"That's All Folks!"
"Bugs Bunny and Friends of Warner Bros. Cartoons"

  Popular Traveling Exhibition Now Available


The most popular cartoon characters in the United States -- and the
recipients of a major exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art --
are the subject of a new traveling exhibition now available.

"That's All Folks!" is an overview of Warner Bros. cartoons, the
Hollywood animation studio that gave birth to films and characters that
have become part of American folklore.  As The New York Times noted in
its review of the exhibition's catalogue: "Life in these United States
would be inconceivable without the shared referent of Bugs Bunny, The
Road Runner and the Coyote, Tweety and Sylvester, The Tasmanian Devil,
Marvin the Martian, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Speedy Gonzales" -- to
name only a few of Warner Bros.' internationally beloved characters.

Produced since 1930, the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" of Warner
Bros. have been acclaimed as the finest and funniest animated shorts
ever made.  Further, they are known to virtually every American with a
television set; indeed, most people under the age of 45 have seen Warner
cartoons literally hundreds of times as they were growing up.  Yet the
actual artwork from which these films were made is largely unknown.

"That's All Folks!" is a comprehensive overview of the Warner cartoon
studio, concentrating on the studio's "Golden Age," from 1938 to 1955;
it consists of over 160 original drawings, paintings, "cels" and related
artworks used in the making of the classic Warner shorts.  All of the
studio's characters are represented, as are all of the studio's
principal directors: Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett,
and others.

One section of the show provides a step-by-step breakdown of how classic
"cel" animation is made, using actual production artwork from Warner
shorts to illustrate every phase of the process.  Text panels and other
interpretive material treats the history of Warner cartoons, and the
studio's role in the history of American culture.

A one-of-a-kind opportunity, the current exhibition is a greatly
expanded version of the show that was presented for over four months at
The Museum of Modern Art, where it was an immense critical and popular
success.  A tour of the United States is now being planned; dates are
available beginning immediately.

The show's size is highly flexible, but it is most comfortable in areas
of between 2,500 and 4,000 square feet.

For more information, please call, in New York: (212)353-6042.  Queries
sent to this internet site ([log in to unmask]) may require some time
for a reply.

That's All, Folks!

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