Talk:Woody Woodpecker

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Contents 1 Disputed 2 episode list 3 DVD news 4 A Better Image 5 What is Woody?

[edit] Disputed

The correctness of the date of Lantz's marriage as 1941 (and the conclusion that the origin story is fictional) is in doubt. IMDB lists it at 1940, but the article claims it is 1941, probably based on Lantz's obituary in the LA Times as linked from davidbrady.com. Given that the text of the LA Times article is not even self-consistent (as noted), I sway towards 1940 but have no means to corroborate it. TheGoblin 15:07, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Every animation book I've ever read that mentions Lantz says "1941" The "1940" date given at imdb is likely an error. --FuriousFreddy 00:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] episode list

bouth for classic and the new are missingThe Tramp 22:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DVD news

In a January 2007 radio interview on Time Travel with Dan Hollis and Jeff O'Boyle, animation historian Jerry Beck announced that he was working with Universal to prepare a 4-disc DVD set of Woody Woodpecker and other Walter Lantz cartoons. Although no official announcement from Universal has been issued yet, Beck states that the collection will include 75 cartoons, including Knock Knock, the first forty-five Woody Woodpecker cartoons (from 1941's Woody Woodpecker to 1952's Termites from Mars), the four cartoons Tex Avery directed for Lantz, several Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons, several Pooch the Pup cartoons, and several Swing Symphonies cartoons as well. ^[1]

The apparition of the Woody Woodpecker at the Williams F1 car wasn't in 1999, but in 1998!

[edit] A Better Image

This image

from Woody's look throughout the years would be perfect for the image up at the top of the screen. It displays his original 1940's look, his second 1940's look, and his 1951-1972 look. It serves a better purpose than the current image and isn't as violent. Woody is the only character on this site to have a picture with the character pointing a gun to the head at the top of the page. I vote for a change. Any naysayers? -- Magic-Man 08:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

You're probably not going to get a response from anybody but me on here, because Woody Woodpecker isn't exactly a high-traffic article. It's not a better image because it's not an image done by a Walter Lantz employee. It's someone else's rendition of Woody Woodpecker. Not only that, but it's not a finished piece - it's interim art; a sketch. For those purposes and others, it is something that we can't properly license for use on this site under fair use (and will eventually be deleted). As I said on your talk page (why didn't you reply back to me?), when I get the Woody Woodpecker DVD, I'll make a crisp screen capture of an opening title card, and replace the image (I'll also be replacing some of the images already here as well). As for showing Woody's various looks, that's what the sequence of images already in the article is for, because we can claim fair use for a handful of screenshots a lot easier than we can someone's sketch for a Woody maquette. --FuriousFreddy 23:56, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What is Woody?

Which kind of woodpecker is Woody Woodpecker based?--4444hhhh (talk) 16:56, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The page says Pileated, but the color does not agree. Red-headed with Pileated's crest more likely. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 19:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)