tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post1012808582784564556..comments2024-03-28T21:16:57.556-07:00Comments on Yowp: A Trick QuestionYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-43908407290940504412014-04-08T16:37:54.225-07:002014-04-08T16:37:54.225-07:00"To be honest, I thought the first few Beary ...<i>"To be honest, I thought the first few Beary Family cartoons were decent, thanks to both Jack Hannah (who directed the first shorts) and the Disney writers, Dick Kinney and Al Bertino. The series went way downhill once both Dick and Al stopped writing for Lantz and Smith was getting very bad at directing."</i><br /><br />It's definite to see how the decline happens.<br /><br /><i>"Why Sid Marcus didn't direct any is beyond me. I guess he was like everyone else here and didn't think the series had potential."</i><br /><br />Funny if they didn't force it on him, though it would've been interesting to see what he could've done with it.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-72774098492940662472014-04-08T16:29:34.070-07:002014-04-08T16:29:34.070-07:00They sorta fell into it by necessity really.They sorta fell into it by necessity really.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-4619091202132340112012-12-25T17:26:49.721-08:002012-12-25T17:26:49.721-08:00To be honest, I thought the first few Beary Family...To be honest, I thought the first few Beary Family cartoons were decent, thanks to both Jack Hannah (who directed the first shorts) and the Disney writers, Dick Kinney and Al Bertino. The series went way downhill once both Dick and Al stopped writing for Lantz and Smith was getting very bad at directing.<br /><br />Why Sid Marcus didn't direct any is beyond me. I guess he was like everyone else here and didn't think the series had potential.<br />nickramernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-37421373355885938452012-12-25T17:26:18.898-08:002012-12-25T17:26:18.898-08:00Yogi my favorite cartoon character, love to watch ...Yogi my favorite cartoon character, love to watch him and his show, and never miss any of the soap, it is always a fun loving experience every time, always excited to watch him.<br />Camellia Jhonsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02256678019959467786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-44649987369810996582012-12-25T17:24:36.204-08:002012-12-25T17:24:36.204-08:00The only one to blame for The ''Yo Yogi...<br />The only one to blame for The ''Yo Yogi'' concept is ''Muppet Babbies'' that led to an odd trend in cartoons which is called babyfication. For example: ''Jungle Cubs'', ''Baby Looney Tunes'', ''The Flintstones Kids'', ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo''. By the way the last two were actually very pleasant to watch.<br /><br />Would jump at joy if we had Yo Yogi on Boomerang channel.......if anything Hanna-Barbera made was currently on Boomerang and if Puppy in Pockets wasn't, Garfield wasn't, The Batman wasn't, Ben 10 wasn't, if Cow and Chicken wasn't, if Cartoonito wasn't and definetely if Almost Naked Animals wasn't. Not only should the cartoons be as they used to be, but Boomerang should be as it used to be.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-13086202711156165772012-12-25T17:24:08.724-08:002012-12-25T17:24:08.724-08:00To be fair to the Lantz's crew, this was just ...<br />To be fair to the Lantz's crew, this was just the latest case of the studio following what had been successful elsewhere -- they tried to mirror the Disney style in a few late 30s color cartoons, and Shamus Culhane brought over more of a Jones-Tashlin stylization to the studio's efforts in the mid-40s.<br /><br />For the 60s work, it wasn't as much the H-B style that made the Lantz shorts on the whole annoying; it was the ill-conceived characters (obligatory Paul Smith bad animation directing reference here) and weak stories that turned them into six-minute time killers for 'B' movie theaters or drive-ins still showing cartoons. If the studio had retained their 1950s style (which had its own problems) or even luxuriated in the animation $$$ MGM was shelling out to Jones to revive the Tom & Jerry series, the cartoons with the same storywork and character personalities still would have been failures (kind of like Jones' T&J stuff -- at least if someone had given Chuck the Beary Family he could have simply turned into a revival of his Three Bears cartoons of the 1940s).<br />J Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-28271046861404081232012-12-25T17:23:46.182-08:002012-12-25T17:23:46.182-08:00And seeing any golden age credit is just as bad on...And seeing any golden age credit is just as bad on ANY later carton, regardless..even if the idea never existed before the show (Beverly Hills Teens & TUrbo Teen being jsut TWO 80s examples of cartoons with no characters previously existing, an eighties oddity in itself, that were crsapy carotoons yet had--or, rather, wasted--so many veterans.) And the just-deceased Lucille Bliss may be better known for the rather infeiroir (apologies forthcoming) "The SMurfs", not for "Crusader Rabbit" (though that, admittedly, was at last count 60 years ago.)Steve Pokeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-82078065466830990972012-12-25T17:23:19.922-08:002012-12-25T17:23:19.922-08:00Well, Wayne, the studio had a bad rap before that....Well, Wayne, the studio had a bad rap before that. But no cartoonist, in their right mind, would come up with the concept. It reeks of TV executive logic.<br /><br />I feel bad watching credits and seeing the names of fine veteran animators who were reduced to churning out bastardisations of funny cartoons. It’s certainly never their fault. Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-22077669673894025112012-12-25T17:23:01.274-08:002012-12-25T17:23:01.274-08:00I never even heard of Yo, Yogi until now. Just saw...I never even heard of Yo, Yogi until now. Just saw clip on YouTube. Stuff like that is why H-B have gotten bad rap from most animation historians. It was real sad to see what they had become by the end. For me, Hanna Barbera's best years were the Screen Gems era (1957-1965). After that things really went downhill.<br />waynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087389146076421807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-3943235331874075812012-12-25T17:22:18.655-08:002012-12-25T17:22:18.655-08:00Jesus! I'm recognizing these images!
They'...Jesus! I'm recognizing these images!<br />They're from the 1st The Beary's Family Album theatrical short, Fowled-Up Birthday, produced by Walter Lantz for Universal Pictures in 1962, having the Disney disciple Jack Hannah on the direction, with the animation done by two other Disney disciples: Don Lusk (who worked years after on Hanna-Barbera) and Roy Jenkins.<br />rodineisilveirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751345474415214163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-70929777167772560932012-12-25T17:21:50.768-08:002012-12-25T17:21:50.768-08:00At least Mr. Lusk managed to pull in there, though...At least Mr. Lusk managed to pull in there, though sad if he ended up on stuff like Yo, Yogi anyway. Christopher Sobieniakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.com