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3 unusual facts about Hal Seeger


Hal Seeger

He is best known for having produced the animated programs Milton the Monster (1965–66) and Batfink (1966–67).

In 1962, his studio produced and syndicated 100 new Out Of the Inkwell cartoons, based on the Koko the Clown character, originally created by Fleischer Studios.

During the later part of the 1940s, he worked as a screenwriter for a series of movies featuring well known Black performers, including the 1947 Cab Calloway musical Hi-De-Ho and two films featuring Dusty Fletcher and Moms Mabley, "Killer Diller" and "Boarding House Blues".


The Porky Pig Show

Since Warner Bros. had closed their cartoon studio the year before, the opening and closing animation and bumpers were produced in New York by animator Hal Seeger, with Winston Sharples composing the title song.


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