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Deputy Dawg
Deputy Dawg is a Terrytoons cartoon character, featured on the animated television series of the same name that aired from 1960 to 1964. Background The character of Deputy Dawg originated in 1959 as part of a projected series entitled ''Possible Possum'', intended as a component of the '' Captain Kangaroo Show''. Larz Bourne came up with the series concept and drew the first storyboards. Midway through production, the project was overhauled as a standalone series; Deputy Dawg became the star, and "Possible" was rechristened Muskie Muskrat, to avoid comparisons with Walt Kelly's comic strip character Pogo Possum. A later, less Kelly-inspired Terrytoons character would eventually take the Possible Possum name. ''The Deputy Dawg Show'' first ran weekly from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1964. Each episode has a Deputy Dawg cartoon, followed by Sidney the Elephant. The British television debut came on BBC Television on August 31, 1963. The cartoons are between four and six minut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larz Bourne
Larz Bourne (February 8, 1916 – March 14, 1993) was an American cartoon writer for Famous Studios, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, and Terrytoons. Career Bourne started his career in 1937 after graduating from Chicago Professional School of Cartooning. He was the creator of Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost and Deputy Dawg. He died in 1993 at the age of 77. Work * '' Popeye the Sailor'' - Writer (Famous Studios shorts) * '' Noveltoons'' - Writer * '' Screen Songs'' - Writer (Famous Studios shorts) * '' Jingle Jangle Comics'' - Artist * '' Kartunes'' - Writer * '' Casper the Friendly Ghost'' - Writer * '' Herman and Katnip'' - Writer * '' Little Dot'' - Writer * '' Tom Terrific'' - Animation director * '' Hector Heathcote'' - Writer * '' Deputy Dawg'' - Creator, Writer * '' The Astronut Show'' - Creator, Writer * '' The Adventures of Lariat Sam'' - Storyboard artist * '' Tom and Jerry'' - Writer (Gene Deitch shorts) * '' Wacky Races'' - Writer * '' Cattanooga Cats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the lips and tongue to direct air into or out of one (or more) holes along a mouthpiece (which covers one edge of the harmonica for most of its length). Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. The most common type of harmonica is a diatonic Richter-tuned instrument with ten air passages and twenty reeds, often called a blues harp. A harmonica reed is a flat, elongated spring typically made of brass, stainless steel, or bronze, which is secured at one end over a slot that serves as an airway. When the free end is made to vibrate by the player's air, the reed alternately blocks and unblocks the airway to produce sound. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Davis (animator)
Arthur Davis ( Davidavitch) (June 14, 1905 – May 9, 2000) was an American animator and director known for his time at Warner Brothers' Termite Terrace cartoon studio. Early life Davis was born on June 14, 1905, in Yonkers, New York to Hungarian parents. He is the younger brother of animators Mannie and Phil Davis. Mannie would eventually become a key director for Terrytoons while Phil worked alongside Arthur at the Screen Gems studio before he left in 1933. Career Davis got his start as a teenager at Raoul Barre's Studio in 1918 and later moved to Jefferson Film Corporation when the Mutt and Jeff cartoons began being made there in January 1921. It was claimed that he won a cartoon competition. In 1923 he joined Out Of The Inkwell Films in New York, working as an assistant in 1922 since Dick Huemer proposed him to be an assistant. He is reputed to have been the first in-betweener in the animation industry. Another of his distinctions was that he tapped out the famous "bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Tytla
Vladimir Peter "Bill" Tytla (October 25, 1904 – December 30, 1968) was a Ukrainian-American animator known for his work in Walt Disney Animation Studios, Paramount's Famous Studios, and Terrytoons. In his Disney career, Tytla is particularly noted for the animation in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Pinocchio'', '' Fantasia'' (''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' and ''Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria'' segments) and ''Dumbo''. He was inducted as a Disney Legend in 1998. Tytla was also known for co-creating Little Audrey for Paramount Pictures alongside Seymour Kneitel. Early years Vladimir Peter Tytla was born on October 25, 1904, in Yonkers, New York, to Ukrainian immigrant parents.Bowers, pg 1 His parents reportedly recognized talent in their son and encouraged it. In 1914, when Tytla was 9, he visited Manhattan and saw a vaudeville performance of ''Gertie the Dinosaur'', which greatly influenced him. Tytla attended the New York Evening School of Industrial Design whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kin Platt
Kin Platt (December 8, 1911 – November 30, 2003) was an American writer, artist, painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and comics artist, best known for penning radio comedy and animated TV series, as well as children's literature, children's Mystery fiction, mystery novels, one of which earned him the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. He additionally wrote and drew comic books (creating an early talking animals in fiction, talking animal superhero, Supermouse) and comic strips. Biography Early life and career Kin Platt was born to Etta (née Hochberg) and Daniel Platt. In the mid-1930s he wrote radio comedy for George Burns, Jack Benny, the comedy team of Stoopnagle and Budd, and ''The National Biscuit Comedy Hour of 1936''. Later in the 1930s, he wrote for Disney and Walter Lantz theatrical cartoons, and he scripted the Robert Benchley film ''How to Read'' (1938). Comic books He broke into comic books with humor stories featuring the character "Happy" in the Nedor, Bette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Kinney
Richard Timothy Kinney (December 15, 1916 – March 24, 1985) was an American animator and comic book writer. His comic book work was mostly in Disney comics, writing stories featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck. He was the writer who, along with artist Al Hubbard, created Fethry Duck and Hard Haid Moe. Kinney is the younger brother of fellow Disney animator Jack Kinney. Earlier, as an animation writer, Kinney was part of the story crew on various Disney, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA, Paramount Cartoon Studios and Jack Kinney Productions/King Features Syndicate theatrical and TV cartoons. The Lantz cartoon '' Niagara Fools'', featuring Woody Woodpecker, represented perhaps Kinney's most fondly-remembered original storyline. Later, Kinney would remake the story for comics with Fethry Duck in, essentially, the Woody role. Legacy Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Bertino
Al Bertino (July 15, 1912 – August 18, 1996) was an American animator best remembered for his work with the Walt Disney Company. Born in California in 1912, Bertino began work for Walt Disney in 1935. Apart from his work on feature films, such as ''Pinocchio'' and '' Fantasia'', Bertino also wrote for ''the Wonderful World of Disney'', and helped create a number of attractions at Disneyland, including Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Haunted Mansion, Country Bear Jamboree, and America Sings. Until his retirement in 1977, he worked as an assistant animator and storyman for Mintz Animation, Harmon-Ising Animation, Disney, UPA, Snowball Animation, Grantray-Lawrence Animation and Walter Lantz Animation. In 1986, he won a Golden Award (given to Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists). Bertino died on August 18, 1996, in Los Angeles. Notes *The giant bear at the Country Bear Jamboree called 'Big Al' was a self-portrait. *In a 1945 Disney short, " Hockey Homicide', all the characters are named fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Kuwahara
Rokuro "Bob" Kuwahara (August 12, 1901 – 1964) was a Japanese-born American animator best known for his work with Walt Disney and Terrytoons between the 1930s and 1960s. Kuwahara was born in Tokyo on August 12, 1901, and his family moved to the United States in 1910, where he graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1921. After high school he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles until 1928. In 1929 Kuwahara moved to New York City to work as a commercial artist, but the Wall Street crash of 1929 forced him to return to Los Angeles. In 1932 Kuwahara began working as an animator and writer for Walt Disney, where he had a hand in shorts like ''Thru the Mirror'' and the Academy Award-nominated '' Who Killed Cock Robin?'', as well as the feature-length film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. In 1937 Kuwahara went to work for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, but later spent three years in the Heart Mountain internment camp during World War II follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Bauer
Elias "Eli" Bauer (17 November 1928 – 7 January 1998) was an animation layout and story man and comics artist, having his cartoons appear in such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Playboy, Penthouse, and Punch. Biography He was born in The Bronx, New York, to Max and Goldie Bauer. It was his passion for art that took him out of the Bronx and into Manhattan, where he attended the School of Industrial Arts. He went on to become a storyman and layout artist working for Ray Patin Productions in Hollywood, California, and for Terrytoons in New Rochelle, New York. While at Terrytoons, Bauer created the popular animated character "Hector Heathcote", the Minute and a Half Man. He also freelanced and found success with his own comic strips "Kermit the Hermit" and "Norman" and formed a production company, Ariel Productions, with the late Al Kouzel that created ''Sesame Street'' animated spots, commercials and continued the '' Winky Dink and You'' TV series. He later concen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Taras
Martin Bernard Taras (9 August 1914 – 2 November 1994), also known as Morrie Tarasinsky, was an American cartoonist who mostly worked at Famous Studios, the New York–based animation division of Paramount Pictures. Career Taras started his animation career at Van Beuren Studios in 1934 until its closing in 1936. He was involved in the 1937 Fleischer Studios strike, but abandoned it shortly after to take a job for Jam Handy. Following a stint at Terrytoons in the early 1940s, Taras became an animator at Fleischer Studios' successor Famous Studios, where he is known for the creation of Baby Huey. Huey debuted in the first Casper comic issue in September 1949, six months before his animated debut in the short "Quack-A-Doodle-Doo". Taras animated for theatrical shorts and drew comic books featuring characters such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, Rags Rabbit, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Herman and Katnip, and Buzzy the Funny Crow. Taras departed Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Rasinski
J. Conrad "Connie" Rasinski (January 28, 1907 in Torrington, Connecticut – October 13, 1965 in Larchmont, New York) was an animation director who did the 1952 animated short "Hansel and Gretel" among others. Rasinski's "House of Hashimoto" was in competition at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Biography Connie Rasinski was born Constantine Rasinski on January 28, 1907, in Torrington, Connecticut. As a young man Rasinski studied with Norman Rockwell at the Art Students League of New York. After a variety of jobs, Rasinski decided to become an animator. In 1930 he became an inker for Terrytoons. In 1937 he became a director at Terrytoons. His filmography includes Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Gandy Goose, Deputy Dawg, Clint Clobber This article contains the list of characters featured in the ''Tom and Jerry'' animated series, given in the order of the era, they first appeared in. Main Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse Tom (originally called "Jasper") is a bluish grey and wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Tendlar
David Benjamin Tendlar (August 8, 1909 – September 9, 1993) was an American animator, best known for his work with Fleischer Studios and its successor, Famous Studios. Tendlar was born in Dayton, Ohio on August 8, 1909, and attended Stivers High School. He joined Fleischer Studio in 1931, where he worked on Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor, and many other shorts, as well as Fleischer's two feature-length animated films. Tendlar stayed on at Famous Studios after Paramount Pictures foreclosed on Fleischer and reorganized the company into Famous Studios. Tendlar was promoted to director at Famous Studios in 1953 (he also directed a Noveltoon ''A Self-Made Mongrel'' in 1945). He later did work for Terrytoons, Hal Seeger Productions, Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. In addition to his animation work, Tendlar moonlighted as a comic book artist, providing illustrations for '' Jingle Jangle Comics'' and Harvey Comics Harvey Comics (also known as Harvey World Famous Comics, Harvey Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
