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The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products
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ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors ("Buddy's Bug Hunt/1935") to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence.
For the first time ever, information and pictures of all ACME products, specialty divisions, and services featured in Warner Bros. cartoons (made by the original studio from 1935 to 1964) are gathered here, in one convenient catalog. For more information about any ACME product, simply click on the thumbnail picture.

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Gotta love all those ACME products. :D

Its amusing to know where the name ACME came from. It is not well known even within Hollywood. Nevertheless, it is an inside joke.

Back in the 1930s a little known company made camera stands and lighting equipment for photographers and the film industry. It was a small company of about 5 employees.

Animaton is a frame by frame photographic process and thus animators would have to stand before these camera stands for what seemed like a million times for even one cartoon. Month after month, year after year, animation cell after animation cell, standing before an embossed medal nameplate of this company and their camera stand. After all that extended time these Warner Bros animators decided to make fun of this little known company.

And the name of that company you ask? ACME. The campany still exists to this day, although it has changed names several times. The original company even went out of business because their camera stands were solid and lasted forever (thus no need to replace). If you take a tour, you will see one of these camera stands on display. They are just down the street from Warner Brothers Animation as they always have been.

Now you know. ;)
 
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