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[Frank]

The last scenes appear to have Pete Burness animation! How many cartoons did he work on at MGM before leaving for Warners?

[Sogturtle]

The last scenes appear to have Pete Burness animation! How many cartoons did he work on at MGM before leaving for Warners?

Frank~

Siiiiiiiigh...

Comically if you go by "Pete's" Imdb filmography you'll be led to believe that he worked on nearly as many Warner cartoons as MGM toons...;)

The real answer is "probably nobody knows" how many MGM cartoons REALLY have Burness animation in them (at least to date)...

The reason I say that, is because he had a couple of stints working for Harman-Ising in the early and latter Thirties. Like Jack Zander he jumped from the starving H-I studio in '33-'34 clear across country To Van Beuren till ABOUT the time of the closure of that studio. He then migrated back across country and rejoined Harman-Ising working on their Happy Harmonies for Metro... Sooooo we can count him as working on every single MGM Happy Harmony from the moment he rejoined H-I (now ifffffff we just knew the EXACT moment he rejoined them!!:confused: ;) ). He then animated on H-I's sole completed Disney-release "Merbabies"...

Then Harman-Ising went bankrupt and he was among the crew who hung on tightly till the whole surviving lot were invited to join the floundering MGM studio... Okay, so we know that he was then assigned to Rudy Ising's unit and in theory it should be easy to just go "wellllll this, that, and this are Ising cartoons and therefore those are the only ones with Burness animation in them...". Problem is of course that while Friz was still there he was given animators to use, not just Harman's but some of Ising's... Burness may or may not have been amongst those loaned... He of course did animate on "Puss Gets The Boot" and was then later assigned to the permanent Hanna-Barbera unit...

Okay, so from that point it's easier... Annnnnd of course when he packed up and quit Metro then true to form the studio would've removed his name from the credits of all UNreleased cartoons!!! Those who believe that Hanna-Barbera REALLY got along with only three animators during that period aren't taking into account HB's vaunted position or MGM's pettiness.

Aren't you SORRY you asked??? :D :bosko: :honey: :tomcat: :jerry: