Acme Hour - 7/31/01

[Jon Cooke]

"A Mutt in a Rut"
"Little Cesario" (MGM)
"Porky's Super Service" - computer colorized
"Klondike Casanova" (Popeye)
"Papa Gets the Bird" (MGM)
"Bye Bye Bluebeard"


-Jon

[Sveven Dvorking]

Hopefully they decided to give those 1930s one-shots a rest.

One website convinced me into spelling A Mutt in a Rut as A Mutt in a Rutt. At least I broke that habit...;)

[bushnader666]

I thought CN was cutting down on 30's MGM's, but I was wrong. Tex Avery really turned around the studio.

"Little Cesario" (MGM) - Overplayed on Acme Hour, b/c of the 30's MGM rampage.

"Papa Gets the Bird" (MGM) - Yet another 30's MGM. Hugh Harman rips off co-worker Ising's Barney Bear. The only difference is that Harman's bear is homlier and is named "Papa." Note that "Bird" is not "boid" because the Hays office says so.

"Bye Bye Bluebeard" - the last Art Davis cartoon before WB shrunk to 3 units in 1950. Gets the most airtime of all Davis cartoons.

[J Lee]

The Harman-Ising MGMs used to really get a workout back in the early 1980s on WTBS, because back then MGM, like Warners, had a spilit syndication package -- All the pre-1947 non-Tom and Jerrys were in one package, while the T&Js and other post-47 toons were in another package that originally aired on CBS Saturday mornings (or at 6 a.m. Sunday if you lived in New York). The difference was that MGM owned all of its cartoons, and after 1985, Turner owned the library, so the other cartoons then started appearing on the station.

Since several of the Averys not seen today in regular rotation ("Blitz Wolf," "Uncle Tom's Cabana") along the all of the pre-47 Red cartoons were not aired (apparently "Red" was deemed too sexy for little kids) until the late 1980s, and that left very few good cartoons in the WTBS package and a lot of Harman and Ising shorts

I can go back even further to the early 1960s, when WABC in New York had the pre-47 MGM package and played them five days a week on the "Tommy Seven Show" which ran opposite the Today Show on NBC and Captain Kangaroo on CBS. Even for a little kid, watching Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs on Today got to be more interesting than repeated viewings of "Dance of the Weed" or "Poor Little Me" after a while...

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by bushnader666
I thought CN was cutting down on 30's MGM's, but I was wrong.

You may actually be right!

Papa gets the Bird was released in 1940 and Little Caesario was released in 1941.


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