Only someone with a skill in Flash could animate this opening title sequence to look exactly like a Famous Studios cartoon from the 40's and 50's. I just couldn't imagine someone else obessing over the original Paramount titles of a Famous Studios cartoon to the degree that they wanted to make their own opening. It's been done to death in Looney Tunes, but to use an opening that would broaden the library of the Famous Studios cartoon is just something. I swore on this one UPN news program that they used some sort of Paramount Famous Studios-era mountain look for the backdrop framed on the back of the extreme shot of the anchors. Guess that memory and the Paramount Teleplex helped with the branding of a United Paramount Network. But that's about it- nobody's done a cartoony mountain in the spirit of whatever Famous Studios animator painted those logos. (Of course, Harvey's mascot is another reminder of Paramount openings). Without further ado.....
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Happy Halloween 2010!
What better way to celebrate Halloween, Paramount cartoons-style than Casper (and Casper making friends with kids playing pirates)?
And, I might have a suprise project that I might reveal tommorow or a few days later, depending if it works properly.
And, I might have a suprise project that I might reveal tommorow or a few days later, depending if it works properly.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Off-Topic: The 42nd Michigan Student Film And Video Festival is tommorow, here are some thoughts
I get giddy over low-budget student films sometimes when I see them in a festival.
While the "Best Of Show" winners have not been announced on the internet, here are some pre-thoughts on this year's "Detroit School Oscars".
This festival was a obession of mine before I rediscovered Paramount's cartoons again- or around that time.
In fact the production of my first entry was only a couple of years after the tape of "you-know-what" broke, less Popeye and I forgot all about those cartoons.
The state with the high unemployment rate has a tax incentive for Hollywood, Fleischer fan/friend Ray Pointer, some other Golden Age Cartoons forum members, and every year in the so-called Motor City- the winners are picked. The grand prize is given to multiple films known as the "Best of Show"- and those Best Of Show winners are shown up at the movie theater in Detroit's art museum.
Nobody knew the truth about what the prizes is, allthough I have fun watching the winners.
In fact since everybody gets a classified award who enters, techincally I'm not a winner. There's Honor, Merit, and these are more in retrospect either losers or nominations. The award system isn't as well-known as how those big award shows work, among them the Oscars and Emmys, because it's very confusing for a proud family (no pun intended about that Disney Channel cartoon done by one of my favorite Disney villian animaton directors).
Now, because of the Oscar win for the Detroit-area's "The Crunch Bird" and the recent death of the filmmaker (Ted Petok), I think he needs to be reconized with some sort of tribute, wheteher there be an age-apporiate clip of "The Crunch Bird" and some of his Sesame Street/Electric Company skits
Here are some fun past winners (one that I do remember)
And here's another that's fun for Disney fans:
While the "Best Of Show" winners have not been announced on the internet, here are some pre-thoughts on this year's "Detroit School Oscars".
This festival was a obession of mine before I rediscovered Paramount's cartoons again- or around that time.
In fact the production of my first entry was only a couple of years after the tape of "you-know-what" broke, less Popeye and I forgot all about those cartoons.
The state with the high unemployment rate has a tax incentive for Hollywood, Fleischer fan/friend Ray Pointer, some other Golden Age Cartoons forum members, and every year in the so-called Motor City- the winners are picked. The grand prize is given to multiple films known as the "Best of Show"- and those Best Of Show winners are shown up at the movie theater in Detroit's art museum.
Nobody knew the truth about what the prizes is, allthough I have fun watching the winners.
In fact since everybody gets a classified award who enters, techincally I'm not a winner. There's Honor, Merit, and these are more in retrospect either losers or nominations. The award system isn't as well-known as how those big award shows work, among them the Oscars and Emmys, because it's very confusing for a proud family (no pun intended about that Disney Channel cartoon done by one of my favorite Disney villian animaton directors).
Now, because of the Oscar win for the Detroit-area's "The Crunch Bird" and the recent death of the filmmaker (Ted Petok), I think he needs to be reconized with some sort of tribute, wheteher there be an age-apporiate clip of "The Crunch Bird" and some of his Sesame Street/Electric Company skits
Here are some fun past winners (one that I do remember)
And here's another that's fun for Disney fans:
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Paramount cartoons- WHO OWNS THEM (the film rights)?????
I've spoken with the people who seemingly own the cartoons:
-Paramount
-Lionsgate
-Viacom
and I've also spoken with the UCLA Film Archive.
Who owns them?
They all didn't know.
As I quote in an old e-mail to Jerry Beck:
"Oh, the rights are so confusing."
If the owner is just public domain, then we need to remaster the cartoons OURSELVES along with Harvey and Paramount(just license to use their logo). I'm speaking to you animation experts.
If the owner is a "somebody", then people have got to shape up. It seems as if nobody cares, and brings a sniff to my eye.
-Paramount
-Lionsgate
-Viacom
and I've also spoken with the UCLA Film Archive.
Who owns them?
They all didn't know.
As I quote in an old e-mail to Jerry Beck:
"Oh, the rights are so confusing."
If the owner is just public domain, then we need to remaster the cartoons OURSELVES along with Harvey and Paramount(just license to use their logo). I'm speaking to you animation experts.
If the owner is a "somebody", then people have got to shape up. It seems as if nobody cares, and brings a sniff to my eye.
Paramount cartoons and Terrytoons on DVD???? Will it ever come true?
Sorry for the hitaus.
If the executives at Viacom and Lionsgate don't think Betty Boop is hot, here is a situtation that is going to get hotter.
Aesop's "The Mouse Who Belled the Cat" and Ray Pointer's relation to writing a bunch of letters and such has finally...come true.
While we're waiting for 1980's revivals of The Alvin Show and Mighty Mouse to be out on DVD, people want the original Paramount cartoons and Terrytoons to be on DVD.
Yes, it's madness. Sheer madness.
No matter how much of the Viacom/Lionsgate executives don't give us the response we want- it still gives us more to ask for.
The Shout Factory and GAC Forums are having their forums devoted to getting these classics on DVD. The rights are seemingly confusing. Does Paramount own Betty Boop or does Lionsgate own Betty Boop?
Check 'em out:
http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/showthread.php?t=13282
http://www.shoutfactory.com/community/1864/thread.aspx#7236
If the executives at Viacom and Lionsgate don't think Betty Boop is hot, here is a situtation that is going to get hotter.
Aesop's "The Mouse Who Belled the Cat" and Ray Pointer's relation to writing a bunch of letters and such has finally...come true.
While we're waiting for 1980's revivals of The Alvin Show and Mighty Mouse to be out on DVD, people want the original Paramount cartoons and Terrytoons to be on DVD.
Yes, it's madness. Sheer madness.
No matter how much of the Viacom/Lionsgate executives don't give us the response we want- it still gives us more to ask for.
The Shout Factory and GAC Forums are having their forums devoted to getting these classics on DVD. The rights are seemingly confusing. Does Paramount own Betty Boop or does Lionsgate own Betty Boop?
Check 'em out:
http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/showthread.php?t=13282
http://www.shoutfactory.com/community/1864/thread.aspx#7236
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Semi-OT: An MGM short with the studio's orchestra playing a certian firefighting piece
The tune that the MGM Orchestra is playing is the same tune played throughout GABBY's "Fire Cheese" and the Famous Studios Screen Song sequel, "The Big Flame-Up" (minus the sing-along number), plus cartoons from various other studios as well. But to PD video fans, it's those two Paramount cartoons that the tune is well-known.
This tune is "The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture", not an execrpt of "The Merry Widow", as Fleischer/Disney historian Ray Pointer said it was an execrpt of "The Merry Widow". But it's not.
And oh, if you want to see the two- this post was going to be devoted to the MGM live-action short posted above but however....
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