Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.

Bugs Bunny made a cameo appearance in 1942 in the Avery / Clampett cartoon Crazy Cruise and also at the end of the Frank Tashlin 1943 cartoon Porky Pig's Feat which marked Bugs ' only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes short.

Meanwhile, as Clampett noted, nothing was ever made of the fact that " all those years, Porky never wore any pants!

After Schlesinger realized he needed another unit, he made a deal with Tex Avery, naming Clampett his collaborator.

" Chuck Jones particularly disliked Clampett, and made no mention of his association with him in either his 1979 compilation film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie ( in which Jones lists himself and other Warners directors ) or his 1989 autobiography Chuck Amuck.

The Clampett unit made a couple of field trips to Club Alabam, a Los Angeles area black club, to get a feel for the music and the dancing, and Clampett cast popular radio actors as the voices of his main three characters.

Clampett, working the Internet broadcast of Amen Corner, made the comment after Liang missed the cut.

Beany and Cecil first appeared as a hand puppet TV show in the late 40 ' created by Bob Clampett.

Aside from the top-billed Ebsen, other principal cast members included Irene Ryan as Jed's mother-in-law, Daisy Moses, also known as Granny ; Max Baer, Jr. as Jed's dimwitted nephew Jethro Bodine ; Donna Douglas as Jed's only child, the curvaceous, critter-loving Elly May Clampett ; Raymond Bailey as Milburn Drysdale, a bank president who oversees the Clampett fortune ; and Nancy Kulp as Jane Hathaway, Drysdale's secretary.

Iwerks directed the first two shorts, while former Schlesinger animator Robert Clampett was promoted to director and helmed the other two shorts before he and his unit returned to the main Schlesinger lot.

However, Clampett left the studio before going into full production on the short, and Freleng took on the project.

Clampett died of a heart attack on May 2, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan, just six days before his 71st birthday, while touring the country to promote the home video release of Beany & Cecil cartoons.

Clampett left the studio before the short went to production, so Arthur Davis took over as director.

Their correspondence was never published in the media, nonetheless it was sent to Michael Barrier, who had conducted the interview with Clampett and was distributed by Jones to multiple people concerned with animation over the years.

In his commentary as part of the 1970s documentary film, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, Clampett discussed the fact that his early version of Tweety Bird had to be redesigned after his first picture because the producers thought he " looked naked ".

In the documentary Bugs Bunny: a Superstar, animator Clampett stated, in a sotto voce " aside " to the audience, that Tweety had been based " on my own naked baby picture ".

A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

He wooed animators away from other studios, including some of those who had departed with Harman and Ising including Bob Clampett.

Under the Warner system, Clampett had complete creative control over his own films, within severe money and time limitations ( he was only given $ 3, 000 and four weeks to complete each short ).

Warner Bros. had recently bought the rights to the entire Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies studio from Schlesinger, and while his cartoons of 1946 are today considered on the cutting edge of the art for that period, at the time, Clampett was ready to seek new challenges.

In the late 1950s, Clampett was hired by Associated Artists Productions to catalog the pre-August 1948 Warner cartoons it had just acquired.

In addition, Mel Blanc ( the great voice actor who had worked with Clampett at the same studio for ten years ) also accused Clampett of being an " egotist who took credit for everything.

Originally, Clampett wanted an all-black band to score the cartoon, the same way Max and Dave Fleischer had Cab Calloway and His Orchestra score the Betty Boop cartoons Minnie the Moocher, The Old Man of the Mountain, and their own version of Snow White.

However, Schlesinger refused, and the black band Clampett had hired, Eddie Beals and His Orchestra, only recorded the music for the final kiss sequence.

ABC had been negotiating for the production of the show with the Clampett family, who insisted that Kricfalusi would be part of the production.

Beany and Cecil was created by animator Bob Clampett after he left Warner Bros., where he had been directing theatrical cartoon shorts.

* Cartoon Network had this cartoon edited the same way as syndication, TBS, and TNT used to air it, until the cartoon short aired on The Bob Clampett Show ( which became known for airing cartoons by Bob Clampett that either would be shown edited or not shown at all ), where the sleeping pill scene was left intact.

He married Ruth Barth in 1939 and the couple had three children ; Linda Kaye Henning on whom Paul partially based the character of Elly May Clampett, Carol Alice and Paul Anthony Henning.

Clampett left at what some considered the peak of his creativity and against everyone's advice.

Clampett would revisit black jazz culture again in another 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Tin Pan Alley Cats, which features a feline caricature of Fats Waller in a repurposing of the wacky fantasy world from Porky in Wackyland ( during the opening sequence, the " Fats " cat is distracted by what appears to be a sexy, feline version of So White ).

A Corny Concerto ( 1943 ), a Warner Bros cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett with animation by Robert McKimson, features music that was composed by Johann Strauss, and is a parody of Walt Disney's 1940 Fantasia.

Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood, and early on expressed an interest in animation and puppetry.

In his later years, Bob Clampett toured college campuses and animation festivals as a lecturer on the history of animation.

From his early teens Clampett showed an interest in animation and puppetry.

In his later years, Bob Clampett toured college campuses and animation festivals as a lecturer on the history of animation.

The Golden Age of American animation, like the 1940s cartoons by Bob Clampett and Tex Avery to name a few, served for inspiration for the bizarre expressions and artwork for which Spümcø became well-known.

Kricfalusi's interest in Golden Age animation crystallized during his stay at Sheridan College, where an acquaintance of his held weekly screenings of old films and cartoons, among them the cartoons of Bob Clampett and Tex Avery, which left a deep impression on Kricfalusi.

After moving to Los Angeles, Kricfalusi was introduced to Milt Gray by Bob Clampett, suggesting he should join Gray's classical animation class.

Michael Barrier, an animation historian, said that Kricfalusi's works " testify to his intense admiration for Bob Clampett's Warner Bros. cartoons " and that no cartoonist since Clampett created cartoons in which the emotions of the characters " distort their bodies so powerfully.

The DVDs also feature several special features including interviews / documentaries of the people behind the cartoons such as Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, musical conductor Carl Stalling, and voice-artist Mel Blanc, pencil tests, and audio commentaries by animation historians Jerry Beck, Michael Barrier, and Greg Ford, as well as current animators Paul Dini, Eric Goldberg, and John Kricfalusi.

Other notable figures in character animation include the Schlesinger / Warner Bros. directors ( Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Bill Melendez, Frank Tashlin, Robert McKimson, and Friz Freleng ), cartoon animators Max Fleischer and Walter Lantz, pioneering animators Hanna-Barbera, former Disney animator Don Bluth, independent animator Richard Williams, John Lasseter at Pixar, and latter-day Disney animators Andreas Deja and Glen Keane.

The Bob Clampett Show was an animation anthology television program which ran from 2000 to 2001.

Of the cartoons included in the Censored Eleven, animation historians and film scholars are quickest to defend the two directed by Bob Clampett: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs and Tin Pan Alley Cats.