Thursday, December 6, 2018
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
RIP, Hulk, Spiderman, and company
He gave us a Hulk. He gave us four fantastic creatures.
He gave us an American Captain. He gave us Guardians of the Galaxy more recently.
AND her gave us Spiderman.
Stan Lee, 95, has left for the great beyond, the great Comics beyond.
Lee, with folks like Steve Ditko and others, created additions to the world of comics, epsicially superhero ones, that DC did in 1939 and so with Bob Kane, Bill Figner, Shusteretc.(SUPRMAN, BATMAN,etc.etc.etc.etc.)
Lee started around the 30s-40s but by the 50s-60s especially became part of our culture with his own (and other creators's in cases) stuff like SPiderman, Hulk, and others like those mentionede. More recently the funny Guardians of the Galaxty. He may have died, but he's with us..and he was 95..very wonderful age to live.
Lee's putting him made him yet another target of, ahame, the "who created that, no I did, HE did" issues that affect every type of entertainment....and otheraspects of life.
(When SPDIERMAN '67 appeared in animation, themid-Orange County Fashion isle shoping center opened, and there are multiple contractors like Welton Becket, and THE legend, Vic Gruen,etc.). Of course, the Mel Blanc as "only voices", Seely-Looose' with background music, on other peoples carotons. We won't get ninto non-Marvel stuff here.
One thing of coruse, the aforementioned nineteen sixties cartoons, esp SPIDERMAN.. Ray Ellis, who died some years back, if remembered for anything, hasd been rememebred in cartoons the Filmation stuff, but it's actually the 1967-1970 Spiderman cartoons, with its fun theme with PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER...1955's Oscar winner :"LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (from the romance of the same name.) This helped, certainly, making Spiderman known to later crows (and featured some of the Rudolph cast from R/B).
Stan lee also loved doing Hitchcock like cameoes in hisd films, well known cameos and THESE always bring laugghter any time I see this..they'll say.."oh, it's stan Lee."LOL
RIP my good Siperman, Hulk..
He gave us an American Captain. He gave us Guardians of the Galaxy more recently.
AND her gave us Spiderman.
Stan Lee, 95, has left for the great beyond, the great Comics beyond.
Lee, with folks like Steve Ditko and others, created additions to the world of comics, epsicially superhero ones, that DC did in 1939 and so with Bob Kane, Bill Figner, Shusteretc.(SUPRMAN, BATMAN,etc.etc.etc.etc.)
Lee started around the 30s-40s but by the 50s-60s especially became part of our culture with his own (and other creators's in cases) stuff like SPiderman, Hulk, and others like those mentionede. More recently the funny Guardians of the Galaxty. He may have died, but he's with us..and he was 95..very wonderful age to live.
Lee's putting him made him yet another target of, ahame, the "who created that, no I did, HE did" issues that affect every type of entertainment....and otheraspects of life.
(When SPDIERMAN '67 appeared in animation, themid-Orange County Fashion isle shoping center opened, and there are multiple contractors like Welton Becket, and THE legend, Vic Gruen,etc.). Of course, the Mel Blanc as "only voices", Seely-Looose' with background music, on other peoples carotons. We won't get ninto non-Marvel stuff here.
One thing of coruse, the aforementioned nineteen sixties cartoons, esp SPIDERMAN.. Ray Ellis, who died some years back, if remembered for anything, hasd been rememebred in cartoons the Filmation stuff, but it's actually the 1967-1970 Spiderman cartoons, with its fun theme with PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER...1955's Oscar winner :"LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (from the romance of the same name.) This helped, certainly, making Spiderman known to later crows (and featured some of the Rudolph cast from R/B).
Stan lee also loved doing Hitchcock like cameoes in hisd films, well known cameos and THESE always bring laugghter any time I see this..they'll say.."oh, it's stan Lee."LOL
RIP my good Siperman, Hulk..
Monday, October 29, 2018
Goodbye to our beloved LINUS THE LIONHEARTED (1964-1969) father, Ed Graham
One of the biggest 60s shows, and certainly one of the most unusual, was Post-sponsored LINUS THE LIONHEARTED, which ran for amazing much of that decade.
Partner on THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, and creator, actort, and producer on that, CARL REINER, did voices for the other main characters in title segment, a guy named GERRY MATTHEWS who was 1960s club comic was Sugar Bear. The beloved JESSE WHITE was Claudis Crow, RUTH BUZZI and others were heard.
Graham also produced the shorts thjat JERRY refers to for Unviersal
Show's credited producer was a guy, an ad agency exec, named Ed Graham Jr. (1928-2018).
He'd produced a number of shorts, then helped put the Post Cereals animals like Linus, Sugar Bear, Billy Bird, Lovable Truly, Rory Raccoon,and some toehrs on the map, though he didn't create them.
for more (the always JERRY BECK's obit)
.http://www.animationscoop.com/ed-graham-jr-1928-2018/
Best obit. I posted under the bottom under my real name. Sugar crisp, and alphe bits, and Crispy critters..Sheldon Leonard was wonderful as Linus..to quote an old Wizard of Oz review references in the late 1970s-80s guide MOVIES FOR KIDS about the Cowardly Lion, Bert Lahr:
Sheldon Leonard as Linus the Lion was f-ion.
Partner on THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, and creator, actort, and producer on that, CARL REINER, did voices for the other main characters in title segment, a guy named GERRY MATTHEWS who was 1960s club comic was Sugar Bear. The beloved JESSE WHITE was Claudis Crow, RUTH BUZZI and others were heard.
Graham also produced the shorts thjat JERRY refers to for Unviersal
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Monday, October 8, 2018
Three Little Pigs 85th!
The famous cartoon first appeared 85 years ago with the fresh, inspiring take on the pigs, introducing the song quoted above, :"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf", and started a whole new chapter! Not by the hair of my chinny chinn chin hah..:)!
ADDITION as of Satuday, 10/13/201, 10:45-10:45:
After this, the distributor at the time, United Artists, was so enthused as had, and at least two generations later (it WAS at least a showing that we can always at any time, and certainly in that ersa fight "the wolf at the door") that the United Artists executives thought, if ONE "Three Little Pigs" short might be a blessing, image how TWO Three Little Pigs shorts or more.
So, it was, "Give us More Pigs", as the books and entertainment documentaries have quoted it (accurately)
Walt said, "okay", abd had his studio make more, ut alas, it didn't work. Thus, a new Disney quote was coined:
"You can't top pigs with pigs"
Famous story, of course, but anyway.
The three sequels were
"The Practical Pig"
"The Big Bad Wolf"
plus a spinoff, The Big Bad Wolf.
Various elements, interestingly, got re-arranged into a later 1967 album. See below...
During another legendary, hard time, which became for later generations a learning tool to see what America fought for, i.e., World War Two, Disney used all of those characters and his others in films to help America thru tough times, another thing we all in 2018 can learn from, and kick-(donkey) training films. We all can use more of that today in war and peace.
The legendary and often mentioned (in nostalgia-history television/film retrospectives) cast were:
Practical/PINTO COLVIG
The others
MARY MODER, DOROTHY COMPTON (don't knwo about who played who)
Big Bad Wolf/BILLY BLETCHER (early major role-"I'll huff and puff! RAWRRR!")
Picture books, including the longtime family-friendly, always fun "Little Golden Books" followed.
These classic, books, beloved from day one for original material ranging from "The Poky Little Pokey',"Bow Wow Meow","A Visit to the Children's Zoo","Scruffy the Tugboat","the Tawny Scrawny Lion", and so on, as well as licensed properties, also, to quite the legendary comedian Jimmy Durante's tag, got into the act. There must have been at least six (the line owner WESTERN PUBLISHING CO. liked to do variaitons and updates of the lines>0
Many albums, including beloved comic, and sometime dramatic character actor STERLING HOLLOWAY with a 1967 album, followed. That one had the above witht hew different pig stores, and titled "The stories and song about Walt Disney's 'Three Little Pigs'" in a beautiful "Peter, Paul and Mary" (i.e., the very soon to follow "Partridge Family" show font, called Kalligraphia. ) The album was issued with a typical mid-century Disneyland records (the label) gatefold storyteller. Brillant and professional artwork, as always.
Of course trendy, and hip, t-shirts.
And finally a very funny postscript:
Made at least for Dr. Demento's longtime radio show, the novelty hard rock band "Green Jelly"'s late 20th century, "LITTLE LITTLE PIG", with a deep Iron Butterfly/KISS like heavy metal-vocalist doing a hilarious totally dead-on impression of the "beloved" Billy Bletcher's "Little Pig"(you knwo the rest) line. (Billy would be known for other sock-em villians)..
Oh, and during the film's inital run in 1933, another Disney legnedary yarn:
To show the run, the boss of a chain or theatre unit drew BEARDS on the one-sheet posters
ADDITION as of Satuday, 10/13/201, 10:45-10:45:
After this, the distributor at the time, United Artists, was so enthused as had, and at least two generations later (it WAS at least a showing that we can always at any time, and certainly in that ersa fight "the wolf at the door") that the United Artists executives thought, if ONE "Three Little Pigs" short might be a blessing, image how TWO Three Little Pigs shorts or more.
So, it was, "Give us More Pigs", as the books and entertainment documentaries have quoted it (accurately)
Walt said, "okay", abd had his studio make more, ut alas, it didn't work. Thus, a new Disney quote was coined:
"You can't top pigs with pigs"
Famous story, of course, but anyway.
The three sequels were
"The Practical Pig"
"The Big Bad Wolf"
plus a spinoff, The Big Bad Wolf.
Various elements, interestingly, got re-arranged into a later 1967 album. See below...
During another legendary, hard time, which became for later generations a learning tool to see what America fought for, i.e., World War Two, Disney used all of those characters and his others in films to help America thru tough times, another thing we all in 2018 can learn from, and kick-(donkey) training films. We all can use more of that today in war and peace.
The legendary and often mentioned (in nostalgia-history television/film retrospectives) cast were:
Practical/PINTO COLVIG
The others
MARY MODER, DOROTHY COMPTON (don't knwo about who played who)
Big Bad Wolf/BILLY BLETCHER (early major role-"I'll huff and puff! RAWRRR!")
Picture books, including the longtime family-friendly, always fun "Little Golden Books" followed.
These classic, books, beloved from day one for original material ranging from "The Poky Little Pokey',"Bow Wow Meow","A Visit to the Children's Zoo","Scruffy the Tugboat","the Tawny Scrawny Lion", and so on, as well as licensed properties, also, to quite the legendary comedian Jimmy Durante's tag, got into the act. There must have been at least six (the line owner WESTERN PUBLISHING CO. liked to do variaitons and updates of the lines>0
Many albums, including beloved comic, and sometime dramatic character actor STERLING HOLLOWAY with a 1967 album, followed. That one had the above witht hew different pig stores, and titled "The stories and song about Walt Disney's 'Three Little Pigs'" in a beautiful "Peter, Paul and Mary" (i.e., the very soon to follow "Partridge Family" show font, called Kalligraphia. ) The album was issued with a typical mid-century Disneyland records (the label) gatefold storyteller. Brillant and professional artwork, as always.
Of course trendy, and hip, t-shirts.
And finally a very funny postscript:
Made at least for Dr. Demento's longtime radio show, the novelty hard rock band "Green Jelly"'s late 20th century, "LITTLE LITTLE PIG", with a deep Iron Butterfly/KISS like heavy metal-vocalist doing a hilarious totally dead-on impression of the "beloved" Billy Bletcher's "Little Pig"(you knwo the rest) line. (Billy would be known for other sock-em villians)..
Oh, and during the film's inital run in 1933, another Disney legnedary yarn:
To show the run, the boss of a chain or theatre unit drew BEARDS on the one-sheet posters
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Gumbasia, Before Gumby (1953) - Art Clokey
This started the original Gumby series (See my Pokey blog)
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Tralfaz: Linus the One-Hit Wonder
Tralfaz: Linus the One-Hit Wonder: Hanna-Barbera, Filmation and DePatie-Freleng cranked out series after series, year after year, for Saturday morning network programming. And...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Tralfaz: Hot Dogs, Discoveries and a Batfink, and Happy new year
Tralfaz: Hot Dogs, Discoveries and a Batfink: An awful long time ago, there was an educational children’s show on Sundays on ABC called “Discovery.” I never saw it for a number of reaso..
I also wanna say Happy New year,Mar.3,2018.
I also wanna say Happy New year,Mar.3,2018.
RIP to the greatest BATFINK
If the name FRANK BUXTON doesn't ring a Bat-wing, the show Batfink might..like the previous year's debut, Batman starring, oh, who's those guys- Michael Keaton, Christan Bale..no.Ah. ADAM WEST, and BURT WARD. ..ah the serious I mema cmapy show, this was a spoof on Batman.,.created byBatman's own Bob Kane (who also creaed the 1960 Crusader Cat/Minute Mouse..I guess if private eyeballs/mystery 1950s shows needed Hanna-Barbera's dynamic duo, Super Snoopper and B;abbermouse, as a cat and mouse then superheroes dd too, and also Bob Kane, the same year his batty hero was spoofed by Batman in its debut also created Cool McCool, a Beatles-looking hero-hey, the Beatles had their series..).
Frank Buxton playhed the character of Batfink, a hero who was a batr..and had a friend, a Japanese friend, who even then spoof Brooklyunese, named Karate. Hugo a Go Go remains the major villian.
Background music came from vairous libraries, and in a move that showed maybe six certain WB cartoons from the winter of 1958 could have done this, used Ray,ond Scott records. Not a house band or orchestra to do this. The actual records (Raymond Scott would have been a game idea for the Capitol library, and especially Quick Draw McDraw can be easily imagined among Hanna-Barbera with the Scott music, especially with Michael Maltese writer, most H-B and even Leonardo-TTV cartoons might be even more interesting if Scott had been used as a "music library'). A handful of Euro music libraries, though interestingly, the Capitol one never, apparently, were used.
I forgot who Karate were played by.Bob McFadded/ (This was a New York show..darling).
Batfink remained for a while i syndication. Then Nickelodeon brought back the reruns (with different credits). (BTW considering the station gave us Ren and Stimpy, showing Batfink wasn't surpring.)
Hal Seeger Produced Batfink. That Frankenstein.
Frank Buxton playhed the character of Batfink, a hero who was a batr..and had a friend, a Japanese friend, who even then spoof Brooklyunese, named Karate. Hugo a Go Go remains the major villian.
Background music came from vairous libraries, and in a move that showed maybe six certain WB cartoons from the winter of 1958 could have done this, used Ray,ond Scott records. Not a house band or orchestra to do this. The actual records (Raymond Scott would have been a game idea for the Capitol library, and especially Quick Draw McDraw can be easily imagined among Hanna-Barbera with the Scott music, especially with Michael Maltese writer, most H-B and even Leonardo-TTV cartoons might be even more interesting if Scott had been used as a "music library'). A handful of Euro music libraries, though interestingly, the Capitol one never, apparently, were used.
I forgot who Karate were played by.Bob McFadded/ (This was a New York show..darling).
Batfink remained for a while i syndication. Then Nickelodeon brought back the reruns (with different credits). (BTW considering the station gave us Ren and Stimpy, showing Batfink wasn't surpring.)
Hal Seeger Produced Batfink. That Frankenstein.
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