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PORKY IN WACKYLAND (1938) Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird. dir. Robert Clampett

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Ruth Gillette-Billy Gilbert-Billy Bletcher "Keg´o my heart" 1933, de Billy Gilbert.

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A Lady’s Profession (1933) Norman Z. McLeod

August 20th 2022

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Walt Disney and Billy Bletcher voicing Mickey Mouse and Pete: one of the only recorded films of Disney voicing Mickey Mouse.

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Fan Art Friday - Pincushion Man

This week's #FanArtFriday features the Pincushion Man, a villain from Balloon Land, an entry from Ub Iwerks' Comicolor cartoons. The artwork is commemorating the character's voice artist, Billy Bletcher, who passed away on this day.

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Happy late birthday, Peg-Leg Pete, or actually Pete!

On February 15, 1925, as part of Alice Comedies and in the classic short called "Alice Solves the Puzzle", by the animators Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney, the first animated character appears within the Disney studio, which will also be the oldest Disney character ever . It's called Peg-Leg Pete or Pete for short. First he was a bear, then Steamboat Willie became a cat and the greatest archenemy of Mickey Mouse and his friends.

He often appears in classic shorts and clashes with Julius the cat, Oswald the rabbit and finally with Mickey Mouse. The comic strip "Mickey Mouse In Death Valley" published in 1930 by Floyd Gottfredson and Walt Disney first features Pete as well as Mickey, Minnie, Horace, Clarabelle, Sylvester Shyster and others. Later, Pete experienced great fame during the 1930s and early 1940s appearing as the nemesis of Mickey, Donald and Goofy. He also often kidnaps Minnie, Mickey's girlfriend, before. He is usually depicted as a thief, but in certain cases he is depicted as a boxer, a millionaire, a general, a pirate, a king, a terrible warlord, and other occupations. Billy Bletcher portrayed him best, later Will Ryan and Jim Cummings. In addition to the classic shorts, he is often featured in comics, mostly with his sidekick and partner Scuttle. In the Italian comics he is in love with Trudy Van Tubb, while in Goof Troop he is a manager and used car salesman and has his own family and is in love with his wife Peg. He has a son Pete Junior as well as a daughter Pistol, while in the Italian comics he has two nephews, Pierino and Pieretto. Depending on both animation and comics as well as video games, Pete is portrayed in different ways, but mostly he is an antagonist and a rival, as well as a villain. And yes, he's called Peg-Leg Pete, because one leg goes on one crutch.

To me, he is one of the best villains in the classic Disney universe, as well as the best characters, and now as always, the depiction of him through images of development and different interpretations through cartoons, video games and comics. Happy 99th birthday Pete and sorry for the delay!

If you love him and are a fan of Pete and his partners and his family, feel free to like and reblog this! Happy 99th birthday, Pete! And happy late Valentine's Day!

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Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies 1936 Episode 19: I Love to Singa

Score by Norman Spencer

Directed by Tex Avery

Animated by Chuck Jones & Virgil Ross

Voice characterizations by Tommy Bond, Jackie Morrow, Billy Bletcher, Martha Wentworth, Berneice Hansell, Tedd Pierce, Lou Fulton & Tex Avery

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Profiles in Villainy

The Big Bad Wolf

A ruthless and conniving carnivore, The Big Bad Wolf is constantly plotting endeavors that will enable him to eat the Three Little Pigs.  He often employs gaudy disguises and relies on harebrained schemes yet his most formidable ability are his infamous ‘huffs and puffs,’ which are powerful enough to blow down houses.  

Big Bad believes that being a rotten villain is what wolves are supposed to do.  Indeed he became quite irritated when his son, Lil’ Wolf, choose to be good and befriended the Three Little Pigs.  This matter notwithstanding, it has been shown that Big Bad is actually a rather good father. He adores his son and has on occasion passed up the possibility of delicious pork chops so to attend to the safety and wellbeing of his son.  

Actor Billy Bletcher voiced the Big Bad Wolf in the villain’s initial appearances; with actors Jim Cummings and Clancy Brown providing the voice in subsequent appearances.  The Big Bad Wolf debuted in the Silly Symphonies short, ‘The Three Little Pigs,’ gracing theaters in 1933.  

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Finally was able to get this lovely DVD! Now I can collect images of the specific shorts included (Hip, Hip Hurry!, The Unruly Hare, The Bee-Deviled Bruin, Doggone Cats, to name a few), restored to the original quality, without any watermarks, logos, or distorted or photoshopped imagery whatsoever! I'm looking forward to seeing more volumes in the preceding years and to see that DVD's will still live on as a medium!

Have any of you obtain this gem yet?

If not, click here!

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Would you say Mel Blanc was instrumental to Looney Tunes’s success?

OH WITHOUT A QUESTION! the LT characters are not the same without Mel Blanc and never will be. he is baked into their DNA.

Blanc isn’t the only voice actor who deserves praise—June Foray, Arthur Q. Bryan, Stan Freberg, Billy Bletcher, Sara Berner, Berneice Hansell, Kent Rogers, Bea Benaderet, Robert C. Bruce… the list goes on, and a lot of these voice actors do often what Blanc COULDN’T do! Blanc was insanely talented but just as easily recognizable—sometimes to subvert the audience most effectively depending on the context you need to use one of the “lesser known” guys to hit that range and AUTHENTICITY that Blanc maybe can’t hit because even a man of 1,000 voices has his limits.

and, as with everything, the success of the series is a vast amalgamation of aspects and a domino reaction that relies all on each other. i do absolutely believe the series wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did without Blanc, though. he WAS those characters. be brought a nuance to them that is genuinely irreplaceable—there’s a reason nobody else tried to voice the characters until he died

one of my biggest critiques of modern LT media is that i don’t feel they write the characters with Blanc’s cadence in mind. this can get tricky because his deliveries vary depending on the voice director, but i feel a lot of issues that are in modern adaptations could be smoothed out by asking “can i hear this line authentically and clearly in Mel Blanc’s voice?” before moving forward. if not, rewrite it, play it back in your head, and go from there. i do this constantly when i draw or have to write about the characters myself to a bit of an obsessive degree, but it’s efficient!

tying this back to the new batch of LTC shorts that dropped today (if you don’t want spoilers then skip ahead!), the Porky and Sylvester short really surprised me greatly because it’s very clear Porky was written with Blanc’s dialogue in mind and that’s not always the case. LTC is overabundant in its dialogue and not always for the better, and i think a part of what makes it seem even more talk-y is the writing itself depending on the context.

i watched these shorts this morning with captions on/no sound because i initially didn’t have an opportunity to play sound, and i found myself almost enjoying the short MORE without sound because the Blanc-isms in the writing were much more present. whether it’s something as menial as reusing a general exclamation Blanc has also used for the character like “oh fiddlesticks” or something more specific such as borrowing the same sentence syntax (much of the Porky/Sylvester shorts have Porky saying “you [cleverly patronizing and indignant insult] you” to Sylvester which they did in this one and that made me happy.

voice direction is another story, and for all of Bob Bergen’s talent his deliveries didn’t always sound 100% to Blanc’s intonation (but that’s a given, again asserting my point that Blanc is intertwined to these characters and they aren’t the same without him), there were a lot of quirks of Bergen’s—again, only natural—in his deliveries that make a bit of a disconnect between the Blanc inspired writing and the deliveries. but as a whole he did a GREAT job and is one of my favorite performances yet, LTC goes heavy on Porky yelling and screaming so it’s nice to hear some subtlety. writing with Blanc’s intonation in mind, even if it couldn’t entirely be replicated in delivery (which i don’t at all expect) proved to be very beneficial and again speaks to Blanc’s talent and importance to the characters. he is absolutely pivotal to the success of the series and the series/characters has and never will be the same without him.

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Well holiday season is here, so Imma share a film that is a classic round this time of year,Babes in Toyland/March of the Wooden Soldiers.A classic pre Wizard of Oz fantasy film , the film has the comedy stylings of Laurel and Hardy ,nice songs ,gorgeous sets , classic nightmare fuel in the form of Bogeymen ,a thrilling climax and a great villainous performance by a 22 year old Henry Kleinbach ,later to be known as Henry Brandon ,at the begining of his long career as a character actor .Also small roles by Billy Bletcher AKA Pete/The Big Bad Wolf from the Disney cartoon as a cop and another character actor with a long career in the form of Angelo Rossitto as one of three little pigs .Not all of it has held up (Specifically some of the costumes are unsettling ) but its a fun watch and is a must watch for any fantasy movie fan

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Now That Summer is Gone premiered May 14, 1938, and was directed by Frank Tashlin. Voices are by Mel Blanc and Billy Bletcher.

Mel's first work at Warner Brothers was on Picador Porky (Feb 27, 1937), and his last was The Great Carrot Train Robbery (Jan 25, 1969).

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For postomous Disney Legend candidates, would Billy Bletcher (original voice of Pete (if you don't count Walt Disney or Pinto Colvig's tenures as him), Big Bad Wolf and others in the Walt Disney era shorts), Marcellite Garner (Minnie's most iconic voice in the classic Walt Disney era), Bill Thompson (various Disney characters in the movies and first voice of Scrooge McDuck), and Alan Young (Scrooge McDuck from 1974 to 2016) be good ones? Would Jason Marsden (Max Goof) be a good one too?

Honestly i wish they gave late VAs the awards for their families... and yep Jason has a historic profile to get the award.

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Air Fright (1933) Gus Meins

June 3rd 2021