Tex Avery

Tex Avery (February 26th 1908 - August 26th 1980) was a Réalisateur of Cartoon films.

Biography

Frederick Bean “Tex” Avery is at the origin of the eccentric style of the Hollywood Cartoons of the the Forties. Avery worked for the studios Warner Bros and MGM and is especially known to create universes with the delirious situations. Among these characters, one can quote Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy or Nut-crackers ().

Tex Avery was born on February 26th, 1908 and passed its childhood in its birthplace of Taylor to the Texas. It started to draw at the 13 years age while working on the almanac of its school. Was a popular sentence at its school “what' S up, Doc.? ”, which will be popularized like phrases principal of Bugs Bunny in the years 1940.

At the end of its adolescence, it left to off make studies with the Art Institute Chicago where it learned the rudiments from the trade of Dessinateur and of stimulating. Whereas it did not find any employment as a draftsman of Cartoons, Avery launched out in animation, thinking that it would have time to work on his first cartoon and moved in California.

Its career of organizer started in 1930 with the Studios Fox where he worked on the adaptation of the fables of Ésope ( Aesop' S Sound Fables ). He worked then for Charles Mintz with the Columbia but changed employer again and tried his chance with the studios of Walter Lantz at Universal. Thus of 1929 with 1935 Avery worked with all the stages of the design of a Cartoon.

These years of training were useful for the Avery young person before the producer Leon Schlesinger does not contact it to direct the third unit of animation to the studios Warner Bros. Its team of organizers consisted of Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Bob Canon, Virgil Ross and of Sid Sutherland. All the troop was resigned to work in an infested bungalow of termites, which they ironically called “the terrace of the termites” ( Termite Terrace ). As them freehand was left, that made it possible the team to develop their own style, contrary to the conventions imposed by Disney. The team of Avery will work initially on the production in black and white of the Studios, the Looney Tunes, before working on the production color “Technicolor”. the Merrie Melodies. All this team will create the famous characters of Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.

The environment of work was slackened so much that Avery did not reproach the one his/her colleagues makes it have made him lose the use of one eye following a joke (a simple throw of trombone badly " tombé"). Some speculated in the fact that the lack of vision of Avery would explain its single style and its particular way to make a cartoon.

With Termite terrace Avery, with the assistance of Clampett, Jones and of Frank Tashlin, builds the foundations of a style of animation which will arrive to détrôner the Studios Disney like champion of cartoon films. Together they created a panoply of characters of Cartoon among most famous in the whole world still today. Avery being a perfectionist, he wanted to take care of all, even of the voices. It was able to remake the final assembly and to cut scenes if its intuition said to him that a gag was not well tied up.

One admits in Avery to have defines the personality of Bugs Bunny. Whereas the first appearances of Bugs Bunny are rather similar to that of Daffy Duck, Avery will establish the personality of Bugs Bunny in the drawings animated has Wild Hare in 1940. Avery directed only three other cartoons putting in the high-speed motorboat rabbit.

Bugs Bunny de Avery is a rabbit with an off-hand attitude always in control of the situation and which has fun with depends on its opponent. has Wild Hare mark also the first twinning between Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, a recombining of another character of Looney Tunes “Egghead”. It is in this cartoon that Bugs Bunny approaches gently Elmer “driving out rabbit” ( hunting rabbits ), and asks him calmly, for the first time “What is nine, doctor!? ” ( What' S up, Doc.!? ). In front of did the positive reactions of the public to the nonchalance of Bugs Bunny in dangerous situations, Avery make sentence “What is nine, doctor!? ” ( What' S up, Doc.!? ) a big part of the personality of rabbit.

Association between Avery and Warner Bros finished abruptly in 1941 following an argument with the producer Leon Schlesinger about the final gag in The Hecling Hare in 1941. Into the original version imagined by Avery, Bugs Bunny and a gun dog were to fall three times from a cliff, thus pushing the gag with its limits. According to the historian Micheal Barrier, the node of the problem for Schlesinger came from a sentence pronounced by Bugs Bunny right before its third fall. The scene shows Bugs Bunny and the dog turning to the spectators while saying “Attach your tuques, one goes back there!” ( Hold one to your hats, folks, young stag we go again! ). The problem with this sentence is that it came from a radio program which gave him a sexual turning. Not wanting to associate Bugs Bunny with this kind of joke, Schlesinger, supposed to be with the orders even Jack Warner, withdrew the scene of the third fall of Avery. In front of this accomplished fact, Avery left the studios, leaving in plan three cartoons which will be supplemented by Bob Clampett. Other assumptions, of which that wanting that Schlesinger, very close to its under, judged the fall of Bugs Bunny too long also circulated to explain the departure of Avery of Warner Bros.

Thereafter, Avery remained some time with the Paramount where he worked on a series of documentary in which true animals were provided with the word.

The same year, the producer of MGM Fred Quimby engaged it as a realizer with the MGM (Subway-Goldwyn-Mayer) in their studios of animation. Avery had freehand once again and was assisted by a team quite as talented as in Warner Bros. One found Scott Bradley with the music, Rich Hogan and Heck Allen wrote the scenarios, whereas Preston Blair, Ray Abrams, ED Coil and Walters Clinton dealt with animation.

Convinced that Schlesinger prevented it from opening out, Avery will reach the top of its art in its years with the MGM. Avery will be responsible for the near total of the cartoons of the MGM. Tex Avery invented other legendary characters here such nonchalant it Droopy, the Loup libidineux, the ultra-sexy Vamp object of all covetousnesses, the squirrel insane Casse-Noisettes (Screwy Squirrel). Among the other characters of MGM created by Avery, it is necessary to note Bad Luck Blackie , Magical Maestro , Lucky Ducky , and King-Size Canary .

Avery will take one sabbatical year in 1950 during which Dick Lundy, just arrived of the studios of Walter Lantz, will take the changing with the head of the team of animation of the MGM. The arrival of the Télévision changed the world of animation in the the Fifties. Industry having to adapt to this new support, the times were reduced whereas the quantity increased. Avery did not accept these new work conditions and wanted to remain faithful to its vision of the things. Exhausted, it will leave the MGM in 1953 to turn over to work with the studios of Walter Lantz.

Avery will remain with the studios of Lantz time to direct four new cartoons, Crazy Mixed-Up Pup , Shh-h-h-h-h , I' m Cold and The Legend off Rockabye Point , in which it will define the character of Chilly Willy the Pingouin. Avery will leave the studios of Lantz following a wage argument, which will put an end to its career with the world of the film production.

He reconverts himself into the Publicité in the the Sixties, again drawing the characters of Warner Bros with whom he had worked with Termite Terrace for publicities of Fruit juice S, and created in particular the first spots of anti-mosquito Raid ( Oh No! RAID! BOOM! ). One owes him also the creation of the mascot discussed of.

Avery made an ultimate return in animation the last years of its life while working for Hanna and Barbera and invented its last character, Kwicky Koala. August 26th, 1980, Tex Avery dies in work at Hanna-Will bore with Burbank, California at the 72 years age. It had fought a lung cancer for one year. It rests with “” of with Los Angeles, California.

The style of Avery is in opposite direction with the realistic model imposed by Walt Disney. Avery encouraged the members of its team to exceed the limits and to make things in a cartoon which could not be made in the reality of a film. One can see all the style of Tex Avery in one of the famous scenes which he imagined appearing initially in Red Hot Riding Hood , transposition of the history of the Little Red Riding Hood. The history starts like a normal tale, then embraie on a revolt of the wolf which takes with part the team of the scenario writers, considering the situation too conventional; it is joined in its protest by the two other characters, following what the tale starts again in renovated version: the Little Red Riding Hood is here a sexy woman who makes insane of desire the wolf, which cracks completely: he whistles, howls, has the eyes which leave to him the head (literally), the language which falls on the table… This scene will be repeated in other cartoons of Avery, then pastichée thereafter, such as for example in the film The Mask with Jim Carrey.

Although he did not know the rebirth of cartoon films of the Années 1990 - 2000, its influence is reflected still today in the most recent cartoons like Roger Rabbit , the Tiny toons, Simpson, or certain characters in some films like the Genius in the Aladdin of Disney.

In Blitz Wolf, American propaganda film, Tex Avery put in scene the wolf (Hitler) and the Three small pigs. A warning at the beginning of cartoon prevents: “ The Wolf in this photoplay is NOT fictitious. Any Similarity beetween this Wolf and that (*!! *___%) Jerk Hitler is purely intentional! ”. One finds at the beginning of film, the pact of nonaggression signed by… Adolf Wolf. The end of the cartoon announces: “ The End off Adolf ” and, low, “ yew you' L buy has stamp gold has jump we' L skin that skunk across the lays ”.

Principal achievements directed or Co-directed by Tex Avery

Warner Bros.

Golddiggers off '49 (1936)
The Blow Out (1936)
Plane Dippy (1936)
I' D Love to Take Orders from You (1936)
Miss Glory (1936)
I Coils to Singa (1936)
Porky the Rain Maker (1936)
The Village Smithy (1936)
Milk and Honey (1936)
Don' T Look Now (1936)
Porky the Wrestler (1937)
Picador Porky (1937)
I Only Have Eyes for You (1937)
Porky' S Duck Hunt (1937)
Uncle Tom' S Bungalow (1937)
Ain' T We Got Fun (1937)
Daffy Duck and Egghead (1937)
Egghead Rides Again (1937)
has Sunbonnet Blue (1937)
Porky' S Garden (1937)
I Wanna Be has Sailor (1937)

The Sneezing Weasel (1937)
Little Red Walking Hood (1937)
The Penguin Parade (1938)
The Isle off Pingo Pongo (1938)
has Feud There Was (1938)
Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas (1938)
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)
Cinderella Meets Fella (1938)
Hamateur Night (1938)
The Mice Will Play (1938)
has Day At the Zoo (1939) off
Thugs with Dirty Mugs (1939)
Believe It gold Else (1939)
Dangerous daN McFoo (1939)
Detouring America (1939)
Land the Midnight Fun (1939)
Fresh Fish (1939)
Screwball Football (1939)
The Early WORM Gets the Bird (1939)
Cross-country race Country Turnings (1940)

The Bear' S Tale (1940)
has Gander At Mother Goose (1940)
Circus Today (1940)
has Wild Hare (1940)
Ceiling Hero (1940)
Wacky Wild Life (1940)
Of Fox and Hounds (1940)
Holiday Highlights (1940)
The Crackpot Quail (1941)
Haunted Mouse (1941)
Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)
Hollywood Steps Out (1941)
Porky' S Preview (1941)
The Heckling Hare (1941)
Aviation Vacation (1941)
All This and Rabbit Stew (1941)
The Bug Parades (1941)
The Cagey Canary (1941)
Aloha Hooey (1942)
Crazy Cruise (1942)

Paramount

Speaking off Animals Down one the Farm (1941)
Speaking off Animals Down in has Pet Shop (1941) off
Speaking Animals Down in the Zoo (1941)

MGM

Blitz Wolf (1942)
The Early Bird Dood It! (1942)
Dumb-Hounded (1943)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
Who Killed Who? (1943)
One Ham' S Family (1943)
What' S Buzzin' Buzzard? (1943)
Screwball Squirrel (1944)
Batty Baseball (1944)
Happy-Go-Nutty (1944)
Big Heel-Watha (1944)
The Screwy Truant (1945)
The Shooting off daN McGoo (1945)
Jerky Turkey (1945)
Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
Wild and Woolfy (1945)
Lonesome Lenny (1946)
The Hick Chick (1946)
Northwest Hounded Organizes (1946)
Henpecked Hoboes (1946)
Hound Hunters (1947)
Red Hot Rangers (1947)
Uncle Tom' S Cabana (1947)
Slap Happy Lion (1947)
King-Size Canary (1947)

What Price Fleadom (1948)
Little 'Tinker (1948)
Half-Pint Pygmy (1948)
Lucky Ducky (1948)
The Cat that Hated People (1948)
Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
Señor Droopy (1949)
The House off Tomorrow (1949)
Doggone Tired (1949)
Wags to Riches (1949)
Rural Little Riding Hood (1949)
Out-Foxed (1949)
The Counterfeit Cat (1949)
Ventriloquist Cat (1950)
The Cuckoo Clock (1950)
Garden Gopher (1950)
The Chump Field (1950)
The Peachy Cobbler (1950)
Cock-a-Doodle Dog (1951)
Daredevil Droopy (1951)
Droopy' S Good Deed (1951)
Symphony in Slang (1951)
Because off Tomorrow (1951)
Droopy' S Doubles Disorder (1951)
Magical Maestro (1952)

One Cab' S Family (1952)
Rock'n'roll-have-Bye Bear (1952)
Little Johnny Jet (1953)
T.V off Tomorrow (1953)
The Three Little Pups (1953)
Drag-have-Length Droopy (1954)
Billy Servant boy (1954)
Homesteader Droopy (1954)
The Farm off Tomorrow (1954)
The Flea Circus (1954)
Dixieland Droopy (1954)
Field and Scream (1955)
The First Bad Man (1955)
Deputy Droopy (1955)
Cellbound (1955)
Millionaire Droopy (1956)
Cat' S Meow (1957)

Walter Lantz

HS-H-H-H-H-H (1955)
The Legend off Rockabye Not (1955)
I' m Cold (1954)
Crazy Mixed Up Pup (1954)

See too

Looney Tunes (Characters)

External bonds

Tex Avery with the MGM
Tex Avery Tribute
Animation off Tex Avery '' At Keyframe - the Animation Resource
Tex Avery - the integral

Simple: Tex Avery

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