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    Leon Schlesinger (/ˈʃlɛsɪndʒər/ SHLESS-in-jər; May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions...
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  • Warner Bros. Cartoons was founded in 1933 by Leon Schlesinger as Leon Schlesinger Productions. Schlesinger sold the studio to Warner Bros. in 1944, after...
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  • Melodies were initially produced by Leon Schlesinger and animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising from 1930 to 1933. Schlesinger assumed full production from 1933...
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  • Buddy is an animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes series by Leon Schlesinger Productions. He was the second star of the series, after Bosko. Buddy...
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  • surname: Leon Schlesinger Productions, the 1933 founding name of The Warner Bros. animation division, named after Leon Schlesinger Schlesinger (crater)...
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    Harman–Ising Pictures from 1931 to 1933 and Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944, and...
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  • fictional character created by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, he has appeared...
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    until another opportunity opened for him. Bosko was finally sold to Leon Schlesinger, who would produce the series for Warner Bros. At first, Freleng was...
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  • character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known...
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    instead joined Harman-Ising Studios in 1931 for ten dollars a week. Leon Schlesinger viewed one of Clampett's 16mm films and was impressed, offering him...
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    Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Robert McKimson at the Leon Schlesinger Production's Termite Terrace studio, the studio that made Warner Brothers...
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  • Iwerks would go on to direct two Looney Tunes cartoon shorts for Leon Schlesinger Productions and several Color Rhapsody cartoons for Screen Gems before...
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    a song titled "Big Bear Lake". In December 1936, Mel Blanc joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, which was producing theatrical cartoon shorts for Warner...
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  • Avery's Daffy Duck & Egghead, starring Daffy Duck and produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released. January 28: Riding the Rails, starring...
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  • politician Leon Schiller (1887–1954), Polish director and composer Leon Schlesinger (1884-1949), American film producer Noël Regney, born Léon Schlienger...
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  • Porky's Hare Hunt (category Films produced by Leon Schlesinger)
    created for the Lantz studio by Hardaway after his departure from the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros. studio. The incidental music heard throughout the piece...
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  • Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (category Films produced by Leon Schlesinger)
    intended to have been named So White and de Sebben Dwarfs, which producer Leon Schlesinger thought was too close to the original film's actual title, and had...
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    in his own words, became a "Warner Brat". Leon Schlesinger was the production executive of Leon Schlesinger Productions until his retirement in 1944 when...
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  • Palmer was lured by Leon Schlesinger to serve as the production manager and main director at his newly formed Leon Schlesinger Productions animation...
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  • Tunes and Merrie Melodies Studios Harman-Ising Productions (1930–1933) Leon Schlesinger Productions (1933–1944) Warner Bros. Cartoons (1944–1964) DePatie–Freleng...
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    Harman and Rudolf Ising. Bosko was the first recurring character in Leon Schlesinger's cartoon series and was the star of thirty-nine Looney Tunes shorts...
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  • Harman-Ising Productions, producing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Leon Schlesinger from 1930 to 1933. From 1934 to 1938, Harman-Ising produced the Happy...
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  • Jivin' Bears is the only cartoon on this list not to be produced by Leon Schlesinger. It is also the first to be produced by an uncredited Eddie Selzer...
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    Tunes and Merrie Melodies Studios Harman-Ising Productions (1930–1933) Leon Schlesinger Productions (1933–1944) Warner Bros. Cartoons (1944–1964) DePatie–Freleng...
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  • the character after the first three cartoons to work exclusively for Leon Schlesinger Productions (later renamed Warner Bros. Cartoons), producer of Warner...
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  • Studios and the Ub Iwerks Studio, after which Hardaway was hired by the Leon Schlesinger studio as a gagman for the Friz Freleng unit. He was promoted to director...
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  • January 16: Bob Clampett's Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released. Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon...
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  • Tunes and Merrie Melodies Studios Harman-Ising Productions (1930–1933) Leon Schlesinger Productions (1933–1944) Warner Bros. Cartoons (1944–1964) DePatie–Freleng...
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  • Hat is a 1935 animated short film, directed by Isadore Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of the Merrie Melodies series. Released on March...
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    You Ought to Be in Pictures (category Films produced by Leon Schlesinger)
    features live-action appearances by Leon Schlesinger, writer Michael Maltese, animator Gerry Chiniquy and other Schlesinger Productions staff members. The...
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