Bagdasarian: Hired legendary Warner Bros. animators for A Chipmunk Christmas
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. · The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017) · Dec 24, 2018 · at 23:24
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karman discuss how they produced their 1981 animated TV special 'A Chipmunk Christmas' without prior animation studio experience.
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“Some of the great animators from Warner Brothers including Chuck Jones, and Phil Monroe, and Virgil Ross, and these guys who had done the greatest Bugs Bunny cartoons in the forties and fifties were available, and they weren't being used, and Janice and I hired... All of them to make the Christmas special at Chipmunk Christmas.”
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