Many animation sites have for the last two days celebrated Charles Martin Jones, especially by mentioning his 1957-present shorts ":What's Opera Doc" to the MGM.Suess/Kipling specials, to a ceerrtain special about a frog suinging and a rabbit and duck
in a cave of jewels. But there was a time when superioir shorts by the 100-year-old Chuck Jones actually were made, through the early 50s. One actually being quoted and having among the most use of characters outside ceelebrity character-stuff come to life shorts:
"Chow Hound"(officially released June 16,1951)
CHOW HOUND
Rel.by WB studios as a Tech.Merrie Melodie on June 16,1951, rereleased as a Merrie Melodies Blue Ribbon in 1958(? brown rings, came out ahead being a reissue of the new films in
production with the same season ring colours, continued through 1963).
Director:CHARLES M.JONES
Story:MICHAEL MALTESE
Animation:BEN WASHAM, KEN HARRIS,PHILLIP MONROE and LLOYD VAUGHN (wants to do a "Vaughn Monroe" joke now)
Background:PHILIP De GUARD
Layout: BOB GRBOREK
Film Editing/Sound FX:TREGOWERTH BROWN
CAST
The Dog/The Zoo Kepper/JOHN SMITH
The cat/Mouse/Medics/Male Domestic Pet Owners/MEL BLANC
Female Per Owner/BEA BENADARET
("Voice characterizations: MEL BALNC")
Music Director: CARL STALLING
MUSIC:
Open.."Merry Go Round Broke Down"/CLIFF FRIEND, DAVE FRANKLIN, CARL STALLINGS
Unknown, titles
"Meow"/MOE KAUFMAN/STALLING-FRANKLYN, open shot
original mysteriosis with cat snekaing out/STALLING
"Baby Face"/AKST-DAVIS, the "Harold scene"
Most is original music with the ending exception of
"Am I Blue"/DE SYLVA/HENDERSON" the pet doc scene
"When the Swallows Come Back"/?? final scene with mousie and cat
Reprise of "Merrie Go Rond" at ened
Producer:ED SELZER
-----------------------------
This is the last seriously dark WB short for anyone in a llng time, though another director Friz Freleng, did one of the occasional gems of the post-50s, "The Last Hungry Cat".
It's late at night, and a guy is feeding and bidding off to bed, his cat, "Butch". "Butch" has a steak for dinner. However in the darkest hour of night,
he is off with the steak and then runs into a put bulldog who grabs him rudely, saying, "Hand it over". It turns out that the cat is working for this dog (as it were)
and the dog eats it but.."What? No Gravy?" (the famous line of the cartoon). So the cat then escapes, with the pooch stepping on hsi tail. "Oh.,.Going someplace".
Looking at his little book (resourceful Rover) he then says 'Cmon stupid..then at another house, he 1) ties a blue bow, 2) says "Now make with the motor" (read:purrr) and then 3) passes him off as
"Harold", a lady's cat ("Harold! You naiughty creature!") Bringing his food to thje dog,m the cat gets it-"What? No Gravy?"
For the next house, they take out a can of tune and a rock, revelaing that they have been here, and revealing a falsette (Mel Blanc?)
mouse, who is a bigger pussy than the pussycat. An old old man (based on animator Ken Harris, accoridng to Greg Duffell, of Lightbox Canada), now welcomes him in as Timothy! "You;ve earned your keep", as the dfog is nusing the mouse for a dead mouse for the cat
(hey, the mouse had to be for something). And of course, the food fopr the dog, but "No Gravy?" Mousie tries to challenge the dog who onl needs to rap him woith a doctor's knee capreflex testing small mallet,
and agrees to nap.
At the zoo, we see a familiar looking cat, our hero. He then gets a stick of dynamit ein a steak of the starving dog. He gets blown up. Oh. And no gravy. Too slow, too slow, with pet s missing, but then this inspires the dog, so we see Jones, Maltese, and Washam, ad "M.Hinkle"
names displayed across want ads, so now we hear from, and then soon the dog goes to the woman and two gents, in a baby cradle with trap door,
with cat, who seems somehow willing to go along(not that he has any CHOICE)..then the nouse makes a return to complete this journey, taking him to the zoo.
The mouse openly complains..in that high fluty flasetto of his as he did before ("how humniliating") dressed as a now un PC Ubangi, and seels the keeper the animal.
We don't see for a while any of the cat or mouse but the bulldog now has money from "returning" so much a smention as buy a butchery but eats too much, eating his wya to a vet-hostpital. As a result,
we see our anti-hero on the bed. Oh. He has two visitors. The cat & mouse. THIS time they DIDN't forget the gravy, not that our canine anti-hero now wants it!
This came aorund the time that J.L.Warner seems to want to end these "dark humor" shorts-in Jones's unit alone, Hubie and Bertie, the Three Bears, and Charlie the Dog, who Yowp on http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2012/09/charlie-jones-charlie-dog.html illustrates in next to last short "Dog Gone South",1950, were nixed.
Furthermore, yesterday's burthday boy started getting soft, then synical, then critically loved then finally for the first time overrated. But thankfully that was still in the future in1 951 when Chow Hound came out. The title character was not voiced by Mel Blanc but a character actor named John T.Smith, who also played
in the same voice, the "Homeless Hare" construction worker", and using different voices, the "Hillbilly Hare" dumb hillbily, and one time narrated, "There Auto Be a Law". Blanc did do most of the vpoices, with Bea Benaderet as the standard lady (a laBlanche Morton "Harold",conjuring up the Marc Anothony the bulldog or Dodsworth the fat cat owners that she'd playe as well.)
The last of the "Want ad" name,s M.Hinkel (no relation to Rankin-Bass's mad magigician Prof.Hinkle) may have been named for Mary Hinkle, an inker and painter. The Zoo k eeper is also voiced by John Smith and sounds a bit like Sterling Holloway, only adding to the odd'flavour of this seven minute short.
Now where is MY gravy?
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
"Wacky Wabbit" somewhat wacky Stalling theme
Everyone knows the many themes in Warners Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, likewise the MGM, HB,etc.
In the next months I hope to get a handful of articles on this subject. Opening visual logos,too.Don't worry.
The WB Merrie Melodies will get a few of these articles.
The first one deals with a remix of the most durable Merrie Melodies closing theme variation
(whose main version originted in the 1941 Sniffles short "Toy Trouble".)
This theme variaiton originated with the 1941-42 Bugs and Elmer short "Wacky Wabbit", directed by Bob Clampett (it'sthe prospecting fat Elmer one). The open is the standard 1941-1944 one but the ending is a odd, interesting slight remix of Carl W.Stalling's theme of the song (Charflie Tobias and the incomparable Eddie Cantor, with M.K.Jerome.,wrtiers), which deb uted
(in the cartoons) in 1935 in I.Freleng's "Billboard Frolics" and sung by Mr.Cantor, "Merrily We Roll Along").
This 1940s slight variation of the most longest closing theme arrangement, after being on "Wacky Wabbit"(not to be confused with "Wakiki Wabbit")
appeared on these subsequent Blue Ribbon Merrie Melody Reissue showings (cartoons arranged by initial release)
"The Merry Old Soul"(1935)
"Tick Tock Tuckered"(itself a remake of 1937's "Porky's Badtime Story")(1943)
"Booby Hatched" (1944)
"Trap-Happy Porky" (1944)
"Peck Up Your Troubles" (1945)
in addition to "Wacky Wabbit".
Stalling loved to play around with the themes. We'll more in a future article.
In the next months I hope to get a handful of articles on this subject. Opening visual logos,too.Don't worry.
The WB Merrie Melodies will get a few of these articles.
The first one deals with a remix of the most durable Merrie Melodies closing theme variation
(whose main version originted in the 1941 Sniffles short "Toy Trouble".)
This theme variaiton originated with the 1941-42 Bugs and Elmer short "Wacky Wabbit", directed by Bob Clampett (it'sthe prospecting fat Elmer one). The open is the standard 1941-1944 one but the ending is a odd, interesting slight remix of Carl W.Stalling's theme of the song (Charflie Tobias and the incomparable Eddie Cantor, with M.K.Jerome.,wrtiers), which deb uted
(in the cartoons) in 1935 in I.Freleng's "Billboard Frolics" and sung by Mr.Cantor, "Merrily We Roll Along").
This 1940s slight variation of the most longest closing theme arrangement, after being on "Wacky Wabbit"(not to be confused with "Wakiki Wabbit")
appeared on these subsequent Blue Ribbon Merrie Melody Reissue showings (cartoons arranged by initial release)
"The Merry Old Soul"(1935)
"Tick Tock Tuckered"(itself a remake of 1937's "Porky's Badtime Story")(1943)
"Booby Hatched" (1944)
"Trap-Happy Porky" (1944)
"Peck Up Your Troubles" (1945)
in addition to "Wacky Wabbit".
Stalling loved to play around with the themes. We'll more in a future article.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
MEET THE OLDER CARTOON BOY, WALTER TETLEY
The subtitle of this threadf could also be "Two men who didn't grow up but looked up and earned a living." Over on the "Pokey" blog, [Profile], and YOWP on the htttp://yowpyowp.blogspot.com, and AMID AMIDI and JERRY BECK on their joint CARTOON RESEARCH blog, we've recentl;y pointed out the death of Dick Beals, 1927-2012, who never graduated from puberty but always though big, acted big, and succeded big.
Some peoiple may confuse this longtime successfull radio/cartoon voice fellow, associated with radio chaarcters on comedies and westerns ("Lone Ranger") Miles Lab's "Speedy Alka-Seltzer" pushing guess which product, and many animated characters f(WB's Ralph Phillips in "From A To ZZZ",1954 and "Boyhood Daze",1957), incidental charac ters opn Clokey's "Gumby" and the title character and again incidentals on Clokey's other series, "Davey and Goliath, HB's "Jetsons" occassionally appearing character Arthur Spaccely, and the kid who wished "he were an Oscar Meyer Weiner", with another old-time radio/cartoon character voice actor who ALSO didn't go through puberty but ALSO throught big, but didn't have the best years of his life right before his death: Walter Tetley, (whose radio roles include "Great Gildersleeve" nep[hew Leroy and Walter on Phil harris) Lantz/UVIN's mid-franchise end "Andy Panda" (ended in 1949), and Jay Ward's (and Herman's Hermits band Peter Noone infleunce) "Pet boy Sherman", Walter Tetley, 1915-1975.
Go to http://sjcarrasblog.bloggger.com for info from my on Dick beal;s. Walter Tetley is another story. Born Ney York City in 1915, he, too went through the condition that caused the changes, which prevent puberty. Yet he also turned this into a lucrative carreer, on the radios mentioned above ("Gilversleeve","Harris"), playing smart aleck boys and then in 1941 in the first Looney Tunes one shot, Tex Avery's ":Haunted Mouse", did some 1940s cartoons until he got to Un iversal/Walter Lantz's, who'd been looking for hsi Andy Panda's next voice (Sarah Berner had been the major one), and so Tetley came by, saying such lines as "Ohhhh, I don't feel so good..", in the fruity and "satanic", ahem, Lantz Cartune songfest, and mahybe Andy Panda's best, "Apple Andy", before he enters his nightmare with the song "Up Jumped the Devil". Tetley's voice served Andy till the premature 1948 retirement of the animation medium's on;y Panda Bear (the Fugmation Brady pandas, Ping and Pong, need not apply, and don't even start me on Marvelless Productions's Pandamonium from 1982). Tetley then seems to disappear from an imaiton, leavinf Dick Beals and other sto have the kid roles, till 1951, or something when Reddy Kilowatt was created, around the same that Mr.Beals was doing the early Speedies. Wheteher or not these two legends ever voiced together, I have no honest knowledge.
The one and only Kliph Nesteroff has an excellentt story here.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/03/heya_mister_the.html#more
Still, both younthufl ssounding actors's respective voices would show up in the mindsets of aujdiences watching TV as well as radio, beginning early 50s. After the longtime success of Reddy Kilowatt, Walter Tetley would find his way into animation to Jay Ward's erudite dog (Bill Scott) Mr.Peabody, as "Pet Boy Sherman". THAT renewed Walter's career again, though it doesn't seem to show mcuh animation appearances otherwise, though in 1972 his last appearance was apparently his only one at Hannaa-Barbera in "A Christmas Story", broadcast week of 12/02/72, as a little boy (with perrenial teenage girl Janet Waldo as briefly heard sister in a rather lengthy TV special, whose title is not to be confused with the 1983 movie title). Unforuntately, apparently depression has seemed to take its toll on the formerly happy and always-ready-with-a-smart-remark for the GreatGildy (Hal Peary) on the Great (guess who?) radio show. By 1975, apparently it was a heart attack that called the fabulously talented Walter Tetley to heaven, and now he's joined by Dick Beals. May Reddy Kilowatt and Speedy Alka Selzter enjoy their life in heaven. And what a relief it's always been.Eveyr dog should have a boy.,
Some peoiple may confuse this longtime successfull radio/cartoon voice fellow, associated with radio chaarcters on comedies and westerns ("Lone Ranger") Miles Lab's "Speedy Alka-Seltzer" pushing guess which product, and many animated characters f(WB's Ralph Phillips in "From A To ZZZ",1954 and "Boyhood Daze",1957), incidental charac ters opn Clokey's "Gumby" and the title character and again incidentals on Clokey's other series, "Davey and Goliath, HB's "Jetsons" occassionally appearing character Arthur Spaccely, and the kid who wished "he were an Oscar Meyer Weiner", with another old-time radio/cartoon character voice actor who ALSO didn't go through puberty but ALSO throught big, but didn't have the best years of his life right before his death: Walter Tetley, (whose radio roles include "Great Gildersleeve" nep[hew Leroy and Walter on Phil harris) Lantz/UVIN's mid-franchise end "Andy Panda" (ended in 1949), and Jay Ward's (and Herman's Hermits band Peter Noone infleunce) "Pet boy Sherman", Walter Tetley, 1915-1975.
Go to http://sjcarrasblog.bloggger.com for info from my on Dick beal;s. Walter Tetley is another story. Born Ney York City in 1915, he, too went through the condition that caused the changes, which prevent puberty. Yet he also turned this into a lucrative carreer, on the radios mentioned above ("Gilversleeve","Harris"), playing smart aleck boys and then in 1941 in the first Looney Tunes one shot, Tex Avery's ":Haunted Mouse", did some 1940s cartoons until he got to Un iversal/Walter Lantz's, who'd been looking for hsi Andy Panda's next voice (Sarah Berner had been the major one), and so Tetley came by, saying such lines as "Ohhhh, I don't feel so good..", in the fruity and "satanic", ahem, Lantz Cartune songfest, and mahybe Andy Panda's best, "Apple Andy", before he enters his nightmare with the song "Up Jumped the Devil". Tetley's voice served Andy till the premature 1948 retirement of the animation medium's on;y Panda Bear (the Fugmation Brady pandas, Ping and Pong, need not apply, and don't even start me on Marvelless Productions's Pandamonium from 1982). Tetley then seems to disappear from an imaiton, leavinf Dick Beals and other sto have the kid roles, till 1951, or something when Reddy Kilowatt was created, around the same that Mr.Beals was doing the early Speedies. Wheteher or not these two legends ever voiced together, I have no honest knowledge.
The one and only Kliph Nesteroff has an excellentt story here.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/03/heya_mister_the.html#more
Still, both younthufl ssounding actors's respective voices would show up in the mindsets of aujdiences watching TV as well as radio, beginning early 50s. After the longtime success of Reddy Kilowatt, Walter Tetley would find his way into animation to Jay Ward's erudite dog (Bill Scott) Mr.Peabody, as "Pet Boy Sherman". THAT renewed Walter's career again, though it doesn't seem to show mcuh animation appearances otherwise, though in 1972 his last appearance was apparently his only one at Hannaa-Barbera in "A Christmas Story", broadcast week of 12/02/72, as a little boy (with perrenial teenage girl Janet Waldo as briefly heard sister in a rather lengthy TV special, whose title is not to be confused with the 1983 movie title). Unforuntately, apparently depression has seemed to take its toll on the formerly happy and always-ready-with-a-smart-remark for the GreatGildy (Hal Peary) on the Great (guess who?) radio show. By 1975, apparently it was a heart attack that called the fabulously talented Walter Tetley to heaven, and now he's joined by Dick Beals. May Reddy Kilowatt and Speedy Alka Selzter enjoy their life in heaven. And what a relief it's always been.Eveyr dog should have a boy.,
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Hansel? HANSELL??
As the Prince would say in "Bewitched Bunny".
Sorry for the three month wait for a new post, but there will be more.
So you think that you know about the voice of Sniffles, the cherubic WB cartoon mouse, or maybe some MGM squirrells, rabbits, dolls,mice,etc. or
Disney or Lantz cartoon animals. You probaly now have heard of BERNICE HANSEN. You know what the name is...
And she was a nonentity.,.
AND she was a child actresss.. blah blah..
Well...you'd be both right [on the roles EXCEPT Sniffles!] and MOSTLY WRONG...for starters:
Berneice Edna HANSELL [fill in your "Bewitched Bunny"[WB,`1954] quote]
was bkorn 7/11/1897 in Los Angeles, California, died 4/3/1981.
She was a seamstress as as well, and got into more trobule than her cute little animal alter egos ever did.
So you think that you know about the voice of Sniffles, the cherbuic WB cartoon mouse, or maybe some MGM squirrells, rabbits, dolls,mice,etc. or
Disney or Lantz cartoon animals. You probaly now have heard of BERNICE HANSEN. You know what the name is...
And she was a nonentity.,.
AND she was a child actresss.. blah blah..
Well...you'd be both right and MOSTLY WRONG...for starters:
Bernice Edna HANSELL [fill in your "Bewitched Bunny"[WB,`1954] quote]
was bkorn 7/11/1897 in Los Angeles, California, died 4/3/1981.
She was a seamstress as as well, and got into more trobule than her cute little animal alter egos ever did.
<a href=http://tralfaz.blogspot.com">Yowp's second blog</a> has the story.
She was just one of many of theser thirties-mid forties voices [including Sniffles, who lasted till the end of "Porky in a Drum" ending, 1945's "Hush My Mouse"]..and, now, here is the BIG thing..remember at the TOP when I wrote "she was the voice of the cartoon mouse S NIFFLES".?
Well, for ten years it was been mentioned the lamented ANIMATO! that someone else was..in addition to the CORRECT name given and date.. It is that real name BERNICE NAHSELL I plan to use when in reference to her.
As for the REAL Sniffles, it was revealed and publicised by Keith Scott, Hames Ware and Graham Webb in ANIMATO!`, the 1990s animatiun magazine, that Gay Seabrooke was the voice as I and others have already mentioned, and Sara Berner took over.
As also known, Bernice Hansell retired in 1940 but DID NOT die [see top and Tralfaz Blog by D.M.Yowp]
So who did the other cute child voices in the thirties [and for a while into the WW forties]?
I posted early in this blog's history.
Ironically, didn't work at, at least one L.A. studio..
She was just one of many of theser thirties-mid forties voices [including Sniffles, who lasted till the end of "Porky in a Drum" ending, 1945's "Hush My Mouse"]..and, now, here is the BIG thing..remember at the TOP when I wrote "she was the voice of the cartoon mouse SNIFFLES".?
Well, for ten years it was been mentioned the lamented ANIMATO! that someone else was..in addition to the CORRECT name given and date.. It is that real name BERNICE NAHSELL I plan to use when in reference to her.
As for the REAL Sniffles, it was revealed and publicised by Keith Scott, Hames Ware and Graham Webb in ANIMATO!`, the 1990s animatiun magazine, that Gay Seabrooke was the voice as I and others have already mentioned, and Sara Berner took over.
As also known, Berneice Hansell retired in 1940 but DID NOT die [see top and Tralfaz Blog by D.M.Yowp]
So who did the other cute child voices in the thirties [and for a while into the WW forties]?
I posted in the second post on this..
Sorry for the three month wait for a new post, but there will be more.
So you think that you know about the voice of Sniffles, the cherubic WB cartoon mouse, or maybe some MGM squirrells, rabbits, dolls,mice,etc. or
Disney or Lantz cartoon animals. You probaly now have heard of BERNICE HANSEN. You know what the name is...
And she was a nonentity.,.
AND she was a child actresss.. blah blah..
Well...you'd be both right [on the roles EXCEPT Sniffles!] and MOSTLY WRONG...for starters:
Berneice Edna HANSELL [fill in your "Bewitched Bunny"[WB,`1954] quote]
was bkorn 7/11/1897 in Los Angeles, California, died 4/3/1981.
She was a seamstress as as well, and got into more trobule than her cute little animal alter egos ever did.
So you think that you know about the voice of Sniffles, the cherbuic WB cartoon mouse, or maybe some MGM squirrells, rabbits, dolls,mice,etc. or
Disney or Lantz cartoon animals. You probaly now have heard of BERNICE HANSEN. You know what the name is...
And she was a nonentity.,.
AND she was a child actresss.. blah blah..
Well...you'd be both right and MOSTLY WRONG...for starters:
Bernice Edna HANSELL [fill in your "Bewitched Bunny"[WB,`1954] quote]
was bkorn 7/11/1897 in Los Angeles, California, died 4/3/1981.
She was a seamstress as as well, and got into more trobule than her cute little animal alter egos ever did.
<a href=http://tralfaz.blogspot.com">Yowp's second blog</a> has the story.
She was just one of many of theser thirties-mid forties voices [including Sniffles, who lasted till the end of "Porky in a Drum" ending, 1945's "Hush My Mouse"]..and, now, here is the BIG thing..remember at the TOP when I wrote "she was the voice of the cartoon mouse S NIFFLES".?
Well, for ten years it was been mentioned the lamented ANIMATO! that someone else was..in addition to the CORRECT name given and date.. It is that real name BERNICE NAHSELL I plan to use when in reference to her.
As for the REAL Sniffles, it was revealed and publicised by Keith Scott, Hames Ware and Graham Webb in ANIMATO!`, the 1990s animatiun magazine, that Gay Seabrooke was the voice as I and others have already mentioned, and Sara Berner took over.
As also known, Bernice Hansell retired in 1940 but DID NOT die [see top and Tralfaz Blog by D.M.Yowp]
So who did the other cute child voices in the thirties [and for a while into the WW forties]?
I posted early in this blog's history.
Ironically, didn't work at, at least one L.A. studio..
She was just one of many of theser thirties-mid forties voices [including Sniffles, who lasted till the end of "Porky in a Drum" ending, 1945's "Hush My Mouse"]..and, now, here is the BIG thing..remember at the TOP when I wrote "she was the voice of the cartoon mouse SNIFFLES".?
Well, for ten years it was been mentioned the lamented ANIMATO! that someone else was..in addition to the CORRECT name given and date.. It is that real name BERNICE NAHSELL I plan to use when in reference to her.
As for the REAL Sniffles, it was revealed and publicised by Keith Scott, Hames Ware and Graham Webb in ANIMATO!`, the 1990s animatiun magazine, that Gay Seabrooke was the voice as I and others have already mentioned, and Sara Berner took over.
As also known, Berneice Hansell retired in 1940 but DID NOT die [see top and Tralfaz Blog by D.M.Yowp]
So who did the other cute child voices in the thirties [and for a while into the WW forties]?
I posted in the second post on this..
Friday, January 27, 2012
All about Pooh as a TV cartoon corpuscule??
What would you have thought bsck in 1971, if you saw a S teleivison animation ad and heard Sterling Holloway..if you thought Disney on TV you would be understanble but wrong.."All About Me" [1972] was a independently produced special about a kid who daydreams his way into his own body [yes, I kid you not] and meets a "Colonel Corpuscule" with Pooh's voice, courtesy of Sterling Holloway. There follows [with apparently no other major voice artists] a trip through his body with inside body villians equalling real diseases. Of course it turns out to be a dream.
It hasn't been seen since..
I mght add that this seems to be Sterling Holloway's mosty oddest and strongest sounding role outside Disney and a rare voice acting role outside Disney animation. It saired as one of the typical Sat.AM animated specials that used to air, here in the early 1970s. It would be interesting to hear more about this.
Credits-thanks to IMDB.I just noticed some familiar names
"All About Me"
A Production of ANIMATED CARTOON PRODUCTIONS
Debuted on Saturday, January 13, 1973 on NBC CHILDRENS SHOWCASE
CAST
Col.Corpuscle/STERLING HOLLOWAY
The Little Boy/PETER HALTON
With NANCY WIBLE, KEN SANSOM & SIMMY BOW
Directed and co-Written by BILL ACKERMAN
Additional writers are CAL HOWARD, ROY FREEMAN, WILLIE ITO, & RIC GONZALES
Produced by EMIL CARLE
Music by C.C.RYDER [I am NOT making that UP!]
FIlm editing by BOB LINVALL
For a full list of credits, see
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351021/fullcredits#writers
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Mr.Turtle, Mr.Turtle, Mr,Turtle..MR.COW?????? A look at the original version of that beloved 1969 lollipop commercial
"Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer. "Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer. "Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer.
Okay, you know how that ONE OLD commercial to run, on all stations, not just NICK at NITE as a "Retro-Mercial "starts. Okay, here it again..."Mr.Cow"..WHATTT! Mr.COW. With Frank Nelson doing his famed "Eyessssss" shtick..okay, conversaiton..then okay, little biy meets Mr.TURTLE---wait. No. MR.FOX--with Peter Lorre [Paul Frees}?
Mr.Fox's advice now, though, DOES lead to.."Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer. EXCEPT for a little bit of dialogue from the owl
and some smart alecky retort due to the owl eating the kid's lollipop, this is the same..As a matyter of the fact the title is Mr.Cow..won a Cleo award [for ads] in 1971.
Now WHAT WAS that?
It's the original late 1969 version of the memorable, perrenial "Tootsie Pop ad".
You know, the one that at least a lot of you, under, say, 35 years, know as follows:
Boy (goes up to the turtle, Tootsie roll pop in his hand, voiced by Jodie Foster's brother Buddy):"Mister Turtle. How many LICKS does it take to get to the
TootsieTM Roll center of a Tootsie PopTM"
Turtle (elderly, with glasses, voiced by "Mork and Mindy"'s Ralph James):"I never made it without biting. Ask Mr.
Owl.
(Scene fades)
Boy (now with Owl on tree):"Mr.Owl, How many LICKS does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll
centre of a Tootsie PopTM.
Owl (voiced by Paul Winchell a la British actor Richard Haydn?):"A good QUESTION, let's find out"(licks then bites the kid's sucker!):
"A-one, a two"(then after crunching into it), a-three), (gives lollipop back to boy,who is now very visibled disgrunted) "A thr-r-re"9trills R's)
Announcer (Herschel "Fiddler on the Roof" Bernardi and in the world of commercials, elsewhere in TV land as "Charlie the Tuna", normal tone):
"How many licks Does it take.." You readers already know that ad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhjb4P_jnKk&feature=related
The original was the same with the following..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xMGI-QpZw
It was cut down due to FCC rules agaunst boringly long commercials.. In either case, it's the only surviving ad..and inspired many T shirts, YouTube parodies, as well as the writer-director's original online, done for Fred Wolf, ["The Point",etc/]. Now...just HOW MANY licks DOES it take...depends on whether one eats or lkcks the lollipop..it's never aired in its original form since around 1972, its fourth year.
CAST
The Little Boy/BUDDY FOSTER
The Cow [yesss..male]/FRANK NELSON
The "Peter Lorre-sounding" Fox/PAUL FREES
The Turtle/RALPH JAMES
The Owl/PAUL WINCHELL
The Announcer/HERSCHEL BERNARDI
Okay, you know how that ONE OLD commercial to run, on all stations, not just NICK at NITE as a "Retro-Mercial "starts. Okay, here it again..."Mr.Cow"..WHATTT! Mr.COW. With Frank Nelson doing his famed "Eyessssss" shtick..okay, conversaiton..then okay, little biy meets Mr.TURTLE---wait. No. MR.FOX--with Peter Lorre [Paul Frees}?
Mr.Fox's advice now, though, DOES lead to.."Mr.Turtle".."Mr.Owl"..then announcer. EXCEPT for a little bit of dialogue from the owl
and some smart alecky retort due to the owl eating the kid's lollipop, this is the same..As a matyter of the fact the title is Mr.Cow..won a Cleo award [for ads] in 1971.
Now WHAT WAS that?
It's the original late 1969 version of the memorable, perrenial "Tootsie Pop ad".
You know, the one that at least a lot of you, under, say, 35 years, know as follows:
Boy (goes up to the turtle, Tootsie roll pop in his hand, voiced by Jodie Foster's brother Buddy):"Mister Turtle. How many LICKS does it take to get to the
TootsieTM Roll center of a Tootsie PopTM"
Turtle (elderly, with glasses, voiced by "Mork and Mindy"'s Ralph James):"I never made it without biting. Ask Mr.
Owl.
(Scene fades)
Boy (now with Owl on tree):"Mr.Owl, How many LICKS does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll
centre of a Tootsie PopTM.
Owl (voiced by Paul Winchell a la British actor Richard Haydn?):"A good QUESTION, let's find out"(licks then bites the kid's sucker!):
"A-one, a two"(then after crunching into it), a-three), (gives lollipop back to boy,who is now very visibled disgrunted) "A thr-r-re"9trills R's)
Announcer (Herschel "Fiddler on the Roof" Bernardi and in the world of commercials, elsewhere in TV land as "Charlie the Tuna", normal tone):
"How many licks Does it take.." You readers already know that ad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhjb4P_jnKk&feature=related
The original was the same with the following..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xMGI-QpZw
It was cut down due to FCC rules agaunst boringly long commercials.. In either case, it's the only surviving ad..and inspired many T shirts, YouTube parodies, as well as the writer-director's original online, done for Fred Wolf, ["The Point",etc/]. Now...just HOW MANY licks DOES it take...depends on whether one eats or lkcks the lollipop..it's never aired in its original form since around 1972, its fourth year.
CAST
The Little Boy/BUDDY FOSTER
The Cow [yesss..male]/FRANK NELSON
The "Peter Lorre-sounding" Fox/PAUL FREES
The Turtle/RALPH JAMES
The Owl/PAUL WINCHELL
The Announcer/HERSCHEL BERNARDI
Happy New Years, and upcoming odds here 'n' ends there
Happy New Year's day to all readers, even if it IS a few days late.
Nothing exactly yet has been planned but ideas are:
"Flintstones" credits from earlier 1960-62 altered to fit one post-Pebbles,1962 episode when the Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures TV fonts since September 1966 when the show first went into syndication [thank you Screen Gems./Columbia TV\and then the restoration of the first seasons by the late Earl Kress to the fit the season each given episode is from, post-childbirth/1962,since circa around 2000, as well as the
use of similiar gang credits from the remainder 1960-62 aince 1995.
At least one look at one obscure Saturday Morning cartoon special.
The real vs imitated voices of animated characters based on 1920s-1960s radio/cartoon voices [example,. Frank Nelson and Howard MacNear alternating being, and impersonting, their respective trademark personas on very early "Flintstones"].
Oddball opening circle/shield titles in Warner Bros.cartoons.
The "Hold the tiger" roaring lion used in some MGM cartoons.
Some long-forgotten animated TV commercials of 1950s-early 1970s and the original "Tootsie Pop Licks" ad as it appeared back in fall/winter 1969 and a "share" commerical from that time.
And many more, as they, hopefully, not neccessarily in that order. I may be starting music and other type blogs, so check back.
And for heaven's sake, go to Internet Animation Database forums and GAC Facebook, and my Your Pony Pal Pokey,too, blog, about the 1950s-60s state of Gumby
Nothing exactly yet has been planned but ideas are:
"Flintstones" credits from earlier 1960-62 altered to fit one post-Pebbles,1962 episode when the Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures TV fonts since September 1966 when the show first went into syndication [thank you Screen Gems./Columbia TV\and then the restoration of the first seasons by the late Earl Kress to the fit the season each given episode is from, post-childbirth/1962,since circa around 2000, as well as the
use of similiar gang credits from the remainder 1960-62 aince 1995.
At least one look at one obscure Saturday Morning cartoon special.
The real vs imitated voices of animated characters based on 1920s-1960s radio/cartoon voices [example,. Frank Nelson and Howard MacNear alternating being, and impersonting, their respective trademark personas on very early "Flintstones"].
Oddball opening circle/shield titles in Warner Bros.cartoons.
The "Hold the tiger" roaring lion used in some MGM cartoons.
Some long-forgotten animated TV commercials of 1950s-early 1970s and the original "Tootsie Pop Licks" ad as it appeared back in fall/winter 1969 and a "share" commerical from that time.
And many more, as they, hopefully, not neccessarily in that order. I may be starting music and other type blogs, so check back.
And for heaven's sake, go to Internet Animation Database forums and GAC Facebook, and my Your Pony Pal Pokey,too, blog, about the 1950s-60s state of Gumby
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