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Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the wonder dog were created by Gene Deitch in the mid- fifties at the Terrytoons studio for CBS.
In the winter of 1994 I was hired by Nickelodeon to work on a proposed TV movie that would revive Tom and Manfred. During that time I painted about ten of these little pictures to show how they might look in color (the original cartoons were in black and white.) I wasn't sure what color Manfred was, so I called Eli Bauer, who among many other things wrote and designed episodes of Tom Terrific. He said Manfred was pink, so pink he was!
The movie never got made. About ten years later, I did some more drawings of Tom and Manfred for another proposal. That one didn't happen either.
In the winter of 1994 I was hired by Nickelodeon to work on a proposed TV movie that would revive Tom and Manfred. During that time I painted about ten of these little pictures to show how they might look in color (the original cartoons were in black and white.) I wasn't sure what color Manfred was, so I called Eli Bauer, who among many other things wrote and designed episodes of Tom Terrific. He said Manfred was pink, so pink he was!
The movie never got made. About ten years later, I did some more drawings of Tom and Manfred for another proposal. That one didn't happen either.
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Trivia:
Gene Deitch actually directed a series of Tom & Jerry cartoons in the 60s. They were quite a departure from the Hanna/Barbera material, in terms of their styling, music and sound FX.
Here's a primer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-0v0PQII8c
Gene Deitch actually directed a series of Tom & Jerry cartoons in the 60s. They were quite a departure from the Hanna/Barbera material, in terms of their styling, music and sound FX.
Here's a primer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-0v0PQII8c
There are times when I think I just hallucinated those Tom Terrific cartoons, and that they were never on the air. A few years ago, though, I watched a tape of a Tom Terrific story -- unless I was hallucinating again, thee really was such a cartoon. (It wasn't one of the ones with Crabby Appleton, unfortunately.)
Koko was sort of famous... if you knew anything about the history of animation and the Fleischer Brothers.
(Here's one for you historians out there -- in one Fleischer cartoon, a butcher's truck drives by -- lettered in Yiddish. What is the in-joke?)
Local area shows are usually the hardest to find out anything about. In Toronto we got several US stations out of Buffalo in the 1950s. I recall one of the kids' shows was an "Uncle Mike and Buttons the Cabin Boy." I remember it clearly, in at least two incarnations. One nautical, the other vaudiville. But I have never found any information out about it on the internet, despite a couple of searches.
(Here's one for you historians out there -- in one Fleischer cartoon, a butcher's truck drives by -- lettered in Yiddish. What is the in-joke?)
Local area shows are usually the hardest to find out anything about. In Toronto we got several US stations out of Buffalo in the 1950s. I recall one of the kids' shows was an "Uncle Mike and Buttons the Cabin Boy." I remember it clearly, in at least two incarnations. One nautical, the other vaudiville. But I have never found any information out about it on the internet, despite a couple of searches.
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