1935. The Happy Harmonies canon included a handful of entries starring Bosko, who by 1935 had been redesigned from an ambiguous "inkspot" character into a discernible little African-American boy.[10] The directors worked separately on their own films, although both strived to create intricate films that would compete with Disney's award-winning Silly Symphonies.[11]

MGM's first foray into animation was the Flip the Frog cartoon series, starring an anthropomorphic talking and singing frog. The series was produced independently for Celebrity Pictures by Ub Iwerks, formerly the head animator at the Disney studio. Celebrity Pictures' Pat Powers had hired Iwerks away from Disney with the promise of giving Iwerks his own studio, and was able to secure a distribution deal with MGM for the Flip the Frog cartoons. The first Flip the Frog cartoon, Fiddlesticks, was released in August 1930,[7] and over two-dozen other Flip cartoons followed during the next three years. In 1933, the Flip character was dropped in favor of Willie Whopper, a new series featuring a lie-telling little boy. Willie Whopper failed to catch on, and MGM terminated its distribution deal with Iwerks and Powers, who had already began distributing their Comi-Color cartoons on their own.[8]
In February 1934 MGM signed a new deal with the Harman-Ising studio, which had just broken ties with producer Leon Schlesinger and the Warner Bros. studio over budget concerns, to work on a new series of high-budget color cartoons.[2] The director team brought with them much of their staff from their time with Schlesinger, including animators and storymen such as Carmen "Max" Maxwell, William Hanna, and brothers Robert and Tom McKimson.[9] (The McKimsons would later return to Schlesinger.) Also following Harman and Ising from Schlesinger was Bosko, a successful character the duo had created for the Warner cartoons.
The first entry in MGM's new Happy Harmonies cartoon series, The Discontented Canary, was completed in June 1934 and released in September. The series continued for three years, moving from two-strip to three-strip Technicolor in 1935. The Happy Harmonies canon included a handful of entries starring Bosko, who by 1935 had been redesigned from an ambiguous "inkspot" character into a discernible little African-American boy.[10] The directors worked separately on their own films, although both strived to create intricate films that would compete with Disney's award-winning Silly Symphonies.[11]
However, budget problems threatened to plague Harman and Ising a second time: Happy Harmonies cartoons regularly ran over budget, and Hugh Harman paid no heed to MGM's demands that he reduce the costs of the shorts.[12] MGM retaliated in February 1937 by deciding to open their own cartoon studio, and hired away most of the Harman-Ising staff to do so.[3][13] The final Happy Harmonies short, The Little Bantamweight, was released in March 1938, and Harman and Ising went on to establish a new studio to do freelance animation work for Walt Disney, only to come back.
For the 1934 MGM musical film Hollywood Party, Walt Disney animation studio created an animated sequence in Technicolor called The Hot Choc-Late Soldiers, and is one of a few examples where Disney produced animation for other studios. The movie also contained a sequence with Jimmy Durante interacting with an animated Mickey Mouse. In 1936, Disney's animators were overworked with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the Harman-Ising studio provided artists to work on the feature and the Silly Symphonies short Merbabies in exchange to artist training.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer charactersWalter Lantz
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Walter Lantz
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Lantz in 1990, with paintings of Woody Woodpecker.
Born    Walter Benjamin Lantz
April 27, 1899
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Died    March 22, 1994 (aged 94)

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same relationship to that character as Elmer Fudd had to Bugs Bunny in Warner Brothers' animated shorts from the same era. Wally is often heard humming or singing the popular song My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.
Wally's first appearance was opposite Woody in 1944's The Beach Nut and was voiced by Jack Mather, better known as the title character on The Cisco Kid on radio. Lantz stock player Will Wright gave him a growly, non-Swedish voice in The Reckless Driver. Wally continued to be featured in Lantz cartoons through 1948's Wacky-Bye Baby, at which time he was more or less replaced by Buzz Buzzard as Woody Woodpecker's primary foil. He would then make a few brief appearances in some 1950s cartoons like Puny Express, Sleep Happy, The Woody Woodpecker Polka, What's Sweepin' and Buccaneer Woodpecker. Wally also appeared, opposite Chilly Willy, in a pair of 1961 shorts (voiced by Paul Frees); as well as in a Woody TV special, Spook-a-Nanny (voiced by Daws Butler). Wally would years later reappear as a regular character on The New Woody Woodpecker Show in 1999 voiced by Billy West (who also played Woody). However, his classic period was 1944-1948.
Wally continued to make appearances in Lantz comic books and on other licensed merchandise. Wally also made a cameo appearance amongst the crowd of Toons in a brief headshot during the final scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The character's appearance changed somewhat over the years, with a complexion that ranged from dark to light flesh-tone and tusks that got variously smaller, larger, disappeared entirely, and reappeared. A frequent animation goof in The New Woody Woodpecker Show was to draw the mouth separate from the tusks, so it appeared theMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio
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Title Card for the shorts produced by the studio
Industry    Animation
Motion pictures
Successor(s)    MGM Animation/Visual Arts
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
Founded    1937
Founder(s)    Fred Quimby
Defunct    1957
Headquarters   
Culver City, California, U.S.
Overland and Montana Avenue
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Key people    William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Hugh Harman
Rudolf Ising
Tex Avery
Fred Quimby
Products    Animated films
Parent    Independent (1929–1937)

Woody Woodpecker character Beachnutboardwalk.jpg Wally Walrus makes his debut in 1944's The Beach Nut. First appearance The Beach Nut (1944) Created by Walter Lantz[1

 Wet Blanket Policy, the first and only animated short subject to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song,[2] at which time he was more or less replacing Wally Walrus as Woody Woodpecker's primary foil. Character actor Lionel Stander provided his voice in the 1940s with Dallas McKennon taking over the role in the 1950s. Buzz would continue to appear in Woody Woodpecker shorts until the mid 50’s, and was eventually replaced as the woodpecker's rival himself by Dapper Denver Dooley (also voiced by McKennon) and later Gabby Gator. Bunco Busters would be Buzz Buzzard's final appearance in a Woody theatrical cartoon until Tumble Weed Greed in 1969. Though Buzz continued to make appearances in Lantz comic books and on other licensed merchandise.[3] During the 14 year theatrical hiatus, Buzz made an appearance in the 1964 television special, Spook-a-Nanny. However, in Spook-a-Nanny he was voiced by Daws Butler. Buzz Buzzard also appeared in the Maroon Cartoon studio lot in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The character's appearance changed dramatically throughout the years with a vest and five o’clock shadow that disappears, different feather colors, and head feathers that disappeared entirely and reappeared sporadically.Wally Walrus
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Wally Walrus
Woody Woodpecker character
Beachnutboardwalk.jpg
Wally Walrus makes his debut in 1944's The Beach Nut.
First appearance    The Beach Nut (1944)
Created by    Walter Lantz[1]
Alex Lovy
Portrayed by    Jack Mather (1944-1948)
Will Wright (1946)
Dallas McKennon (1953)
Paul Frees (1961)
Daws Butler (in "Spook-A-Nanny")
Billy West (1999-2002)
Townsend Coleman (film)
Information
Species    Walrus
Gender    Male
Relatives    Willy Walrus (Wally's nephew)
Nationality    Swedish
Wally Walrus is a fictional animated cartoon character who appeared in several films produced by Walter Lantz Productions in the 1940s and '50s.[2]
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Wally is an anthropomorphic walrus who, in most of his appearances, speaks with a pronounced Swedish accent. Wally is rather slow-witted at times, and prone to anger when provoked. For many years, Wally was the primary foil for Woody Woodpecker, bearing roughly the

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