Steve Carras
01-02-2005, 02:10 AM
Here's my animated presents--DVD's
FROSTY THE SNOWMAN (Classic Media,1969,Rankin-Bass)
Jimmy Durante is yoru narrator and singer of the famous story about the snowman en route to the North pole with his little pal Karen, with the treacherous and prissy Profg.Hinkle, whose rabbit Hocus Pocus (get it) re-aligns himself with our heroes,and also joining the journey, our heroes go up, residing temproasrily at a greenhouse for Karen's sake-to cure her freezy shakes. However, with Frosty (who's been menaing to put off a little weight":)), the nasty Hinkle slams the door and melts the snowman, but along comes Santa making a great appearane3 (and voiced by Paul Frees), to restore the snoiwman with "XMAS Snow", and promises Prof.Hinkle that he'll ONLY have his XMAS magic stuff IF he writes a certain phrase zillions of times! (This by the way makes Professor Hinkle Very Happy, happy haoppoy.!)
A policemaN (voiced by Pail Frees), stops the snowman like in the song on which it is based but then realizing he just talked to-gulp-a SNOWMAN! SWALLOWS THE WHISTLE.
Adapted by R-B vet Romeo Muller from the song of the title by Jack Rollings & Steve NBelson and designed by Paul Coker Jr., FROSTY THE SNOWMAN features not just long-pl;ayig record comeidan Jackie Vernon as Frosty (in addition to the above mentioned Paul Frees who also does a third character, a goofy train store clerk who zips around to Hanna Barbera SFX-!:D) and June Foray*, two great vaudevillians--the aforementioned Jimmy Durante who was then (1969) in laten 70s and already a major instituation by WWII-and Bi9lly DeWolfe--known for his "Busy, Busy BUSY!! or Tasty Tasty, TASTY": catch=-phrases (Bugs Bunny imitated him in the 1942 BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID-as the "lady in shower"-DeWolfe did that as a character, "Mrs.Murgatroid"), as the wacky villian, Professor Hinkle.
*Susan Conway, a Rankin Bass veteran olf young girl voices, like the similair concurrent Diays in THE RELUCTANT DRAGON & MISTER TOAD by them, in the first segment, may have done Karen's voice which June Foray was to have done-she recalls she was repalced-yet it at least IS Foray in the role of the teacher at the beginning.
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The other I got was the 1960-1961 DVD of the FLINSTONES-right now I';m watching a very early one, HOT LIPS HANIGAN. Going by the order this may be the second episode but THE SWIMMING POOL is also cited--THE FLINTSTONE FLYER was I think, the second made one whiile SWIMMING POOL was the first made, and based on a short pilot, discussed quite a lot.
Go to Amazon.com, type in FLINSTONES under DVD, go to FLINTSTONES DVD THE FIRST SEASON for contents..as well as Google..:)
Anyway, HOT LIPSD< a jazz comedy, has - for the first time in a Hanna Barbera show - Ed Wynn, the great radio,TV,stage, and theatrical vaudevillian, actually heard in Disney's 1951 ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Rankin-Bass's 1966 THE DAYDREAMER as the Mad Hatter and the Empororer's (EMPORER's NEW CLOTHES segment),respectively-in this case done by veterna character actgor Jerry Mann, a FLINSTONES fixture (he also shows up doing this voice in a Walter Lantz-Woody Woodpecker 1963 shut, SHUTTERBUGGED).(Mann also of course did Sgt.Bilko---aka Phil Silvers, reprising the Wynn voice for the Great Mesmo eppisode---THE HYPNOTIST and briefly did the Ed Wynn vocals duties for the grocer in one of the Mann-does-Bilko's, the great Dino debut--THE SNORKASAURUS HUNTERS--one of a handful with no laugh track here.)
HOT LIPS HANIGAN has references to very NON-jazz sweet big bands--Guy Lo,mbardo ("The Sweetest Music This SIde of Birdland"-that last word giving jazz credit!-Kay Kyser (THREE LITTLE FISHIES aka THREE ITTY BITIES)-but no lawrence Welk-oh wel,, Welk shows up elsewhere in the 'Stones)).
Other strandouts are the afore mentioned episodes also guesting Jerry Mann-SNOPRKASUAURS HUNTER with a Bilko-sounding Dino -,very UN-Barney (think I LOVE YOU--YOU LOVE ME) purple dinosaur, as well as the angry aforemnetioned Ed Wynn sounding grocer who beansd Fred with ribsw). A Mitch Miller/Colonel Boogie joke involving ants a la RIVER KWAI and Mitch's COLONEL BOOGIE is featured (Miller also inspired HUMA LONG WIHT HERMAN froma later season andsome of the goofy songs here without that barbershop styling were the types of things done at Columbia--the PRODUCER ofd HB product back then--by Mitch!).At the end WIlma calls him Dino..:)_
Some good guest stars enliven already great standout episodes--Howie MacNear (Floyd the Barber of ANDY GRIFFTH in THE SPLIT PERSONALITY-an amnseia episode... and in THE HYPNOTIST, a similiar episode, in both cases as--a doctor) and another great radio and teleivison sitcom great character, Frank "Eyesssss?" Nelson, who voices three characterrs in this DVD set-the employer of Barney who dispatches him after Fred's TV (NO HELP WANTED), the "Happy Aninversary" (THE HOT PIANO) clerk who does a hilarious duet with Barney (and his and Mel Blanc;'s voices are hilarious--their work together on JACK BENNY on radiuo and TV paid off-"A THank ya"!), and yet again as a nasty sassy clerk in THE ENGAGEMENT RING with the boxing sequences.
(Mel Blanc as Barney does a Nelson impression in PIANO--"Ooooh, aren't we sneaky!")
THE LONG LONG WEEKEND has a chap listed in the 1995 FLINSTONES book by "T.S.Adams" and in some internet informaiton sites as just plain "Willard",but sounding like the second "Great Gildersleeve" from radio and of TV, Williard Waterman, who may be the clerk, whose voice is credited to Frank Nelson who alreayd is heard as Barney's boss, in the very early NO HELP WANTED (the TV reposession one).
HOLLYROCK HERE I COME and ASTRA'NUTS are a few episodfes like SNORKASUAURS HUNTER to have Jerry Mann doing a Bilko voice,in the second a BILKO-type SARGE!! Butr the best of these is the first, a "Fred has a big Hollywood ego then stgage fright", an achilles heel reminiscent of Daffy Duck in Friz Frelng's 1960 PERSON TO BUNNY (with WB and HB sharing Mike Maltese and Warren Foster, it's just as well-Foster wrote that one), his voice reduced to squeaks. Spekaing of squeaks, some chipmunk, "Strawberry jamming" meatballs, no laughtrack on this one, is a highlight (Betty and Wilma are to go to Hollywood/Hollyrock here.)
Another Looney Tune Warner Bros.to Hanna-barbera plotline reworking closes thisd--FRED FLINSTONE BEFORE OR AFTER when Fred's made a vow to diet for a TV challenge, and a spokesperson/spekaer at "Food Anonymous" helps him by robbing his burgers! GOINK GOINK GOINK!
Also has the famed (no laughtrack) "Here we come on the run with a boiger the bun" with two Brooklynese teenage carhops (Nancy Wible & Gin Tyler) working for a newly selfemployed Fred and Barney.(THE DRIVEIN)
What's called an actual first, THE TYCOON one of many identity crisis episodes, and one of several that dot the 'Stones, is included.Alan Reed did the voice of both Fred and of his alter ego.
Finally, mention must be made for a standout 3rd disc-er, THE GIRLS NIGHT OUT, the famed Hy-Fye-Fred episode. THis and HOT LIPS (who gets mentioned by a teenage girl here) are the two "Fred as singer" epsiode (did Al;an Reed or his later repalcement Henry Corden, who I doubt was working back then in 1960, do that smoooooth singin' voice?) Mel Blanc did a guest voice as the Col.Tom parker, Evlis-grooming Colonel--"Now, what evah D-YAD happen to daat-Gawga boy..." -soudning like Foghorn Leghorn!!!!!!!
YABBA DABBA DOOOOOOO!
FROSTY THE SNOWMAN (Classic Media,1969,Rankin-Bass)
Jimmy Durante is yoru narrator and singer of the famous story about the snowman en route to the North pole with his little pal Karen, with the treacherous and prissy Profg.Hinkle, whose rabbit Hocus Pocus (get it) re-aligns himself with our heroes,and also joining the journey, our heroes go up, residing temproasrily at a greenhouse for Karen's sake-to cure her freezy shakes. However, with Frosty (who's been menaing to put off a little weight":)), the nasty Hinkle slams the door and melts the snowman, but along comes Santa making a great appearane3 (and voiced by Paul Frees), to restore the snoiwman with "XMAS Snow", and promises Prof.Hinkle that he'll ONLY have his XMAS magic stuff IF he writes a certain phrase zillions of times! (This by the way makes Professor Hinkle Very Happy, happy haoppoy.!)
A policemaN (voiced by Pail Frees), stops the snowman like in the song on which it is based but then realizing he just talked to-gulp-a SNOWMAN! SWALLOWS THE WHISTLE.
Adapted by R-B vet Romeo Muller from the song of the title by Jack Rollings & Steve NBelson and designed by Paul Coker Jr., FROSTY THE SNOWMAN features not just long-pl;ayig record comeidan Jackie Vernon as Frosty (in addition to the above mentioned Paul Frees who also does a third character, a goofy train store clerk who zips around to Hanna Barbera SFX-!:D) and June Foray*, two great vaudevillians--the aforementioned Jimmy Durante who was then (1969) in laten 70s and already a major instituation by WWII-and Bi9lly DeWolfe--known for his "Busy, Busy BUSY!! or Tasty Tasty, TASTY": catch=-phrases (Bugs Bunny imitated him in the 1942 BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID-as the "lady in shower"-DeWolfe did that as a character, "Mrs.Murgatroid"), as the wacky villian, Professor Hinkle.
*Susan Conway, a Rankin Bass veteran olf young girl voices, like the similair concurrent Diays in THE RELUCTANT DRAGON & MISTER TOAD by them, in the first segment, may have done Karen's voice which June Foray was to have done-she recalls she was repalced-yet it at least IS Foray in the role of the teacher at the beginning.
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The other I got was the 1960-1961 DVD of the FLINSTONES-right now I';m watching a very early one, HOT LIPS HANIGAN. Going by the order this may be the second episode but THE SWIMMING POOL is also cited--THE FLINTSTONE FLYER was I think, the second made one whiile SWIMMING POOL was the first made, and based on a short pilot, discussed quite a lot.
Go to Amazon.com, type in FLINSTONES under DVD, go to FLINTSTONES DVD THE FIRST SEASON for contents..as well as Google..:)
Anyway, HOT LIPSD< a jazz comedy, has - for the first time in a Hanna Barbera show - Ed Wynn, the great radio,TV,stage, and theatrical vaudevillian, actually heard in Disney's 1951 ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Rankin-Bass's 1966 THE DAYDREAMER as the Mad Hatter and the Empororer's (EMPORER's NEW CLOTHES segment),respectively-in this case done by veterna character actgor Jerry Mann, a FLINSTONES fixture (he also shows up doing this voice in a Walter Lantz-Woody Woodpecker 1963 shut, SHUTTERBUGGED).(Mann also of course did Sgt.Bilko---aka Phil Silvers, reprising the Wynn voice for the Great Mesmo eppisode---THE HYPNOTIST and briefly did the Ed Wynn vocals duties for the grocer in one of the Mann-does-Bilko's, the great Dino debut--THE SNORKASAURUS HUNTERS--one of a handful with no laugh track here.)
HOT LIPS HANIGAN has references to very NON-jazz sweet big bands--Guy Lo,mbardo ("The Sweetest Music This SIde of Birdland"-that last word giving jazz credit!-Kay Kyser (THREE LITTLE FISHIES aka THREE ITTY BITIES)-but no lawrence Welk-oh wel,, Welk shows up elsewhere in the 'Stones)).
Other strandouts are the afore mentioned episodes also guesting Jerry Mann-SNOPRKASUAURS HUNTER with a Bilko-sounding Dino -,very UN-Barney (think I LOVE YOU--YOU LOVE ME) purple dinosaur, as well as the angry aforemnetioned Ed Wynn sounding grocer who beansd Fred with ribsw). A Mitch Miller/Colonel Boogie joke involving ants a la RIVER KWAI and Mitch's COLONEL BOOGIE is featured (Miller also inspired HUMA LONG WIHT HERMAN froma later season andsome of the goofy songs here without that barbershop styling were the types of things done at Columbia--the PRODUCER ofd HB product back then--by Mitch!).At the end WIlma calls him Dino..:)_
Some good guest stars enliven already great standout episodes--Howie MacNear (Floyd the Barber of ANDY GRIFFTH in THE SPLIT PERSONALITY-an amnseia episode... and in THE HYPNOTIST, a similiar episode, in both cases as--a doctor) and another great radio and teleivison sitcom great character, Frank "Eyesssss?" Nelson, who voices three characterrs in this DVD set-the employer of Barney who dispatches him after Fred's TV (NO HELP WANTED), the "Happy Aninversary" (THE HOT PIANO) clerk who does a hilarious duet with Barney (and his and Mel Blanc;'s voices are hilarious--their work together on JACK BENNY on radiuo and TV paid off-"A THank ya"!), and yet again as a nasty sassy clerk in THE ENGAGEMENT RING with the boxing sequences.
(Mel Blanc as Barney does a Nelson impression in PIANO--"Ooooh, aren't we sneaky!")
THE LONG LONG WEEKEND has a chap listed in the 1995 FLINSTONES book by "T.S.Adams" and in some internet informaiton sites as just plain "Willard",but sounding like the second "Great Gildersleeve" from radio and of TV, Williard Waterman, who may be the clerk, whose voice is credited to Frank Nelson who alreayd is heard as Barney's boss, in the very early NO HELP WANTED (the TV reposession one).
HOLLYROCK HERE I COME and ASTRA'NUTS are a few episodfes like SNORKASUAURS HUNTER to have Jerry Mann doing a Bilko voice,in the second a BILKO-type SARGE!! Butr the best of these is the first, a "Fred has a big Hollywood ego then stgage fright", an achilles heel reminiscent of Daffy Duck in Friz Frelng's 1960 PERSON TO BUNNY (with WB and HB sharing Mike Maltese and Warren Foster, it's just as well-Foster wrote that one), his voice reduced to squeaks. Spekaing of squeaks, some chipmunk, "Strawberry jamming" meatballs, no laughtrack on this one, is a highlight (Betty and Wilma are to go to Hollywood/Hollyrock here.)
Another Looney Tune Warner Bros.to Hanna-barbera plotline reworking closes thisd--FRED FLINSTONE BEFORE OR AFTER when Fred's made a vow to diet for a TV challenge, and a spokesperson/spekaer at "Food Anonymous" helps him by robbing his burgers! GOINK GOINK GOINK!
Also has the famed (no laughtrack) "Here we come on the run with a boiger the bun" with two Brooklynese teenage carhops (Nancy Wible & Gin Tyler) working for a newly selfemployed Fred and Barney.(THE DRIVEIN)
What's called an actual first, THE TYCOON one of many identity crisis episodes, and one of several that dot the 'Stones, is included.Alan Reed did the voice of both Fred and of his alter ego.
Finally, mention must be made for a standout 3rd disc-er, THE GIRLS NIGHT OUT, the famed Hy-Fye-Fred episode. THis and HOT LIPS (who gets mentioned by a teenage girl here) are the two "Fred as singer" epsiode (did Al;an Reed or his later repalcement Henry Corden, who I doubt was working back then in 1960, do that smoooooth singin' voice?) Mel Blanc did a guest voice as the Col.Tom parker, Evlis-grooming Colonel--"Now, what evah D-YAD happen to daat-Gawga boy..." -soudning like Foghorn Leghorn!!!!!!!
YABBA DABBA DOOOOOOO!