Steve Carras
07-16-2003, 09:19 PM
Either Boomerang or CN should bring Bob Clampett's cartoon, and for that matter The Bob Clampett Show back.When it was on, as I hear, Beany cartoons were shown (missed them though, however I have a 1985 tape of them that used to be sold, distributed by Columbia-coindicentally, Mr.Clampett did cartoons at Columbia, between Warner and the one he did at Republic and in that cusp of course he was going to do the original puppet B&C) .
I think that these would be funny seen, though the young whippersnappers here might not get many references to the "Hungry I(sland)(1960s cool cat hangout in San Fransisco, I believe), Dinah Shore, and the Kingston Tree(Trio, legendary 1960s folk group)!
I have the cassett eof one of the 1960s shows, and for those who saw the Bob Clampett airings of it, and for me that each instance is a start.
Still, I would at least like to see the Clampett show on--it's almost like a egotistical (worthy of Duck Dodgers-Jones vs Clampett mantra again) move on the part of Boomerang/CN to IGNORE Clampett. Most of all I'd like the show itself (the cartoon version preferably the 1960s one, which should really be the one that Boomerang shoudl show--BEING 1960s) to show.
BTW Art Scott directed the show, which had no voice credits, but had a number of unique onscreen credits with names in each department (story, animation etc.) credited alongside some backdrop alluding to it..Mr.Scott's put on a big silhouette of villianous Dishonest (Nya Ha Ha) John holding a timing stopwatch, animators names on floating Beany caps, a guy named Curt Perkins on a layout underneath a bunch of painting pads, under some women, CP ostenstibly as layout and the above as ink and paint (women traditionally do this). Voices, as mentioend, were left out, but it has been said Jim MacGeorge (the unfairly maligned 1966 Larry Harmon/Metromedia/Wolper/Hanna-Barbera production of Laurel and Hardy, as the rotund Ollie Hardy opposite Harmon as Laurel) did Beany and Erv Shoemaker did Cecil (MacGeorge was a future Hanna Barbera veteran; he would switch being Hardy to Stan Laurel opposite Chuck McCann's Hardy!;Erv Shoemaker a B&C puppeteer). This was a longtime puppet show, which aired 1949-54, one of the first TV show, a major one;both had many celebrity guests.
Speaking of voices, in the pouppet version Daws Butler did the voice of Beany and Stan Freberg as Cecil-then Jim MacGeorge did Beany (as he did in the cartoon) in the puppet show and Erv Shoemaker, again like in the later cartoon, did the voice of Cecil. The cartoons first got released theatrically overseas,esp.in English speaking countries, by United Artists (who then owned the pre-1948 Technciolor/Cinecolor Warner and MGM cartoons thru A.A.P.-another Clampett" "full concenctric circle" roundtrip with Warner Bros.!) . Bob and his SOdy Clampett headed the Clampett studio. Bob died in 1984. Sody';s still alive. The couplke's company was named Snowball productions, aka Bob CLampett Productions.
I wish this would come back on its own (as I said, I missed it on the CLAMPETT show, and of course we all wish CLAMPETT's show would come back--he DEFINED Daffy's personality!)
I think that these would be funny seen, though the young whippersnappers here might not get many references to the "Hungry I(sland)(1960s cool cat hangout in San Fransisco, I believe), Dinah Shore, and the Kingston Tree(Trio, legendary 1960s folk group)!
I have the cassett eof one of the 1960s shows, and for those who saw the Bob Clampett airings of it, and for me that each instance is a start.
Still, I would at least like to see the Clampett show on--it's almost like a egotistical (worthy of Duck Dodgers-Jones vs Clampett mantra again) move on the part of Boomerang/CN to IGNORE Clampett. Most of all I'd like the show itself (the cartoon version preferably the 1960s one, which should really be the one that Boomerang shoudl show--BEING 1960s) to show.
BTW Art Scott directed the show, which had no voice credits, but had a number of unique onscreen credits with names in each department (story, animation etc.) credited alongside some backdrop alluding to it..Mr.Scott's put on a big silhouette of villianous Dishonest (Nya Ha Ha) John holding a timing stopwatch, animators names on floating Beany caps, a guy named Curt Perkins on a layout underneath a bunch of painting pads, under some women, CP ostenstibly as layout and the above as ink and paint (women traditionally do this). Voices, as mentioend, were left out, but it has been said Jim MacGeorge (the unfairly maligned 1966 Larry Harmon/Metromedia/Wolper/Hanna-Barbera production of Laurel and Hardy, as the rotund Ollie Hardy opposite Harmon as Laurel) did Beany and Erv Shoemaker did Cecil (MacGeorge was a future Hanna Barbera veteran; he would switch being Hardy to Stan Laurel opposite Chuck McCann's Hardy!;Erv Shoemaker a B&C puppeteer). This was a longtime puppet show, which aired 1949-54, one of the first TV show, a major one;both had many celebrity guests.
Speaking of voices, in the pouppet version Daws Butler did the voice of Beany and Stan Freberg as Cecil-then Jim MacGeorge did Beany (as he did in the cartoon) in the puppet show and Erv Shoemaker, again like in the later cartoon, did the voice of Cecil. The cartoons first got released theatrically overseas,esp.in English speaking countries, by United Artists (who then owned the pre-1948 Technciolor/Cinecolor Warner and MGM cartoons thru A.A.P.-another Clampett" "full concenctric circle" roundtrip with Warner Bros.!) . Bob and his SOdy Clampett headed the Clampett studio. Bob died in 1984. Sody';s still alive. The couplke's company was named Snowball productions, aka Bob CLampett Productions.
I wish this would come back on its own (as I said, I missed it on the CLAMPETT show, and of course we all wish CLAMPETT's show would come back--he DEFINED Daffy's personality!)