Cartoon Actors In Live-Action Spots: Automotive Edition
I am always delighted when I stumble upon a live-action car commercial featuring one of my favorite cartoon voice actors on camera. Commercials like these…
Tag Archives: Paul Frees
Animation Anecdotes #234
For a recording session at the Disney Studio, Paul Frees pulled up to the gate, but the guard couldn’t find his name on the list. “Should I call someone?” asked the guard. “Don’t bother,” said Frees, before driving away.
Paul Frees and “Ludwig Von Drake” on the Record
Paul Frees’ birthday is June 22, but any day is right for celebrating his vocal talents, including those presented in today’s featured record albums. Walt Disney Presents PROFESSOR LUDWIG VON…
“Smokey and His Friends”
Here’s a curio I found while looking through animated films at the National Archives: Smokey and his Friends. This strange largely live action short features a fully animated Smokey giving…
Playhouse Pictures Re-Revisited
Today we’re taking yet another look at commercials from the Playhouse Pictures. This lot is from the mid to late fifties, and covers a variety of products. Amazingly, I was…
“The Adventures of Sam Space” (1953)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, 20th Century-Fox released a film about a battle in outer space featuring a boy, some comical robots and ruthless alien…
Ail For Whatever Cures You
As television became a fixture in the American household, it was no longer necessary for the medicine man to ride his wagon across the country and give his pitch one…
The Tortoise and the Hare and Other Stories
Did Aesop ever know that his stories would be routinely used for advertising purposes? Did any of the known and unknown authors of children’s literature know? I suspect not, otherwise…
Animation Anecdotes #127
Texas Toads Lawsuit. Alleging they created the cartoon “Texas Toads”, comedians Richard Curtis and Larry Hovis filed a $2,800,000 plagiarism suit in January 1977 against NBC, United Artists and David…
