Paramount Studios: A Wrap-up Finale
Musically, Paramount’s 1960s releases were all over the map – literally – as we shall see.
Musically, Paramount’s 1960s releases were all over the map – literally – as we shall see.
The season for the beach bug migration is rapidly coming to a close, despite several remaining beach cartoons yet to be discussed.
The original Paramount release was for just 12 Nudnik films, which had the bad luck of coming out just at the time when U.S. movie theaters stopped showing cartoon shorts.
Nudnik as a film series had the same bad luck as Nudnik the cartoon character. Nudnik was always in the wrong place at the wrong time, and so were his films.
This season we say goodbye to Howard Post, Modern Madcaps and Noveltoons. Say hello to Honey Halfwitch, Shamus Culhane and “Sir Blur”.
Peter Puck. Disney did some odd character creations for a number of commercial clients over the decades – but Peter Puck was the work of Hanna-Barbera. “When I was with…
What’s Nudnik? Nudnik was animator Gene Deitch’s favorite creation, the star of a series of twelve Paramount theatrical cartoons in the 1960s – and a character pretty much forgotten today….