Thanks Martini. It is interesting to me that mice and rabbits became the go to characters for so many cartoons. I suppose it has to do with the cuteness factor. But in real life if you found a mice infestation in your pantry or a rabbit infestation in your garden you would not be happy. Just a thought. When I see these old cartoons I am reminded of my childhood but not just because of cartoons on tv. My father loved gadgets so we had a projector with a box full of cartoons from the 1930s. Dad would set up the screen in the living room and we would run those cartoons over and over. The best part to us was the ability to run them backwards. We'd laugh ourselves silly. Thanks for the nostalgia Martini!
Do you still have the reels? I know there are archivists out there that would love to look to see if there is anything you had that they might be able to restore and save.
Oh yes, the projector and cartoons are in a box in the hall closet. The cartoons were originally made in the '30s but the ones we had were made in the '60s to sell to people with projectors. They had no sound, of course, just title cards when needed. I'm sure there's some Lantz stuff and I seem to remember Betty Boop but these were mass produced so I don't think there's any that would be considered lost. Might have to dig the box out and see what's there though. You never know.
Ah, Gang Smashe---er, Gangbusters! What a nice bit of radio copaganda that show was, with interviews done "by proxy", i.e., with an actor playing the part of whatever law enforcement officer they were "interviewing" as they re-enacted some crime spree and the pursuit by police.
Lantz had a remarkably long-lasting career- he started out making animated films in the 1910s and didn't retire until the 1970s. For the vast majority of that time, he was the primary animation supplier for Universal Pictures. He also was, besides Walt Disney, the only head of an animation studio to appear regularly on television introducing his product, on the "Woody Woodpecker" show in the 1950s and 1960s.
What a gift Walter Lantz was! Thank you for this appreciation! Very classy!
Thanks William! I will no doubt write more about his later years' works at some point. There's a goldmine of info there.
Thanks Martini. It is interesting to me that mice and rabbits became the go to characters for so many cartoons. I suppose it has to do with the cuteness factor. But in real life if you found a mice infestation in your pantry or a rabbit infestation in your garden you would not be happy. Just a thought. When I see these old cartoons I am reminded of my childhood but not just because of cartoons on tv. My father loved gadgets so we had a projector with a box full of cartoons from the 1930s. Dad would set up the screen in the living room and we would run those cartoons over and over. The best part to us was the ability to run them backwards. We'd laugh ourselves silly. Thanks for the nostalgia Martini!
Oh how wonderful! What a great memory.
Do you still have the reels? I know there are archivists out there that would love to look to see if there is anything you had that they might be able to restore and save.
Oh yes, the projector and cartoons are in a box in the hall closet. The cartoons were originally made in the '30s but the ones we had were made in the '60s to sell to people with projectors. They had no sound, of course, just title cards when needed. I'm sure there's some Lantz stuff and I seem to remember Betty Boop but these were mass produced so I don't think there's any that would be considered lost. Might have to dig the box out and see what's there though. You never know.
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Ah, Gang Smashe---er, Gangbusters! What a nice bit of radio copaganda that show was, with interviews done "by proxy", i.e., with an actor playing the part of whatever law enforcement officer they were "interviewing" as they re-enacted some crime spree and the pursuit by police.
Lantz had a remarkably long-lasting career- he started out making animated films in the 1910s and didn't retire until the 1970s. For the vast majority of that time, he was the primary animation supplier for Universal Pictures. He also was, besides Walt Disney, the only head of an animation studio to appear regularly on television introducing his product, on the "Woody Woodpecker" show in the 1950s and 1960s.