#Mail pilot 1933 animator series

Barrier suggests that Leon Schlesinger may have been giving Avery a vote of confidence, when deciding to keep only Porky as a continuing character and to drop Beans. In 1936, Beans and most of the characters introduced the previous year, with the exception of Porky Pig, ceased being used by the studio. Meanwhile, King continued using Beans as the main star of his own films. Avery directed a single film starring Beans, Gold Diggers of '49 (1935) he would use Porky Pig as the main star of his following films.

Īlso in 1935, the studio gained a third full-time director working in addition to Freleng and King: Tex Avery, a former inker for the short-lived Winkler Studio and Universal Studio Cartoons. Their designs were certainly similar, with both characters having a white face and black body, but in characterization Beans was a pint-sized hero resembling the plucky, boyish, and heroic Mickey featured in The Klondike Kid (1932) and The Mail Pilot (1933). Michael Barrier describes Beans under King's direction as resembling Mickey Mouse's incarnation of the early 1930s. King directed a total of eight animated shorts featuring Beans. King directed A Cartoonist's Nightmare, Beans' first starring role. īy 1935, Buddy was being phased out in favor of new characters among them was Beans, an anthropomorphic cat. King handled many of the studio's animated short films starring Buddy, and was responsible for the final year of Buddy films.

#Mail pilot 1933 animator series

By early 1934, Schlesinger appointed Friz Freleng as the main director of the Merrie Melodies series and King as the main director of the Looney Tunes series. Brown received credits for directing two Merrie Melodies shorts. Schlesinger was in need of new directors, and even composer Bernard B. Duvall himself left the studio after completing five short films. He was replaced as director by Earl Duvall, a former story man for both Disney and Harman and Ising. Tom Palmer left the studio after completing only two short films. According to animation historian Michael Barrier, Schlesinger placed former Disney animators in charge of the studio in hopes of effectively competing with the Disney studio. Among the staff were two of King's former associates from Disney, animators Paul Fennell and Bill Mason. Tom Palmer had been appointed production manager and director, with King as the head animator. īy June 1933, Schlesinger had rounded out his staff and started work on producing animated short films. Among them was King, who 'was probably the first Disney animator Schlesinger hired'. Schlesinger was in need of a new staff for his studio and started hiring people who used to work for other animation studios. The studio was set on the Warner lot on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.

In 1933, animation producer Leon Schlesinger was setting up a new animation studio, Leon Schlesinger Productions, which would continue producing the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series for Warner Bros. King remained with Disney until May 17, 1933. Among King's Disney film credits was the short film The Three Little Pigs (1933), which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. His animation film credits include several Silly Symphony animated shorts, which Lenburg describes as 'cartoon fables'. King successfully made the transition from silent to sound cartoons and relocated to the West Coast of the United States, where he joined the Disney studio on Jas an animator. His early films also included Kiss Me (1920), Why Change Your Husband (1920), and The Chicken Thief (1921).

The silent animated series was based on the comic strip Judge Rummy by Tad Dorgan. He directed the Judge Rummy series (1920-1921) for the International Film Service. He started his animation career in 1920, working at Bray Productions animation studio. King was born in 1895 in Birmingham, Alabama. He spent most of his career working at Walt Disney Productions (later known as the Walt Disney Animation Studios). He started his career in the silent film era. His films were nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. 2.2 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies period (1933-1936)Īccording to Jeff Lenburg's assessment of him, King was an early pioneer of animation.