thecrow174 wrote :
Would you believe there was a 3 Stooges cartoon? With Larry Fine and Moe Howard doing the live-action segments?
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Sorry everybody, I thought you guys all knew about "The New 3 Stooges". This was a series that I saw in the 60's as part of a weekday morning block of "before school" cartoons. The show was called "Flibbertigibbet with Ann Dawson".
The New 3 Stooges was a revamp of the old MGM shorts. The boys were given regular characters to do battle with instead of just hitting each other. My favorite villain was "Get Outta Town By Sundown Brown", it was a trip just hearing that name, lol!
Now here's one you may not be familiar with, "Mel-O-Toons". This series was inspired by the RCA Music Collection set as stories told by limited animation. This series pre-dated the 3 Stooges cartoon but I also saw this in a "before school" cartoon show in the early 1960's.
Now here's one you may not be familiar with, "Mel-O-Toons". This series was inspired by the RCA Music Collection set as stories told by limited animation. This series pre-dated the 3 Stooges cartoon but I also saw this in a "before school" cartoon show in the early 1960's.
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The style of animation (or lack thereof) reminds me of the old Marvel superhero cartoons from the same time period.
Now here's one you may not be familiar with, "Mel-O-Toons". This series was inspired by the RCA Music Collection set as stories told by limited animation. This series pre-dated the 3 Stooges cartoon but I also saw this in a "before school" cartoon show in the early 1960's.
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The style of animation (or lack thereof) reminds me of the old Marvel superhero cartoons from the same time period. -end quote
Yes, one of the things I remember from the early 60's was the variety of cartoons that were really just moving "stills", but "Mel-O-Toons" was just one of many series that were actually music videos. One series was based around narrated children's stories originally released as 78 rpm records, brought to television by adding animation, cheap animation, lol.
In the years following WWII the Navy guys who were my father's buddies used to tell me stories about the cartoons they saw while overseas in Europe. In my own hometown many ex-servicemen found work at local TV and radio stations, some had contacts in Europe and Asia that were able to send one-of-a-kind cartoon shorts for local broadcast only, many I may never see again, not even on YouTube. But I will keep looking.
Meantime, here's another Peer Gynt story, this time in Arabia. The real star of this show is The Music!
This is beautiful, full orchestration.
Reminds me of the Leonard Bernstein's "Young People's Concert" Series on CBS. This is what the network carried every Saturday afternoon when all the morning cartoons were done. My local CBS affiliate ended the broadcast in 1971 but it was still seen in other parts of the country a couple years after that. Many people don't know that the New York Philharmonic and Leonard Bernstein aired Saturday concerts on television all through the 1960's. Never seen anything like it since!
