Michael Maltese Trailers
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In 1941, Maltese was hired by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which three years later became Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. (Maltese had actually appeared on camera in the 1940 Porky Pig cartoon You Ought to Be in Pictures as a live-action guard at the Warner Bros. entrance gate, who winds up chasing the animated Porky around the Warners lot). The first cartoon he wrote for Warners was The Haunted Mouse (1941) by Tex Avery. He first worked for Freleng until 1948, but after that he worked mostly for Chuck Jones, contributing stories to other directors at times, including Robert McKimson. He and Jones collaborated on classic cartoons like the Academy Award-winning For Scent-imental Reasons and the animated public health documentary, So Much for So Little which won that same year for "Best Documentary Short Subject." Maltese was also the voice of the Lou Costello-esque character in Wackiki Wabbit. Some of his earlier works include The Wabbit Who Came to Supper and Fresh Hare, Hare Trigger (which introduced Yosemite Sam), Baseball Bugs for Freleng; Bear Feat, Rabbit of Seville, and Rabbit Fire for Jones. Some of his best-known cartoons are Feed the Kitty, Beep, Beep, Rabbit Seasoning, Don't Give Up the Sheep, Duck Amuck, Bully for Bugs, Bewitched Bunny, From A to Z-Z-Z-Z, and Beanstalk Bunny. These were all directed by Jones. He also worked on One Froggy Evening, the first appearance of future Warner Brothers mascot Michigan J. Frog. Some of his later cartoons included Ali Baba Bunny, Robin Hood Daffy, the seminal What's Opera, Doc? and Duck Dodgers in the 24th Century for Jones and Person to Bunny (the final time Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer Fudd) and Here Today, Gone Tamale (the only Speedy Gonzales cartoon he ever wrote) for Freleng. Maltese also collaborated with Jones on the 1960s Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts for MGM. From 1958 until 1970, he worked at Hanna-Barbera Productions on television cartoons such as The Quick Draw McGraw Show, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Wacky Races. Maltese also did scripts for comic books published by Western Publishing, including for many of the same Warner Brothers and Hanna-Barbera characters whose animated exploits he scripted.
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13 March 1955
A witch's broom breaks right outside of the broom factory where Woody just happens to be working. Unfortunately for her she doesn't have the 50 cents needed to purchase a new handle.
16 January 1955
After a dog destroys a couple of Woody's houses, Woody finds warmth from the rainstorm in the same house that the dog lives in.
26 March 1942
A collection of various gags in the form of a travelogue.
20 November 1980
A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pump"
20 December 1958
Bulldog Marc Anthony, guarding a construction site, finds a kitten, Pussyfoot, to whom he affectionately gives a wiener for lunch.
08 September 1952
A teen-aged boy mouse falls in love with the girl mouse who lives in the hole across the room. But Claude Cat literally comes between them, and also tries to stir up a feud between their two families.
24 February 1950
A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.
31 December 1963
Raymond has a serious carrot addiction, and it's up to Loopy to cure him from it.
07 June 1941
Bugs Bunny is hunted by Hiawatha, a stereotyped Native American who fills roughly the same role as Elmer Fudd in other Bugs Bunny cartoons of this era.
07 January 1965
Overhearing his boss, Bronco say he's going to get rid of an old saddle, Twister mistakes this for Bronco trying to get rid of him, and so, Loopy helps Twister escape.
23 October 1943
"As everyone knows," the narrator begins, "goldfish must have water... and cats hate water." And so it goes.
10 May 1957
Foghorn's going fishing, but a fox has other plans for him. Posing as a racetrack tout, he suggests Foggy get a hunting dog and go hunting.
13 June 1963
Loopy runs a organization called S.S.A. (Sheep Stealers Anonymous) to help wolves who are addicted to sheep, Sam Wolf however, becomes trouble for Loopy.
05 July 1941
Bugs is being chased by hunting dog Willoughby, and outsmarts him at every turn, until the end, where they outsmart the audience together.
26 February 1954
A homeless cat (Claude Cat) searching for food is harassed by the playful antics and barking of an energetic pup (Frisky Puppy).
01 December 1956
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.
01 December 1943
Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed.
14 September 1946
Hugo and Rocky (caricatures of Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre) make it home to their hideout only to find Bugs already settled down there for the night.
28 September 1979
A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile E.
04 February 1948
Tom subjects Jerry to his usual harassment; but the cat finds a new enemy, and the mouse finds a new friend, in the canary of the house.
18 June 1943
Meadows the butler quits after being tormented by the spoiled family cat, who finds he is unable to survive on his own, especially after meeting the mice Hubie and Bertie.
01 August 1954
Paw comes home late after a night out and is determined to sneak inside without waking Maw. When he cannot manage it alone, he asks Milford the pig for advice.
28 March 1942
Bugs Bunny exploits the situation when an uncle leaves Elmer Fudd three million dollars on the condition that he harm no animals, especially rabbits.
15 March 1960
Sylvester, his wife, and son go for a walk while their porridge cools, when Goldimouse wanders by to eat the porridge and sleep in their beds.
31 October 1942
Elmer Fudd goes after Bugs using hypnotism, only the plan backfires.
11 April 1955
The old fishing boat captain tells the story of Chilly Willy, a singing polar bear and a bulldog who quickly falls asleep when he hears a lullaby.
06 February 1948
A hungry indian tries to cook bugs, yet Bugs outwits him yet again. Banned for offensive depiction of Native Americans.
16 December 1950
Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit.
12 November 1949
Pepé Le Pew invades a Parisian perfumery, where he sniffs the various scents. The shopkeeper runs in horror and recruits a female cat to run the skunk out of the shop.
30 December 1944
That wascawwy wabbit is chased into a theatre by Elmer Fudd, and ends up having to perform to save himself, as well as convince Elmer to act himself.
15 February 1941
A starving cat wandering in the wilderness sees a sign that says "Ma's Place / Home Cooking / 3 Miles".
31 October 1959
Rabbit - in this case Bugs - is an important needed ingredient in Witch Hazel's brew.
17 September 1949
This was the debut for Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. It was also their only cartoon made in the 1940s.
08 March 1947
Striving to be like all the high-class dogs in their fine coats, a little hairless pooch borrows a black and white fur coat of her owner, not realizing it makes her appear to be a skunk.
09 November 1946
When Bugs Bunny attempts to perform Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, he is troubled by a mouse.
25 January 1957
Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner.
24 July 1948
Bugs is the test rabbit shot to the moon. There, he meets Commander X-2, who is intent on destroying the Earth with his Aludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
02 June 1962
Adventures of the Road-Runner is an animated film, directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble and Tom Ray.
23 August 1952
The Coyote makes various attempts to get the Road Runner with an explosive-tipped arrow, by shooting himself out of a sling shot and by covering the road with quick drying cement.
23 October 1991
Chuck Amuck: The Movie is a 1991 documentary film about Chuck Jones' career with Warner Bros., centered on his work with Looney Tunes; narrated by Dick Vosburgh.
06 July 1957
Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde.
29 October 1960
Tweety Bird goes on a world tour with his mistress, Granny. And a hungry Sylvester Cat follows them everywhere they go (France, Japan, Switzerland, and Italy).
28 March 1952
After driving the Foreign Legionnaires from their fort with his aroma, lovesick skunk Pepe falls for the camp mascot, a cat who's accidentally gotten a white stripe painted down her back.
05 April 1962
In France, Loopy meets the four musketeers and one of them goes to rescue a princess and Loopy goes with him to see him in action.
20 May 1955
Paris, 1913: Passionate, odiferous Pepe Le Pew pursues the latest love of his life, a cat who's been made up to look like a skunk, through the sets of a silent-movie studio.
05 May 1956
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.
15 February 1947
Story of a pigeon who takes the place of a rare bird delivered to be eaten by a Peter Lorre character.
23 May 1952
The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mine shafts.
17 September 1964
Loopy, under the company name of Jealous Lovers Anonymous, helps Braxton again with his mad crazy jealous streak to win over his girlfriend, Emmy Lou.
13 September 1957
Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his attempts to catch the Road Runner.
19 September 1941
Without success, Porky Pig tries to silence an alley cat who has been disturbing his slumber by constantly singing loudly.
03 May 1947
Thomas the cat finds Tweetie in the snow, warming himself by a cigar butt. Thomas's mistress rescues the little yellow bird before her cat can devour him, but Thomas doesn't give up.
02 January 1942
Sammy Seagull and Cecil Crow have stowed away on the same ship. Cecil, from Iowa, wants to see a hula dancer; fortunately, they've just come within flying distance of a tropical island with a lovely dancer.
02 August 1947
A very tired businessman needs some sleep and checks into a hotel run by Elmer Fudd, where Daffy Duck is the bellhop.
06 September 1958
Amid a snowy barnyard, Foghorn Leghorn deflects the carniverous attentions of a lip-smacking weasel.
08 July 1950
Bugs helps a penguin return home.
20 September 1952
Elmer Fudd is hunting both Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny again.
09 June 1961
A take-off on Jack and the Beanstalk where Loopy participates in the well-known fairy tale by climbing a beanstalk by bringing back Jack to his mother and meets the giant.
11 June 1955
Bugs Bunny is playfully harassed by his animator.
15 August 1941
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