The Cartoon World of Bob Clampett was organized by the American Museum of the Moving Image. This two-part series (continuing tomorrow evening) is composed of new 35mm prints from the Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Animation, and Bob Clampett Productions. With the 82 cartoons that he directed for Warner Bros. from 1937 to 1946, Bob Clampett pushed Hollywood animation to its greatest comic heights. The Warner cartoon studio, housed in a modest building known as Termite Terrace, provided an ideal creative atmosphere-a blend of structure and anarchy. Of all the renowned Warner directors, including Chuck Jones and Tex Avery, it was Clampett who most gleefully used the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies as a form for his unbridled inventiveness. His work is marked by a dynamic, outrageously elastic visual style, a jazzy sense of timing, and an irreverent, often topical sense of humor that seems aimed more at adults than children. Clampett was instrumental in the creation of Tweety Bird, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. After leaving Warner, Clampett created the beloved Beany and Cecil, first as puppet characters in the Emmy-winning Time for Beany, and later as the stars of an animated cartoon show.--David Schwartz, Curator of Film, American Museum of the Moving Image "For many viewers, the films of Robert Clampett define what is exemplary in Warner Bros. cartoons. Stylistically predominant during Warner's first period of maturity, Clampett's commingling of newborn's innocence and ultraviolence brought cartoons that were howlingly funny and, seemingly, unselfconscious. But Clampett was a rigorous and disciplined artist; his overriding discipline, however, called for rupturing the disciplines that hemmed in mainstream animation. The way his characters virtually break out of their own bodies-through Clampett's surging, stretching animation-is a perfect correlate to the ways in which his stories attempt to break out of conventional trappings." --Steve Schneider, That's All Folks!: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation Tonight's program: Porky and Daffy (1938, B&W), Porky in Wackyland (1938, B&W), Kitty Cornered (1946), Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1944), Horton Hatches the Egg (1942), Birdy and the Beast (1944), An Itch in Time (1943), A Corny Concerto (1943), The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946), and Beanyland (1961).