Arthur "Art" Davis (June 14, 1905 – May 9, 2000) was an animator and a director for Warner Brothers' Termite Terrace cartoon studio. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. An animator is an Artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called Animation when rapidly displayed A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Warner Bros Cartoons Inc was the Animation division of Warner Bros The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. He got his start at a young age at the New York studio of Max Fleischer, and is reputed to have been the first in-betweener in the animation industry. An animator is an Artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called Animation when rapidly displayed Another of his distinctions was that he tapped out the famous "bouncing ball" of the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" cartoons of the 1920s. While one of the Fleischer brothers played the ukulele, Davis would keep time with a wooden stick with a white thumbtack on the end, which was photographed and incorporated into the films as the actual moving ball. Later he was an animator for the Charles Mintz studio. Charles B Mintz ( November 5, 1889 – December 30, 1939) was an American Film producer and distributor who took control While there, he helped create and develop Toby the Pup and Scrappy with fellow animators Dick Huemer and Sid Marcus. Toby the Pup is an Animated cartoon character created by animators Sid Marcus, Dick Huemer, and Art Davis. Scrappy is a Cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz 's Krazy Kat Studio. Dick Huemer ( January 2 1898 New York New York &mdash November 30 1979 Burbank California) was an Animator Davis would eventually be promoted to director and remained at the studio even after it became Screen Gems in 1940. Screen Gems is an American subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment 's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different The year 1940 in film involved some significant events Events February 7 - Walt Disney 's animated Film

In 1942, Davis left Screen Gems along with Frank Tashlin for Warner Bros. The year 1942 in film involved some significant events in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972, also known as Tish Tash or Davis worked as an animator for Tashlin's department until 1946 when it was assumed by Robert McKimson but he did one McKimson Cartoon . The year 1946 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films (U Robert "Bob" McKimson Sr ( October 13, 1910 &mdash September 29, 1977) was an American Animator, Illustrator Acrobatty Bunny is a Warner Bros cartoon released in 1946 as part of the Looney Tunes series directed by Robert McKimson (his second and starring Later that same year, he became a director himself, replacing Bob Clampett, who started his own studio. Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett ( May 8 1913 &mdash May 4 1984) was an American Animator, producer

Davis directed a number of hilarious Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, with a tone somewhere in-between those of Clampett and McKimson. Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros Animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969 Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros He had a distinctive characteristic visual style, which can be seen as far back as Davis' Columbia shorts, in which the characters move from the foreground to the background, as well as from side to side, using all axes of the animation field. Unfortunately, his department was shut-down only three years later in 1949 when Warners was having a budget problem. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Budget (from French bougette, purse generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues Davis then was taken into to Friz Freleng's unit, and served as one of Freleng's key animators for many years, until the studio closed. Isadore "Friz" Freleng ( August 21, 1906  &ndash May 26, 1995) was an Animator, Cartoonist, director

Thirteen years later, Davis directed a cartoon for Warners again when Freleng was busy with other projects. This cartoon was Quackodile Tears, which was also his last Warners short. After the studio closed in 1963, Davis went to Walter Lantz Productions as an animator. Walter Lantz Productions was an American Animation studio It was in operation from 1929 to 1972 and was the principal supplier of animation for Universal Studios He left Lantz in 1965 to work briefly for Hanna-Barbera Productions. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. He later moved over to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises to direct Pink Panther shorts and other cartoon series. DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE was a Hollywood-based American animated production company active from 1963 to 1981 The Pink Panther cartoon character is the main character in a series of animated short films.