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    Joseph Barbera on his favorite animated characters, and on the key to a successful animated character

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    Nancy Cartwright on auditioning for The Simpsons, originally part of the Tracey Ullman Show

    05:36
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    Bill Melendez on advice to an aspiring animator

    01:41
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    June Foray on the animation technique of rotoscoping, which she worked with as an animation voiceover artist for Disney

    00:55
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    Alex Anderson on the animation process of Crusader Rabbit

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    Chuck Jones on "Bugs'" catch phrase "What's up, doc?"

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    Alex Anderson

    Alex Anderson on the animation process of Crusader Rabbit

    04:32

    Alex Anderson on the process of writing for Crusader Rabbit

    04:09

    Alex Anderson on advice to aspiring animators 

    05:07

    Joseph Barbera

    Joseph Barbera on his favorite animated characters, and on the key to a successful animated character

    01:43

    Art Clokey

    Art Clokey on his advice to young animation producers

    01:42

    June Foray

    June Foray on the animation technique of rotoscoping, which she worked with as an animation voiceover artist for Disney

    00:55

    Chuck Jones

    Chuck Jones on directing for the first time, on The Night Watchman

    02:31

    Bill Melendez

    Bill Melendez on the early in-house animation process at Disney, and on what he learned there

    03:03

    Bill Melendez on the style of animation employed when he was at Disney, and the rules for specific characters

    03:42

    Bill Melendez on the difference in style between Disney and Warner Bros. animation

    03:20

    Bill Melendez on what he learned from working at Warner Bros. animation

    03:53

    Bill Melendez on the challenges of animating Peanuts for Charles M. Schulz

    02:10

    Bill Melendez on the stages of producing the Charlie Brown Specials, and on collaborating with Charles M. Schulz

    17:14

    Bill Melendez on advice to an aspiring animator

    01:41

    Arthur Rankin, Jr.

    Arthur Rankin Jr. on casting his animated shows

    01:14

    Phil Roman

    Phil Roman on how the animation production schedule differed from theatrical features to television and on dividing up labor

    01:59

    Phil Roman on what strengths he was most known for in his early days as an animator

    00:45

    Phil Roman on the challenge of running his own production company Film Roman

    02:26

    Phil Roman on Film Roman selling Howie Mandel's series Bobby's World to Margaret Loesch to FOX and on the process of selling shows to networks

    02:33

    Thomas Schlamme

    Thomas Schlamme on animating television commercials

    02:30

    Robert Smigel

    Robert Smigel on why he turned to animation and his early attraction to cartoons as a kid

    00:55

    Robert Smigel on one of his goals with The Dana Carvey Show being not too similar to Saturday Night Live; on writer Dino Stamatopoulos making suggestions for Smigel’s cartoon idea and working on a Superhero parody of "Batman" and "Robin" as "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" for The Dana Carvey Show (and later Saturday Night Live's "TV Funhouse"); on playing with ideas of homoeroticism and masculinity in writing the sketches

    08:34

    Robert Smigel on his "Fun with Real Audio" sketches (for Saturday Night Live) being the inverse of the Clutch Cargo animated device; on the first "Fun with Real Audio" sketch animating real audio clips between Larry King and Ross Perot

    01:23

    Robert Smigel on the animated sketch "Journey to the Disney Vault" for Saturday Night Live's "TV Funhouse"

    02:17

    Robert Smigel on his "TV Funhouse" animated sketch skewering NBC's parent company GE on Saturday Night Live

    05:26

    Robert Smigel on his parody of the Peanuts for his "TV Funhouse" animated sketch on Saturday Night Live

    04:37

    Robert Smigel on his involvement with the 25th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live in 1999; on the animated sketch "Life of a Catchphrase" he created for "TV Funhouse" that aired during that special

    03:48

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