The Continuing Search for Noveltoons in Better Shape
One of my favorite things is managing to find good copies of cartoons that are around, but just in bad copies.
Tag Archives: Paramount Pictures
Famous Studios: A 50s Grab Bag
As original music began to become scarcer and scarcer, today’s sampling is simply a grab bag of bouncing balls!
Famous Studios: Screen Songs/Kartunes 1950-52
Why would Paramount would choose to rename the “Screen Songs” series as “Kartunes” in 1951 while still maintaining style and content as before?
“The Puppetoon Movie” Vol. 3 is Here!
This is an out-and-out plug for one of the best blu-ray sets of the year.
Famous Studios: Noveltoons 1950-54
There were several who would wither achieve their own series later or become recognized “Stars” when Harvey featured the characters in comics and television.
Famous Studios: Noveltoons 1948-50
The songs used as the studio launched its own stable of characters to compete with the Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry.
My Top Five Favorite Fleischer Popeye Cartoons
…and I also ask you: What are yours?
Famous Studios Popeye 1945-48
A notable change in the 1940s was the replacement of musical director Sammy Timberg by Winston Sharples, who had a habit of dipping into the Famous Music reliquary.
Popeye 1943-45: Popeye Gets Famous
When Paramount foreclosed on Max Fleischer’s studio, they certainly had great hopes for Popeye. He was their bread and butter (despite wartime rationing).
Baby Huey in “Swab The Duck” (1956)
The story of how I got my hands on a brand new 35mm print, struck from Paramount’s original negatives.
