Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Paul Houlton Terry ( February 19 1887 - October 25, 1971) was an American Cartoonist, Screenwriter, The studio, located in New Rochelle, New York, United States, operated from 1928 to 1968. New Rochelle ( French: Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in the south-east portion of the U The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Its most popular characters included Mighty Mouse, Gandy Goose, Dinky Duck, Deputy Dawg, Luno and Heckle and Jeckle; these cartoons and all of its others were released to theatres under the studio's solitary Terrytoons banner by 20th Century Fox. Mighty Mouse is an animated Superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. Gandy Goose was a classic Terrytoons Cartoon character He was frequently paired with Sourpuss, a cat beginning in the 1939 short "The Owl and Dinky Duck was a Terrytoons Cartoon character Deputy Dawg was originally a Terrytoons Cartoon character featured on the animated Television series of the same name from Luno The White Stallion was a Terry Toons television series that aired in the mid-1960s Heckle and Jeckle was a theatrical Cartoon series created by Paul Terry, and released by his own studio Terrytoons.
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History
Before Terrytoons
Terry first worked for Bray Studios in 1916, where he created the Farmer Al Falfa series. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This is an article about the US animation studio See Bray Studios (UK for the studio where many Hammer Horror films were created Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Farmer Al Falfa (also known as Farmer Alfalfa) the quintessential grizzly old farmer type is an animated cartoon character created by American He then would then make a Farmer Al Falfa short for Edison Pictures, called "Farmer Al Falfa's Wayward Pup" (1917), and some later cartoons were made for Paramount Pictures. Edison Studios was an American Motion picture production company owned by the Edison Company of inventor Thomas Edison. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California.
Circa 1921, Terry founded the Fables animation studio, named for its Aesop's Film Fables series, in conjunction with Amadee J. Van Beuren. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Aesop's Film Fables was a series of animated short subjects created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. Van Beuren Studios was an Animation studio that produced theatrical cartoons from 1928 to 1936 Fables churned out a Fable cartoon every week for eight years in the 1920s. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada In 1928, Van Bueren, anxious to compete with the new phenomenon of talking pictures, released Terry's Dinner Time (released October 1928). Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image as opposed to a Silent film. Dinner Time ( 1928) is an animated Short subject produced and directed by Paul Terry, co-directed by John Foster, and produced Van Beuren then urged Terry to start producing actual sound films, instead of post-synchronizing the cartoons. Terry refused, and Van Beuren fired him in 1929. Almost immediately, Terry and much of his staff started up the Terrytoons studio.
Heyday
Through much of its history, the studio was considered one of the lowest-quality houses in the field, to the point where Paul Terry noted, "Disney is the Tiffany's in this business, and I am the Woolworth's. Tiffany & Co ( is a US jewelry and silverware company founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City The F W Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's) was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores " Terry's studio had the lowest budgets and was among the slowest to adapt to new technologies such as sound (in about 1930) and Technicolor (in 1942), while its graphic style remained remarkably static for decades. A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image as opposed to a Silent film. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Background music was entrusted to one man, Philip Scheib, and Terry's refusal to pay royalties for popular songs forced Scheib to compose his own scores. Paul Terry took pride in producing a new cartoon every other week, regardless of the quality of the films.
Terrytoons' first distributor was Educational Pictures, specialists in short-subject comedies and novelties. For the current and unrelated company of the same name see Educational Pictures (image archive The FoxFIlm company (later known as 20th Century-Fox) released Educational shorts to theaters in the 1930s, giving the Terry cartoons wide exposure. Framer Al Falfa was Terry's most familiar character in the 1930s; Kiko the Kangaroo was spun off the Farmer Al Falfa series. Most of the other cartoons featured generic animal characters. One of the stock designs was a scruffy dog with a black patch around one eye; Terry ultimately built a series around this character, now known as Puddy the Pup.
Paul Terry may have realized that Educational was in financial trouble, because he found another lucrative outlet for his product. In 1938 he arranged to release his older cartoons through home-movie distributor Castle Films. Castle Films was a home-movie distributor founded in California by former Newsreel cameraman Eugene W Educational went out of business within the year, but 20th Century-Fox continued to release Terrytoons to theaters for the next two decades. With a new emphasis on "star" characters, Terrytoons featured the adventures of Super Mouse (later renamed Mighty Mouse), the talking magpies Heckle and Jeckle, silly Gandy Goose, Dinky Duck, mischievous mouse Little Roquefort, and The Terry Bears. Mighty Mouse is an animated Superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. Heckle and Jeckle was a theatrical Cartoon series created by Paul Terry, and released by his own studio Terrytoons. Gandy Goose was a classic Terrytoons Cartoon character He was frequently paired with Sourpuss, a cat beginning in the 1939 short "The Owl and Dinky Duck was a Terrytoons Cartoon character
Despite the artistic drawbacks imposed by Terry's inflexible business policies, Terrytoons was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film: All Out for V in 1942, My Boy, Johnny in 1944, Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life in 1945, and Sidney's Family Tree in 1958. The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Changing hands
The studio was sold outright by the retiring Paul Terry to CBS in 1955, but 20th Century Fox (TCF) continued to distribute the studio's releases. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The following year, CBS put it under the management of UPA alumnus Gene Deitch, who had to work with even lower budgets. United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American Animation studio of the 1940s through present day beginning with industrial films Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch (born August 8, 1924 in Chicago Illinois) is an American Academy-Award winning Illustrator
Deitch's most notable works at the studio were the Tom Terrific cartoon segments for the Captain Kangaroo television show. Tom Terrific was an early Animated series on American Television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children's Captain Kangaroo was a Children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American Television network CBS from A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U He also introduced a number of new characters, such as Sick Sick Sidney, Gaston Le Crayon, John Doormat, and Clint Clobber. Deitch brought much creativity and life to the Terrytoons cartoons, but because he was the new man at the studio, he wasn't entirely welcome. An internal battle was fought by studio stalwarts and Deitch was forced out.
After Deitch was fired in 1958, Bill Weiss took control of the studio. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Under his supervision, Heckle and Jeckle and Mighty Mouse went back into production. Other new theatrical cartoon series included Hector Heathcote, Luno and Hashimoto San. In addition, the studio began producing the Deputy Dawg series for television in 1960. Deputy Dawg was originally a Terrytoons Cartoon character featured on the animated Television series of the same name from Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Another television production for the Captain Kangaroo show was The Adventures of Lariat Sam.
The most notable talent at Terrytoons in the 1960s was animator/director/producer Ralph Bakshi, who got his start with Terrytoons in the 1950s and later helmed the Mighty Heroes series. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 Ralph Bakshi (born October 29 1938 is an American director of animated and occasionally live-action films The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The Mighty Heroes was an Animated television series created by Ralph Bakshi for the Terrytoons company Bakshi would later go on to produce Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures for television in 1987. Mighty Mouse The New Adventures (not to be confused with Filmation 's The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse) was a revival of the classic
Post-history
After the departure of Bakshi after 1966, the studio petered out and finally closed in 1968. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. However, the film library was still regularly rereleased to theatres by Fox. Fortunately for the studio, its existing cartoon library saw a long life in TV reruns. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic
The Terrytoons cartoons (especially Mighty Mouse and Deputy Dawg) were syndicated to many local TV markets, and they were a staple of after-school and Saturday morning cartoon shows for over three decades, from the 1950s through the 1980s, until the television rights to the library were acquired by USA Network in 1989. A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming which was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. USA Network (commonly referred to as USA) is an American Cable television channel with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005 Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) They have seen relatively little air time since then.
In the 1970s, the CBS Films properties were spun off to create Viacom, which itself re-merged with CBS in 1999. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Viacom ( ( short for " Vi deo & A udio Com munications" is an American Media conglomerate with various worldwide interests
In the late 70's, Filmation Studios licensed the rights in order to make a new Mighty Mouse series. Later in 1987, Ralph Bakshi produced Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures which lasted for two seasons. Mighty Mouse The New Adventures (not to be confused with Filmation 's The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse) was a revival of the classic Bakshi and John Kricfalusi inspired the staff to try and get as much Jim Tyer style drawing in the show. John Kricfalusi (pron "Kris-falusi" (born Michael John Kricfalusi) better known as John K Tyer, a stand-out Terry animator of the original cartoons with a unique style, became a strong influence on the artists of the Bakshi series.
In 2002, the Terrytoons characters returned to television in an original commercial for cheese.
Through the years that have followed since the last Terrytoons TV series material in 1988, the rights have been scattered as result of prior rights issues and corporate changes involving Viacom (the ownership and distribution history is noted below). However, some Terrytoons shorts are believed to be in the public domain, and have been issued on low-budget VHS tapes and DVDs. An official reissue of Terrytoons by CBS DVD (the current home video rights holders) has yet to be announced. CBS Home Entertainment is the new Home video entertainment arm of CBS Corporation.
A brand-new feature-length animated film featuring Terrytoons is now in development by Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies. Nickelodeon Movies is the Motion picture production arm of children's cable channel Nickelodeon, originally founded in 1996
Ownership
- Independent (1928-1955, as company);
- Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. (1955-1971, as company and underlying rights to library);
- CBS Films (1971, underlying rights to library);
- Viacom and its succeeding incarnations (1971-2006, underlying rights to library);
- CBS Operations, a division of CBS Corp. CBS Corporation () is an American Media conglomerate focused on Broadcasting, Publishing, Billboards, and Television (2006-present, underlying rights to library).
Distribution
- Educational Pictures (1928 until 1938);
- 20th Century Fox (theatrical rights, 1938 until 1997);
- Viacom and its succeeding incarnations (television rights, 1971-1997)
- Paramount Pictures (theatrical and television rights, 1997-2006; and from 2006 forward, theatrical rights only on behalf of CBS);
- CBS DVD, through Paramount Home Entertainment (home video and DVD rights);
- CBS Paramount Television (television syndication rights, 2006-present). For the current and unrelated company of the same name see Educational Pictures (image archive Viacom ( ( short for " Vi deo & A udio Com munications" is an American Media conglomerate with various worldwide interests Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. CBS Home Entertainment is the new Home video entertainment arm of CBS Corporation. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. CBS Paramount Television (formerly Desilu Productions, Paramount Television, among other companies is an American Television production
External links
- Paul Terry at the Internet Movie Database
- Terrytoons at the Internet Movie Database
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