Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)

Blanc, known as "The Man of 1000 Voices", was born in San Francisco,
California, and later moved to Portland, Oregon where he attended
Lincoln High School. He began his radio career at age 19 on the KGW
program The Hoot Owls in 1927. This is where his ability to produce
voices for a large number of characters was first noticed. Blanc also
worked for KEX radio in Portland with his own show in 1933.  

Mel Blanc later moved to Los Angeles and joined Warner-Bros- owned
KFWB radio in Hollywood where he soon became the voices of various
Warner-Bros cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and
Porky Pig, just to name a few.

The Walt Disney short cartoon was shown at Disneyland in the
Fantasyland Theater as part of the 3D Jamboree. This film was
the first in a proposed series of shorts teaching the principles of 
music, called Adventures in Music. Only one other film in the series 
was made, Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom.

Professor Owl

Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released by United Artists,
produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. It is based on
the fairy tale of the same name, the Silly Symphony won the 1934
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. In 1994, it was voted
#11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by those in the animation
field. In 2007, Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the
United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress
as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The cartoon, "On the Road to Moscow," by Rollin Kirby (above) won a Pulitzer
Prize on this day in 1922. It was the first cartoon awarded the Pulitzer, an honor
that Kirby would receive three times.

Portrait of political cartoonist Rollin Kirby

Mike Gracia