cartoon on TCM

[Cartman]

Last night I caught a Captain and the Kids cartoon on Turner Classic Movies. Many of you probably saw it too. Has TCM ever shown any cartoons like Flip the Frog?

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Cartman
Last night I caught a Captain and the Kids cartoon on Turner Classic Movies. Many of you probably saw it too. Has TCM ever shown any cartoons like Flip the Frog?


No, they have never aired Flip the Frog. But TCM does occasionally air MGM and WB shorts as "One Reel Wonders" between movies.


-Jon

[Thad Komorowski]

No TCM has never played a Flip cartoon, but play WB shorts occasionally. AMC also occasionally plays Betty Boop shorts. AMC also used to play Noveltoons, including my favorite one, "Campus Capers", which I haven't seen in years.



-Thad

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by Thad Komorowski
AMC also occasionally plays Betty Boop shorts. AMC also used to play Noveltoons, including my favorite one, "Campus Capers", which I haven't seen in years.


AMC also used to show George Pal Puppetoons, usually with the original Paramount titles.

[Argus Sventon]

I saw Tubby the Tuba on AMC, but with U.M.&M. titles. I got a PD tape with it on there, and it has original Paramount titles.


Originally posted by Bobby B



AMC also used to show George Pal Puppetoons, usually with the original Paramount titles.

[SloppyMoe]

I caught some of that CAPTAIN & THE KIDS cartoon on TCM the other night, and they ran another MGM cartoon, Harmon-Ising's ALIAS ST. NICK the following night. Once in a blue moon, they'll run a Cinemascope MGM cartoon in letterbox format... I remember seeing Michael Lah's Droopy cartoon ONE DROOPY NIGHT in widescreen on TCM one March during their month-long Oscar schedule a couple of years ago, but alas, I didn't have a tape in the vcr at the time [grumble-grumble] :(

[Matthew Hunter]

I saw "Tweety's S.O.S." on there once, a long time ago. I remember Jerry Beck sending me a list of movie-themed cartoons he had hand-picked from the old AAP library to be featured on TCM, but that never took off I guess. I just wish TCM had a half-hour or hour show that ran daily and featured uncut cartoons. Heck, they could even put a commercial in the middle if they want. AMC has the Little Rascals and the Three Stooges, and TCM has a lot of loose WB and MGM short films ranging from musical numbers to comedies to cartoons. I think the shorts need to be used not as filler material but given a show and an introduction just like the movies. They need an "MGM Cartoon Classics Featuring Tom and Jerry" and a "Warner-ful World of Animation" show. Not just cartoons, the other short subjects are treated like trash too.
-Matthew