This new Oswald model was adapted directly from a non-Oswald character in another Lantz cartoon: the Cinecolor " Fox and the Rabbit " ( 1935 ), released some two months earlier as the last of the early Cartune Classics series.

Animator Bill Nolan did the voice of Oswald in Cold Turkey, the first Lantz cartoon with dialogue, and the following year Pinto Colvig, who was working as an animator and gag man at the studio, started voicing Oswald.

* Champ ( cartoon character ), an animated dog introduced by Walter Lantz Studios in 1960

Lantz and his staff worked on several ideas for possible new cartoon characters ( among them Meany, Miny, and Moe and Baby-Face Mouse ).

* List of Walter Lantz cartoon characters

Woody Woodpecker is a funny animal cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and 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.

( The small Lantz Studios logo seen at the start of every cartoon — Woody as an armored knight on horseback carrying a lance — continued to display Woody with his old topknot for a while.

The half-hour program consisted of three theatrical Woody shorts followed by a brief look at cartoon creation hosted by Lantz.

In 1924, Lantz directed, animated, and even starred in his first cartoon series, Dinky Doodle, and shortly after he replaced George " Vernon " Stallings as head of production ( During the 1920s, Bray began to concentrate in beating Hal Roach as the " king of two-reelers ").

In 1928, Lantz was hired by Charles B. Mintz as a director on the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon series for Universal Studios.

In September 1929, Lantz finally put out his first cartoon, Race Riot.

In 1982, Lantz donated 17 artifacts to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, among them a wooden model of Woody Woodpecker from the cartoon character ’ s debut in 1941.

* The OKeh Laughing Record, which featured a man and woman laughing uncontrollably, was featured extensively in the Walter Lantz Productions cartoon short Sh-h-h-h-h, the last short directed by Tex Avery.

* Walter Lantz produced an Oswald cartoon in 1933 entitled The Merry Old Soul which is reference to the nursery rhyme.

* Mexico ( cartoon ), a 1930 Walter Lantz cartoon

Walter Lantz is believed to have patterned the call of his cartoon character Woody Woodpecker on that of the acorn woodpecker, while patterning his appearance on that of the Pileated Woodpecker which has a prominent crest.

* Doc ( cartoon character ), an animated cat introduced by Walter Lantz Studios in 1959

The studio was putting out more than three reels of screen magazines, the educational and training films, and experimental films such as an unnamed sound-on-film cartoon by Walt Lantz ( co-producer / director ) and Hugo Riesenfeld ( composer ) in 1927 for Movietone, in between the releases of Don Juan and The Jazz Singer and coincidentally shortly before Bray Pictures ' demise.

Animator Walter Lantz produced a short-lived cartoon series for Universal Pictures called " Maw and Paw ," though only four cartoons were released between 1953 and 1955.

Another Walter Lantz cartoon " The Ostrich Egg And I " ( from the Maggie & Sam series ) in 1956 was a spoof of The Egg and I with Maggie voiced by Grace Stafford and Sam voiced by Daws Butler.

Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon, although more recent information has indicated that Alex Lovy was the actual director.

He left Lantz in 1965 to work briefly for Hanna-Barbera Productions, before moving over to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises to direct Pink Panther shorts and other cartoon series.

After Disney's success with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Lantz studio planned to make its own feature, Aladdin and His Lamp featuring the comedy duo of Abbott and Costello, but after Mr. Bug Goes to Town failed at the box office, it never made it to actual production.

Hannah then went to the Walter Lantz Studio and directed a number of films featuring Woody Woodpecker and some minor characters.

During 1948, the Lantz studio had a hit Academy Award-nominated tune in " The Woody Woodpecker Song ", featuring Blanc's laugh.

* First Intro, a YouTube video featuring the first intro, that features Walter Lantz, used from 1957-1977.

* Second Intro, a YouTube video featuring the Second intro, that features various Walter Lantz characters, used from 1987-1997.

The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?

* Walter Lantz, noted for the creation of Woody Woodpecker, provided the animation for Dracula's transformations.

Rights to the Lantz / Universal-produced Oswald films and other related products were not included, and therefore Oswald appears in both Disney releases and in Universal's Woody Woodpecker and Friends collection.

Donald Duck was created by Al Taliaferro, Woody Woodpecker was a creation of Walter Lantz ( Lanza ), with Casper the Friendly Ghost being the creation of Joseph Oriolo.

It opened again in 1950 with a downsized staff, mainly because Lantz was able to sign a deal with Universal ( by this time now known as Universal-International ) for more Woody Woodpecker cartoons, starting with 1951's Puny Express.

Luckily for Lantz Woody Woodpecker's survival was lengthened when he started appearing in The Woody Woodpecker Show from 1957 to 1958, from which it entered syndication until 1966.

NBC revived the show twice — in 1970 and 1976, and finally in 1985 Lantz sold all of the Woody Woodpecker shorts to Universal, then part of MCA.

In July 2007, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection, a three-disc DVD box set compilation of Lantz Cartunes.

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.

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.

Lantz first used " The Woody Woodpecker Song " in the 1948 short Wet Blanket Policy, and became the first and only song from an animated short subject to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song.

Lantz soon adopted the song as Woody's theme music, and due to the song's popularity, Woody Woodpecker fan clubs sprang up, theaters held " Woody " matinées, and boys got the " Woody Woodpecker " haircut.