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Michael Barrier wrote: “Maurice James Noble is probably the best known and most admired of the designers for the Hollywood cartoons of the 1950s and 1960s, in his case the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. I hoped to interview Noble in 1976 during a marathon research trip to California for my book Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, but that turned out to be impossible. So Milt Gray filled in, recording an interview with Noble at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of La Crescenta in January 1977. I subsequently interviewed Noble myself on three separate occasions in 1989 and 1990; I believe Milt was with me on all three occasions, although the transcripts don’t always reflect that.

It’s unusual for me to post a group of transcripts from interviews with the same person, but this time it seemed like a good idea because the content of the interviews overlapped so heavily. […]