LaVerne Harding Animation

LaVerne Harding was one of the first female animators in the animation industry, alongside Lillian Friedman, Retta Scott and Ruth Kissane. She is possibly the only one to have animated for golden age short films for a long period of time until their decline in the early 1970s. She worked at the Walter Lantz Studio from around 1934 to 1959, providing publicity art, comic book art and model sheets. She eventually became one of the key artists at the studio and redesigned and animated the later openings of the Woody Woodpecker cartoon series.

LaVerne's animation is usually on-model and very structured. She had an essential way of animating characters in limited animation and also used certain mouth shapes during dialogue scenes and takes.

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All clips are presumed and use the best available information:
0:00 - Solid Ivory (1948)
0:19 - The Beach Nut (1944)
0:27 - Fish Fry (1944)
0:37 - Woody Woodpecker (1941)
0:48 - Candyland (1935)
1:07 - The Barber of Seville (1944)
1:19 - Fiesta Fiasco (1967)
1:28 - Who's Cookin' Who? (1946)
1:43 - Chew-Chew Baby (1945)
1:55 - The Hollywood Matador (1942)
2:14 - Scrappy Birthday (1949)
2:37 - The Hollywood Matador (1942)
2:45 - Wet Blanket Policy (1948)
2:56 - Pigeon Patrol (1942)
3:10 - The Pink Phink (1964)
3:18 - The Mad Hatter (1947)
3:33 - Operation Cold Feet (1957)
3:47 - Ration Bored (1943)
4:15 - Sleep Happy (1951)
4:36 - Ration Bored (1943)
4:59 - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B' (1941)
5:10 - Woody Dines Out (1945)
5:25 - The Screwball (1943)
5:39 - The Tree Medic (1955)
5:49 - Belle Boys (1953)
5:56 - See Ya Later Gladiator (1968)
6:11 - Puny Express (1951)
6:17 - Sh-h-h-h-h (1955)
6:40 - Puny Express (1951)
6:51 - The Screwdriver (1941)
7:06 - Ski for Two (1944)
7:11 - Knock Knock (1940)
7:17 - Pink Panzer (1965)
7:21 - Woody The Giant Killer (1947)
7:37 - The Screwball (1943)
7:46 - Termites from Mars (1952)
8:07 - Boogie Woogie Man (1943)
8:20 - The Great Who-Dood-It (1952)
8:33 - The Pied Piper of Basin Street (1945)
8:42 - Fair Weather Fiends (1946)
8:50 - Playful Pelican (1948)
9:01 - Wax Works (1934)

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