Sid Sutherland

[1][2] In 1932, not long after the advent of talkies, Sutherland also broke into the movie business and began a career as a screenwriter at First National Pictures on The Match King, starring Warren William and Lili Damita.

Although he soon developed a second career as an animator, he continued working concurrently as a screenwriter over the next fourteen years, his last movie being Wife Wanted (1946).

Sutherland first branched into animation in 1935 with At Your Service for the Walter Lantz Studio at Universal Pictures where he worked with Tex Avery, Virgil Ross, and Cecil Surry.

[3] At Warner Bros. the four men, along with Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Robert Cannon, and Elmer Wait who were already employed by Schlesinger, moved into their own shabby workspace, a separate run-down building on the lot which became known at Termite Terrace.

Away from the watchful eye of Schlesinger who, with the rest of his employees, remained in the building on the north end of the lot near Sunset Boulevard, Sutherland joined Tex and his unit where they all worked day and night, filled with ambition and enthusiasm.