A TREE IS A TREE IS A TREE? They are not completely without merit a catchy song in the first one, clever ideas and in the first two witty scripts by Irv Spector but their threadbare execution and limited animation must have looked awful on the big screen. WILLIAM CONRAD: Be sure to see our next thrilling episode, SWEET POTATO GUY or I YAM WHAT I YAM !. Thanks for filling the cracks in my memory, Jeff. The 1933-34 closing title was seen on Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor and Screen Song cartoons. Eddie Lawrence starts his voices for Paramount at this time. The Paramount Cartoon Studio had survived the sale of its library and its established characters to Harvey Comics. A gag drawing for publicity use, Id guess. Cute throwbacks to the type of stuff they used to do (Yule Laff and Ollie The Owl for example) and several that reflected modern urban travails (Drum Up a Tennant, Trash Program) with Eddie Lawrence loaning a stronger presence to the voice and story work. Keith Scotts book on Jay Ward states that Ward was approached with, but turned down, the chance to produce series with both David Sevilles Chipmunks and Popeye. For shorts featuring live-action model sets, a special byline appeared on the logo. The Harveytoons Show that Jerry worked on in the late 90s added the Harvey Films copyright to all the post-1959 shorts that originally didnt have them when they were originally aired in The New Casper Cartoon Show. Thanks for letting us re-visit this one. There are occasional hints of qualityas Jerry notes, the Honeymooners derived dialogue in Trash Program is well-written and some vestiges of Irv Spectors character designs, but the visuals are nausea personified. Also SweetPea now speaks in the KFS Popeye cartoon (voiced by Mae Quetzal). There were 10 TVS Popeye cartoons. Jeepers enters Creepers into a prize fight to get money to pay his income tax. The head of Blocbuster Pictures, J.C. And a character exclusive to the KFS Popeye cartoon Only the worst prints are available these days for viewing. The Paramount Cartoon Studio had survived the sale of its library and its established characters to Harvey Comics. A concert cant go on unless Luigi the blacksmith stops his pounding. Regardless, Paramount was still high on animated shorts in fact it even picked up an independent film to augment its schedule: Munro, directed by Gene Deitch (who was also producing King Featuers Popeye TV cartoons from his studio in Prague) and based on a story by Jules Feffier. Hmmm, so was Bob McFadden the voice that was also used on ASTRO BOY and KIMBA THE WHITE LION English dubs? Ingredients: 2oz Old Crow, make that 4oz, 1 Tbsp molasses, 6oz ginger beer, enough lime juice to make your eyes all goobley, ice, 1 empty tin can, 1 gun. 7) Candy Cabaret ET TU OTTO (9/62) Kneitel/Tafuri. I suppose as long as schools were still using 16mm they saw a purpose there. A group of clouds lines the bottom of the wall. Production: George Pal Productions, Inc. A down on his luck man named Jonah finds a dime on the street, but then gets bit by the Gambling Bug. It was a streamlined way to maintain success as an artist: previewing songs in the cartoon and getting kids excited . 4) Mouse Trapeze Animation & Cartoons; Arts & Music; Computers & Technology; Cultural & Academic Films; Ephemeral Films; Movies; News & Public Affairs; Spirituality & Religion; Sports Videos; Television; Videogame Videos; Vlogs; Youth Media; Search the history of over 797 billion web pages on the Internet. I know Gene Deitch wrote about his efforts to inject a bit of Herriman into his Krazys. Logo: Against a multi-colored sky backdrop is a three-dimensional dark-colored mountain surrounded by a round border of 23 stars. Violet Oyl (Olive Oyls rambunctious niece. Thor (The Sea Hags henchman) Note that Paramounts Popeye re-releases still ranked in the top-ten! The second was Barbecue for Two which had Popeye and Olive (in their original Segar Thimble Theater look even though I dont know who animated this episode) having a barbecue but were interrupted by Brutus (replacing Bluto) Wimpy and SweePea. To Be Continued Next Week: Paramount Cartoons 1963-64, Popeye Champions for the 1962-63 season. Paramount used the Winston Sharples library themes, and Larry Harmon used Gordon Zahlers General Music Corp. tracks, also heard in his Bozo cartoons and other 60s series like The New 3 Stooges. Anyone know where Gene Deitch got his music? Movies / TV: Family, Animation: 883316737378. This didnt click either; One season and out. Another special end title was used on "Pedro and Lorenzo", with the Paramount logo appearing on a book end cover. Paramount's long assocation with animated cartoons dates all the way back to the 1910s which also included the screen debut of "Felix The Cat" in 1919.Besides releasing the Max Fleischer cartoons from 1927 to 1942, Paramount also released the Charles Mintz "Krazy Kat" cartoons from 1927 to 1929.When Paramount decided to go with Fleischer with the The new sheriff of an old western town enforces a No Guns policy. A sewer worker is told by his wife to get a better, cleaner job as a garbage collector. Would like to know what the audience reaction was to these late entries. http://www.pyramidmedia.com. It was first used on the Honey Halfwitch cartoon "Alter Egotist". With some help from Jeepers, Creepers (both voiced by Jack Mercer here) tries to get a raise from his boss (Jackson Beck). In the first four years of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1961-64), Hollywood did not dramatize the current military conflict but rather romanticized earlier ones. A SPORT IS BORN must have looked spectacular on the wide-screen with all of the airplane shots and skydiving that impressed theater goers much as a previous Paramount feature film WINGS did 33 years earlier. Bobo the family dog goes to a psychiatrist who recommends to his master that he be treated as one of the family. Jack Mercer did his voice in Scouting For Trouble; I am guessing Allen Swift voices him in Trouble Date and The Boss Is Always Right while Syd Raymond is the voice in Busy Buddies. (Dont hesitate to tell me if Im wrongand I usually am.) And some of the cartoons were pretty funny but I also remember a fair amount of klinkers too. Loved Boppin Hood! They certainly went with Herriman-style art and stories, but while Herriman made Krazy sort of gender-ambiguous, Deitch and company went for a more female Krazy. Logo: On the film's title card, a small mountain logo is seen circled by stars. Guaranteed Lowest Price. Ignatz Mouse uses his new credit card to buy a brick launcher. NOTE: in flashback, Professor Schmaltz is captured by Choo-Choos cannibal tribe! Among them were Popeye, Superman, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Lulu, Little Audrey, Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip, the Screen Songs series, and the Noveltoons series. I see both Feuer and Place went on to work at Hal Seegers on a few things in the 60s while Feuer spent his last years in the business at Filmation, not too bad I suppose, but certainly not a high point. Sherlock Gnomes (2018) PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy 5.2 Rate 36 Metascore Welcome to Paramount Cartoons Wiki, a database about Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios that anyone can edit. BCDB Rating: (5/5 stars from 3 users.) Could you imaging a couple years down the road and Honey Halfwitch was animated this way, I could! Meanwhile, Paramount revamped its live action shorts for 1960 but never had much interest in reissuing them for TV like the cartoons. So no getting around it that way. Also to kids who had only viewed Popeye on their B&W TVs, seeing them in color on the big screen was really a big rush. In the case of Gerald, it was his voice, for Benny, this rubbery elasticity. I remember seeing seeing some old Terrytoons in a theater as a kid and being amazed by the rich color, sharp images and the lack of various TV interference in those pre-cable days. It is a shame many of these simply fell on the wayside as they did simply for not seeing any future use on television (though Paramount didnt care to add their last five years worth of cartoons to Harvey after the studio closed but Im sure well get to that soon enough). Starting in 1938, the logo was modified, so it was extended to add one more star, making it 24 stars, and the font is different. SELF DEFENSE FOR COWARDS (4/63) Gene Deitch. The solitary exception was a small theater in Squaw Valley that offered an outdated travelogue with smirking references to the Grand Tetons. In 1956, Associated Artists Productions purchased the Popeye cartoons and replaced this logo. In a series of vignettes, we see how to win a barroom fight by using such tactics as going limp, garlic breath, screaming, etc. Nor was losing Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare going to stop Kneitel from using a left over script with the Tortoise (renamed Mortimer) and the Hare now entirely redesigned in order to avoid a law suit from Harvey Comics. The Paramount "Sports Illustrated" short subjects will be in addition to the company's regular output of color cartoons. Music: Rock: 607396652822. Wow, the look and feel of these cartoons got UGLY in this period. Nice job, and thanks for letting us all know that today is an important in cartoon history! Logo: Nearly the same as the previous logo, but the logo more resembles a cartoon drawing rather than a painting. That said, and without further ado, lets take a closer look at the 1960-61 in-house Paramount cartoons. Especially the scene where the King played his violin ala Jack Benny and how his daughter The Princess rebelled against her fathers silly proclamation on banning all types of music including Be-Bop Jazz by secretly becoming a Beatnik. Apparently Paramount kept releasing the live-action shorts through the end of 1968 (technically the 68-69 season) and this was a year after the last cartoons. Free Shipping on Orders over $25! However, before all cartoons could be plastered, National Telefilm Associates (NTA) purchased U.M.& M. and replaced the U.M. His cartoons certainly felt more Herriman than what the others did (Jack Kinneys studio did at least one too). Didnt Paramount have a hand in those too? The stories and situations make up for the poor animation. Our museum has retired (and faded pink) 35mm prints of these dating as late as 1964. Strangely, the inkwell's shadow moves with it but the cap's does not, remaining fixed on the desk as it jumps onto the inkwell. 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