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January-February 1975

Special Issue: The Hollywood Cartoon—Chuck Jones considered and interviewed, Warner Brothers, Disney, Grim Natwick interviewed, the Van Buren Studio, TV animation

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SPECIAL ISSUE: THE HOLLYWOOD CARTOON

WARNER BROTHERS
By Greg Ford
Focus on a studio

MICHAEL MALTESE AND MAURICE NOBLE
Interview by Joe Adamson
Chuck Jones’s crucial collaborators

CHUCK JONES
Interview by Greg Ford and Richard Thompson
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, the Roadrunner

DUCK AMUCK
By Richard Thompson
Chuck Jones’s cartoons with Bugs, Daffy, and Elmer Fudd

WINSOR MCCay
By John Canemaker
Gertie the Dinosaur, Little Nemo

MAX AND DAVE FLEISCHER
By Mark Langer
Ko-Ko, Betty Boop, Popeye, Gulliver, Superman

GRIM NATWICK
Article-interview by John Canemaker
Master animator of the female form: Betty Boop, Snow White

THE VAN BUREN STUDIO
Memoir by I. Klein

WALT DISNEY
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

TEX AVERY
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
Droopy, Chilly Willy, George and Junior Bear

TOM AND JERRY
By Mark Kausler
The animators’ art

TV ANIMATION
By Leonard Maltin
From Rocky & Bullwinkle (down) to Yogi Bear & Boo-Boo

OTHER FEATURES:

LONDON JOURNAL by Jonathan Rosenbaum

ISTANBUL JOURNAL by Gerald Weales

INDEPENDENTS by Amos Vogel

WITHER THE AFI? by Austin Lamont

“WHAT IS THE BFI?” by Verina Glaessner

BOOK REVIEWS by George Morris and Joan Mellen

CORRECTIONS Roger Greenspun on Letter from an Unknown Woman

LETTERS