Nudnik

[ota]

Does Turner/CN own Nudnik cartoons?
I saw a Toonheads week 5 or 6 yrs ago.
They ran the toons with the original Paramount logo.

Then some yars ago I saw in ZAZ (a spanish channel that my cable system could get) a Nudnik show. The openings were edited, and the show was composed of one Nudnik cartoon and other Gene Deitch & friends material, as Feiffer´s Munro and other european animator. It seems that Deitch called all his friends and created a whole season of a half-hour show with the library described before.

Who owns Nudnik?

Ota

[Pietro]

Originally posted by ota
Does Turner/CN own Nudnik cartoons?
I saw a Toonheads week 5 or 6 yrs ago.
They ran the toons with the original Paramount logo.

Then some yars ago I saw in ZAZ (a spanish channel that my cable system could get) a Nudnik show. The openings were edited, and the show was composed of one Nudnik cartoon and other Gene Deitch & friends material, as Feiffer´s Munro and other european animator. It seems that Deitch called all his friends and created a whole season of a half-hour show with the library described before.

Who owns Nudnik?

In the mid-80s "Rembrandt Films" (Gene Deitch's Prague Studio) bought the rights to the Nudnik cartoons. I don't believe Turner ever bought the rights to them, though. And yes, "The Nudnik Show" does exist, it's syndicated to countries around the world (except the US), so that's why you probably saw it on the Spanish channel.

-Pietro:D

[Gossamer]

Nudnik is very popular around the world, from what I understand. The ones I have have no dialogue and are quite short. Rembrandt did some excellent shorts and was nominated four or five times for Animated Short Oscar, winning for Munro (excellent cartoon, BTW)

[angilbas]

Originally posted by Gossamer
Nudnik is very popular around the world, from what I understand. The ones I have have no dialogue and are quite short. Rembrandt did some excellent shorts and was nominated four or five times for Animated Short Oscar, winning for Munro (excellent cartoon, BTW)

Rembrandt products vary widely in quality, from "Munro" to Tom and Jerry (still good enough to be guilty pleasures in some cases). Among the cartoons in between are a few with Samson Scrap (a well-meaning junkman who lives in New York City) and Terrible Tessie (possibly Deitch's answer to Ralph Phillips). As for Nudnik, the premise of a chump who forever blunders into trouble isn't always funny, but the art and animation are much better than in the other Paramount releases of the 1965-7 period. The jazzy music also helps.

-Tony

[Geezil]

Originally posted by angilbas
Rembrandt products vary widely in quality, from "Munro" to Tom and Jerry (still good enough to be guilty pleasures in some cases). Among the cartoons in between are a few with Samson Scrap (a well-meaning junkman who lives in New York City) [...]

... and could this last have been an affectionate echo by Deitch of his former Terrytoons team's "Clint Clobber"?