Our museum has retired (and faded pink) 35mm prints of these dating as late as 1964. Character Variants: During the time, there are character versions of the logo. He comes across a Martian who's proposing to a gum machine. Restored by The Academy Film Archive and UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with Paramount Pictures from the 35mm nitrate original successive exposure picture negative and track negative. For sales purposes, Warner Bros. had long referred to their annual slate of Bugs Bunny cartoons as Bugs Bunny Specials. They did this because they sold the Bugs Bunny cartoons as a separate block from the other Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Doing the best they could with the limited resources they had, Kneitel and his skeleton crew jerry-rigged some old story lines and cobbled together a few new characters that were, unfortunately, met with indifference. This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 17:56. Required fields are marked *. Mercer also does the voice on Wimpy in the KFS Popeyes (which, interestingly, sounds like the voice for Wimpy in the 1935 Fleischer effort Choose Yorr Weppins, which was released before Mercer assumed the role of Popeye). cigarette and blows the smoke into the air, which reveals the Paramount logo. I thought his swan song was noteworthy as he was the only silent cartoon character to appear in a Cinema Scope cartoon. Guaranteed Lowest Price. Eddie Lawrence starts his voices for Paramount at this time. Wheres Uranium Blues in that montage? On the Color Classics short "Poor Cinderella", the logo is very small and part of a closing curtain background. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]. For, Several Noveltoons (such as "Gabriel Churchkitten", the three Casper cartoons from the 1940s, "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", "The Enchanted Square", "The Wee Men", "The Mild West", and "Leprechauns Gold") do not use this opening, but rather the standard Paramount cartoon logo. I fondly remember themand I thank you for listing them! (Source: The American Newsreel, by Raymond Fielding.). Below that: publicity sheets from Harvey, spreading the word to its comic books dealers and newsstand salesman; and comic books created to exploit the new network show. Apparently Paramount kept releasing the live-action shorts through the end of 1968 (technically the 68-69 season) and this was a year after the last cartoons. The sky background for every Little Lulu opening and closing had no clouds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCXRr5wdknU. So no getting around it that way. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. while retaining the Paramount copyrights for the titles themselves. The Sarge wonders why none of the troops like him so, on the advice of the Chaplin, he changes his personality. Castle Films non-theatrical News Parade (and I assume also Hearsts Screen News Digest) continued by buying copies of news footage from the TV networks and from NASA (the space race was big news in the 60s and 70s) and adding their own sound. Menu: Characters | Cartoons |YouTubers |Studios | Episodes. This shot from BOUNCING BENNY looks like a swipe from Disneys Baby Weems. http://cartoonician.com/marge-and-lulu-the-art-of-the-deal/. Also the mountain is red and the background is blue. A group of clouds lines the bottom of the wall. It then fades to the opening logo. FIDDLIN AROUND (12/62) Kneitel/Tafuri. However, before all cartoons could be plastered, National Telefilm Associates (NTA) purchased U.M.& M. and replaced the U.M. Brutus (replacing Bluto) After this, the mountain logo disappears. He has curated cartoons for DVD and blu-ray compilations and has lent his expertise to dozens of bonus documentaries and audio commentaries on such. The head of Blocbuster Pictures, J.C. THE RINGADING KID (1/63) Kneitel. & M. TV agreed, and as a result this logo was plastered with the U.M. Zelma threatens him, and he hits the street to find her a mate. Casper and Company / The New Casper Cartoon Show. Felix the Cat is an American animated television series featuring the cartoon character of the same name.. Like The Van Beuren Corporation before, Joe Oriolo gave Felix a more domesticated and pedestrian personality, geared more toward children, and introduced Felix's now-famous item of the "Magic Bag of Tricks", a satchel that can assume the shape and characteristics of anything Felix wants . To Be Continued Next Week: Paramount Cartoons 1963-64, Popeye Champions for the 1962-63 season. November 26, 1943-March 19, 1948: "in TECHNICOLOR", June 7, 1946-January 30, 1948: "in CINECOLOR", November 7, 1947-November 16, 1956: "Color by TECHNICOLOR", December 26, 1947-June 24, 1949: "in POLACOLOR". This logo has been plastered over by the UM&M or NTA logo on current prints, but there are a few prints that will keep this intact. This cartoon Bouncing Benny never did much for me as a childit was mildly entertaining but not a favorite. Wimpy the Moocher was adapted from one of Segars Sunday comic strips. Later on, starting in 1937, the byline was revised to read "STEREOPTICAL PROCESS and APPARATUS PATENTED. NTA Variant: Same as for Lulu, except they finally get to the regular titles when the Famous Studios logo comes in. Having no recurring character to work with really hurt the one-shot stories this season along with the attempts to create new stars even if they were re-working or reviving old plots for earlier series like Herman & Katnip (or, later, old Casper plots for Goodie the Gremlin), the new characters lacked both the personalities and the animation budgets to put those series over (along with the voice-work while Jack Mercer continued to be used, outside of the KFS Popeye series, you really dont hear Mae Questel or Jackson Beck any more after 1960, while Sid Raymonds voice work also was phased out during the season (Arnold Stang have voiced his last Paramount cartoon the previous season). Popeye and Olive watch Brutus the strongman performing at the carnival. Both use limited animation and a boing boing sound effect, but Gerald didnt speak in his cartoons and they never showed him in his teen years. After the cartoon ends, the inkwell stands up all by itself and the cork does a flip and caps it. GoGo Toons (1967, 7 Theatrical Cartoons.) Only original prints (and maybe a couple current prints) will have this logo, such as on a print of "Koko the Kop". Paramount Cartoon Copyright Text (1960's) Paramount Cartoon Studios/Other Paramount Cartoons Paramount Comedy Paramount Global Paramount Music Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures/Colour Variants Paramount Pictures/Other Paramount Records Paramount Television Paramount Television Service Paramount/Closing Variants Parufamet R Republic Pictures It reads: "PATENT PENDING FOR SPECIAL PROCESSES USED IN THIS PRODUCTION". Paramounts Cartoon Studio had a firm commitment to supply 20 new theatricals to supplement the Popeye cartoons but now without the budgets they once enjoyed, nor the recurring characters (Casper, Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip, et al). On the Noveltoon cartoon "Saved by the Bell", Herman the Mouse walks past the logo. CANE AND ABLE (10/61) Kneitel/Spector. Why? The solitary exception was a small theater in Squaw Valley that offered an outdated travelogue with smirking references to the Grand Tetons. Morty and his wife go on a European vacation. When a musician borrows a million dollar violin, the insurance company sends their agent Gumshoe (Jack Mercer) to help protect it from criminal Mike the Masquerader. Foghorn Leghorn was an iconic cartoon character not necessarily exclusive to the 50s and 60s. ONE WEAK VACATION (3/63) Kneitel/Taras. I dont ever remember seeing any cartoons with The Cat in them,but I remember watching a few Goodie the Gremlin ones. It was nice Kneitel let them do it this time even if the experiment went nowhere for the studio. Among these were some comedy shorts of Homer Groening (father of SIMPSONS Matt). The 1959-60 season was a busy one for the Paramount Cartoon Studio - but not all of the work was for Paramount, nor was it for the big screen. Actress Beulah Bangfoot uses Loweezy as a model for her next play. Didnt Tom Johnson also pass away suddenly at this time? (Or call him Farmer Gray if you want, he dont care!). Under the deal made with Marjorie Henderson Buell (Marge) to revive Little Lulu, she owned the copyright on at least one if not both of the completed cartoons; her name appearing in place of Paramounts, though she or her successors eventually sold them back to the studio. And they were a huge success. Skit the mouse fools Scat the cat into thinking hes from another planet. I believed Id mentioned this before, but the one actor who straddled Paramount Cartoons and Fred Ladds anime dubs (Astro Boy, Kimba, et al) was Gilbert Mack. Among the cartoons contained in this stupendous 2-Disc, 72-Episode volume are all of the Paramount TV Popeye cartoons. Cute throwbacks to the type of stuff they used to do (Yule Laff and Ollie The Owl for example) and several that reflected modern urban travails (Drum Up a Tennant, Trash Program) with Eddie Lawrence loaning a stronger presence to the voice and story work. And did Loony Tunes count in the Merrie Melodies totals? An elephant (Sid Raymond) winesses Mike The Masquerader (Gil Mack) robbing a bank and is put in protective custody. Guaranteed Lowest Price. Music/Sounds: A fanfare based on "Paramount on Parade" or the cartoon's opening theme. Now that I see the cartoon again, I notice the differences but also the similarities. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! The series was known for bringing the characters from Harvey Comics to life, such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, and Baby Huey.All shorts from Baby Huey and Little Audrey are included. Music: Rock: 607396652822. DISGUISE THE LIMIT (9/60) Kneitel/Johnson. I wonder who did the voice of Wimpy and the other characters in the KFS Popeye cartoons? Nor was losing Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare going to stop Kneitel from using a left over script with the Tortoise (renamed Mortimer) and the Hare now entirely redesigned in order to avoid a law suit from Harvey Comics. Meanwhile, note that Paramount was still producing (or buying?) I have digitally remastered many of the episodes, and aim to upload. The same cheats could be seen often in the theatricals as they were in the TV efforts. Beck is currently on the faculty of Cal Arts in Valencia, UCLA in Westwood and Woodbury University in Burbank teaching animation history. The words "A Paramount Picture", the stars and the words "The End" appear over the inkwell. Would like to know what the audience reaction was to these late entries. Your email address will not be published. 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