She was dedicated to the history of her late famous dad, Walter Elias Disney. She was dedicated to Disneyland.
Diane Disney Miller has passed away had the age of almost 80 (d.12/18/33). . Walt's only actual biological child (along with stepsister Sharon Disney, who already died in 1993), Diane was
one of the biggest fans of her own legendary dad in order to preserve the legacy of the Disney Archives and studio, and the
various academies that Disney supported. Her death was provoked by a fall off a ladder, but it wasn't what killed her, but
it did aggravate it. She also helped a lot with the Disney Family Museum.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Flintstones..We'll have a SCARY time?
Like any series...The Flintstones had happy moment,s especially as sitcom. But especially as the type
it is, and coming with fantasy and monster shows (not to mention
outlaws and hillbillies and motor-bikers and spies!) many disturbing adventures and exploits.
I've decided to come up with a list of what would be the most disturbing or harrowing Flintstone episodes, especially with car chases and such.
This, of course, is only limited to, to paraphrase its model "The Honeymooners"'s famed vernacular, the "Classic 166", and the quotes would be
really neccesary when getting to the last few seasons.
SEASON 1:
"The Flintstone Flyer". This might be called scary, since toward the end, Fred and Barney run the risk of being caught by both Betty and Wilma,
and once Barney (with Mel Blanc doing a hilarious change of voice from nasal, and still to be "deepened" to a foriegn accent janitor in disguise)
,who's been disguised and working with Fred to lay low amongst the girls, gets caught still with the diguise back home...the girls in unison:
"IT WAS THEM"LOL Then they get on their eggbeater, the "Flintstone Flyer" nee "Barney Copter", gettin' tired as the wives notice..and make snide
commentary to each other.
SEASON 2:
"The Impractical Joker". Since Fred pulls practical jokes on Barney, Barney, once he wins "The Sudsy Wudsy Contest", wins money that he uses
to play Fred a practical joke, a "intstant money" maker that legally scares Fred, with a "bad guy" giving a surprise ending (the others can fill
it in)..Betty goes along to set it up, feigns freaking out...with early Hoyt S.Curtin music to help set things up....
"The Mailman Cometh": Fred's unintentionally denied a raise and his hair raising attempts (with Barney) after writing a nasty anti-Mr.Slate
letter to Mr.Slate (now in his official deisgn and voice by John Stephenson) then hearing the happy truth from Wilma to retrieve it winds up
with a cop straight out of that season's one-season "Top Cat", a shorter version of Officer Dibble (voiced by Herb Vigran rather than the real thing's
Al Jenkins), who himself eventually has to plead after the local Bedrock Seargeant (John Stephenson), then things are tense betwween Fred and Wilma and barney as
things go from bed to worse to bad with Fred faking illness in bed, till Wilma savesthe day. VERY disturbing in some cases...
"Alvin Brickrock Presents": ANYTHING with Alfred "The Master of Suspence" Hitchcock is gonna send shivers, in case WIlma being a possible murderer.
Fred and Barney even read a book description of a neighbor who talks like Hitchcock and who is similiar to their Hitchock like near neighbor.
SEASON 3:
"Ladies's Day Out"-It's Baseball seaosn and our rockheadd friends will do anyhting, even go in drag to see the game, but when the wives show up, and when
Barney and Fred have to chase each other past some cops at the baseball stadium, the cops starting peeking around and once the men confess to the wives,
the big problem is how to work around the cops.
SEASON 4:
"Groom Gloom" It's what we've waited for: teenage Pebbles..(voiced by Janet Waldo and THANK GOD NOT that &R%$#! FREAKIN' Sally STRUTHERS!) eloping with
Arnold the newsboy while Fred and oyther adults are now lderly to the...little CHURCH? Yes, and all the chapels bells rung as the song from 1959 A.D. went.
Don't worry, this is the first dream that Fred has that I've mentioned, he's shown going to sleep on his hammock after a busy morning which involved
kid Arnold's "crush on" Pebbles and Fred nagging him about it. As the dream ends Fred suggests to Pebbly Poo NEVER EVER to grow up! Betty is
hardly in this episode. The Jetsons started and ended its production already but Judy Jetson, though with a mixed record of exposure plus the debut
Jet Scramer focus, definitely went over enough to showcase Janet Waldo's disvtint teenage girl voice for Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna, fortauntely for them and for fans.
Don Messick plays Arnold as a kid and teen just innocently being nice to mean old Fred to the hilt!
One of the true classics. Fred's nightmare can be disturbing, but check on the debut of Season 6. Written by veteran TV sitcom scribe (though whether or not he'd written for
series blueprint "The Honeymooners" is forgotten to me) Herb Finn
SEASON 5:
"A Haunted House is Not a Home"-Hal Smith's Uncle Giggles is bothering Fred and Baney who, benefiting from an uncle's inheritnace, have to live in his haunted house,
and this is an Uncle Giggles, a typical rich eccentirc uncle, and it is HIS haunted house. Fred hears nightmarish gargling but fortunately it is only Barney (Mel Blanc doing gargling
that makes it seem that though Looney Tunes gargles were his too) and he is found by Fred who socks him on the head!(Causing Barney to swallow his mouthwash.). Axes come out of the wall
and we even get the usual bunch of weirdos with weird instruments (probaly inspired by those weird singing creeps in UPA's 1962 "Mr.Magoo's Xmas Carol"), the famed Uncle Giggles portrait giggles, and
the eye-rolling picture bit. That can be disturbing..
"Shinrock a Go-Go" Fred's bang his foot, causing him (a la Warner's Cool Cat in 1969's "Bugged by a Bee") to (very oddly) serendipitously wind up on "Shindig"(just like at that time, also on
ABC like our heroes), hosted (like in real life) by Jimmy O'Neill(Stone), and with that (once agsain REAL LIFE) Beau Brummel(stones)(ironically NOT on studio labels Colpix or HBR but on Warner Bros.-though
that company would buy HB much later) doing (ONCE AGAIN mirroring real life) their 1965 hit "Laugh Laugh". That song's petty Brit-rock payback is small compared to what Fred wishes on the
cast for exploiting his painful "Yabba Dabba Die (what he might wish on the cast on Shindig)" Ay yi yi" He even has a dream, not a nightmare though about teaching the dance. But this is pretty much
Hanna-Barbaer's prototype for its imitaor, late 60s Warner Bros.(Seven Arts)'s Cool Cat short mentioned above, as Fred goes thorugh (and we can only sympathise with him_) pain, cracking down at the before the commercials
then running out and flopping with his wig on, so the teenagers have a new reason to dance to Fred, and come the coda ANOTHER painful dance just for his family. Barney even jokes. This episode is almost the epitomite
of what people, even fans, call a Flintstones episode, especially in this time, that is so unsympathetic to poor Fred (not to mention now dated with the TV ref, despite the significance these dance shows have)., and shows Bsarney Rubble
of what a stupid best friend he is (Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbersa even allow Barney to do a "3-D" style close up to the screen to tell Wilma and Betty about Fred's new dance. Thanks a lot, Barney.(angry)
"Dr.Sinister". Spies are now coming on [just like today with Daniel Craig, ironically through MGM and Columbia Pictures, respectively through Tom and Jerry and HB Hanna and Barbera's respective employers back then!]
Possibly the most nightmarish ending. Fred and Barney wind up being
1) adbucted
2)confronted by a Madame She type out of the 007 flicks who is "too important to be captured"
3) presented before the evil master himself, Dr.Sinister
and the brute himself is one of the scariest chafracters ever..this is the kind of things nightmares are made of. All kinds of things while Betty and Wilma and pebbles DON'T EVEN KNOW!
Fred and Barney are even thrown into a volcano on an Island. Don't ask. No Laugh track in this or a few others. Don't even ask how they get out. But they do get back and just in case WILMA questions, someone
too important to be captured appears. Hoyt Curtin's famous danger sting (what you'd hear, if he was so inclined to use these early Hanna Barbera stingers, on Johnny Quest) already familiar at the time, closes
the episode.
SEASON 6:
"No Bix Like Show Biz". Okay, here's what you've been waiting for. Not! Joanna Lee's story has Fred and Barney watching a plethora of modern day music shows including one that plugs an early incarnation o what would be
1968-1976 supergroup 3 Dog Night, Danny Hutton's The Enemies, with their HBR "Roses and Rainbows" record, and a show with Stuart Hamblen's catchy 1954 "Open Up Your Heart, and Let the Sunshine In"[obviously not to be
confused with the 1980s Madonna or the 1969 Fifth Dimension song], then finds Pebbly-Poo and Bamm Bamm singing it. This is the famed and hated story that shows the destruction of both Fred and Barney's lives, but ironically no one else's,
and the franchise only in its first season, and we even haven't GOTTEN to GAZOO yet. Oh. It's just a dream. Yeah, right. I actually like some parts, and the nightm,arish chase @night @the climax is a kick ass one, but I gotta go with a
few others on the downfalls of this premise, and the song, while very catchy, doesn't seem fair to the FATHER!(just like this episode, unusual for the time).
At least we could wait in peace till September 11,1971 when the kids became teens only Fred and Barney wouldn't have to be with them every step. Bernard Fox (sister company Screen Gems Productions's "Betwitched")
plays Beatle manager (till 1967) Brian Epstein, here renamed "Eppy Brianstone."
"Stonefinger Caper". Having been introduced to (ahem, wreck) the show, (though Harvey Korman's voice is first rate and half the character's adventures such as this work a lot better and I don't rate him as half bad),
The Great Gazoo is, besides being banished from Planet Xetox, also banished by Fred and Barney for being even worse than his own leader gave him credit, or demerit for. Barney is such a dead ringer for the never appearing
Bedrock spy Agent Stonefinger that an ace evil secret agent hires his goons to capture him (Like Gazoo, the evil agent and one of his henchen are both voiced by Harvey Korman and Mel Blanc voices the other goon).
Fred and Barney have a very scary spy problem (Barney:"But I don't even have" what the top agent wants). The identity crisis+ Gazoo's heading the boys's explusion of him=what is obviously on hella dead ennd, even with the boys yelling (to the confounded state
of the villians, of course) when who should up but..(Fred and Barney in unison as one.) "GAZOO". Of course he puts the evil guys in the states where they will not be a problem, likewise the sabertooth cat chasing them.
I think this episode that is another case of Betty Rubble snubbing Fred, a la putting her words in Wilma's mouth in SEASON 1's "Rooms for Rent", and it is another example of Betty hating Fred, answering Fred's question by calling him Barney.."Our kind of fun Barney" to FRED? Snubbing of Fred (or Barney?) by proxy. (May be a good topic. Internet Movie Database: THE FLINSTONES: MESSAGE BOARDS:FLINTSTONES [1960] is where I posted [as gcarras] on this, once somebody started a thread on Betty vs Fred. I also posted these Flinstone examples, without these modifications, on that board, Toonzone and after this, on Sitcoms online. [On those, I'm Steve Carras if you want to peruse..]
The evil top spy who mistakes Barney for Stonefinger (ala Goldfinge,r the top
007 villian), has the best line after Banrey tries a formula which he's FORCED by the baddies to impart which he does not know!-The spy:"THAT is a BABY formula"(Barney thinking of Bamm Bamm....very similiar to the 1947 Bugs short "Hotcross Bunny").
"The Story of Rocky's Raiders" A wartime story of Fred's ancestors, like Casablanca and such, that turns into a viloent slaptick chase continuing into the present, with the Flintstones and Rubbles being chased.
"My Fair Freddy". The tale of the Stonyside Country Club from Tony Benedict shows a lot of fun part with the Gazoo, even having him help Fred, who, through a misunderstanding involving Dino having to please
the country club folks, do so in a silly ballerina outfit with Joe Rockhead getting the boys at the Water Buffalo Lodge. The nightmarish part for me as a child was when Fred and his "lodge friends" saw each other literally
eye to eye in Fred's garage and they make him a laughingstock and he shrinks to the size of a mouse..which to a child or an adult would be relieved only by it being a nightmare (a la the season opener) but Tony Benedict
here (and producer-directors Joe Barbera and William Denby Hanna, RIP to both) do not let one off the hook, but there's fortunately (after scenes that inlcude Fred making a silly paraphrase on Phil Harris's old song "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens", replacing the last with "Bushes" as he has indeed, out of shame, hidden behind a bush), a happy ending as the snobs get rocking. Gazoo can take off but he was so fun, and Barney didn't even say goodbye!
I'll also add any episode with the Addams characters or the Hatrocks (with Howie "Ernest T.Bass" Morris reprising his lisping. whistling hillbilly from CBS's "The Andy Griffith show". Yee-Haa!)
it is, and coming with fantasy and monster shows (not to mention
outlaws and hillbillies and motor-bikers and spies!) many disturbing adventures and exploits.
I've decided to come up with a list of what would be the most disturbing or harrowing Flintstone episodes, especially with car chases and such.
This, of course, is only limited to, to paraphrase its model "The Honeymooners"'s famed vernacular, the "Classic 166", and the quotes would be
really neccesary when getting to the last few seasons.
SEASON 1:
"The Flintstone Flyer". This might be called scary, since toward the end, Fred and Barney run the risk of being caught by both Betty and Wilma,
and once Barney (with Mel Blanc doing a hilarious change of voice from nasal, and still to be "deepened" to a foriegn accent janitor in disguise)
,who's been disguised and working with Fred to lay low amongst the girls, gets caught still with the diguise back home...the girls in unison:
"IT WAS THEM"LOL Then they get on their eggbeater, the "Flintstone Flyer" nee "Barney Copter", gettin' tired as the wives notice..and make snide
commentary to each other.
SEASON 2:
"The Impractical Joker". Since Fred pulls practical jokes on Barney, Barney, once he wins "The Sudsy Wudsy Contest", wins money that he uses
to play Fred a practical joke, a "intstant money" maker that legally scares Fred, with a "bad guy" giving a surprise ending (the others can fill
it in)..Betty goes along to set it up, feigns freaking out...with early Hoyt S.Curtin music to help set things up....
"The Mailman Cometh": Fred's unintentionally denied a raise and his hair raising attempts (with Barney) after writing a nasty anti-Mr.Slate
letter to Mr.Slate (now in his official deisgn and voice by John Stephenson) then hearing the happy truth from Wilma to retrieve it winds up
with a cop straight out of that season's one-season "Top Cat", a shorter version of Officer Dibble (voiced by Herb Vigran rather than the real thing's
Al Jenkins), who himself eventually has to plead after the local Bedrock Seargeant (John Stephenson), then things are tense betwween Fred and Wilma and barney as
things go from bed to worse to bad with Fred faking illness in bed, till Wilma savesthe day. VERY disturbing in some cases...
"Alvin Brickrock Presents": ANYTHING with Alfred "The Master of Suspence" Hitchcock is gonna send shivers, in case WIlma being a possible murderer.
Fred and Barney even read a book description of a neighbor who talks like Hitchcock and who is similiar to their Hitchock like near neighbor.
SEASON 3:
"Ladies's Day Out"-It's Baseball seaosn and our rockheadd friends will do anyhting, even go in drag to see the game, but when the wives show up, and when
Barney and Fred have to chase each other past some cops at the baseball stadium, the cops starting peeking around and once the men confess to the wives,
the big problem is how to work around the cops.
SEASON 4:
"Groom Gloom" It's what we've waited for: teenage Pebbles..(voiced by Janet Waldo and THANK GOD NOT that &R%$#! FREAKIN' Sally STRUTHERS!) eloping with
Arnold the newsboy while Fred and oyther adults are now lderly to the...little CHURCH? Yes, and all the chapels bells rung as the song from 1959 A.D. went.
Don't worry, this is the first dream that Fred has that I've mentioned, he's shown going to sleep on his hammock after a busy morning which involved
kid Arnold's "crush on" Pebbles and Fred nagging him about it. As the dream ends Fred suggests to Pebbly Poo NEVER EVER to grow up! Betty is
hardly in this episode. The Jetsons started and ended its production already but Judy Jetson, though with a mixed record of exposure plus the debut
Jet Scramer focus, definitely went over enough to showcase Janet Waldo's disvtint teenage girl voice for Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna, fortauntely for them and for fans.
Don Messick plays Arnold as a kid and teen just innocently being nice to mean old Fred to the hilt!
One of the true classics. Fred's nightmare can be disturbing, but check on the debut of Season 6. Written by veteran TV sitcom scribe (though whether or not he'd written for
series blueprint "The Honeymooners" is forgotten to me) Herb Finn
SEASON 5:
"A Haunted House is Not a Home"-Hal Smith's Uncle Giggles is bothering Fred and Baney who, benefiting from an uncle's inheritnace, have to live in his haunted house,
and this is an Uncle Giggles, a typical rich eccentirc uncle, and it is HIS haunted house. Fred hears nightmarish gargling but fortunately it is only Barney (Mel Blanc doing gargling
that makes it seem that though Looney Tunes gargles were his too) and he is found by Fred who socks him on the head!(Causing Barney to swallow his mouthwash.). Axes come out of the wall
and we even get the usual bunch of weirdos with weird instruments (probaly inspired by those weird singing creeps in UPA's 1962 "Mr.Magoo's Xmas Carol"), the famed Uncle Giggles portrait giggles, and
the eye-rolling picture bit. That can be disturbing..
"Shinrock a Go-Go" Fred's bang his foot, causing him (a la Warner's Cool Cat in 1969's "Bugged by a Bee") to (very oddly) serendipitously wind up on "Shindig"(just like at that time, also on
ABC like our heroes), hosted (like in real life) by Jimmy O'Neill(Stone), and with that (once agsain REAL LIFE) Beau Brummel(stones)(ironically NOT on studio labels Colpix or HBR but on Warner Bros.-though
that company would buy HB much later) doing (ONCE AGAIN mirroring real life) their 1965 hit "Laugh Laugh". That song's petty Brit-rock payback is small compared to what Fred wishes on the
cast for exploiting his painful "Yabba Dabba Die (what he might wish on the cast on Shindig)" Ay yi yi" He even has a dream, not a nightmare though about teaching the dance. But this is pretty much
Hanna-Barbaer's prototype for its imitaor, late 60s Warner Bros.(Seven Arts)'s Cool Cat short mentioned above, as Fred goes thorugh (and we can only sympathise with him_) pain, cracking down at the before the commercials
then running out and flopping with his wig on, so the teenagers have a new reason to dance to Fred, and come the coda ANOTHER painful dance just for his family. Barney even jokes. This episode is almost the epitomite
of what people, even fans, call a Flintstones episode, especially in this time, that is so unsympathetic to poor Fred (not to mention now dated with the TV ref, despite the significance these dance shows have)., and shows Bsarney Rubble
of what a stupid best friend he is (Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbersa even allow Barney to do a "3-D" style close up to the screen to tell Wilma and Betty about Fred's new dance. Thanks a lot, Barney.(angry)
"Dr.Sinister". Spies are now coming on [just like today with Daniel Craig, ironically through MGM and Columbia Pictures, respectively through Tom and Jerry and HB Hanna and Barbera's respective employers back then!]
Possibly the most nightmarish ending. Fred and Barney wind up being
1) adbucted
2)confronted by a Madame She type out of the 007 flicks who is "too important to be captured"
3) presented before the evil master himself, Dr.Sinister
and the brute himself is one of the scariest chafracters ever..this is the kind of things nightmares are made of. All kinds of things while Betty and Wilma and pebbles DON'T EVEN KNOW!
Fred and Barney are even thrown into a volcano on an Island. Don't ask. No Laugh track in this or a few others. Don't even ask how they get out. But they do get back and just in case WILMA questions, someone
too important to be captured appears. Hoyt Curtin's famous danger sting (what you'd hear, if he was so inclined to use these early Hanna Barbera stingers, on Johnny Quest) already familiar at the time, closes
the episode.
SEASON 6:
"No Bix Like Show Biz". Okay, here's what you've been waiting for. Not! Joanna Lee's story has Fred and Barney watching a plethora of modern day music shows including one that plugs an early incarnation o what would be
1968-1976 supergroup 3 Dog Night, Danny Hutton's The Enemies, with their HBR "Roses and Rainbows" record, and a show with Stuart Hamblen's catchy 1954 "Open Up Your Heart, and Let the Sunshine In"[obviously not to be
confused with the 1980s Madonna or the 1969 Fifth Dimension song], then finds Pebbly-Poo and Bamm Bamm singing it. This is the famed and hated story that shows the destruction of both Fred and Barney's lives, but ironically no one else's,
and the franchise only in its first season, and we even haven't GOTTEN to GAZOO yet. Oh. It's just a dream. Yeah, right. I actually like some parts, and the nightm,arish chase @night @the climax is a kick ass one, but I gotta go with a
few others on the downfalls of this premise, and the song, while very catchy, doesn't seem fair to the FATHER!(just like this episode, unusual for the time).
At least we could wait in peace till September 11,1971 when the kids became teens only Fred and Barney wouldn't have to be with them every step. Bernard Fox (sister company Screen Gems Productions's "Betwitched")
plays Beatle manager (till 1967) Brian Epstein, here renamed "Eppy Brianstone."
"Stonefinger Caper". Having been introduced to (ahem, wreck) the show, (though Harvey Korman's voice is first rate and half the character's adventures such as this work a lot better and I don't rate him as half bad),
The Great Gazoo is, besides being banished from Planet Xetox, also banished by Fred and Barney for being even worse than his own leader gave him credit, or demerit for. Barney is such a dead ringer for the never appearing
Bedrock spy Agent Stonefinger that an ace evil secret agent hires his goons to capture him (Like Gazoo, the evil agent and one of his henchen are both voiced by Harvey Korman and Mel Blanc voices the other goon).
Fred and Barney have a very scary spy problem (Barney:"But I don't even have" what the top agent wants). The identity crisis+ Gazoo's heading the boys's explusion of him=what is obviously on hella dead ennd, even with the boys yelling (to the confounded state
of the villians, of course) when who should up but..(Fred and Barney in unison as one.) "GAZOO". Of course he puts the evil guys in the states where they will not be a problem, likewise the sabertooth cat chasing them.
I think this episode that is another case of Betty Rubble snubbing Fred, a la putting her words in Wilma's mouth in SEASON 1's "Rooms for Rent", and it is another example of Betty hating Fred, answering Fred's question by calling him Barney.."Our kind of fun Barney" to FRED? Snubbing of Fred (or Barney?) by proxy. (May be a good topic. Internet Movie Database: THE FLINSTONES: MESSAGE BOARDS:FLINTSTONES [1960] is where I posted [as gcarras] on this, once somebody started a thread on Betty vs Fred. I also posted these Flinstone examples, without these modifications, on that board, Toonzone and after this, on Sitcoms online. [On those, I'm Steve Carras if you want to peruse..]
The evil top spy who mistakes Barney for Stonefinger (ala Goldfinge,r the top
007 villian), has the best line after Banrey tries a formula which he's FORCED by the baddies to impart which he does not know!-The spy:"THAT is a BABY formula"(Barney thinking of Bamm Bamm....very similiar to the 1947 Bugs short "Hotcross Bunny").
"The Story of Rocky's Raiders" A wartime story of Fred's ancestors, like Casablanca and such, that turns into a viloent slaptick chase continuing into the present, with the Flintstones and Rubbles being chased.
"My Fair Freddy". The tale of the Stonyside Country Club from Tony Benedict shows a lot of fun part with the Gazoo, even having him help Fred, who, through a misunderstanding involving Dino having to please
the country club folks, do so in a silly ballerina outfit with Joe Rockhead getting the boys at the Water Buffalo Lodge. The nightmarish part for me as a child was when Fred and his "lodge friends" saw each other literally
eye to eye in Fred's garage and they make him a laughingstock and he shrinks to the size of a mouse..which to a child or an adult would be relieved only by it being a nightmare (a la the season opener) but Tony Benedict
here (and producer-directors Joe Barbera and William Denby Hanna, RIP to both) do not let one off the hook, but there's fortunately (after scenes that inlcude Fred making a silly paraphrase on Phil Harris's old song "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens", replacing the last with "Bushes" as he has indeed, out of shame, hidden behind a bush), a happy ending as the snobs get rocking. Gazoo can take off but he was so fun, and Barney didn't even say goodbye!
I'll also add any episode with the Addams characters or the Hatrocks (with Howie "Ernest T.Bass" Morris reprising his lisping. whistling hillbilly from CBS's "The Andy Griffith show". Yee-Haa!)
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Crediting Beany and co. for the 1960s..
Howdy, folks..back with another post..
Anyone looking at the typically Clampett type rebus-type funny credits for the classic 1962 Benay and Cecil cartoon based off on the classic 1948-1954 puppet show
'will ntoice how impressive these are..names from Hoyt Curtin to Terrell Stapp to Homer Jonas to Art Scott to Carl Bell to Bob and Sody Clampett Pathe Lab to Ryder Sound Services! All departments, credited. Well, ALL except for ONE.
Voices.
Bob Clampett was a great director but one of the things that was an object of a huge fight on the original show was with Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, who created the show and the voices. Bob and Chuck Jones have earned the Warner Bros. "dis-honor" of "smearing each other" on the subject of creativity of the Warner shorts. After Freberg and Butler left over these arguments and lawsuits and such, other performers, Jim McGeorge [the 1966 Laurel and Hardy cartoons for Hanna-Barbera, Wolper, MetroMedia and Larry Harmon] and Erv Shoemaker [who apparently has no other franchise or one shot special credits,etc.] handling the voices...MacGeorge the Butler roles [Beany, Capt. Huffenpuff] and Shoemaker the Freberg roles. [Cecil, Dishonest John].
Perhaps hte lact of voice credits [a mike or something in the rebus-style credits of the early 1960s animated cartoon version of "Beany and Cecil" [original Mattel's Matty Funday Funnies, replacing Harveytoons], was a concession to the former voices so audiences, who'd even then knew something about Freberg and Butl;er on the show, wouldn't know of their absence [more noticeable later when people gave a darn about animation]. In short: Perhaps so as to go on, Clampett didn't put the Beany voices, as they were replacements since 1954 due to the famous Clampett "ego" on the credits, in case anyone gave a damn. The cast who appeared in both shows in full is another deal...anywya note on YouTube the Beany credits...you'll see almost EVERY department credited on the end. But NOT the cast.
It's also been said that Clampett left Columbia veteran Art Scott (also longtime of Hanna-Barbera) the director credit but that Esperanto-rebus Clampettian credit may throw some people, it's the Dishoney John timing pic which has Art Scott's name...
Anyone looking at the typically Clampett type rebus-type funny credits for the classic 1962 Benay and Cecil cartoon based off on the classic 1948-1954 puppet show
'will ntoice how impressive these are..names from Hoyt Curtin to Terrell Stapp to Homer Jonas to Art Scott to Carl Bell to Bob and Sody Clampett Pathe Lab to Ryder Sound Services! All departments, credited. Well, ALL except for ONE.
Voices.
Bob Clampett was a great director but one of the things that was an object of a huge fight on the original show was with Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, who created the show and the voices. Bob and Chuck Jones have earned the Warner Bros. "dis-honor" of "smearing each other" on the subject of creativity of the Warner shorts. After Freberg and Butler left over these arguments and lawsuits and such, other performers, Jim McGeorge [the 1966 Laurel and Hardy cartoons for Hanna-Barbera, Wolper, MetroMedia and Larry Harmon] and Erv Shoemaker [who apparently has no other franchise or one shot special credits,etc.] handling the voices...MacGeorge the Butler roles [Beany, Capt. Huffenpuff] and Shoemaker the Freberg roles. [Cecil, Dishonest John].
Perhaps hte lact of voice credits [a mike or something in the rebus-style credits of the early 1960s animated cartoon version of "Beany and Cecil" [original Mattel's Matty Funday Funnies, replacing Harveytoons], was a concession to the former voices so audiences, who'd even then knew something about Freberg and Butl;er on the show, wouldn't know of their absence [more noticeable later when people gave a darn about animation]. In short: Perhaps so as to go on, Clampett didn't put the Beany voices, as they were replacements since 1954 due to the famous Clampett "ego" on the credits, in case anyone gave a damn. The cast who appeared in both shows in full is another deal...anywya note on YouTube the Beany credits...you'll see almost EVERY department credited on the end. But NOT the cast.
It's also been said that Clampett left Columbia veteran Art Scott (also longtime of Hanna-Barbera) the director credit but that Esperanto-rebus Clampettian credit may throw some people, it's the Dishoney John timing pic which has Art Scott's name...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Porky's Goofy Ghost-Who's THERE?
Sorry for being so late with new posts..
Porky Pig has had many occupations, like Mr.Magoo, Mickey Mouse, and Huck Hound and others....one of his was as legal investigator into a haunted house,
haunted by a ghost. (Bob Clampett's masterpiece "Jeepers Creepers") Many debate whether the ghost's voice, much like Walt Disney veteran/Legend Pinto Colvig (1892-1967) was or wasn't the voice. However,
researchers Keith Scott, Hames Ware and Graham Ware found and revealed in the long late, lamented, ANIMATO! magazine that it's Mel Blanc doing the not-so
(and, sorry, Mr.Colving, I hate to admit it), imitatble voice..(but then Mr.Colvig like Goofy would say, "Argh, Garsh, shucks, Anybuddy kin do that voice..kyuk.!:)
However researchers have noted that a line IS Pinto Colvig's, in the MIDDLE of the cartoon. Young researcher in UK Steve Hartley, in his excellent "Likely Looney Mostly Merrie" chronological (and MUCH
recommended and addicting!) blog has reviewed it on April 1, and limited ANY praise to an April Fool's joke, but right down to Mr.Ghost's Jeepers song rendition I believe it to be a true
comedy classic. Now, Blanc's (except the middle "Who's There") the WHOLE ghost, BUT IN THE MIDDLE..AND JUST ONE WHAT BEAVERS MAKE LINE?? Colvig HAD moved around this time, 1939,
to Max Fleischer's new Florida studio, as well as doing his trademark Goofy Disney character in the friendly grasshopper-as-fish bait short "Goofy and Wilbur". Perhaps he'd left and retracted
or passed to Walt's studio the rights to the voice (familiar story) and Mel Blanc simply impersonated him entirely making himself the only voice actor heard in "Jeepers Creepers", but it was mutually agreed
but the studios involved to let one of selected Pinto Colvig's Ghost lines remain, and the one after "Jeepers" is sung, "Who's dere?"...but it only adds up if it was the FIRST line, as the case I mentioned is
speculated and frankly, doesn't make sense. In any way, "Jeepers Creepers" has a far better vehicle here than as "Daffy humilation" music in 1957's Freleng outing"Showbiz Bugs".:-) It's first heard in Warner Bros.'s 1938 musical
"Going Places." Now..WHERE DID you get your eyes?
Porky Pig has had many occupations, like Mr.Magoo, Mickey Mouse, and Huck Hound and others....one of his was as legal investigator into a haunted house,
haunted by a ghost. (Bob Clampett's masterpiece "Jeepers Creepers") Many debate whether the ghost's voice, much like Walt Disney veteran/Legend Pinto Colvig (1892-1967) was or wasn't the voice. However,
researchers Keith Scott, Hames Ware and Graham Ware found and revealed in the long late, lamented, ANIMATO! magazine that it's Mel Blanc doing the not-so
(and, sorry, Mr.Colving, I hate to admit it), imitatble voice..(but then Mr.Colvig like Goofy would say, "Argh, Garsh, shucks, Anybuddy kin do that voice..kyuk.!:)
However researchers have noted that a line IS Pinto Colvig's, in the MIDDLE of the cartoon. Young researcher in UK Steve Hartley, in his excellent "Likely Looney Mostly Merrie" chronological (and MUCH
recommended and addicting!) blog has reviewed it on April 1, and limited ANY praise to an April Fool's joke, but right down to Mr.Ghost's Jeepers song rendition I believe it to be a true
comedy classic. Now, Blanc's (except the middle "Who's There") the WHOLE ghost, BUT IN THE MIDDLE..AND JUST ONE WHAT BEAVERS MAKE LINE?? Colvig HAD moved around this time, 1939,
to Max Fleischer's new Florida studio, as well as doing his trademark Goofy Disney character in the friendly grasshopper-as-fish bait short "Goofy and Wilbur". Perhaps he'd left and retracted
or passed to Walt's studio the rights to the voice (familiar story) and Mel Blanc simply impersonated him entirely making himself the only voice actor heard in "Jeepers Creepers", but it was mutually agreed
but the studios involved to let one of selected Pinto Colvig's Ghost lines remain, and the one after "Jeepers" is sung, "Who's dere?"...but it only adds up if it was the FIRST line, as the case I mentioned is
speculated and frankly, doesn't make sense. In any way, "Jeepers Creepers" has a far better vehicle here than as "Daffy humilation" music in 1957's Freleng outing"Showbiz Bugs".:-) It's first heard in Warner Bros.'s 1938 musical
"Going Places." Now..WHERE DID you get your eyes?
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
New home for a beloved blog..
Any of you reaidng my blogs may know that longtime fellow contributor KEVIN LANGLEY has hosted the beloved CARTOONS MODELS SHEETS & STUFF blog but Google kicked it off. Fortunately, that one has been archived as I hope to do with mine, so you can it here at
http://klangley.wordpress.com/.
THe blog has had many videos and studies of the lesser known 1940s-50s theatrical cartoon animators as well as misc.unsung veterans in the business. And vidoes. And Videos. And Videos. And videos. And..well, you get the idea.
Sadly, Google did,too, to the point that they removed Kevin';s vdeo links for coipyright infringment but at the address above, again, http://klangley.wordpress.com/, (for conveince sake), you'll be able to return to that blog (and trust me, you WILL be retjunring.
So will a certain orange horse who carried Gumby around and helped him round up some blockheads who for unknown reasons, had G & J child's blocks for heads to make a kind of pun, before REAL blockheads ruined our adventures in 1987.:))
http://klangley.wordpress.com/.
THe blog has had many videos and studies of the lesser known 1940s-50s theatrical cartoon animators as well as misc.unsung veterans in the business. And vidoes. And Videos. And Videos. And videos. And..well, you get the idea.
Sadly, Google did,too, to the point that they removed Kevin';s vdeo links for coipyright infringment but at the address above, again, http://klangley.wordpress.com/, (for conveince sake), you'll be able to return to that blog (and trust me, you WILL be retjunring.
So will a certain orange horse who carried Gumby around and helped him round up some blockheads who for unknown reasons, had G & J child's blocks for heads to make a kind of pun, before REAL blockheads ruined our adventures in 1987.:))
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Recredited Flinstones
For many years, from 1966-1990 to be exact, generations of rerun wathing kids who never saw "The Flintstones in its original ABC run from
1960-1966 would have seen the credits for the Flintstone episodes from 1960 to 1962 as:
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY
JOE BARBERA BILL HANNA
Written by Story Director
WARREN FOSTER ART DAVIS
Starring the voices of
ALAN REED as FRED FLINTSTONE
JEAN VANDERPYL as WILMA FLINTSTONE
(next scene; credits fade)
MEL BLANC as BARNEY RUBBLE
BEA BENADERET (sic) as BETTY RUBBLE
then
Other voices
HAL SMITH & JOHN STEPHENSON
Music Direction
HOYT CURTIN
and on and on
then
(C)MCMLXII BY HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION INC.
then the Screen Gems credit at the end of then after the credits.
For many what many children growing up dkidn't realize was that in its original prime time showing
[the audlt one] that NO Rubbles voice creedits appeared, that underneath the main credits just incidental cedits or no credits involved at all!
The now taboo ciggie ads, lack of credits, and such prompeted Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures TV in September 1966 to format the earlier ones [whose successors of course, beginning with the last
:original Oriental font" logo SG/CPTV had been using at the on "Gidget","I Dream of Jenanie etc." with Howie MacNear, Don Messick and opthers then the
new lettering to have the original endings] so that the pre-Pebbles episodes WOULD HAVE the same "gang" credits for each episode.,[BTW the credits used seem to be form one of the Water Buffalo/the boys sneak
out from Betty and Wilma ones]
By the time of Unviersal/Spielberg/Brian Grazer/HB's 1994 runaway block buster on the Stones, someone named T.S>Elliott came out with the FIRST EVER Flintstone
credits book, and as late as December 1994 it was aviable., That is where I saw who was around to do voices that never appeared aafter 1962 on the show, suchas Frank Nelson, Nancy Wible and some other sused later on other HB shows,
and regular like D.essick. The late Earl Kress [1951-2011] was very generous in putting some stock credits showed some of the voices and writers.
1960-1966 would have seen the credits for the Flintstone episodes from 1960 to 1962 as:
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY
JOE BARBERA BILL HANNA
Written by Story Director
WARREN FOSTER ART DAVIS
Starring the voices of
ALAN REED as FRED FLINTSTONE
JEAN VANDERPYL as WILMA FLINTSTONE
(next scene; credits fade)
MEL BLANC as BARNEY RUBBLE
BEA BENADERET (sic) as BETTY RUBBLE
then
Other voices
HAL SMITH & JOHN STEPHENSON
Music Direction
HOYT CURTIN
and on and on
then
(C)MCMLXII BY HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION INC.
then the Screen Gems credit at the end of then after the credits.
For many what many children growing up dkidn't realize was that in its original prime time showing
[the audlt one] that NO Rubbles voice creedits appeared, that underneath the main credits just incidental cedits or no credits involved at all!
The now taboo ciggie ads, lack of credits, and such prompeted Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures TV in September 1966 to format the earlier ones [whose successors of course, beginning with the last
:original Oriental font" logo SG/CPTV had been using at the on "Gidget","I Dream of Jenanie etc." with Howie MacNear, Don Messick and opthers then the
new lettering to have the original endings] so that the pre-Pebbles episodes WOULD HAVE the same "gang" credits for each episode.,[BTW the credits used seem to be form one of the Water Buffalo/the boys sneak
out from Betty and Wilma ones]
By the time of Unviersal/Spielberg/Brian Grazer/HB's 1994 runaway block buster on the Stones, someone named T.S>Elliott came out with the FIRST EVER Flintstone
credits book, and as late as December 1994 it was aviable., That is where I saw who was around to do voices that never appeared aafter 1962 on the show, suchas Frank Nelson, Nancy Wible and some other sused later on other HB shows,
and regular like D.essick. The late Earl Kress [1951-2011] was very generous in putting some stock credits showed some of the voices and writers.
Goodbye Lucille Bliss 1916-2012
SOe may recall her as barel decent Smurfette on Smurfs. But to older generaitons, Lucille Bliss did even more significant characters.
Lucille Blss will be one of those who is generally known for only several chaarcters.
If you remember reall far back-
Crusafder Rabbit
Stepsister Anastasia form Disney's "Cinderella"
Later generations may know her from some Disney records or Hanna-Barbera 60s curio "Space Kiddetts".
Still Later (in a time that I'd rather forget where animaiton is concerned) as Smurfette in the SMurfs O(though I am being hard here...)
Truth is Lucille Bliss (1916-2012) had many characters in cartoon and old time radio. Originally a native of New York City, she then did various radio spots, before perfomring
offbeat live short/industrial film filmmaker Jerry Fairbanks and cartoon nutso Jay Ward's colla boration with TV distrubtor Alex Anderson in the historic pioneering television daytime cartoon "Crusader Rabbit"
as the title character and maybe as additional onrs (the Obscure Vern Loudin did voice for CR's constant compan Ragland(just call him "Rags'!) T. Tiger.)). Then she did a strepsister form Disney's Cindererella )radio sitocm regular Rhoda Williams palyed the other).
(Note-GeGe Pearson, yet another regular for radio, was the "New Crusader" yet Vernon Loudin does Rags..Roy Whaley narrates both series..)
By the 1950s Lucille Bliss could be heard in MGM, Warnersa, Disneym and other theatrical cartoons. She WAS signed to play H-b's Ruff the KItten opposite Daws Butler's Reddy the dog in
the next television snimstion historical step, "The Ruff and ReddyShow", and to revive "Crusader" in neew series of short,s both of these in 1957, but union politics (LB:on 2ndCR:"It was non-union and I was union"") thern Bill Hann and Joe Barbera reluctantly were forced to replace her as apparently t
new show's studio (Creston?TVS) producer, Shull Bonsall had oublicxly signed Lucille EXCLUSIVELY ONLY TO REJECT HER!! Same roller coaster downfall again happened at HB in 1962 with the Jetsons, as Elroy (Daws butler instead replaced her on both occasions.) Sometimes she'd get a small role on the Flintstones (the boy cave scout episode,for one.)
In 1966 she got a HB role in the rather forgettable, though., Space Kiddetts". She did busy herself on other things I'll get around to at the end of this article.
Thru the 70s, and 80s she landed on the (IMO not for me again) Smurfs show at HB but Riock Reinert studios, a seemingly up and coming studio, did the unsually rather enjoyable Captain O.G.Readmore series (Will Ryan as OG, Alan Dinehart and Hal Smith, and <ucille Bliss as the girl cat, on the ABC book reading series.)
See Yowp, Luculle Bliss, in the Google, Internet Movie Database, Lucille Bliss, for any sordid details that befell her more..
Now here are obscure roles Lucille did, one time appearances:
"Cinderella" - Walt Disney-as Anastasia.Stepsister
"Tom and Jerry"-Little Nibbles (ou cna see where Hanna and Barbera got their own Pixie and Dixie, an HB ransition to TV thing like the little uck and Spike and Tyke..)
"A Waggily Tale"-a Warner Bros.cartoons where a Jerry Lewis sounding tween abuses his dog and has a nightmare where HE is one (Daws Butler was the kid.You've heard that voice most notably in one of Hanna-Barbera's
"Goofy Guards, Yippie, Yappy, and Yahooey", and in Jay Ward's "QUisp": ads as the little alien himself.) A litle girl buys the boy-turned dog.(Lucille's the little girl.)
"Thumper's Race", Disney record, Luclle narrates and does all of the voices (confirmaiton form Greg Ehrbahr and Tim Hollis, "Mouse Tracks'<2005).
"101 Dalmations"-On the "Kanine Krunchies" ad.:)
"Flinstones:"-One of the Boy Scouts ones has Lucille.
"Robots", a 2005 flick from BlueSky ("the Rio" and "Ice Age" franchise folks) and Twenty-Century Fox in a minor role.
"Courgae the COwardly Dog"-I believe she did a few there.
So,in conclusion, regardless opf which chaacter you love her for (and I met her in person),RIP Lucille, Crusader/Smurfette/cruel Stepsiter/OG Readmore supporting character/Space Kiddette/etc.
Lucille Blss will be one of those who is generally known for only several chaarcters.
If you remember reall far back-
Crusafder Rabbit
Stepsister Anastasia form Disney's "Cinderella"
Later generations may know her from some Disney records or Hanna-Barbera 60s curio "Space Kiddetts".
Still Later (in a time that I'd rather forget where animaiton is concerned) as Smurfette in the SMurfs O(though I am being hard here...)
Truth is Lucille Bliss (1916-2012) had many characters in cartoon and old time radio. Originally a native of New York City, she then did various radio spots, before perfomring
offbeat live short/industrial film filmmaker Jerry Fairbanks and cartoon nutso Jay Ward's colla boration with TV distrubtor Alex Anderson in the historic pioneering television daytime cartoon "Crusader Rabbit"
as the title character and maybe as additional onrs (the Obscure Vern Loudin did voice for CR's constant compan Ragland(just call him "Rags'!) T. Tiger.)). Then she did a strepsister form Disney's Cindererella )radio sitocm regular Rhoda Williams palyed the other).
(Note-GeGe Pearson, yet another regular for radio, was the "New Crusader" yet Vernon Loudin does Rags..Roy Whaley narrates both series..)
By the 1950s Lucille Bliss could be heard in MGM, Warnersa, Disneym and other theatrical cartoons. She WAS signed to play H-b's Ruff the KItten opposite Daws Butler's Reddy the dog in
the next television snimstion historical step, "The Ruff and ReddyShow", and to revive "Crusader" in neew series of short,s both of these in 1957, but union politics (LB:on 2ndCR:"It was non-union and I was union"") thern Bill Hann and Joe Barbera reluctantly were forced to replace her as apparently t
new show's studio (Creston?TVS) producer, Shull Bonsall had oublicxly signed Lucille EXCLUSIVELY ONLY TO REJECT HER!! Same roller coaster downfall again happened at HB in 1962 with the Jetsons, as Elroy (Daws butler instead replaced her on both occasions.) Sometimes she'd get a small role on the Flintstones (the boy cave scout episode,for one.)
In 1966 she got a HB role in the rather forgettable, though., Space Kiddetts". She did busy herself on other things I'll get around to at the end of this article.
Thru the 70s, and 80s she landed on the (IMO not for me again) Smurfs show at HB but Riock Reinert studios, a seemingly up and coming studio, did the unsually rather enjoyable Captain O.G.Readmore series (Will Ryan as OG, Alan Dinehart and Hal Smith, and <ucille Bliss as the girl cat, on the ABC book reading series.)
See Yowp, Luculle Bliss, in the Google, Internet Movie Database, Lucille Bliss, for any sordid details that befell her more..
Now here are obscure roles Lucille did, one time appearances:
"Cinderella" - Walt Disney-as Anastasia.Stepsister
"Tom and Jerry"-Little Nibbles (ou cna see where Hanna and Barbera got their own Pixie and Dixie, an HB ransition to TV thing like the little uck and Spike and Tyke..)
"A Waggily Tale"-a Warner Bros.cartoons where a Jerry Lewis sounding tween abuses his dog and has a nightmare where HE is one (Daws Butler was the kid.You've heard that voice most notably in one of Hanna-Barbera's
"Goofy Guards, Yippie, Yappy, and Yahooey", and in Jay Ward's "QUisp": ads as the little alien himself.) A litle girl buys the boy-turned dog.(Lucille's the little girl.)
"Thumper's Race", Disney record, Luclle narrates and does all of the voices (confirmaiton form Greg Ehrbahr and Tim Hollis, "Mouse Tracks'<2005).
"101 Dalmations"-On the "Kanine Krunchies" ad.:)
"Flinstones:"-One of the Boy Scouts ones has Lucille.
"Robots", a 2005 flick from BlueSky ("the Rio" and "Ice Age" franchise folks) and Twenty-Century Fox in a minor role.
"Courgae the COwardly Dog"-I believe she did a few there.
So,in conclusion, regardless opf which chaacter you love her for (and I met her in person),RIP Lucille, Crusader/Smurfette/cruel Stepsiter/OG Readmore supporting character/Space Kiddette/etc.
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