Abe Levitow
Nacimiento : 1922-07-02, Los Angeles, California, USA
Muerte : 1975-05-08
Historia
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Abraham "Abe" Levitow (July 2, 1922 - May 8, 1975) was an American animator who worked at Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Levitow was born in Los Angeles, California. He began working as an in-betweener at Warner Brothers Studios in 1940. Levitow briefly left Warner Brothers when he was drafted during World War II, returning in 1945. He first received animation credit in 1953 while working under the direction of Chuck Jones. He worked steadily for Jones over the remainder of the 1950s, and directed several cartoons for release in 1959, including the Pepe Le Pew cartoon "Really Scent". While working under Jones, he made characters' joints more angular than most other animators. Those characters with fur (Wile E. Coyote, for example) looked especially shaggy in Levitow's scenes.
In 1961 he moved to UPA and directed a series of Dick Tracy cartoons. Then in 1962, he directed the first feature-length animated television special, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. 1962 also saw the release of his theatrical feature Gay Purr-ee, with the voices of Robert Goulet, Judy Garland, and others. By 1965, he was working with Jones at MGM as an animator and a director in the Tom and Jerry series. He co-directed the feature film The Phantom Tollbooth with Chuck Jones at MGM. He animated on the Chuck Jones-produced A Christmas Carol, directed by Richard Williams at Williams' London studio in 1971. His last completed project was B.C.: The First Thanksgiving in 1973. At the time of his death Levitow was in line to direct the animated feature film Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure. The project was taken over by Richard Williams when Levitow unexpectedly died during pre-production.
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Los personajes de «Looney Tunes» se meten en situaciones locas.
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection : Volume 1 es un Blu-ray Disc y una caja de DVD editada por Warner Home Video. Fue lanzado el 15 de noviembre de 2011. Contiene 50 caricaturas de Looney Tunes y Merrie Melodies, y numerosos suplementos. El 3 de julio de 2012 se lanzó una versión en DVD del Box Set, pero no contenía extras. Todos menos siete caricaturas incluidas en este volumen: Lovelorn Leghorn , The Hasty Hare , Hare-Way to the Stars , Bill of Hare , A Witch's Tangled Hare , Feline Frame-Up y From A to ZZZZ fueron lanzadas previamente como parte de la Looney Tunes Golden Collection o Looney Tunes Super Stars.
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Bugs has to defend the Earth's right to exist in an intergalactic court.
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A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy" "His Bitter Half"
Executive Producer
To add flavor to her rock soup, the Fat Broad commands Wiley, Peter, Thor, etc. to catch a turkey. The problem is that no one knows what a turkey is except for the turkey himself. In spite of this, the chase is on. Mostly a series of running gags, this animated special did a superb job of capturing the humor of Johnny Hart's B.C. comic strip.
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To add flavor to her rock soup, the Fat Broad commands Wiley, Peter, Thor, etc. to catch a turkey. The problem is that no one knows what a turkey is except for the turkey himself. In spite of this, the chase is on. Mostly a series of running gags, this animated special did a superb job of capturing the humor of Johnny Hart's B.C. comic strip.
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Short cartoon based on the comic strip by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker.
Producer
Historia de un niño que recibe un regalo mientras habla por teléfono y, al abrirlo, descubre un carrito rojo y una caseta de cobro por la cual pasa... entrando así en un mundo fantástico con aldeas de números y letras.
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Historia de un niño que recibe un regalo mientras habla por teléfono y, al abrirlo, descubre un carrito rojo y una caseta de cobro por la cual pasa... entrando así en un mundo fantástico con aldeas de números y letras.
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Tom and Jerry are taking a cruise when Tom decides to go surfing. He has problems with a shark and a rather tenacious starfish.
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Secret agent Jerry-akin has to steal a giant refrigerator full of cheese, guarded by the evil Tom Thrush with a vast array of diabolical gadgets and traps. Of course, Jerry has a few tricks of his own.
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Jerry heads out to his night job: drummer for an all-mouse rock band in the basement of a high-rise. They are loud enough to wake up Tom, despite his attempts to block the noise. Tom's attempts keep running him afoul of a rather mean-tempered dog.
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2565 AD. Tom and Jerry are once again manipulating robot versions of themselves in space. Tom experiments with invisibility, a giant electromagnet, and explosives, with results from bad to disastrous.
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A supply satellite arrives at the space station where Tom (despite his high-tech gadgets) is having no better luck than usual at catching Jerry before he gets the cheese.
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Jerry's mouse hole connects two homes, with Tom living in one residence, a neighboring cat in the other. Jerry decides the best survival plan is pitting the cats against each other, without their knowledge.
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In the Alps, Tom gets knocked out chasing Jerry, and is revived, revitalized and intoxicated by a St. Bernard with a keg of brandy. After several such episodes, Tom escapes with Jerry to a tropical island, where he is hit with a coconut. Not to worry- the St. Bernard appears and renders his special brand of first aid.
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Perhaps because he's grown weary of chasing Jerry, Tom sets his sights on the house's goldfish. But the female goldfish is a friend of Jerry's, and the little mouse has a crush on her. When Jerry gets involved to rescue his friend, the usual confrontations with Tom begin.
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Jerry's a wharf mouse; he sees a load of cheese being loaded onto a cargo ship and tries a variety of tricks to board, but Tom is on guard.
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Jerry is chased into a circus, where he removes a tack from the foot of an elephant. This gets him a friend for life, and a powerful ally in the continuing battles with Tom, not that it stops Tom from trying, even when Jerry becomes part of the act.
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Literary classics take a ribbing as the nearsighted bumbler portrays Dr. Watson, Dr. Frankenstein and other characters.
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Way out in space, on another world whose population is contented, one of its people decides that travel broadens the mind and relieves boredom. So, he flies to Earth in hope of helping the alien Earthlings improve their lot, only to cause panic and be declared a monster just because he looks different. So, he decides to return home, where, at least, he can find love.
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In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage production of the classic - doesn't have a ghost of a chance unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three spirits who haunt him one Christmas Eve.
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La historia está ambientada en el cambio de siglo XIX-XX en Francia, predominantemente en París. Sin embargo, empieza en una granja en Provenza, donde la encantadora gata Mewsette está aburrida con su pretendiente (Jaune Tom, un experto pero tímido cazador de ratones). Inspirada por las historias de glamour y sofisticación de París ("Take My Hand, Paree"), Mewsette se escapa a la gran ciudad, donde se encuentra al hábil estafador Meowrice. Aprovechándose de la ingenuidad de la gata, la pone al cuidado de la sutil Madame Reubens-Chatte, quien promete convertir a Mewsette en una exquisita debutante. Meowrice está prometiendo a Mewsette sin que ella lo sepa con un rico gato americano de Pittsburgh, conocido como el "Dr. Phtt" ("El Gato del Dinero"). Mientras tanto, Jaune Tom y su compinche Robespierre llegan a París buscando a Mewsette.
Co-Director
Nelly the Giraffe is discovered in Africa and leaves to begin a singing career, but finds that chasing fame brings her nothing but unhappiness.
Director
Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner with roller skis, a bow, a rifle, a boomerang, an anvil, and several exploding darts let loose from a balloon.
Executive Producer
Mr Magoo goes to what he thinks is a hotel but it’s actually a mad scientist’s castle and he’s after a brain...
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A public-service announcement from the American Cancer Society featuring Mr. Magoo. Not part of the regular series, this rare cartoon begins with a bunch of clips talking about the history of the movies, then has some discussion about how Magoo is made, and a talk with Jim Backus. Then the bulk of the film is a Mr. Magoo cartoon featuring Magoo learning about cancer danger signs and how to protect yourself.
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Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.
Art Direction
El más simpático cegatón que ha dado el mundo de los dibujos animados, se traslada al Oriente Medio para hacernos desternillarnos de risa con sus increíbles aventuras. A bordo de una alfombra voladora se reúne con su sobrino Aladdin, que está enamorado de la bella princesa Yasmina. Mr. Magoo prestará su colaboración en la empresa de conquistar tal belleza. La magia de oriente, genios, alfombras voladoras, tesoros y faquires se mezclan con nuestro héroe urbano, cuya ceguera lo convierte en una auténtica catástrofe con patas.
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Are animals human? Or vice versa? This is the question asked by a professor, Dr. Beest Lee, who appears on a stage in a theater to give a lecture and show a film about the human-like qualities of various cartoon animals, among them a beaver who "damns" a troublesome river, a groundhog who uses technology to predict the coming of spring, and a dog who scolds his neglectful master.
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La bruja Hazel intentará convertir a Bugs en su cena. Tercer cortometraje protagonizado por esta secundaria, que hace varias referencias a obras de Shakespeare como Hamlet, MacBeth o Romeo y Julieta.
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Pepe le Pew arrives in New Orleans, where Fabrette the black cat has been cursed with white stripes like a skunk, interfering with her chances to get married. Of course, a skunk is her perfect match... if she can stand the smell!
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Bugs conducts the Warner Brothers Symphony in Franz von Suppé's "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" while reacting to a bothersome fly.
Animation
Bulldog Marc Anthony is a guard at a construction site. He finds a kitten, Pussyfoot, to whom he affectionately gives a wiener for lunch. A hungry, grown cat sees the wiener and tries to take it from Pussyfoot. So, in defense of his kitten friend, Marc Anthony fights the cat on the steal beams of the partly constructed skeleton of a building.
Animation
Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these schemes results in the Coyote being swept up by a twister and carried into a mine field.
Animation
Hare-Way To The Stars convierte a Bugs, sin que éste se dé cuenta, en polizón a bordo de un cohete rumbo a Marte, donde tiene que evitar que otro adversario, el marciano Marvin, destruya la Tierra.
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Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his usual unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner.
Animation
Bugs está en resistencia como la valquiria Brunhilde que se sienta en un caballo con sobrepeso. "Ella" es perseguida por Elmer interpretando al semidiós "Siegfried".
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Ralph Wolf tries to forcibly remove Sam Sheepdog in order to gain access to a flock of sheep. Without success, he uses a lasso, cannon, a string of firecrackers, and a giant rubber band.
Animation
Ralph es enviado a su habitación por romper una ventana. Allí, pasa el tiempo al estilo Walter Mitty, soñando despierto que es un explorador de la jungla que salva padres, un as del jet alienígena y un convicto.
Animation
Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner. He applies a drop of water to enlarge it from pebble-size to usual boulder dimensions, but it enlarges as Wile E. is lifting it over his head, coming down on top of him.
Animation
Wile E. Coyote is so hungry that he forms a chicken out of mud, bakes it, and tries to eat it, causing one of his teeth to fall out. He throws the mud bird away when a real one comes along - the Road Runner, who runs so fast that he literally burns up the road, setting Wile E.'s feet on fire! Wile E. schemes to catch the Road Runner using a rope, a sling-shot, a gun on a spring, a rotating circle of spiked balls, a booby-trapped ladder, and a load of rocks.
Animation
Daffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shorepshire Slasher.
Animation
A cosmic mix-up results in a Martian baby being delivered to Earth, while an Earth baby is sent to Mars. Joseph Wilbur and his wife try to raise the green-skinned, ingenious Martian tyke as if he were an Earthling. But the kid builds his own spaceship and flies away, and Wilbur must find him and bring him back, or he'll never be able to make an exchange with the Martian parents for his own boy.
Animation
Wile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley, a painting of a collapsed bridge (which the Coyote falls into while Road Runner passes right through), and a jet motor.
Animation
Una bruja que reclama ser la más fea de todas, se ve amenazada por una bruja de Halloween, que resulta ser el conejo Bugs Bunny disfrazado.
Animation
Ralph Phillips is overjoyed when he runs out of Fort Itude, because he's a civilian again. Things, however, don't go well for him when he gets home, and two pixies named Pete and Re-Pete convince him to stay in civilian life or go back to the army. At the end, Ralph chooses to go back to the army
Animation
'One Froggy Evening' es el título original del dibujo animado producido por Warner Bros. Es considerado uno de los mejores cortos animados de la historia, famoso por la aparición de la rana cantante, "Michigan J. Frog". Fue escrito por Michael Maltese, dirigido por Chuck Jones y se estrenó el 31 de diciembre de 1955. El nombre de la rana le fue dado con posterioridad por Chuck Jones: su apellido responde a su condición de rana (en inglés "frog") y su nombre de pila se debe al título de la canción que canta ("The Michigan Rag", escrita por Maltese). La historia cuenta cómo un hombre ve la posibilidad de hacer una fortuna cuando consigue una rana capaz de bailar y cantar...
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While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by- the Road Runner. But making himself into a giant arrow doesn't catch the bird, and the book, "How to Tar and Feather a Road Runner", isn't much help either.
Animation
Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.
Animation
John McRogers dreams about his future after spending four years in the U.S. Air Force, and is convinced by "Grogan," Technical Gremlin First Class, on why he should remain in the Air Force, rather, and what the advantages would be if he returned to civilian life.
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Baby-Faced Finster robs a bank, but the baby carriage with the money in it goes down Bugs' rabbit hole.
Animation
A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can't help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus) catch the Road Runner (Hot Rodicus supersonicus).
Animation
Porky and Sylvester go on a creepy vacation.
Animation
Tercer cortometraje de Chuck Jones con los personajes de "Feed the Kitty", el perro Marc Anthony y el gatito Pussyfoot.
Animation
Animated propaganda advocating for the importance of unregulated capitalism to the American way of life.
Animation
Porky y Silvester pasan la noche en una casa vieja, siendo este último atormentado con extrañas visiones que sólo parece ver él. Parodia del largometraje "Agárrame ese fantasma" (Hold That Ghost, 1941).
