For He's a Jolly Good Fala

[Emmanuel Cruz]

I have several questions to ask about this:

1) How come no animation books or websites mention this cartoon?
2) Is this cartoon consired lost?
3) Are there other cartoons that weren't released because of something happening to prevent it from being released?

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Also, can anyone give me the link to the thread about this cartoon?

[Jack]

This thread, Scrapped cartoons (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?threadid=14070&highlight=fala) mentions it.

to answer your questions...

1. No one ever mentions it because it was never completed. I've never heard of any animation being done for it, so the only things left may be pre-production work (none of which may still be around), and a soundtract that may or may not still be around.

2. I think it is considered lost because there is no finished cartoon.


Jack :D

[Thad Komorowski]

Tex Avery was working on a Private Snafu cartoon to be released through MGM, but when it was completed, it was 1945, and if you know your history well, you'll know why the soilders didn't see this. I think this one was called "How to Get a Fat Jap Out of a Cave". I also heard more Mr. Hook cartoons were to be released to the Navy, including one called "Take Heed Mr. Tojo".





-Thad

[Thad Komorowski]

There's also rumors that Mammy-Two-Shoes was supposed to be Tom's owner for a few of the mid-1950s T&Js, but because of that Supreme Court law, she was replaced with a white female.

There's also some pretty clear evidence that the Herman and Katnip cartoon "A Bicept Built for Two" was supposed to originally star Buzzy the Crow in Herman's role.




-Thad

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by Thad K
I also heard more Mr. Hook cartoons were to be released to the Navy, including one called "Take Heed Mr. Tojo".


The title card for this cartoon is in the book Enchanted Drawings .

[Matthew Hunter]

Actually, I have a mysterious Snafu film that I believe to have been made just at wars' end, it is not mentioned in Back and Friedwalds' or Steve Schneider's books. I believe it's called "Seaman Tarfu", or "Seaman Tarfu...(whatever)." It appears to have been produced by HARMAN and ISING?! wherever they were at the time. I don't know who directed it. I got it from a trade, but its original source was a PD cartoon distributor called "Bosko Video".
-Matthew

[Jack]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
Actually, I have a mysterious Snafu film that I believe to have been made just at wars' end, it is not mentioned in Back and Friedwalds' or Steve Schneider's books. I believe it's called "Seaman Tarfu", or "Seaman Tarfu...(whatever)." It appears to have been produced by HARMAN and ISING?! wherever they were at the time.
UPA (called Industrial Film and Poster Service as the time) and Harman-Ising did make some SNAFU shorts. Harman had his own little studio at the time, making educational films and things like that.

Jack :D

[Sogturtle]

The cartoon you're talking about was indeed made at Hugh Harmans' studio named (you guessed it) Hugh Harman Productions!. Despite what may have happened in the past, at that stage Harman let bye-gones be bye-gones. And so a massive percent of his employees there ended up being former MGM employees. The cartoon was actually directed by none other than former MGM director/animator George Gordon. As such you can ALMOST count it as being an MGM toon...almost!