{"id":35686,"date":"2017-09-30T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T07:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=35686"},"modified":"2019-09-18T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T00:25:33","slug":"terrytoons-in-cinemascope-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/terrytoons-in-cinemascope-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrytoons in CinemaScope, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back with more Terrytoons shorts in widescreen CinemaScope! (See my first two posts #1 here<\/a> and #2 here<\/a>). It’s so hard to find these cartoons in proper ratio that it’s always noteworthy whenever one pop up on the ‘net. Here, we present four.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Clint Clobber’s Cat<\/strong> (1957)<\/p>\n

A hungry dog gets into the Flamboyant Arms, where no dogs are allowed. Clobber tries to get rid of him, but one of his tenants, an elderly woman who lost her glasses, takes the dog in, thinking he’s a cat due to her poor vision.<\/p>\n

This is the first cartoon to feature Clint Clobber. Allen Swift usually voiced the character, but in this first outing he was voiced by Doug Moye, long-time cameraman for Terrytoons. As Deitch recalls in \u201cHow to Succeed in Animation\u201d (http:\/\/www.awn.com\/genedeitch\/chapter-fifteen-the-terry-fying-challenge):<\/p>\n

Terry had a long running series called “The Terry Bears,” and the voice of the Daddy Bear was Doug Moye, a big and aggressive black cameraman at the studio. Doug was a funny guy to talk with, and he had a great booming voice. I felt that the Bears were really an old fashioned concept. In my attempt to quickly develop new characters, and still hoping to make use of Doug’s voice, I created an overweight apartment house super, who underneath his grumpy exterior was a man in love with his job and his seedy apartment house. We made a special Terrytoons promotional film with the character. I named him “De Witt Clinton Clobber,” with Doug Moye doing the voice. I really liked Clobber, and with Morrison and the other story guys we began to develop and deepen the character. Recording sessions for the new Clobber films proved out that even with his funny deep voice, Doug Moye simply did not have the acting talent to put across the emotion the character now required, so I brought in my old friend and colleague Allen Swift to take over the voice. Understandably, Doug’s feelings were hurt. I knew was treading on sensitive racial territory, and it was touchy trying to convince Doug that the decision was purely a case of acting requirement.<\/p>\n