Orig Vintage 1960s WOODY WOODPECKER CEL Signed by Voice

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TheDeepArchives Animation / Fine Art Gallery specializing in RARE and OBSCURE Animation FOR MORE INFORMATION call or email WALTER LANTZ WOODY WOODPECKER Item Type : Original Animation Production CEL from the original 1960s Shorts Produced by WALTER LANTZsigned by NANCY WIBLE who voiced CHILLY WILLY and WOODY WOODPECKER Size : 12 Field 12.5 x 10.5 Condition :Excellent Type : Original Production Art Shipping Notes: (PLEASE READ )SHIPPING and HANDLING: is a 9.50 FLAT RATE for CANADA and DOMESTIC FIRST CLASS PARCELSWe ship ONCE a WEEK on usually MONDAYS OR TUESDAYSWe offer a combined shipping rate for Multiple AUCTIONS. (Depends on the Auctions; Size and Contents)We accept PAYPAL as well as other forms of Payment NOTES: Woody Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character , an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker [1 ] who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures . Though not the first of the screwball characters that became popular in the 1940s, Woody is perhaps the most indicative of the type. Woody was created in 1940 by storyboard artist Ben "Bugs" Hardaway , who had previously laid the groundwork for two other screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck , at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s. Woody's character and design would evolve over the years, from an insane bird with an unusually garish design to a more refined looking and acting character in the vein of the later Chuck Jones version of Bugs Bunny. Woody was originally voiced by prolific voice actor Mel Blanc , who was succeeded by Ben Hardaway and later by Grace Stafford , wife of Walter Lantz . Lantz produced theatrical cartoons longer than most of his contemporaries, and Woody Woodpecker remained a staple of Universal's release schedule until 1972, when Lantz finally closed down his studio. The character has been revived since then only for special productions and occasions, save for one new Saturday morning cartoon , The New Woody Woodpecker Show , for the Fox Network in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Woody Woodpecker cartoons were first broadcast on television in 1957 under the title The Woody Woodpecker Show , which featured Lantz cartoons bookended by new footage of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz. Woody has a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. He also made a cameo alongside many other famous cartoon characters in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit . The lower revenues Lantz received from United Artists, in contrast to Universal, caused financial problems within the studio, and by the end of 1948 Lantz had to shut his studio down. [3 ] The Lantz studio did not re-open again until 1950, by which time the staff was severely downsized. Beginning with the 1950 feature film Destination Moon , which featured a brief segment of Woody explaining rocket propulsion , Woody's voice was taken over for this and following films by Lantz's wife, Grace Stafford . According to the Lantzes, Stafford slipped a recording of herself into a stack of audition tapes, and her husband chose her without knowing her identity. [3 ] Lantz also began having Stafford supply Woody's laugh, possibly due to the court case with Mel Blanc. Nevertheless, Stafford was not credited for her work at her own request until 1958 with the film Misguided Missile , as she felt audiences might reject a woman doing Woody's voice. Stafford also did her best to tone down the character through her voice work, to appease Universal's complaints about Woody's raucousness. Lantz signed again with Universal (now Universal-International) in 1950, and began production on two Woody Woodpecker cartoons that director Dick Lundy and storymen Ben Hardaway and Heck Allen had begun before the 1948 layoff. These shorts have no director's credit, as Lantz claims to have directed them himself. Puny Express , released by Univer... read more

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