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 Fortunately, that one has been archived as I hope to do with mine, so you can it here at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.:))
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
"Chow Hound"
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?
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?
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..
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