Editing Mel Blanc (section)

===Later years===
On January 29, 1962, Mel and his son Noel formed Blanc Communications Corporation,<ref name="Banc_Bio">{{cite book|last=Blanc|first=Mel|year=1988|title=That's Not All Folks!|publisher=Warner Books|isbn=0-446-51244-3|url=https://archive.org/details/thatsnotallfolks00blanc|pages=228, 252}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Blanc Communications Corporation, California, US|url=https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C0427033|access-date=June 21, 2021|website=Open Corporates}}</ref> a media company which produced over 5,000 commercials and public service announcements, which remains in operation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.melblanccommunications.com/|title=Blanc Communications Corporation official site|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> Mel and Noel appeared with many stars, including: [[Kirk Douglas]], [[Lucille Ball]], [[Vincent Price]], [[Phyllis Diller]], [[Liberace]] and [[The Who]].{{clear left}}

In the 1970s, Blanc gave a series of college lectures across the US and appeared in commercials for [[American Express]]. In 1972, [[Chuck McKibben]] started working as Blanc's personal recording engineer/producer and studio manager. His daily responsibilities at Mel Blanc Audiomedia in [[Beverly Hills, California]] included recording Blanc's voice for a variety of film, advertising and theme park projects.<ref>The Hollywood Reporter, section R5, November 29, 1972</ref><ref name="Last Interview">{{cite web|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/in-his-own-words-mel-blancs-last-interview/|title=In His Own Words: Mel Blanc's Last Interview|website=Cartoon Research|language=en-US|access-date=2024-10-25}}</ref> In 1982, Mel's production company, Blanc Communications Corporation, collaborated on a special with the Boston-based Shriners' Burns Institute called ''Ounce of Prevention'', which became a 30-minute TV special.<ref name="Ounce1">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRoyZTD_4Sk&t=3005s|title=Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices|date=August 13, 2012|publisher=YouTube|access-date=May 11, 2025}}</ref><ref name="Ounce2">{{cite web|url=http://library.nfpa.org/surpass/websafari.exe/detail?sid=84E152E6-849C-449D-AB27-22DA2C07555B&database=database&list=R&rec=29&marc=9208|title=Ounce of prevention|access-date=October 8, 2017|website=Charles S. Morgan Technical Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008175005/http://library.nfpa.org/surpass/websafari.exe/detail?sid=84E152E6-849C-449D-AB27-22DA2C07555B&database=database&list=R&rec=29&marc=9208|archive-date=October 8, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Blanc performed his ''Looney Tunes'' characters for bridging sequences in various compilation films of [[Golden age of American animation|Golden Age-era]] Warner Bros. cartoons, such as: ''[[The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie]]'', ''[[The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie]]'', ''[[Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales]]'', ''[[Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island]]'' and ''[[Daffy Duck's Quackbusters]]''. His final performance of his ''Looney Tunes'' roles was in ''Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports'' (1989). After spending most of two seasons voicing the diminutive robot Twiki in ''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'', Blanc's last major original character was [[Heathcliff (comic strip)|Heathcliff]], who he voiced from 1980 to 1988.

In the live-action film ''[[Strange Brew]]'' (1983), Blanc voiced the father of [[Bob and Doug McKenzie]], at the request of comedian [[Rick Moranis]]. In the live-action/animated movie ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' (1988), Blanc reprised several of his roles from Warner Bros. cartoons (Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and [[Sylvester the Cat|Sylvester]]), but left [[Yosemite Sam]] to [[Joe Alaskey]] (who later became one of Blanc's regular replacements until his death in 2016). The film was one of the few [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] projects in which Blanc was involved. Blanc died just a year after the film's release. His final recording session was for ''[[Jetsons: The Movie]]'' (1990).<ref>[[Jerry Beck|Beck, Jerry]]. ''The Animated Movie Guide'' (2005).</ref>