{"id":70489,"date":"2022-03-15T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=70489"},"modified":"2022-03-15T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:07:46","slug":"living-cartoons-and-the-electric-company-on-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/living-cartoons-and-the-electric-company-on-records\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLiving Cartoons\u201d and \u201cThe Electric Company\u201d on Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Epcot or Disney California Adventure Park guests go to the \u201cTurtle Talk with Crush\u201d attraction, it seems as if the CG Pixar dude from Finding Nemo<\/i> is talking to people right there in the theater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Turns out the basic idea of animated characters appearing to interact in real time has been around since 1960, albeit done in a much more humble way.\u00a0 <\/span>Instead of high-definition imaging, and multi-million-dollar digital audio and video capabilities, this technique used rods, glue, a few lengths of polyurethane, and local TV station-level chroma-key facilities. Either way, it still took people, as Walt Disney said, to make it happen. Take away the tech and it still comes down to humans communicating creatively with each other through the art of animation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAniforms\u201d was a patented live (or live-on-tape) television animation technique invented by Morey Bunin, brother of Lou Bunin (director of the stop-motion Alice in Wonderland<\/i> feature starring Carol Marsh). Both were puppeteers in New York TV, theater, and parades. (Read more about the Bunin brothers here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Morey Bunin enjoyed several years of success on CBS children\u2019s television, competing with The Howdy Doody Show<\/i> on NBC with The Adventures of Lucky Puppy<\/i>, featuring a magician puppet named The Great Foodini, who recorded a couple of 78 rpm records and developed a following.<\/p>\n