Disney's Cartoon 'Bosko, The Talk-Ink'
In 1929 former Disney animators Hugh Harmanﾧ and Rudolf Isingﾧ made a cartoon entitled Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kidﾧ, and tried to sell it to a distributor in 1930. Warner Bros.ﾧ who had previously tried an unsuccessful attempt to set up a cartoon studio in New York in order to compete with Disney, agreed to distribute the series. Under producer Leon Schlesingerﾧ's guide Harman and Ising created Looney Tunesﾧ (the title being variation on Disney's Silly Symphonies) starring their character Boskoﾧ. A second Harman-Ising series, Merrie Melodiesﾧ, followed in 1931. Both series showed the strong influence of the early Disney films.
After disputes over money, Harman-Ising parted company with Schlesinger in 1933, taking Bosko with them. Schlesinger …show more content…
After DePatie-Freleng ceased production of Looney Tunes in 1967, Bill Hendricks was put in charge of production of the newly renamedWarner Bros.-Seven Artsﾧ animation studio, and hired veterans such as Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding from the Walter Lantz studio, Volus Jones and Ed Solomon from Disney, Jaime Diaz who later worked on The Fairly OddParentsﾧ as director, and David Hanan, who previously worked on Roger Ramjetﾧ. Hendricks brought only three of the original Looney Tunes veterans to the studio such as Ted Bonniscken, Norman McCabe and Bob Givens. The studio's one shot cartoons from this era were critically acclaimed. Cool Cat, Merlin the Magic Mouse, Norman Normal and Chimp and Zee were praised as being highly creative and having extremely clever writing and design that compensated for the extremely low budgets the crew had to work with by this time. Alex Lovy left the studio in 1968 and Robert McKimson took over. McKimson mostly focused on the recurring characters Alex Lovy had created and two of his own creation, Bunny and Claude. The last of the original Looney Tunes shorts produced was Bugged by a Bee and the last Merrie Melodies short was Injun Trouble, which shares its name with another Looney Tunes short from 1938. The Warner Bros.-Seven Arts studio finally shut down …show more content…
Especially in the quality of animation. Prior to the 90s Technicolor was widely used and produced a similar look to that of current anime films as far as color went. Body proportions were also more realistic in the cartoons produced prior to the 90s, which gave them, in my opinion, a more sophisticated look. With the shift from realistic body proportions to a “anything goes, decide what you want” mindset, as well as more vivid colors, a trend seemed to emerge that progressively geared cartoons to younger and younger ages as time passed. For example, when I was 12 there were cartoons like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Titans, and Digimon, all showing regularly on TV. However now Teen Titans which showed on Cartoon Network has been replaced by idiocies such as Chowder and The Misadventures of Flapjack. On Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender has been replaced by moronic shows like T.U.F.F PUPPY, Johnny Test, and yet another season of Fairly Odd Parents, each with absolutely no plot, storyline, or point to it all. Disney has also taken a turn for the worse. Shows like Digimon, which had a very well developed plot, ceased to be shown sometime around 2004, although the specific date I cannot remember. Digimon was replaced by more shows with absolutely no purpose. Had producers decided to create cartoons with more mature storylines there could be
After disputes over money, Harman-Ising parted company with Schlesinger in 1933, taking Bosko with them. Schlesinger …show more content…
After DePatie-Freleng ceased production of Looney Tunes in 1967, Bill Hendricks was put in charge of production of the newly renamedWarner Bros.-Seven Artsﾧ animation studio, and hired veterans such as Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding from the Walter Lantz studio, Volus Jones and Ed Solomon from Disney, Jaime Diaz who later worked on The Fairly OddParentsﾧ as director, and David Hanan, who previously worked on Roger Ramjetﾧ. Hendricks brought only three of the original Looney Tunes veterans to the studio such as Ted Bonniscken, Norman McCabe and Bob Givens. The studio's one shot cartoons from this era were critically acclaimed. Cool Cat, Merlin the Magic Mouse, Norman Normal and Chimp and Zee were praised as being highly creative and having extremely clever writing and design that compensated for the extremely low budgets the crew had to work with by this time. Alex Lovy left the studio in 1968 and Robert McKimson took over. McKimson mostly focused on the recurring characters Alex Lovy had created and two of his own creation, Bunny and Claude. The last of the original Looney Tunes shorts produced was Bugged by a Bee and the last Merrie Melodies short was Injun Trouble, which shares its name with another Looney Tunes short from 1938. The Warner Bros.-Seven Arts studio finally shut down …show more content…
Especially in the quality of animation. Prior to the 90s Technicolor was widely used and produced a similar look to that of current anime films as far as color went. Body proportions were also more realistic in the cartoons produced prior to the 90s, which gave them, in my opinion, a more sophisticated look. With the shift from realistic body proportions to a “anything goes, decide what you want” mindset, as well as more vivid colors, a trend seemed to emerge that progressively geared cartoons to younger and younger ages as time passed. For example, when I was 12 there were cartoons like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Titans, and Digimon, all showing regularly on TV. However now Teen Titans which showed on Cartoon Network has been replaced by idiocies such as Chowder and The Misadventures of Flapjack. On Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender has been replaced by moronic shows like T.U.F.F PUPPY, Johnny Test, and yet another season of Fairly Odd Parents, each with absolutely no plot, storyline, or point to it all. Disney has also taken a turn for the worse. Shows like Digimon, which had a very well developed plot, ceased to be shown sometime around 2004, although the specific date I cannot remember. Digimon was replaced by more shows with absolutely no purpose. Had producers decided to create cartoons with more mature storylines there could be