Cal Dalton

Calvin Moore Dalton (2 December 1908 - 8 June 1974) was an animator and cartoon director at Warner Bros.

Dalton first worked in Jack King's unit on the Buddy cartoons starting with "Viva Buddy". After King returned to Disney, Dalton was relocated to Friz Freleng's unit in 1935. He later worked on Merrie Melodies as a co-director in 1938-1940, he first worked with Cal Howard as his co-director, then for most of Dalton's cartoons he co-directed with Ben "Bugs" Hardaway. Their last cartoon directed by each other was "Busy Bakers", their only cartoon in 1940.

Dalton's animation uses a variety of formulas. He would tend to emphasize his characters' walking animation, giving them a stomping or squashing-like quality. He would also like to use certain mouth shapes during dialogue scenes and takes.

"Porky's Phoney Express", "Katnip Kollege", and "A-Lad-In Bagdad" all had Howard as co-director, the rest of the cartoons directed by Dalton have Hardaway as his co-director.

Dalton and Hardaway (and before, Howard) took over Friz Freleng's old unit when he left for MGM; for some reason, Dalton was never allowed to be sole director. Dalton later admitted feeling aggrieved about the fact that while he was meant to be nominally in charge of Freleng's former unit, he tended to be overshadowed by the presence of the more experienced Hardaway. He only directed 17 cartoons between 1938-1940, and animated about 33 cartoons between 1934-1937, and he then again animated between 1940-1947 after Friz Freleng had returned from MGM.

After 1947, Dalton went to work for Disney and Columbia's animation departments in the 1950s; he later worked for Walter Lantz as a story man and director in the 1960s.

Looney Credits

Director

1. "Porky's Phoney Express" (with Cal Howard)
2. "Porky's Hare Hunt" (with Ben Hardaway) (uncredited)
3. "Katnip Kollege" (with Cal Howard)
4. "Love and Curses" (with Ben Hardaway)
5. "A-Lad-In Bagdad" (with Cal Howard)
6. "Porky the Gob" (with Ben Hardaway)
7. "Count Me Out" (with Ben Hardaway)
8. "It's an Ill Wind" (with Ben Hardaway)
9. "Gold Rush Daze" (with Ben Hardaway)
10. "Bars and Stripes Forever" (with Ben Hardaway)
11. "Porky and Teabiscuit" (with Ben Hardaway)
12. "Hobo Gadget Band" (with Ben Hardaway)
13. "Hare-um Scare-um" (with Ben Hardaway)
14. "Sioux Me" (with Ben Hardaway)
15. "Fagin's Freshman" (with Ben Hardaway)
16. "Porky the Giant Killer" (with Ben Hardaway)
17. "Busy Bakers" (with Ben Hardaway)
18. "Confederate Honey" (with Ben Hardaway (uncredited) and Friz Freleng)
19. "The Hardship of Miles Standish" (with Ben Hardaway (uncredited) and Friz Freleng)

Animator

• Acrobatty Bunny
• Alpine Antics
• At Your Service Madame
• Behind the Meat-Ball
• Billboard Frolics
• Bingo Crosbyana
• Birth of a Notion
• Booby Hatched
• Boom Boom
• Boulevardier from the Bronx
• Brother Brat
• Buddy the Gee Man
• Buddy's Pony Express
• Censored
• The CooCoo Nut Grove
• Confederate Honey
• Confusions of a Nutzy Spy
• Daffy Doodles
• The Daffy Duckaroo
• Daffy's Southern Exposure
• The Ducktators
• The Fella with the Fiddle
• Fighting Tools
• The Foxy Duckling
• The Goldbrick
• The Goofy Gophers
• Goofy Groceries
• The Hardship of Miles Standish
• Hare Remover
• He Was Her Man
• The Henpecked Duck
• Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
• Hobby Horse-Laffs
• Hollywood Canine Canteen
• Hollywood Capers
• The Home Front
• Hop and Go
• Hop, Skip and a Chump
• I Got Plenty of Mutton
• I Haven't Got a Hat
• I Wanna Play House
• I'm a Big Shot Now
• Into Your Dance
• Jungle Jitters
• Let It Be Me
• Lights Fantastic
• Little Blabbermouse
• Mouse Menace
• The Mouse-Merized Cat
• Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
• One Meat Brawl
• Page Miss Glory
• Pigs Is Pigs
• Plane Daffy
• Plenty of Money and You
• Porky Pig's Feat
• Porky's Baseball Broadcast
• Porky's Bear Facts
• Porky's Pet
• Puss n' Booty
• The Return of Mr. Hook
• Rhapsody in Rivets
• Scrap Happy Daffy
• September in the Rain
• She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
• Shop, Look and Listen
• A Star Is Hatched
• Streamlined Greta Green
• The Stupid Cupid
• Sunday Go to Meetin' Time
• Swooner Crooner
• Tale of Two Mice
• Target Snafu
• Toy Town Hall
• The Lyin' Mouse
• The Unruly Hare
• Viva Buddy
• The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
• The Wacky Worm
• Walky Talky Hawky
• When I Yoo Hoo
• You Ought to Be in Pictures
• The Cat's Tale