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G'Day!
Or perhaps I shoud say ‘Hi! Have a nice day’ because last summer
the Rolf's Cartoon Club crew carted themselves off to California to
bring you a special show for Christmas, Rolf Meets Bugs and
Friends In Hollywood.

Working from Hollywood we set out to meet
some of the people who have known Bugs
since he was born 50 years ago, people who
grew up with him and people who are still
working with him.

For me the biggest thrills were meeting two
of the legendary figures of animation, Chuck
Jones and Friz Freleng. On our regular show
we want to get as much animation in as we
possibly can so we often don’t screen the
credits at the very beginning of a cartoon.
If we did then the names of Chuck Jones
(actually it appears as Charles M. Jones) and
Friz Freleng (who appears on the credits as
or Isadore Freleng) - well those two would
appear most often. We’ve screened more of
the classic Wamer Bros cartoons by them
than anyone else.

Chuck doesn’t live in Hollywood, he lives
about a two hour drive South on the Pacific
coast in Newport Beach. In his house he has a
studio, which, I was relieved to find, is just as
cluttered as my Cartoon Cockpit! Just
watching him put pencil to paper and seeing
Bugs, Daffy, Wile E Coyote and the
Roadrunner appear so fluidly and with such

Rolferoo
Writes...

Six club members, Tim Acheson, Helen
Beckett, Lucy Mellow, Jennifer Greenhalgh,
Mark Gratrix and Gary Hewitt were special
guests at the British Animation Awards
Dinner. They were the winners of our unique
competition to find six judges for two of the
Awards - Favourite Animated Series for
Children, and Favourite Animated Single
Film for Children. They spent a weekend in
Bristol viewing over five hours of animation,
before deciding on a shortlist of three in each
category and then a winner in each category.
The nominated Series were, Count Duckula,
Fireman Sam and Oh! Mr Toad! The nomin-
ated Single Films were, Granpa, The B.F.G.
and A Grand Day Out.

On the night, in front of over 300 top
professionals in the animation industry, Tim
Acheson and Helen Beckett declared that Oh!
Mr Toad! and The B.F.G. were the winners.

We’ve enrolled some unusual members,
including Scally from Children’s ITV, but
when Rolf appeared in an edition of Ghost
Train he took the opportunity of enrolling
none other than Nobby the Sheep.

ROLF'S CARTOON CLUB is an HTV WEST production for CHILDRENS ITV