Steve Carras
04-13-2003, 07:49 PM
In keeping with both the last of the Eddie Selzer comments, and with the RECURRING FALSEHOODS ones..
I recall (as a teenager) in the 1970s reading stuff like (in the review that I noted elsehwere in 1975 of BB Superstar) "Carl W.Stalling was the veteran music director and producer" and thinking "HEY! He was only the first of those!" At the time, I didn't know of Selzer (whose name I have knowledge of only thanks to GREAT MOVIE CARTOON PARADE, 1976 in Great britian and 1979 in US, by an author the aforecited Ralph Stevenson mentions in HIS book, David Rider of FILMS AND FILMING), but did, thanks to credits of Schlesinger who's said to have "organzied the original Warner Bros.cartoon production unit", as opposed to being producer. Also until 1977 when I saw Shuffle off to buffalo I didn't know of Harman and ising's involvement.
I saw all KINDS of stuff I disagreed with-"Mel Blanc did all the voices"-"ALL the characters were mindlessly violent"-not even mentioning Chuck's humanitarin version of Bugs or anyone's version of porky, who was BARELY violent; the famous "Mr.magoo"-like character-Elmer; not to mention in 1983 in KIDS TV FIRST 25 YEARS(, Stuat Fischer, IRONICALLY facts on File ;) ) as I've pointed out, allKINDS of wrong information: Jack WRATHER of LASSIE fame as a Warner producer? Mel Blanc doing allthe voices?(granted credits for the animated BEANY are right,including unbilled voices), and also, TV ROCK, as late as 1988, by Mark Bego, mentioned H-B's Josie and the Pussycats as H-B's idea, when in FACT they originated in ARCHIE comics (JOSIE even has ONSCREEN credit!!), and so on.
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Now of course, that's been cleared up..but..of course, research (most notably theatrical era voices besides Mel's) needs to be done..
Anyway, back to the seventies issue, in a transisitional phase that this is, it's not surprsing to see comments like those that Howard Fein started his CARTOON FALSEHOODS thread with, like Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes are one and the same and so on.
I recall (as a teenager) in the 1970s reading stuff like (in the review that I noted elsehwere in 1975 of BB Superstar) "Carl W.Stalling was the veteran music director and producer" and thinking "HEY! He was only the first of those!" At the time, I didn't know of Selzer (whose name I have knowledge of only thanks to GREAT MOVIE CARTOON PARADE, 1976 in Great britian and 1979 in US, by an author the aforecited Ralph Stevenson mentions in HIS book, David Rider of FILMS AND FILMING), but did, thanks to credits of Schlesinger who's said to have "organzied the original Warner Bros.cartoon production unit", as opposed to being producer. Also until 1977 when I saw Shuffle off to buffalo I didn't know of Harman and ising's involvement.
I saw all KINDS of stuff I disagreed with-"Mel Blanc did all the voices"-"ALL the characters were mindlessly violent"-not even mentioning Chuck's humanitarin version of Bugs or anyone's version of porky, who was BARELY violent; the famous "Mr.magoo"-like character-Elmer; not to mention in 1983 in KIDS TV FIRST 25 YEARS(, Stuat Fischer, IRONICALLY facts on File ;) ) as I've pointed out, allKINDS of wrong information: Jack WRATHER of LASSIE fame as a Warner producer? Mel Blanc doing allthe voices?(granted credits for the animated BEANY are right,including unbilled voices), and also, TV ROCK, as late as 1988, by Mark Bego, mentioned H-B's Josie and the Pussycats as H-B's idea, when in FACT they originated in ARCHIE comics (JOSIE even has ONSCREEN credit!!), and so on.
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Now of course, that's been cleared up..but..of course, research (most notably theatrical era voices besides Mel's) needs to be done..
Anyway, back to the seventies issue, in a transisitional phase that this is, it's not surprsing to see comments like those that Howard Fein started his CARTOON FALSEHOODS thread with, like Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes are one and the same and so on.