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<\/a>There\u2019s been a list of cartoons I\u2019ve wanted to see forever – and, chances are, if you are as much of a diehard fan as I am, you have a special list as well of the same sort of thing. I’ve written about this sort of thing before, but I was thinking about the *absolute* musts. So, maybe this list should be called \u201cIf you were dropped off on a desert island and couldn\u2019t leave, what lost cartoons would you want to be there?\u201d.<\/p>\nMy list is shorter these days, with some of the holy grail titles actually found and available now. I couldn\u2019t be happier about that honestly- but there\u2019s still many more.<\/p>\n
In some ways, the Thunderbean \u201cCultoons\u201d discs are sort of the first and longest attempt to at least have some of the sort of forgotten kinds of shorts available. Still, all these years later I\u2019m still looking for many of these sorts of things. I\u2019d love to revive these with new HD scans at some point.<\/p>\n
So, as of now, these are mine if I had to limit it down to 10 films. What are yours? Please leave \u2018em in the comments this week.<\/p>\n
2) Benny the Bear in A Cowboy I Would Be<\/strong>. I had dreams for years that, while looking through a stash of nitrate film, that suddenly Benny the Bear would poke his early 30s head out. There\u2019s at least three prints that were made of this cartoon (at least according to the Copyright catalog) so if one manages to show up we\u2019ll all be treated to what has to be a film classic. On Tralfaz\u2019s blog from January 13, 2013<\/a>, there\u2019s a great find about Brucker:<\/p>\n March 20, 1930 From the Copyright Catalog<\/p><\/div>\n \n This announcement is after the first Benny the Bear was Copyrighted- and it\u2019s pretty clear those never got made. So, one has to wonder what happened to this short. My guess is that it never saw release officially, and was used as a demo or was never sold. Maybe one of these days someone will be sorting through one of the hundreds of reels at the Library of Congress and, behind a clip of the Gorilla from King of the Kongo, there would be two minutes of Benny the Bear hitting his butt on fenceposts, just like Binko and Marty.<\/p>\n 3) Goofy Goat (in color)<\/strong>. I\u2019m a bit of a broken record on the pursuit of this particular cartoon. Now that there\u2019s good color, high definition versions of his Rainbow Parades, Wizard of Oz<\/em> and The Snowman<\/em>, it\u2019s only fitting that the first of the Eshbaugh epic is finally found, if it exists at all. There\u2019s at least a lead\u2026.<\/p>\n Goofy Goat and his Gal<\/p><\/div>\n \n 4) The White Guard (1947)<\/strong>. More Eshbaugh magic, maybe. This is one that I *know* exists. I lost an Ebay bid years back and know who got it. At one point, there was even the possibility of borrowing it, but then the owner got nervous about it being out of his hands. That dates back at least 15 years now, but if the print hasn\u2019t shrunk like a prune or succumb to some other tragic death, maybe there\u2019s a chance of finally getting it. It was a Kodachrome 16mm print. Who knows what this looks like, but we do know it\u2019s an educational film about taking care of your teeth.<\/p>\n 5) He Auto Know Better (1930)<\/strong>. This is a commercial by Audio Cinema short for Aetna insurance. Years back, thanks to Jerry Beck, I was able to find a print of \u2018A Desert Delemma\u2019, another short also for Aetna. My guess is that this one was animated by Cy (Sy) Young as the other one is, who would soon after make one of the first color and sound cartoons, Mendelsohn\u2019s Spring Song. I\u2019m sure Cy changed the spelling to \u201cSy\u201d to hide his Chinese heritage- and it\u2019s spelled the same on his later effort. <\/p>\n1) The Bug House<\/strong>. Toby, the long-lost pup, has had a majority of his few adventures hidden away for much, much too long. The Bug House<\/em> is one of the ones that hasn\u2019t shown up completely as of yet, and if it does I hope I\u2019m probably dressed well enough to manage to get it in possession. I find the Tobys to be completely charming, and maybe, just maybe, someday this and others will surface. You never know when some industrious YouTuber manages to find a print somewhere, somehow and manages to upload it, complete with Bulgarian Television titles or something. Maybe this time someone will see this and get it touch and we’ll scan it. If that happens, I promise I won\u2019t try to trademark Toby the Pup for all use in home media to attempt to stop any additional producers from putting out a set.<\/p>\n
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\nBRUCKER TO PRODUCE COLOR CARTOON SERIES<\/strong>
\nA series of animated cartoons in color will be produced by Elias Brucker in association with Photocolor. Milt Gross will write the scenarios. Brucker has a five-year contract with Gross and Thomas A. Johnstone for the production of these shorts, the first of which will go into work within two weeks in the East. <\/p>\n
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