Trivia, description, cast and episodes list for the Lassie TV Show. Your place for classic and rare films on DVD such as Jungle Jim Movie Collection, Laurel and Hardy Collection, Blondie and Dagwood, Rare TV Shows and more. Noveltoons was an anthology series of animated cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios from 1943 to the close of the studio in 1967. The New Casper Cartoon Show. On March 29th 1963, Harvey Comics (aka Harvey Funnies, Inc.) entered into an agreement with Paramount to produce 26 new Casper cartoons. Noveltoons - Wikipedia. Noveltoons was an anthology series of animatedcartoons produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios from 1. Casper the Friendly Ghost, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, and Baby Huey all got their start from this series. It was the successor series to the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios (indeed, several Noveltoons would feature characters who originated in Color Classics). This series was also very similar to the two series from Warner Bros., Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in that it features several recurring characters under one umbrella title. The pre- October 1. Noveltoons were sold to television distributor U. M. TV Corporation in 1. National Telefilm Associates acquired those cartoons soon afterward. Paramount sold the rest of the Noveltoons to Harvey Comics. As new Noveltoons were produced, they were also sold to Harvey, until 1. Paramount still owns the remaining Noveltoons, and has reacquired the cartoons sold to U. M. Johnny Comes Home (1. Scrappily Married (1. A Lamb in a Jam (1. A Self- Made Mongrel (1. Only cartoon directed by Dan Gordon.^First appearances of Herman, Henry, and Bertha. First cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel.^First sequel to the 1. Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1. Featuring Spunky, an alumus from the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios. First cartoon directed by Izzy Sparber.^Based on three books by Margot Austin^First appearance of Dog Face. First cartoon directed by Dave Tendlar.^First appearance of Casper the Friendly Ghost, and also his first in the Noveltoons series.^Featuring Snuffy Smith from the comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith; served as the bridge between the 1. Charles Mintz/Screen Gems. Barney Google cartoon series and the 1. Snuffy Smith cartoons produced specifically for the animated television series King Features Trilogy. Considered a lost film.^This cartoon appeared in Smart House. First cartoon directed by Bill Tytla.^First appearance of Buzzy the Crow^Second and final sequel to the 1. Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1. Last appearance of Blackie the Lamb in the Noveltoon series, before he moved to the first Screen Songs color cartoon, Circus Comes to Clown.^First appearance of Little Audrey^This cartoon was narrated by Ken Roberts.^Second appearance of Casper in the Noveltoons series.^Last appearance of Casper in the Noveltoons series, before he moved on to his own series.^A dog is at his wits' end when his mistress adopts a stray kitten, but a nightmare about Dog Heaven and Dog Hell makes Dogface change his ways. DVD 1. 00 Cartoon Classics, Treeline Films, 2. Sequel to The Wee Men (1. Short is a semi- remake/reused plot of the 1. Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon, The Song of the Birds (1. Little Audrey.^First appearance of Baby Huey. Land of the Lost Jewels (1. First appearances of Timothy the Turkey and the farmer. Final cartoon directed by Bill Tytla.^First of two Buzzy and Katnip cartoons in the Noveltoon series.^First of two Herman and Katnip cartoons in the Noveltoon series.^Second and last of two Herman and Katnip cartoons in the Noveltoon series, before they moved on to their own series.^Second and last of two Buzzy and Katnip cartoons in the Noveltoon series.^Banned from being aired on television, due to its exploitations and exhibitings of smoking habits.^The 1. Noveltoon cartoon.^The only cartoon directed by Al Eugster. Al Eugster's only off- screen credit, but Izzy Sparber still gets a credit.^Featuring Danny Dinosaur, and first time he is named.^Final cartoon directed by Dave Tendlar.^Featuring Spunky, from the Hunky and Spunky cartoon sub- series of Max Fleischer's Color Classics.^Izzy Sparber's final on- screen credit. With Lassie, Jon Provost, June Lockhart, Hugh Reilly. The ongoing saga of the Martin family and their beloved collie, Lassie. Melanie C: Singer: Sporty Spice: 12-Jan-1974-C-Murder: Rapper: Rapper, serving life for murder: 09-Mar-1971-Joe C. Rapper: Tiny rapping sidekick of Kid Rock. Final cartoon released in Izzy Sparber's lifetime. Seymour Kneitel's only off- screen credit.^Last appearance of Little Audrey.^Final cartoon directed by Izzy Sparber due to his death in 1. Last appearance of Baby Huey, but he moved on to the television shows, the direct- to- video Easter movie and his own website series.^Prototype of the two shorts, Kozmo Goes to School (1. Space Kid (1. 96. Featuring Scat the Cat, a sequel to this short was produced and was entitled The Planet Mouseola (1. Featuring Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare.^Munro (1. Rembrandt Films. First cartoon directed by Gene Deitch. Only cartoon to win an Academy Award for Short Subjects.^Featuring Scat the Cat, a sequel to Counter Attack (1. Featuring Sir Reginald Tweedledum IV.^Featuring Harry Hound.^One of the only two post- 1. Little Lulu after the end of her own cartoon series, the other being the 1. Comic Kings cartoon Frog's Legs.^First appearance of Goodie the Gremlin.^Last appearance of Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare.^Featuring Kozmo the Space Kid, a short sequel followed just five years later under the title Space Kid (1. Featuring Ralph and Percy, a sequel short followed this cartoon and was called T. V. Final cartoon directed by Gene Deitch. Only cartoon to be nominated for an Academy Award for Short Subjects.^The second and final of the two Screen Songs homages in the Noveltoons series.^Last appearance of Goodie the Gremlin.^Final cartoon released in Seymour Kneitel's lifetime.^Featuring Laddy and the Genie, a sequel later followed titled A Tiger's Tail (1. Featuring Laddy and the Genie, a sequel to Laddy and His Lamp (1. First cartoon directed by Howard Post.^Featuring King Artie.^Featuring Jacky, a sequel short followed entitled A Leak in the Dike (1. First cartoon directed by Jack Mendelsohn.^Featuring Jacky, a sequel to The Story of George Washington (1.
Final cartoon directed by Jack Mendelsohn.^Final cartoon directed by Howard Post.^Featuring Kozmo the Space Kid, a sequel to Kozmo Goes to School (1. Final cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel due to his death in 1. First cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane.^An animated short caper in the same vein as the stylized UPA limited animation cartoons of the 1. Featuring Sir Blur, the very last Noveltoon ever produced after the studio closed down. Final cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane. Paramount Cartoons 1. The Comic Kings are out and Swifty and Shorty have been added to the mix. Why nine cartoons (an odd number)? Why the sudden boost in the number of theatricals? Here is a 16mm IB Technicolor dye transfer (a process abandoned in 1973) theatrical print of a Paramount cartoon produced for the movie theaters. I do not have all the answers – but I speculate that Swifty and Shorty was Paramount’s response to the current spate of prime time television cartoons – “Illustrated radio” as Chuck Jones has coined them – where, like Calvin and The Colonel, they recruited vocal comedians to do routines that work as radio, but not necessarily as cartoons in the classic sense. I love Eddie Lawrence – and Seymour Kneitel did too. Lawrence was a versatile voice artist, a funny writer and clever in coming up with comic situations. Thus the Paramount powers- that- be decided to transform Percy and Ralph into the alliterative Swifty and Shorty and took a chance committing to 1. Percy and Ralph’s – making an even 2. Spring- Summer 1. Swifty and Shorty are a mixed bag. The ones written by Lawrence – some are routines lifted directly off his old comedy records – are very funny to listen to. Seriously, turn off the picture, sit back and just listen. Panhandling On Madison Avenue, Call Me A Taxi (embed below), The Once Over. Visually, I am not so impressed. The images exist to support the dialogue, and they just barely do that. As for the 6. 3- 6. Noveltoons and Modern Madcaps – the series designations no longer have any real meaning. Goodie Gremlin and miscellaneous funny animals now populate both series, perhaps hoping Harvey Comics would one day purchase these from Paramount as Harveytoon filler material. Among titles of note this season: ! This one- shot attempt is done with such little enthusiasm it was probably booed off the screen. Myron Waldman animated and the best that can be said is that it’s certainly more visually “energetic” than the other Paramount theatricals of the era. Let’s take a closer look at the theatricals: Six (6) Noveltoons. GRAMPS TO THE RESCUE (9/6. Kneitel/Reden. Skat the Cat tries to get Gramps back to Texas with a phony telegram about striking oil. HOBO’S HOLIDAY (1. Kneitel/Reden. A hobo riding the rails gets off in the town of Utopia. An attempt to revive the Screen Songs with a sing along about “The Big Rock Candy Mountain”. HOUND FOR POUND (1. Kneitel/Tafuri. A dog with no license is given a chance by the dog catcher to find himself a new home. THE SHEEPISH WOLF (1. Kneitel/Tafuri. A Wolf gets a job as a sheepdog. HICCUP HOUND (1. 2/6. Kneitel/Pattengill. When the evil Gremlins give a dog a bad case of hiccup, Goodie tries to cure the problem. WHIZ QUIZ KID (1/6. Kneitel/Taras. TV executives come up with a kid’s quiz show with questions they believe no one can answer – until they meet their first contestant, Ollie the Owl. Six (6) Modern Madcaps. HARRY HAPPY (9/6. Kneitel/Taras. Harry Happy has a split personality – Upbeat and personable at work, but at home he becomes a mad tyrant screaming orders to his harried wife. TELL ME A BADTIME STORY (1. Kneitel/Reden. Goodie The Gremlin tells his nephew some bedtime stories about the Fountain of Youth and Indians. THE PIG’S FEAT (1. Kneitel/Taras. Harmonica tells a group kids a story about a pig family that keeps their home spotless. SOUR GRIPES (1. 0/6. Kneitel/Reden. A fox reading some Aesop’s Fables decides to prove that foxes can steal grapes – from Luigi’s Vineyard. GOODIE’S GOOD DEED (1. Kneitel/Pattengill. When the Gremlins go out on Boy Scout Day to do bad deeds, Goodie follows along to undo the damage. MUGGY- DOO BOY CAT (1. Hal Seeger/Myron Waldman. Junkman Muggy- Doo convinces his pal Osh to try his hand at becoming a TV Star. Nine (9) Swifty and Shorty Cartoons. The introduction of Swifty and Shorty in Paramount’s in- house trade newsletter, “Paramount World”. Based on one of Eddie Lawrence’s recordings. Shorty panhandles on Madison Avenue until he meets Swifty. FIZZICLE FIZZLE (4/6. Kneitel/Klein. Swifty runs Shorty through a rigorous physical fitness program. SAILING ZERO (4/6. Kneitel/Taras. Swifty and Shorty attend a boat show at the convention center, where Shorty wins a door prize of a 3. FIX THAT CLOCK (5/6. Kneitel/Pattengill. Swifty and Shorty are repairing a giant clock on top of a skyscraper. A FRIEND IN TWEED (5/6. Kneitel/Dressler. Swifty is a lazy salesman at a men’s clothing store; Shorty comes in and wants to buy a new suit. THE ONCE OVER (6/6. Kneitel/Reden. Shorty gets the works when he goes for a haircut at Swifty’s Barber Shop. SERVICE WITH A SMILE (6/6. Kneitel/Tafuri. Shorty gets lunch at Swifty’s Quick Lunch restaurant. CALL ME A TAXI (7/6. Kneitel/Taras. On a rainy day, Shorty hails a cab and gets the ride from Hell in Swifty’s taxi. HIGHWAY SLOBBERY (7/6. Kneitel/Pattengill. Shorty needs a ride to work so Swifty offers to drive him there. ABOVE: The first page of the script for PANHANDLING ON MADISON AVENUE – with notes written in by Seymour Kneitel. BELOW: The other six pages of the script. Click thumbnails below to enlarge and read. The cartoons were contractually obligated to be based on stories from the Harvey comic books. According to the contract, the cartoons had to be of “a quality and quantity of animation at least equal to that of the sixty- two (6. Popeye motion picture cartoons heretofore produced by Paramount for King Features.”Harvey selected which stories to adapt. The total cost by Harvey to Paramount for the 2. Modern Madcaps, Noveltoons and Abner The Baseball which were contractually added to the deal for $1. This explains why Kozmo is referred to as “Sammy Spaceman” in the comic book ad below. Casper meets Robbie the Robot and helps him to overcome his forgetfulness. BEDTIME TROUBLES Kneitel/Harriton. Casper helps an insomniac bear get to sleep. THE BORED BILLIONAIRE Kneitel/Place. Casper helps Big Bill the billionaire escape from Greedy Gertie the Witch. CITY SNICKER Kneitel/Culhane. Casper’s city cousin Spooky comes to the country for a visit. COLD WAVE Kneitel/Culhane. Casper chases some Martians who have stolen the heat generator from the sun. THE ENCHANTED HORSE Kneitel/Place. Casper tries to retrieve Nightmare the horse from Ali Booboo, who has stolen her. THE ENCHANTED PRINCE Kneitel/Golden. Casper and Wendy help Prince Pippin get his palace back from an evil sorcerer. THE GREEDY GIANTS Kneitel/Culhane. Casper sets out to get the magic “Potion of Motion” for Willy The Weeping Willow. GROWING UP Kneitel/Whittier. The Ghostly Trio give Casper a potion that makes him grow into a giant. THE HEART OF GOLD Kneitel/Whittier. Midas get rid of his golden touch. KINGS OF TOYLAND Kneitel/Place. Casper visits a toy shop and falls under the influence of a magic witching hour when all the toys come to life. LITTLE LOST GHOST Kneitel/Whittier. Casper helps a lost ghost named “Something”. THE LONESOME GIANT Kneitel/Culhane. Casper and his forest friends help a lost giant named Hugo. THE MAGIC TOUCH Kneitel/Place. Casper makes a bumbling magician think he has his magic touch back. MOTHER GOOSE LAND Kneitel/Golden. Casper protects Mother Goose Land from The Ghostly Trio. THE PROFESSOR’S PROBLEM Kneitel/Golden. Casper helps a professor prove there is a Man In The Moon. RED ROBBING HOOD Kneitel/Golden. Casper helps Red Robbing Hood regain his kingdom from his evil brother. SMALL SPOOKS Kneitel/Taras. The Ghostly Trio shrink to the size of insects to scare the bug world. SUPER SPOOK Kneitel/Place. Casper’s strong cousin “Powerhouse” comes for a visit. THE TIMID KNIGHT Kneitel/Place. Casper helps a cowardly knight. TWIN TROUBLE Kneitel/Golden. The Ghostly Trio get a mean girl to impersonate Wendy – and the witches find a mean ghost to impersonate Casper. A VISIT FROM MARS Kneitel/Taras. Casper goes sightseeing with Marty the Martian. THE WANDERING GHOST Kneitel/Harriton. Casper goes into a book to help Ulysses in his travels. WEATHER OR NOT Kneitel/Culhane. Casper helps a groundhog find his shadow. WENDY’S WISH Kneitel/Golden. Wendy wishes for red dancing shoes. THE WITCHING HOUR Kneitel/Harriton. Witch Weevil takes her revenge on Casper and Wendy by making her house and furniture come to life during the witching hour. The ratings (above) for The New Casper Cartoon Show declared the program a smash hit. It remained on the ABC Network Saturday morning for six years (through 1. Seymour Kneitel (1. On Thursday July 3. Seymour Kneitel passed away from a heart attack in his home. He was in the middle of production of the 1. Noveltoons and Modern Madcaps. Kneitel was a strong animator in his prime and the key creative during his years at Famous and later as a Paramount Cartoon executive. Much more about Kneitel and Famous Studios can be found on Ginny Mahoney’s Seymour Kneitel tribute blog. Kneitel was the final surviving partner in Famous Studios and his death – years before the passings of Max and Dave Fleischer – was a shock to his colleagues, the artists and the studio. Paramount cartoons would go on without him, but it was the end of an era. NEXT WEEK: Paramount Cartoons 1. Special Thanks to Ken Layton, Mike Kazaleh and Ginny Mahoney).
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