ANOTHER Lobby Card Question!

[Jack]

How many different lobby cards were made for each short (the most I've ever seen is two)?




Jack:D

[Sveven Dvorking]

They are all lost, except for the ones shown in the Beck/Friedwald book.

[Thad Komorowski]

Actually, quite a few are still around, you just have to look for them. The most I've ever seen is two too. Also, has anyone ever seen the MGM lobby cards, and how horribly drawn they were? I read that they were done by other people, not the original artists, which explains the off-design model of the characters. Gee, I never knew Jerry was crosseyed, Toodles was brown, and Spike had demented, evil look on his face. :p

-Thad:D

[Jack]

Actually, Lobby card are sort of the easiest to find of the LT animation art because so many were produced, I'm sure you could recover at least one for each cartoon if you seached animation art museums and private collections. I've seen dozens not shown in the Beck and Friedwald book just on the internet.



Jack:D

[J Lee]

The inside cover pages of Joe Adamson's book on Bugs Bunny's 50th anniversary has one version of about half of Bugs' lobby cards displayed (eighty-nine in all), including one from "All This and Rabbit Stew."

BTW -- I thought it was interesting on the Toonheads WWII special to see that the lobby card for "Herr Meets Hare" credited Leon Schlesinger as producer, while the lobby card for the next cartoon released in 1945 by Warner Bros., "Draftee Daffy," which is in Leonard Maltin's book, shows it was "Produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons Inc." That may indicate that the lobby cards were drawn before the cartoon was completed, and that "Herr Meets Hare" was the final cartoon put into production while Schlesinger was producer, though several cartoons released before that already had been stripped of his name.

[Jack]

Was that "Bugs Bunny and the Gremiln" card from the Toonheads special real? I think it was.

I'm gonna have to check this other Adamson book out...



Jack

[Matthew Hunter]

There's actually an internet site that has lobby cards from LT/MM for 25 dollars apiece, and apparently they are the real thing. It's called "Gremlin Animation Art Gallery". Someday I want one myself, they have quite a few from the early 1960's cartoons.
-MaTTHEW

[Jack]

I've been told that those are photographic reproductions of the cards.

Also, I've never actually seen an MGM lobby card, I think they just made posters because they could afford it (MGM had more money to spend, and they made less cartoons)

Actually, a while back I came up with the idea of reprinting lobby cards and selling them sort of like baseball or Pokemon cards (I didn't post it here, just in case you think you should remember). They would be fairly large, but not exactly full size (gotta be to able to tell them apart from the real thing...), and you would get the two that came with each cartoon. They would be very easy/cheap to make because it's all B&W printing.



Jack:D

[Sveven Dvorking]

I am sorry for jumping to conclusions. The problem is that I have never seen other lobby cards before. Thanks for clearing that up for me!