Mintz’ Toby The Pup and Columbia Musical “Gems”
This week we’ll take a brief musical detour into work that Mintz was doing on the side of his Columbia contract.
This week we’ll take a brief musical detour into work that Mintz was doing on the side of his Columbia contract.
Joe De Nat’s music is peppy, without being all that distinctive. But his use of popular tunes continues.
Love him or hate him: Charles Mintz put out a great deal of product, most of which seems to have satisfied movie patrons of the time.
After MGM closed their home grown animation department, they chose Gene Deitch, and later Chuck Jones, to keep Tom & Jerry alive on the big screen.
Fred Quimby departed from the reins, and Hanna and Barbera were forced to take over production on much tighter budgets.
The MGM cartoon division’s response to television was mostly derisive. Scott Bradley was now more willing to mine the classics – via the public domain.
Fewer cartoons, but lots of discography today, as trends continued at MGM favoring original scores over Tin Pan Alley.
The early 50s saw Scott Bradley increasingly writing his own scores, and not incorporating MGM’s own published songs.
MGM’s cartoon unit was humming during this period – including continuing to use tunes from various MGM musicals.
During the period covered by these cartoons, the Second World War came to an end.