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John Needham's 1988 documentary on the life and work of animation legend Tex Avery. Features some great clips, plus contributions from Joe Adamson, Heck Allen, June Foray, Chuck Jones, Mark Kausler, Mike Lah, and Ed Love.

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I never liked ... ( 8 months ago by RangeofMotion)

I never liked Scooby Doo myself either.

Whats that song at ... ( 7 months ago by savreck)

Whats that song at the end, when the lizard is undressing? Its so familiar. Someone please enlighten me!

"It had to be you", ... ( 7 months ago by skewiff1)

"It had to be you", I think(?) Not too sure.

Skewiff1 is right, ... ( 7 months ago by BeJi74)

Skewiff1 is right, it's "It had to be you".

Even tho it's my ... ( 7 months ago by MrRadaikon)

Even tho it's my understanding that Seth designed family giy characters, you always get the feeling that he doesn't have the same passion and love for animated arts that are found in other contemporaries like Craig or Genndy. He spends more time on making the pop culture jokes than on style and movement. There's a reason Seth McFarlane is up to his armpits in royalty fees, he's always using someone elses work to make a joke.

oh my, did the ... ( 6 months ago by quickdisco)

oh my, did the propective lady employee had to strip for her dance?!

Can you get this on ... ( 5 months ago by swiftgunner)

Can you get this on DVD anywhere?

She was employed ... ( 5 months ago by weikko79)

She was employed precisely because she WAS a stripper.

anybofdy else find ... ( 4 months ago by tinytoonsfan)

anybofdy else find the beegening with the squirrels hilaryous

Is there a funny ... ( 4 months ago by warningfellow)

Is there a funny filmreel about the animators called the march of time somewhere i cant find it in imdb. its 4:50 or 4:48 it think

To 'Swiftgunner' ... ( 3 months ago by theblankparty)

To 'Swiftgunner' you can get it on dvd but it is hard to come by and thus expensive,best bet would be ebay, one slight issue I have with the dvd set is that little bits here and there are cut out eg on 'Lucky ducky' also to 'Warningfellow' im pretty sure that film is on the bonus disk of the dvd box set

is there a DVD of ... ( 3 months ago by gagbonkers2)

is there a DVD of avery's cartoons uncut?

i bought the ... ( 2 months ago by gregcab8)

i bought the complete mgm collection of tex avery 5 dvd discs about 4 years ago with everything from tortoise beats hare ,i love to singa,to red hot riding hood with almost 100 cartoons directed by tex avery i show them to my kids to let them see real cartoons not the shit they have on tv nowadays

Lmaof! Seth ... ( 2 months ago by Morahman7vnNo2)

Lmaof! Seth compared to Tex!? Why don't you just "Compare Scrap Metal to Gold?"

yep ( 1 month ago by Happytreefriendsfan3)

yep

great analogy ( 1 month ago by HuiroCat)

great analogy

Do you remember ... ( 1 month ago by warlord32088)

Do you remember where you bought it. I've been trying to look for them myself. I grew up with all these cartoons and they are at a min 10x better then what's on tv.

Yeah i have to ... ( 1 month ago by FatEGGanimation)

Yeah i have to agree the cartoons now is almost like looking at robots, I love the hyped up nature of tex's work, so much energy!

well said. ( 1 month ago by FatEGGanimation)

well said.

Yeah I agree with ... ( 1 month ago by FatEGGanimation)

Yeah I agree with that. Im an animation student and the cartoons out at the moment are not great. Im working on creating toons at a similar style to tex avery as its the best, not the half arsed stuff today!

Um, "In reality ... ( 1 month ago by z1u12b)

Um, "In reality lizards don't shed their skin?" I'm looking at my pet lizard right now, and I figure he's just got a bad case of eczema, cuz it looks like he's SHEDDING to me...

Can I ask you where ... ( 2 weeks ago by greedo1973)

Can I ask you where did you get those? I haven't been able to find any unedited Tex Avery's cartoons.

HOOOOO THE LIIIIFE, ... ( 2 weeks ago by inspirationmagnus)

HOOOOO THE LIIIIFE, THE LIiIiIiIiFE..... HHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa =) 5 STARS

i've never known of ... ( 4 days ago by ACcountryFan)

i've never known of lizards to shed their skin. snakes do. certain kinds of lizards can shed the skin on their tails to escape danger...but in reality, this lizard stripping scene was done in fun. it's total nonsense and funny whether someone is completely factual or not and lizards don't "shed their skin" in the traditional sense of the word, like snakes do, so that is why the narrator said what he did.