Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) sings "The Golfer's Lament."
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Arthur Q. Bryan had a long career creating and voicing the part of Elmer Fudd in the Warner Brothers cartoons, but he also appeared in movies, radio shows and on T.V. Here's a chance to see him the the flesh (which is plentiful) singing "The Golfer's Lament." I originally thought this little film was produced by the Soundies Corporation for use in their Panoram visual jukeboxes, but I could not find any listing or mention of this title when I went searching. Even the imdb website turned up nothing on this film. I then turned to author, film and Soundies historian, Ted Okuda. Ted was about to fill in the blanks for me concerning this title. He writes: "The Golfer's Lament" was one of the shorts produced by the short-lived Vis-o-graph Corporation of America, a firm that tried to establish themselves at the same time as Soundies. Vis-o-graph got off to a flying start in January 1941 (the same month the first official Soundies were released) when Rudy Vallee assumed the firm's presidency. The company anticipated a total of 20,000 Vis-o-graph machines (similar to the Panoram machines used for Soundies) would be in operation during their first year.
Vallee took a active roll in the initial productions but he wound up resigning after a few weeks. By March 1941 Vis-o-graph had installed only 100 machines, a third as many as Panorams. Vis-o-graph discontinued operations shortly thereafter and prints of these shorts have floated around on the home movie market ever since."
You'll note that the print used for this presentation was not by Vis-o-graph, but by someone by the name of Joe Bonica. Joe Bonica was a producer of short subjects prepared exclusively for the home movie market. He released a lot of strip tease, nudie and burlesque type of subjects as well as musical shorts and excerpts. He even reprinted U.S. Government footage of the Atom Bomb test. Apparently, Bonica wasn't below pirating prints from other sources- redoing the titles and passing them off as his own. You'll notice on the main title of "The Golfer's Lament" that not only does Joe misspell Arthur Q. Bryan's last name as "Bryant," but he also leaves out the apostrophe in the word "Golfer's." Clearly, Joe Bonica either didn't do his homework to get it right or didn't care.
That’s Arthur Q. Bryan the original voice of Elmer Fudd, he may Rest In Peace ✌️ (1899-1959) 😢😢😢
"That waskly wabbit glued the whittle bawwl to the tee!"
"Don't waff at me! Need to concentwate. Be weeerry qwwuuiet."
And no one commented on how gorgeous those dames were 😍
Aloof and superior beings 😊
The whole time I was watching this I was half expecting Bugs Bunny to show up.
PHANTASTIC !
Wonderful. I weally wike this cwip.
Love that this little clip is still getting comments.
I'm upvoting this if for no other reason than your notes, good job, persistence paid off.
Omg the good old days missed so bad.
" Come back heya you wascally wabbit !!!". Elmer Fudd in weal.life!!.
the good old days?
how old are you
I thought Mel Blanc dreamed up this voice but now here's the real guy !
Mel Blanc had it in his contract that he’d get credit. His costars didn’t so many thought he did all the voices
@@potsdam28 That's a total WOW !
Bryan was the original voice, Blanc also did a lot of Fudd, but there were at least 30 people who voiced him over the decades.
@@mcmneverreadsreplys7318 he hated it. He never felt like he got the voice right
It's kind of sad in a way that we're only hearing about this guy now, almost a century later.
That was wovely !
Close your eyes while listening and you will see Elmer Fudd in your head 😆
There's something that has Arthur Q. Bryan in it that I'm trying to find. I haven't seen it before, but I've read about it. I've read that he narrates a short (might have been long, I'm not sure) educational thing about how to be a cop. Searching How To Be a Police Officer, which I believe is the title of the thing comes up with a ton of results that I'm not even sure are what I'm trying to find. If anyone has an upload here on UA-cam or could upload it, please link me. Rest in peace to Arthur Q. Bryan.
Mel Blanc had the courage to mimic Arthur Q. Bryan's Elmer Fudd well after Arthur Bryan's passing. However, you guys should not be confused with Dave Barry's Elmer Fudd (or one of the buffaloes pictured in Columbia's "Lo, the Poor Buffal"). But keep in mind however, that Dave Barry (the actor) passed away in 2001 at the age of 82.
Well yes, and no. Mel Blanc did *_NOT_* mimic Arthur Q. Bryan's Elmer Fudd, he did Elmer's voice in his own way.
Elmer Fudd was almost an animated mirror-image of him when he debuted.
Actially, when Elmer Fudd debuted he was slim. For a short time in the 1941-1942 season, Elmer's appearance was fat, for five cartoons: Wabbit Twouble, The Wacky Wabbit, The Wabbit Who Came to Supper, Any Bonds Today? and Fresh Hare.Then they went back to drawing him slim.
So Elmer was a tall super fat guy with a full head of hair? I would get your eyes checked
Mr. Bryan doesn't appear to be tall.
Several average sized women walk past him in the video and they all seem about as tall or even a little taller than he was. None of them are wearing high heels.
@@salvagemonster3612 Even a year later, what an obnoxious bore you come across as. Every answer is belligerent and rude. Must be something to have such a serious case of internet muscles.
I think Arthur Q. Bryan's caddie looks a little like the late Darren McGavin from HOME ALONE and TV crime drama fame.
The heavy set version of Elmer Fudd was designed after him.
You mean fat?
@@classicpontiac37 Of course.
@@classicpontiac37 The original, fatter Fudd.
@@Deutschie I'm pretty sure elmer fudd was originally thin but they made him fat during ww2 and after that he was thin again.
Trying to hit a wabbit wit the ball.
It’s sounds like Elmer, I weally wike it this makes me woving
That's because he did voice Elmer Fudd.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Only thing that's missing is his speech impediment. "Be vewy, vewy quiet! I'm hunting wabbits!".
Because of the manner in which MEL BLANC negotiated his WB contracts, he was summarily granted all credits to the cartoon voices.
But it was other vocalists such as Arthur who added additional voices. He made movies appearances, and was a regular staple on various network radio shows as well.
Yup, this the REAL Elmer Fudd!
They always told me Mel Blanc did ALL the voices. That was quite interesting!
He did do Elmers voice after this gentleman passed away.
He was the only one credited
Mel Blanc's contract stipulated that his was the only name to be billed on screen. A number of other actors provided incidental voices, including Stan Freberg, Daws Butler (particularly after the mid-1950's,) and Robert C. Bruce (the "straight voice" narrator of their travelogue spoofs.) Female voices were mainly by Bea Benadaret through the mid-50's and June Foray thereafter.
how would AQB sound as a blue stand up comic?
They spelled his name wrong on the title card!
If only Mel Blanc showed up to annoy him.
Great stuff.
certainly Elmer Fudd
Am I seeing things, or was one of the golfers Moe Howard ( 3 Stooges)?
The caddy looks a bit like a young Darren McGavin, but I don't think he would have been in films this early.
Depends what year this was made.but yes that looks like Kolchek. This could be from fifties .
Did he use his normal voice for Elmer, or did he decide to use Elmer's voice for this?
This voice and the Elmer voice aren't really his voice. If you want to hear his natural voice, listen to an episode of the radio show "The Great Gildersleeve" from the 1940s. He was one of the costars in that show. You can find those here on UA-cam.
He's also Dr. Gamble on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" show.
@@iamfelixthecat7233 And for a year or two, he played Police Lieutenant Walter Levinson on "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" with Dick Powell. The role was also played by Ed Begley, Sr., Ted de Corsia, and Alan Reed (Fred Flintstone!)
It's impossible for me be accept this this little cartoon voice came from this big man. I always thought Mel Blanc did every voice in the Looney Tunes Cartoons.
Yeah, I know. They always put Mel in the credits as voice of all characters but turns out he wasn’t.
Porky Pig , the early Elmer, and some others were not Mel Blanc .
As you may know, there’s more information on this topic available in some UA-cam videos.
Grew up on looney tunes 🐰
@@robinhood480 You and me both, Robin. As a kid, I gravitated towards WB cartoons, not Disney. Disney was for kids while WB was for adults. As a child my father used to describe me as 8 going on 50. To this day, WB tickles my old funny bone.
His caddy looks like Gilligan, making him look like the Skipper.
Sounds like Elmer Fudd.🤣🎆💕
@@christienelson1437 He was the voice of Elmer Fudd before Mel Blanc took over the role.
Come to think of it, he looks more like Chuck McCann in 'The Far Out Space Nuts.'
@@Deutschie There is no universe in which Arthur Q. Bryant could or would ever sound like Elmer Fudd. He sounds more like Dangerous Dan McFoo to me. Arthur Q. Bryan, on the other hand...
ooh boooooy!
👍
Reminds me of the stooges.
Thanks.
They probably copied him.
Love it. ❤️.
Who doesn’t like Elmer Fudd. ?
Was there a wabbit on the course
Looks like curly stooge !
Wow, He weawwy IS Ewmer!
He looks like curley
Sounds like Elmer Fudd. Looks like Buddy Hackett.
Yes, I can agree on that. He sounds exactly like Elmer Fudd, but looks just like Buddy Hackett when voicing Scuttle the seagull from Disney's the Little Mermaid, 1989.
@@easmsagentandjapanrailwaysfan2
I thought Arthur Q. Bryan looked more like Curly from The Three Stooges. But I think you're right, he definitely looks like Buddy Hackett depending on Arthur Q. Bryan's weight.
@@wakkowarner5765
Arthur Q. Bryan's appearance sure looks like Buddy Hackett when Buddy makes his way to Las Vegas on a Sahara hotel.
Arthur Q. Bryan → Buddy Hackett (when comparing his weight to Buddy Hackett's)
Like a hunting person catching rabbits, like a seagull with a crazy amount of hair pulled out of the comb-like fork.
@@ボブクランペット磐田浴柄著
*_Only one day left and that little wabbit ain't tuckered up once!_*
No wonder Bob Clampet did Fat Elmer in Wabbit Twouble!
Trying to hit a wabbit wit the ball.
Didn’t Mel Blanc do the voice of Elmer Fudd ?
Not at first. After Byran died Blanc took over...
Then why didn’t WB give him voice characterization credit ? I never understood why other actors were snubbed. For example Bea Benaderit did a lot of the women’s voices but she wasn’t listed on the credits.
Where's Bugs Bunny to torment him?.
Voice actors just weren't credited at the time. Mel was the first. They couldn't give him a raise, so he asked for credit instead. And wound up being the only one with a credit.
Was this his real voice, or was this just a character voice he had?
That wasn't his real speaking voice- he didn't speak with a lisp, but always spoke this way on radio, TV and in the cartoons. I guess no one now knows what his actual speaking voice sounded like.
Barry Siegel Not technically a lisp (that was Mel Blanc’s Daffy Duck and Sylvester the Cat). What Bryan’s Elmer Fudd did was to substitute a “W” for “R” and “L”. He frequently used his Elmer Fudd voice in other roles, but also used his own voice for some roles, including a part in “The Fibber McGee” radio program.
Apparently, his normal singing voice was a tenor.
cool, good trivia.
If you want to hear Arthur Q Bryan's real voice it's as simple as listening to either "The Great Gildersleeve" where he played Floyd Munson, the barber, or "Fibber McGee and Molly" on which he played Dr. Gamble. I'm not sure but her might have sing on "The Great Gildersleeve". One post of the show was that a number of characters got together as a sort of singing group/barbershop quartet called "The Jolly Boys".
@@barrysiegel131 There was a Daffy Duck cartoon where Bryan not only voiced Fudd, but another character as well - using his real voice! I can't pull back the title of the cartoon, but I think it was produced sometime in the 50s.
I wiked dis vewee much! Huhuhuh.
Anyone know the name of Arthur's caddy in this short?
David- I showed the film to a friend who knows a lot about golf and he claims the caddy is actually played by a championship golfer. Sorry, I don't remember the golfer's name, but at least I now know that this person isn't just an actor, but an actual golfer well known in his time.
What year was this made?
No wonder Bugs Bunny always got the better of him.
Huh, i always just assumed Mel Blanc was Elmer Fudd's voice actor
It was because of his contract instead of a raise, he would get solo screen credit for every short he voiced. Though at times he did voice Elmer. But mostly Mel voiced him after Arthur's death, and after Hal Smith had did his take on him.
@@stephenholloway6893 hmmm...Hal Smith, was that Otis from Andy Griffith? I know he did a lot of voice work.
@@usafvet100 That's him. Though he only was Elmer for commercials and 2 shorts during the 1960s.
@@stephenholloway6893 The guy who played Ernest T Bass did a lot of voice work as well, he did cartoon voices and also the Hamburglar (rubble rubble) for Mickey D's adverts.
Guest stars on Andy Griffith often moved on to bigger things. Barbara Eden, Bill Bixby, Buddy Ebsen, (although Buddy was already an established actor who was considering retirement before Beverly Hillbillies came along) and Alan Hale, Jr come to mind. Alan called Barney "little buddy" in his guest appearance shortly before Gilligan was tagged with the nickname.
Yes, Howard Morris voiced him any many more voices.
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Could that possibly be Marylin Monroe @ 1:54?
I don't think so .
“Be vewy vewy quiet”
Your hunting wabbits
ahahahahahah
You get it@@teddybaker4759
1:16 is that kid smoking?
I think that was just a short man.
Sounds like Elmer Fudd, looks like Curly. I'm confused 😁
Well, that's just the actor. You can search for his movie and radio roles (dammit, I can't bubble up a really popular NBC radio program where he was a regular... too many college media classes)
He actuwawy wooks a wot wike Elmoor wif a wot of haiwr
It's wabbit season.
I'm hunting wabbits
Mel Blanc never voiced Elmer Fudd?
No, that was one of the voices he did not do. They did have various other people do voices, although Mel Blanc did the majority of them.
@@barrysiegel131 like bugs daffy porky pepe tweety Sylvester and taz as well just to name a few
He did the voice a few times after Arthur Q. Bryan died, but not very well.
@@toddvolkman2414 oh that's interesting to note
@@toddvolkman2414 Hal Smith (Otis from the Andy Griffith show) also played Elmer in a couple cartoons.
Damn political correctness ruined comedy and pretty much everything fun, for that matter.
Dr Why you got that right. The term political correctness is exactly what communism was based on. The government knows what is best for you was the whole theory. Adolf Hitler once said "we should concern ourselves with the greater needs of society as a whole, rather than individials rights".
@@lonnielongino798 Quoting Hitler and comparing political correctness to Communism. Nice.
@@Superstarseven It's coming to live with you shortly.
@@craigpennington1251 And anyone who doesn't see it is either a fool or a leftist (pardon the redundancy..)
Damn right. I was brought up on past comedians such as The Marx Bros.
Laurel and Hardy, 3 Stooges , Abbott and Costello, you know, the real thing. These comics now are all P.C..