How long have you liked classic cartoons?

[Pilmedium]

I have been interested in Looney Tunes since 1997, but didn't realize how good they and some other classic cartoons were until 1999 and 2000.

[Andrew Gilmore]

Of course I just casually watched them and giggled as a kid like everyone else, but I didn't really start to get interested in animation in the context of an actual art form until April 1997 when I discovered a PD tape of cartoons on my video shelves.

[Thad Komorowski]

I've been interested in puppetering and animation since around 1995.


-Thad

[Mike Toole]

I've always been interested in animation as an entertainment form, but I've only recently (in the past two years) gotten into classic American cartoons (I've been a fan of Japanese animation for a very long time). I'm a fan of animation in general.

[chuckamuck43]

I learned to read by picking out Huckleberry Hound's name in the newspaper TV listings. I have been a cartoon fan for 41 years.

Call me Methuslah Mouse!

[J Lee]

Since the two threads cover similar territory, I combined my reply to this thread and on the How did you get interested (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?threadid=21764) question into one really long post on the other thread.

[Paul Penna]

Since 1953, when my folks got our first TV. I never could quite get into cartoons on radio; something just seemed to be missing...

[Nelson]

My love for the animated cartoon began back in the mid-seventies when I used be the projectionist at my local Boys Club when I used to live in Florida.I would show such classic cartoons from Walter Lantz, Van Bueren, Terrytoons and Ub Iwerks.So the rest is history.

[Pietro]

I didn't really start researching the classics until late 1997, but I enjoyed 'em ever since I was a kid.

-Pietro:D

[Cartoon King]

Originally posted by Pilmedium
I have been interested in Looney Tunes since 1997, but didn't realize how good they and some other classic cartoons were until 1999 and 2000.

This question makes me feel old. I started liking them in the late 70's/early 80's. Back then, Looneys were featured on the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show and the classic Hanna Barberas were on a show on USA called the Cartoon Express. Local TV carried a show in the afternoon called the Tom and Jerry/Woody Woodpecker show (unedited too).

I started videotaping the LTs around 1985 when ABC picked up the rights to the series. I think the incarnation was the Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes show or something like that. I don't have any of those tapes though. (So much for Betamax) The earliest tapes I have are from the Bugs/Tweety Show and Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon around 1990. Back then they still showed this guy:


:bosko:

[sun]

I have loved what is termed" Classic Cartoons" since l955...We had this theater on the south side of Chicao, the"Shore" named so since it was close to the lake, and I was in walking distance to it....There were 10-12 theaters that had some kind of affiliatation with Warner Bros. AT one time, I think l949, Studios could own theaters, but the Supreme Court ruled against it...Any way, there still was some loose affiliation at these theaters in 1955. They were called the Stanley Warner Theaters...
TV was taking the crowds from the shows, so they came up with this idea, 25 cartoons, 25 cents. On school holidays, other kinds of events..I remember watching my first Road Runner at one of these shows. Now, if that could be done, (I don't think anyone would take the financial gamble, it would be called a "festival." Watching all those toons at once on a large screan, no breaks, one after the other, is something I will always remember as being great fun. One of the best times of my childhood. thats how I got started on toons.

[John Doe]

...the late 1960's and early 1970's. Our TV station showed a mix of 1948-1959 LT and MM shorts + all 78 of what turned out to be the redrawn LT. I wondered to myself at that time why those LT looked so inferior to the other shorts. By the late 1980's, I finally discovered the truth. :D

[Cartman]

I have been watching these classic cartoons all my life. Most of the kids from my generation (the 80's) liked modern stuff like He-Man and Smurfs. I first started liking Disney, WB, MGM, and Popeye. Later on, I was pretty much a WB fan. Now I am more of a Disney fan, but I still like the cartoons from other studios.

[Crazy Tom]

As long as I can remember, I've always enjoyed classic cartoons, but I go through stretches where I just see all Disney, or all MGM, or all WB, or all something else, just to be interested in what each company has. Personally, it's quite a treat to see classic animation still being broadcast on TV, because today's stuff does not match up with the classics.

Oh, and a word to the wise, CN...stop wrecking the classics and put back those edited scenes, even if you put them on TCM, where those cartoons should go! We do live in America, last time I checked.

[CookieS]

oh now, now. I don't think cartoons of today are supposed to be like classic cartoons. There has to be change, otherwise you'd never be able to set things apart. Just like all other entertainment, it is reflected by the cultre and the times. We were a different breed of people in the 1940s than we are today, so don't diss modern toons.

I've been a big fan of classic cartoons ever since they aired on Saturday mornings back in the 80s. I suppose my first exposure was the Bug Bunny and Looney Tunes stuff on ABC. I actually didn't see a black and white cartoon until later when Nick started showing them.

I totally agree with Crazy Tom. Cartoon Network needs to stop editing these cartoons. I mean, its like they are stripping away the memories and feelings of the people of the past. Oh some things are taboo, but I swear, we need to stop being politically correct, and start being real.

[Daffyfan2002]

I think it's been quite a while for me. I remember watching the "Bugs and Tweety" show when that was on ABC on Saturdays, so I'd say around the time that aired.

[Vdubdavid]

I've liked the Warner Bros. for as long as I can remember. I started watching them back in the late 80's and early 90's. I used to think all the pre-48's I saw were Wartime Cartoons (I have that tape)! I've only now discovered that Tom & Jerry and Popeye were very well made too. I actually thought for a long time that the redrawn Popeye's were the original ones!