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Clampett showed an interest in animation and puppetry from his early teens in Los Angeles. He secured a job in 1931 at the studio of Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising where he worked on the studio's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. In his first years at the studio, Clampett mostly worked for Friz FrelengIsadore "Friz" Freleng ( August 21, 1905 May 26, 1995) was an animator and cartoonist best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced several of the studio's biggest stars, including Porky, under whose guidance Clampett grew into an able animator. In 1935Events January January 1 Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppo, he designed the studio's first major star, Porky PigPorky Pig is a animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators (particularly Bob Clampett) created many criticall, who appeared in Freleng's film " I Haven't Got a Hat ". Clampett moved to Tex AveryFrederick Bean "Tex" Avery ( February 26, 1908 August 26, 1980) was a director of animated cartoons during the golden age of Hollywood. He influenced the styles of the Warner Bros. and MGM animated cartoon series of the 1940s and 1950s, and his style of c's unit that same year, and the two soon developed an insanely irreverent style of animation that would set Warner Bros. apart from its competitors.

Clampett was promoted to directorcostume drama on location in London. A film director directs the artistic and dramatic aspects of a film. The role typically includes: Defining the overall artistic vision of the film. Controlling the content and flow of the film's plot. Directing the per in late 1937Events January January 1 Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua January 11 The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States. January 19 Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours,, and he soon entered his personal golden age. His cartoons grew increasingly violent, irreverent, and surrealSurrealism is a movement for the liberation of the mind that emphasizes the critical and imaginative powers of the unconscious. Often misinterpreted as an artistic movement, it has transformed visual art, writing, film, music, and political thought, not t, not beholden to even the faintest hint of real-world physics, and his characters are easily the rubberiest and wackiest of all the Warner directors'. Nonetheless, he would always maintain his childlike sense of wonder (he did, after all, introduce the infantile Tweety Bird). Until he left the studio in 1946, Clampett would create some of the studio's funniest and most outrageous cartoons, including " Porky in Wackyland" ( 1938), " A Tale of Two Kitties " (which introduced Tweety Bird), " Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs" ( 1943), " Russian Rhapsody " ( 1944), " The Great Piggy Bank Robbery " ( 1946), and " The Big Snooze " ( 1946), his final cartoon with the studio. It was largely Clampett's influence that would impel the Warners directors to shed the final vestiges of Disney and enter the territory they are famous for today.

Clampett worked for a time at Screen Gems, but in 1949, he turned his attentions to television where he created the famous puppet show Time for Beany . The show would earn Clampett three Emmys and count such celebrities as Groucho Marx and Albert Einstein as fans. In 1962, Clampett created an animated version of the show called Beany and Cecil, which ran on ABC for five years.

In his later years, Clampett toured college campuses and animation festivals as a lecturer on the history of animation. In 1976 he was the focus of a documentary entitled Bugs Bunny Superstar , the first documentary to seriously examine the history of the Warner Bros. cartoons. Clampett, whose collection of drawings, films, and memorabilia from the golden days of Termite Terrace was legendary, provided nearly all of the behind-the-scenes drawings and home-movie footage for the film.