Puppy
Past Perfumance
Patient Porky
Paying The Piper
A Peck O’ Trouble
Peck Up Your Troubles
The Penguin Parade
People Are Bunny
Person To Bunny
A Pest In The House
The Pest That Came To Dinner
Pests For Guests
Pettin’ In The Park
The Phantom Ship
Picador Porky
The Pied Piper Of Guadalupe
Pied Piper Porky
Pigs In A Polka
Pigs Is Pigs
Pikers Peak
Pilgrim Porky
A Pizza Tweety Pie
Pizzicato Pussycat
Plane Daffy
Plane Dippy
Plenty Of Money And You
Plop Goes The Weasel
Polar Pals
Pop Goes Your Heart
Pop ‘Im Pop!
Porky And Daffy
Porky And Gabby
Porky And Teabiscuit
Porky At The Crocadero
Porky Chops
Porky In Egypt
Porky In The North Woods
Porky In Wackyland
Porky Pig’s Feat
Porky The Fireman
Porky The Giant Killer
Porky The Gob
Porky The Rain Maker
Porky The Wrestler
Porky’s Ant
Porky’s Badtime Story
Porky’s Baseball Broadcast
Porky’s Bear Facts
Porky’s Building
Porky’s Cafe
Porky’s Double Trouble
Porky’s Duck Hunt
Porky’s Five And Ten
Porky’s Garden
Porky’s Hare Hunt
Porky’s Hero Agency
Porky’s Hired Hand
Porky’s Hotel
Porky’s Last Stand
Porky’s Midnight Matinee
Porky’s Movie Mystery
Porky’s Moving Day
Porky’s Naughty Nephew
Porky’s Party
Porky’s Pastry Pirates
Porky’s Pet
Porky’s Phoney Express
Porky’s Picnic
Porky’s Pooch
Porky’s Poor Fish
Porky’s Poppa
Porky’s Poultry Plant
Porky’s Preview
Porky’s Prize Pony
Porky’s Railroad
Porky’s Road Race
Porky’s Romance
Porky’s Snooze Reel
Porky’s Spring Planting
Porky’s Super Service
Porky’s Tire Trouble
Prehistoric Porky
Pre-Hysterical Hare
Prest-O Change-O
Prince Violent
The Prize Pest
Putty Tat Trouble
Punch Trunk
Puss ‘N Booty

Q
Quack Shot
The Quacker Tracker
Quackodile Tears
The Queen Was In The Parlor
Quentin Quail

R
Rabbit Every Monday
Rabbit Fire
Rabbit Hood
Rabbit Of Seville
Rabbit Punch
Rabbit Rampage
Rabbit Romeo
Rabbit Seasoning
Rabbit Stew And Rabbits Too!
Rabbit Transit
Rabbit’s Feat
Rabbit’s Kin
Rabbitson Crusoe
Racketeer Rabbit
The Rattled Rooster
Raw! Raw! Rooster
Ready, Set, Zoom!
Ready, Woolen And Able
Really Scent
Rebel Rabbit
The Rebel Without Claws
Red Headed Baby
Red Riding Hoodwinked
Rhapsody In Rivets
Rhapsody Rabbit
Rhythm In The Bow
Ride Him Bosko
Riff Raffy Daffy
Road To Andalay
Road-Runner A Go Go
Robin Hood Daffy
Robin Hood Makes Good
Robinson Crusoe Jr.
Robot Rabbit
Rocket-Bye Baby
Rocket Squad
Rodent To Stardom
Roman Legion Hare
Rookie Revue
Room And Bird
Roughly Squeaking
Rover’s Rival
Run Run Sweet Road Runner
Rushing Roulette
Russian Rhapsody

S
Saddle Silly
Sahara Hare
Sandy Claws
Saps In Chaps
Satan’s Waitin’
Scalp Trouble
Scaredy Cat
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Scent-imental Over You
Scent-imental Romeo
A Scent Of The Matterhorn
Scrambled Aches
Scrap Happy Daffy
Screwball Football
See Ya Later Gladiator
Senorella And The Glass Huarache
September In The Rain
Shake Your Powder Puff
Shamrock And Roll
Shanghaied Shipmates
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
She Was An Acrobat’s Daughter
Sheep Ahoy
A Sheep In The Deep
The Sheepish Wolf
The Shell-Shocked Egg
Shishkabugs
Shop, Look And Listen
Shot And Bothered
Show Biz Bugs
Shuffle Off To Buffalo
Sinking In The Bathtub
Sioux Me
Sittin’ On A Backyard Fence
Skyscraper Caper
Slap Happy Pappy
The Slap-Hoppy Mouse
Sleepy Time Possum
The Slick Chick
Slick Hare
Slightly Daffy
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
The Sneezing Weasel
Sniffles And The Bookworm
Sniffles Bells The Cat
Sniffles Takes A Trip
Snow Business
Snow Excuse
Snow Man’s Land
Snow Time For Comedy
Sock A Doodle Do
The Solid Tin Coyote
The Sour Puss
Southern Fried Rabbit
Speaking Of The Weather
Speedy Ghost To Town
Speedy Gonzales
Sport Chumpions
The Spy Swatter
The Squawkin’ Hawk
A Squeak In The Deep
Stage Door Cartoon
Stage Fright
A Star Is Bored
A Star Is Hatched
Steal Wool
Stooge For A Mouse
Stop! Look! And Hasten!
Stork Naked
Strangled Eggs
Streamlined Greta Green
A Street Cat Named Sylvester
Strife With Father
The Stupid Cupid
Stupor Duck
The Stupor Salesman
Sugar And Spies
A Sunbonnet Blue
Sunday Go To Meetin’ Time
Super Rabbit
The Super Snooper
Suppressed Duck
Swallow The Leader
Sweet Sioux
The Swooner Crooner
Swing Ding Amigo

T
Tabasco Road
A Tale Of Two Kitties
A Tale Of Two Mice
A Taste Of Catnip
Tease For Two
Terrier Stricken
There Auto Be A Law
There They Go-Go-Go
This Is A Life?
Those Beautiful Dames
Those Were Wonderful Days
Three Little Bops
3-Ring Wing Ding
Three’s A Crowd
Thugs With Dirty Mugs
Thumb Fun
Tick Tock Tuckered
The Timid Toreador
Tin Pan Alley Cats
Tired And Feathered
To Beep Or Not To Beep
To Duck Or Not To Duck
To Hare Is Human
To Itch His Own
Tokio Jokio
Tom Thumb In Trouble
Tom Tom Tomcat
Tom Turk And Daffy
Too Hop To Handle
Tortilla Flaps
Tortoise Beats Hare
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
Touche And Go
Toy Trouble
Toy Town Hall
Transylvania 6-5000
Trap Happy Porky
Tree Cornered Tweety
Tree For Two
The Tree’s Knees
The Trial Of Mr. Wolf
Trick Or Tweet
Trip For Tat
Tugboat Granny
The Turn-Tale Wolf
Tweet And Lovely
Tweet And Sour
Tweet Dreams
Tweet Tweet Tweety
Tweet Zoo
Tweetie Pie
Tweety And The Beanstalk
Tweety’s Circus
Tweety’s S.O.S.
Two Crows From Tacos
Two Gophers From Texas
Two Scent’s Worth
Two’s A Crowd

U
The Unbearable Bear
Uncle Tom’s Bungalow
The Unexpected Pest
The Unmentionables
Unnatural History
The Unruly Hare
Ups ‘N Downs
The Up-Standing Sitter
Upswept Hare

V
Viva Buddy
The Village Smithy

W
Wabbit Twouble
The Wabbit Who Came To Supper
Wackiki Wabbit
Wacky Blackout
The Wacky Wabbit
Wacky Wildlife
The Wacky Worm
A Waggily Tale
Wagon Heels
Wake Up The Gypsy In Me
Walky Talky Hawky
War And Pieces
Water Water Every Hare
We The Animals Squeak
The Weakly Reporter
The Wearing Of The Grin
Weasel Stop
Weasel While You Work
Well Worn Daffy
We’re In The Money
West Of The Pesos
Westward Whoa!
Wet Hare
What Makes Daffy Duck
What Price Porky
What’s Brewin’, Bruin?
What’s Cookin’ Doc?
What’s My Lion?
What’s Opera, Doc?
What’s Up, Doc?
When I Yoo Hoo
Which Is Witch?
Who Scent You?
Whoa, Be Gone
Wholly Smoke
Who’s Kitten Who?
Who’s Who In The Zoo
Why Do I Dream These Dreams?
Wideo Wabbit
Wild About Hurry
Wild And Woolly Hare
The Wild Chase
A Wild Hare
Wild Over You
Wild Wife
Wild Wild World
The Windblown Hare
Wise Quackers
The Wise Quacking Duck
Wise Quacks
A Witch’s Tangled Hare
The Woods Are Full Of Cuckoos
Woolen Under Where

Y
Yankee Dood It
Yankee Doodle Daffy
Yankee Doodle Bugs
Yodeling Yokels
You Ought To Be In Pictures
You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’
You Were Never Duckier
Young And Healthy
You’re An Education
You’re Too Careless With Your Kisses!

Z
Zip ‘N Snort
Zip Zip Hooray
Zipping Along
Zoom And Bored
Zoom At The Top

If you are reading this blog and didn’t purchase Volume 1 of Woody Woodpecker and Friends last year… well shame on you! You still can still order it here. If cost was an issue, or if Walter Lantz cartunes aren’t your thing, I urge you to seek out this special “spotlight collection”, Woody Woodpecker Favorites (box art above center) which goes on sale March 10th, 2009.

The disc contains 15 Woody Woodpecker Cartoons (Knock Knock, Pantry Panic, The Barber of Seville, Ski for Two, Chew-Chew Baby, The Dippy Diplomat, The Loose Nut, Who’s Cookin’ Who?, Bathing Buddies, Fair Weather Fiends, Musical Moments from Chopin, Banquet Busters, Wet Blanket Policy, Sleep Happy, The Redwood Sap), plus bonus cartoons: Fish Fry with Andy Panda, Pied Piper of Basin Street a Swing Symphony, and these Tex Avery classics: The Legend of Rockabye Point (with Chilly Willy), Sh-h-h-h-h-h and Crazy Mixed Up Pup. If that isn’t enough, the disc includes two bonus episodes of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Episode #53 (Featuring Kiddie League, Charlie’s Mother-in-Law, The Bird Who Came to Dinner, Fish & Chips) and Episode #56 (Featuring Billion Dollar Boner, Coming Out Party, Romp in a Swamp, Pest of Show).

Sounds like a bargain at $19.98 (it’s going for $13.99 on Amazon.com). Now you have no excuse not to try some classic cartoon goodness from Universal Pictures.

Okay, I admit it. I love Famous Studios cartoons. Perhaps at some point I’ll go on at length about why I like them so much (partially it’s nostalgia, partially it’s because they aren’t as bad as many people think, and partially because I love to champion the underdog), but as I’m under a tight deadline on a book project I’ll hold off discussing this particular guilty pleasure for now.Sony Wonder has just released a boxed set called Harveytoons: The Complete Collection. “Harveytoons” was the generic name affixed to the 1950s Paramount/Famous Studio cartoons (featuring Casper, Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, Buzzy, etc.) when they were originally syndicated to television back in the 1960s, after Harvey Comics acquired the TV and non-theatrical rights to the library. Classic Media owns the collection today and authorized this new set. I haven’t had time to review the whole set, but what we have here are 52 episodes of THE HARVEYTOONS SHOW, a program I formatted for Harvey Entertainment and Fox Kids back in 1998. Unfortunately, this set does NOT constitute “the complete collection” under any condition. For a variety of reasons we did not incorporate the entire Harveytoon library into the original series. Certain cartoons (particularly the Screen Songs) are edited. The fact that their were 78 episodes should tip you off right there. Here’s the list of the original Fox Kids series. Sadly the contents of the DVD set doesn’t even match up to this list (for example, episode 52 on the DVD is actually #53 of the series).Oh, how I wish someone from Classic Media had consulted with me. For one, I would have made sure to include certain cartoons (like the politically incorrect Chew Chew Baby) and it would have been fun to create some bonus materials. The good news is that the cartoons look nice and clean, the cult classic La Petite Parade is included (episode #40 on the DVD) and they’ve restored the original Jackson Beck vocal tracks to Buzzy The Crow.And hey, they sent me two sets to give away on Cartoon Brew! Tomorrow (Friday) morning at 9am Pacific (that’s 12 noon in the East coast) I’ll post a trivia question and the first two correct answers will win one of these babies. (I will only accept entries from the U.S. and Canada) “Dat sounds logical!”

Most people who appreciate animation also enjoy the ancient art of hand lettering and vintage advertising graphics. Thus, I bring your attention to the website of Charles Bruss and his obsession with Wisconsin Drive In Theatres. In particular I point out his page devoted to old newspaper ads advertising Drive-In movie attractions. It’s great to see Baby Huey, Katnip and Donald Duck used as illustrations in the 1950s clippings – one ad actually mentions a cartoon by name, “Chew Chew Baby” (1958), a particularly notorious Paramount Noveltoon.This ad pictured above, from 1944, boasts six shorts (instead of a second feature, I guess) including The Three Stooges, a Pete Smith specialty, a L’il Abner and Screwball Squirrel! Now, that’s entertainment!

The Brewmasters – Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi – would like to thank Ken Pontac for being our “Guest Brewer” the last couple months and delighting us, and other readers, with tales from his animated sojourn to Iceland. You can see the results of his trip on Nick’s TV series LAZYTOWN. This will be Ken’s last entry on the Brew. We’ll be joined by a new guest blogger on November 1. Thanks, Ken!

Tuesday, August 3, 2004
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The Sunday pub tour with Thorir was fantastic (the parts that I remember, anyway). I was somewhat negligent in taking pictures or writing down the names of any of the places we went, but here are a couple of images that I probably took, because they were in my camera:

I remember a few things about that night:

> I ate three hot dogs, a slice of pizza, and a big old sandwich.

> I won a jackpot in a slot machine.

>I killed many Vikings.

After drinking until 4AM, the next day was pretty much a waste. I have no recollection or documentation of Monday at all. I was probably in an embarrassing stupor or some such thing.

That brings us to today, when I stepped outside my door to go to the little cafe that’s my home away from home, and while walking down the street saw a woman so remarkable-looking that I was compelled to take her photograph. One thing led to the next and soon she was joining me for a chat and a groove in the little cafe. It turned out that this formidable Amazon was Andrulla Blanchette, Ms. Olympia 2000. We chewed the fat for half an hour, then Andrulla had to hop on a plane to her next She-Hulk-style adventure.

Later that morning I enjoyed a ninety-minute soak and massage at the Nordica Hotel Spa, then cabbed it back to the hot dog stand to undo any of the medicinal benefits of that experience. This was followed with a quick nap and some intense LAZYTOWN writing, all washed down with a delicious dinner of Icelandic sushi (no whale or baby seal included). A few hours later I hooked up with Thorir at Club Nasty to listen to Long John Baldry. The place was packed, but we snagged a corner by the bar where I was able to buy drinks and shoot some great bootleg video of the legendary bluesman. This was the best day in Iceland ever! – Ken Pontac

Jackson Beck (no relation to ye Brewmaster), the Voice of Bluto, Brutus, the narrator of radio’s (and Filmation’s) Superman, Buzzy the Crow, King Leonardo,and numerous voice overs in everything from TV commercials to Woody Allen’s Take The Money And Run has passed away at age 92.My favorite Jackson Beck performance is that of the suburbanite who brings home a man-eating cannibal from a jungle expedition in Famous Studio’s 1958 cartoon CHEW CHEW BABY. He narrates the entire cartoon as good ‘ol boy who shows “Chew Chew” all around Cincinnatti, blissfully unaware that the cannibal is eating all his friends around him. I also enjoyed Beck’s many roles on the Superman radio show – from narrator, to gangsters to office boy “Beanie”, Beck was the true star of that show.I met him once, in his apartment, where he threw a party for Sid Raymond (this was in 1995). Because we shared last names we discussed the possibility of being related, but I was happy just to meet the man and tell him how much I enjoyed his work. He was a gentleman and a wonderful guy.His Newsday obit