WALTER LANTZ

/n00:00:00:00 intv actor from Taxi // intv; talks ab his political activities and those of other actors; did a docudrama ab Father Berrigan et al [he played a judge]; talks ab nuke freeze controversy ...

Honor of Walter Benjamin Lantz in Universal City in Los Angeles County,California. Hollywood film industry leaders gathered for the Universal City Studios party to honor golden anniversary of Walter Benjamin Lantz animated cartoonist and 25th birthday of his star Woody Woodpecker. Children read the Woody Woodpecker animated cartoon character books. Charles Warren Vice Chairman of Association of TV and Film Producers praises and presents trophy to Lantz for his work. Lantz and his wife cut a cake and celebrate. They pose with the trophy. Location: Universal City California USA. Date: June 2, 1967.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~cue in~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`` UNIVERSAL PICTURES NEWSREEL 1963, 1967. B/W. COLOR BARS, TONE, TIME CODE. 01:19 OPENING LOGO 1967. 01:33 EXT UNITED NATIONS (UN). SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL, CALLED TO DISCUSS THE MIDEAST CRISIS. SECRETARY GENERAL U THANT. VS DELEGATES. EXT UN. 02:30 LAUNCHING OF AIRCRAFT CARRIER JOHN F KENNEDY. THE KENNEDY FAMILY IS PRESENT. PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON ARRIVES WITH MRS ROSE KENNEDY. CAROLINE KENNEDY CHRISTENS THE SHIP, AS JOHN F KENNEDY JR AND JACQUELINE KENNEDY LOOK ON. 03:36 UNIVERSAL CITY. CARTOONIST WALTER LANTZ, CREATOR OF WOODY WOODPECKER. 04:22 CALIFORNIA RELAYS TRACK MEET. 05:16 EDWARD CHARLES WHITEY FORD, THE NEW YORK YANKEES PITCHER, ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT AT YANKEE STADIUM. 05:54 METROPOLITAN HANDICAP HORSERACE AT AQUEDUCT RACETRACK IN NEW YORK. BUCKPASSER WINS. 06:56 INDIANAPOLIS 500 AUTO RACE. A J FOYT WINS FOR THE THIRD TIME. 07:53 JOHN WAYNE ARRIVES FOR THE PREMIERE OF THE WAR WAGON. BRUCE CABOT RECEIVES A CERTIFICATE. PEOPLE ON TICKET LINE FOR OPENING. AMERICAN INDIANS IN TRADITIONAL DRESS DANCE IN STREET. 09:56 END LOGO. 11:15 OPENING LOGO. 11:28 17 MEN AND TWIN ENGINE LAUNCH BY BRITISH AUTHORITIES IN THE BAHAMAS, TO FORESTALL A RAID BY THE MEN ON CUBAN SHIPPING. IN A PRESS CONFERENCE, PRESIDEND JOHN F KENNEDY SUGGESTS RAIDERS JOIN ORGANIZED "ACTIONS WHICH ADVANCE THE COURSE OF FREEDOM." 13:07 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ENTERS A CAR. HE IS SEEN WITH LADY CHURCHILL. CHURCHILL IS NAMED AN HONORARY US CITIZEN. CHURCHILL IN 1941 IN WASHINGTON, SEEN WITH PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (FDR) AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. EXT CAPITOL. OVATION FOR CHURCHILL BY JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS. CHURCHILL SPEAKS. 15:07 VOLCANO ERUPTS IN BALI. BALINESE TEMPLE ON MOUNTAINSIDE. 15:47 ABANDONED SKI RESORT IN SWITZERLAND, WHERE TYPHOID EPIDEMIC HIT. CLEAN UP EFFORT IN RESORT. SEWER IS OPENED, WINDOW BOARDED UP. 16:33 VS CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN WASHINGTON DC. WASHINGTON MONUMENT IN BG. SHOT WITH JEFFERSON MEMORIAL IN BG. 17:27 END LOGO. 17:43 OPENING LOGO 1963. 17:55 VS LAUNCHING OF SUBMARINE THRESHER IN 1960. THRESHER AT DOCK AND AT SEA. VS SEARCH FOR THRESHER, WHICH IN 1963 SUBMERGED FOR A TEST DIVE AND NEVER RESURFACED. LOSS OF CREW OF 129 ANNOUNCED. BAD TAPE 18:48 - 24:33 24:33 VS CHURCHES. EASTER SERVICES. AERIAL SHOT OF ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL IN NEW YORK. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CROWD STREET FOR EASTER PARADE. EXT WHITE HOUSE. FLAGS AT HALF MAST AT WHITE HOUSE, LINCOLN MEMORIAL ETC. OUTDOOR SERVICES AT WALTER REED MEDICAL CENTER. SERVICES AT NATIONAL CATHEDRAL. VS PROCESSION. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CROWD ST PETER'S SQUARE IN ROME. EXT ST PETER'S BASILICA. POPE JOHN XXIII. 27:40 EXT PANTAGES THEATER AND MARQUEE FOR THE PREMIERE OF MARLON BRANDO IN THE UGLY AMERICAN. THE THAI AMBASSADOR TO THE US IS PRESENT, AS ARE ROCK HUDSON, MARILYN MAXWELL AND MARLON BRANDO. TRANS LUX EAST IN NEW YORK IS SITE OF SIMULTANEOUS PREMIERE. TONY RANDALL, MYRNA LOY AND MARLON BRANDO ARE PRESENT. BRANDO OPENS THE NEW THEATER. 29:22 NAVY JUNIOR BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP. LITTLE BOYS BOXING. 30:22 END LOGO. 31:43 OPENING LOGO. VOL NO 36, ISSUE NO 26. 31:57 VS EXT ALCATRAZ PRISON. VS INT CELLS AND CELL BLOCKS. LAST PRISONERS LEAVEE THE PRISON, WHICH HAS BEEN CLOSED. VS GUARDS IN WATCHTOWER. LS ISLAND. 33:02 MARRIAGE OF THE SON OF THE MAHARAJA OF SIKKIM, AN INDIAN PROTECTORATE. HE MARRIES AMERICAN SOCIALITE HOPE COOK IN TRADITIONAL BUDDHIST CEREMONY. 34:15 CHICAGO'S O'HARE AIRPORT IS OFFICIALLY DEDICATED. PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY PAYS TRIBUTE TO LIEUTENANT COMMANDER EDWARD H O'HARE BY LAYING A WREATH AT HIS MONUMENT. VS CROWDS ON AIRFIELD. JFK IN PARADE THROUGH THE LOOP. 34:59 AFTERMATH OF BOILER EXPLOSION INA DRESS SHOP AND DRUG STORE IN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA. VS WRECKAGE. 35:54 NCAA BASKETBALL FINALS. LOYOLA WINS CHAMPIONSHIP. 37:55 END LOGO. 38:15 OPENING LOGO 1963. VOL NO 36, ISSUE NO 27. 38:28 PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY AND WIFE JACQUELINE KENNEDY ARRIVE UNION STATION IN WASHINGTON DC TO GREET KING HASSAN II OF MOROCCO. PARADE FOR HASSAN. JFK AND HASSAN AT WHITE HOUSE. 39:32 INVENTOR DEMONSTRATES HIS GYROCOPTER, WHICH TAKES OFF FROM WATER. 40:39 "THE BIRDS" OPENS AT THE PALACE THEATER IN NEW YORK. VS MARQUEE, POSTERS. TIPPI HEDREN AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK RELEASE 1000 HOMING PIGEONS. VS TIMES SQUARE. 41:23 OXFORD CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE. 42:41 "YESTERDAY'S BIG STORY." 45/04/10. HARRY S TRUMAN SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. FLAGS AT HALF MAST FOR THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT. VS FUNERAL PROCESSION. DIGNITARIES AT GRAVESITE AT HYDE PARK. 44:27 END LOGO. 44:44 OPENING LOGO 1963. 44:58 AERIAL VIEW OF MANHATTAN. NEWSPAPER PRESSES ROLL, FOLLOWING END OF STRIKE. VS NEWSROOM. MAN SETTING TYPE. NIGHT SHOT OF TIMES SQUARE. PEOPLE BUYING NEWSPAPERS AT A NEWSSTAND. DELIVERY TRUCKS ROLL. VS NEWSSTANDS. 46:07 TICKERTAPE PARADE IN NEW YORK FOR KING HASSAN OF MOROCCO. KING WALKS LAST FEW BLOCKS TO CITY HALL, SHAKES HANDS WITH MAYOR ROBERT WAGNER. 46:58 MARLON BRANDO AND PRODUCER / DIRECTOR GEORGE ENGLUND IN BANGKOK FOR INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE OF "THE UGLY AMERICAN." SHOT OF MARQUEE. MILTON RACKMIL, PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES, IS PRESENT. KING AND QUEEN OF THAILAND ATTEND. 48:25 GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. GREGORY PECK IS PRESENT. 50:52 END LOgo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~cue out~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

PLENTY OF STARS WERE ON HAND FOR THE GRAND OPENING OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA IN 1990.

BARNYARD RIVALS

An exterior view of Universal Pictures, followed by views of the famous cartoonist Walter Lantz working on Woody Woodpeckter material. From rare color film shot in the 1940s.

b&w - "HOLLYWOOD REEL" - WALTER LANTZ - Behind the scenes visit to his cartoon studio, where we show how Woody Woodpecker reaches the screen via drawings - Moviola 35mm film editing and viewing -

WEEKEND IN HOLLYWOOD

"BEHIND THE SCENES". CU MOVIE TITLE: "A WALTER LANTZ CARTOON", STARRING "WOODY WOODPECKER", "COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR". CARDBOARD CARTOON FIGURE, WOODY WOODPECKER, TILT DOWN TO WALTER LANTZ, BACK TO CAMERA, SEATED AT DRAWING BOARD, DOING CARTOON SKETCH OF WOODY. CU FACE SHOT, LANTZ, SMILING AT HIS WORK.

08:52:24:00People off plane, LS Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood Hotel, Gower and Sunset, Two girls wave at the camera, Overhead of WB Studio, Republic Studio front gate, Universal administration building, Walter Lantz draws Woody Woodpecker, Radio Row on Sunset Boulevard, CBS studios, Grauman's Chinese?, Sid Grauman, Footprints in cement, El Capitan Theater, Hollywood Bowl, Earl Carroll Theater, Freddie Fisher, Colonel of Corn, Slapsy Maxie's, Brown Derby, Pan of UCLA campus, Churches, Driving on Sunset, Hope and Skelton golf, Forrest Tucker, Guy Kibbee, Don Ameche, Burns & Allen home, Chico Marx home, Wallace Beery home, Jack Benny home

The first porno-cartoon was made in New York. It was called "Eveready Harton" and was made in the late 20's, silent, of course—by three studios. Each one did a section of it without telling the other studios what they were doing. Studio A finished the first part and gave the last drawing to Studio B. Involved were Max Fleischer, Paul Terry and the Mutt and Jeff studio. They didn't see the finished product till the night of the big show. A couple of guys who were there tell me the laughter almost blew the top off the hotel where they were screening it.When a copy of the short was screened in San Francisco in the late 1970s, the program notes attributed the animation to George Stallings, George Canata, Rudy Zamora, Sr. and Walter Lantz.The short circulated informally, shown only at small underground festivals or parties, until 2002 when it was included in the theatrically released compilation The Good Old Naughty Days.

b&w short film - Hollywood travelogue - narration - motion picture / movie studios - celebrities - c/u billboard sign for Warner Bros. Pictures - h/a pan over Warner Bros. movie studio lot - pov from hills - Warner building, parked cars, cars by - Republic Pictures Studio gate h/a pan over Republic studio lot - extras - dance / chorus girls with feather hats enter lot near gate - front office building of Universal Pictures Company Inc. interior studio - c/u cartoon artist Walter Lantz draws Woody Woodpecker character - animator h/a pan studio lot - m/s actors walk on lot - women pose near gate, walk to camera - sign - See the Movie Birds - c/u birds used in movies, stork, flamingo - Los Angeles

MUSICAL CARTOON. WALTER LANTZ. SET DOWN SOUTH IN A SLAVE SHACK. LAZY TOWN. EVERYBODY IS SLEEPING. THE FISH, THE WORMS, THE CHICKENS. BAD BLACK STEREOTYPES. BIG LIPS. RACIST. PICKING COTTON. CLOWLY. EVERYONE MOVES SLOWLY. FERYBOAT STOPS. SEXY BLACK WOMAN GETS OFF AND EVERYBODY LOOKS UP. AUNT JEMIMA WASHING CLOTHES. BALES OF COTTON. EATING WATERMELON. SHOE SHINE BOYS. BARBER. SPIDER.

MUSICAL SHORTS AND ANIMATED SHORTS

1967 UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL 6

THE REAL BEHIND THE SCENES HOLLYWOOD, CIRCA 1951. CU SIGN: "HANCOCK PARK, LA BREA PITS". VARIOUS SCENES LA BREA TAR PITS WITH WESTERN STAR TIM MCCOY. FOSSILS FOUND IN PITS, EXPLAINED TO BOY BY MCCOY; BELAIRE HOME OF HAZEL BROOKS, WIFE OF HOLLYWOOD ART DIRECTOR CEDRIC GIBBONS, ACTRESS IN JOHN GARFIELD FILM, "BODY AND SOUL". WITH HER SHELL COLLECTION AT POOL-SIDE. HAT FASHIONS MODELLED, FUNNY HATS; TENNIS STAR "GUSSIE" MORAN MODELS OUTFIT, PLAYS TENNIS. WALTER LANTZ, CREATOR OF "WOODY WOODPECKER", AT HIS CARTOON STUDIO. SHOWS HOW ANIMATIONS ARE DONE.

INTERVIEWS FILMED RELATED TO FILMMAKER GEORGE PAL RAW INTERVIEWS (DIGITIZED & AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING) 1. WAH CHANG 2. JANET LEIGH 3. ROY E. DISNEY 4. TONY RANDALL (PART 2) 5. DUKE GOLDSTONE 6. RAY HARRYHAUSEN 7. BUDDY HACKETT (PART 2) 8. GENE RODDENBERRY 9. ALAN YOUNG 10. RAY BRADBURY 11. RUSS TAMBLYN 12. WARD KIMBALL 13. BOB BAKER 14. CHARLTON HESTON RAW INTERVIEWS (NOT DIGITIZED / AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING) 1. CHESLEY BONESTELL 2. TONY RANDALL (PART 1) 3. ROD TAYLOR 4. JOE DANTE 5. ROBERT BLOCH 6. WALTER LANTZ 7. BUDDY HACKETT (PART 1) 8. GENE WARREN 9. GAE GRIFFITH 10. ROBERT WISE 11. WILLIAM TUTTLE 12. BARBARA EDEN 13. BOB BAKER 14. GENE WARREN 15. GAE GRIFFITH 16. ROBERT WISE 17. WILLIAM TUTTLE 18. BARBARA EDEN 19. ALBERT NOZAKI 20. JIM DANFORTH 21. PHIL KELLISON 22. BOB BAKER - PART 2 23. ANN ROBINSON 24. TONY CURTIS