Vintage Cartoons

[peachexploration]

We got sidetracked (as usual) :lol: in one of the threads regarding cartoons. There are so many that I have forgotten about like Scooby Doo, Mr. Magoo, The Underdog, Fat Albert, Archie and Jughead, Huckleberry Hound, Mighty Mouse.....What are some that you remember?

[tj]

When you say "Vintage Cartoons", I think of black/white & 20's era cartoons like Betty Boop, for instance.

How far back does your def'n go? Spiderman was like the 60's right? And Bugs Bunny was the 50's, I think.

[peachexploration]

Oh those would work too. Betty Boop is a cool one that I've forgotten also. Even the early Mickey Mouse stuff or there was a character like that, in the Betty Boop genre. I'm not sure if it was Mickey or not but I remember watching and loving it as a kid.

[tj]

How about Popeye, Speed Racer, hmmm.... I'm sure there are others.

[Vince A]

I don't remember . . . all of those were before (cough-cough, bulls**t) my time!

[pygmalion]

Aquaman. Kimba, the Friendly White Lion. Johnny Quest. How about Tobor, the eighth man? ( I only vaguely remember that one. I was TINY!) Felix the Cat. Secret Squirrel. Snagglepuss. The Funky Phantom. George of the Jungle. The Lone Ranger.

(Lordy, Lordy. I'm just realizing that I spent ALL of my formative years in front of the boob tube. :shock: :lol: )

A lot of them have contemporary remakes.

[dancin_feet]

Casper, the friendly ghost. :)

[Genesius Redux]

Jenn proves once again that she and I were separated at birth--two of my very faves were Johnny Quest (Haji and Bandit rule!) and Kimba the White Lion (ripped off by Disney!). Also Speed Racer of course and Gigantor. I used to like the Wacky Racers, especially Dick Dastardly and Mutley--and Penelope Pitstop! And Bugs and friends--because those get funnier as you grow up.

[pygmalion]

Penelope Pitstop rules! :D I loved her southern accent and her flair for understatement. 8)

[DancingMommy]

Plasticman!!!!!

[Phil Owl]

They just don't make 'em like they used to that's fer sure!

My Faves:

Mighty Mouse (with its hilarious operatic fight scenes and all, classic stuff!)
Bat Fink hilarious stuff!
Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse Batman creator Bob Kane spoofing himself
Cool McCool Bob Kane strikes again lampooning secret agents
Space Angel
Captain Fathom
The Pink Panther slapstick is a universal language!
Ant and the Aardvark - Gotta love a hungry aardvark with a NY Yiddish accent
Lancelot Link-Secret Chimp - Get Smart done with live chimps!
ANY Jay Ward cartoon like Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairytales, Fractured Flickers, Mr. Peabody's Improbable History, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, Superchicken and the lesser known, Hoppity Hooper (which was BRILLIANT!)
Jonny Quest
The World of Commander McBragg
The really old B&W Popeye cartoons where everyone mumbled and muttered-HILARIOUS!
The MGM Tom & Jerry's (the Hannah-Barbera ones were LAME!)

[Phil Owl]

Penelope Pitstop rules! :D I loved her southern accent and her flair for understatement. 8)

Yeah, come to think of it, she was pretty hilarious with her southern-inflected understatement! :lol:

[Spitfire]

Beany and Cecil the seasick sea serpent.

Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.

[DWise1]

Beany and Cecil the seasick sea serpent.

Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.
Beany and Cecil as puppets? Or the latter-day version as animated characters?

Actually, I only barely remember having seen them as puppets where I was very young (as he quickly tries to recover from that slip that showed his age).

Actually, I'm sorry to say, most of the ones listed are way after my time.

Who remembers when the movie theaters always had double features? With a cartoon, like an old Tom&Jerry (I remember the zoot-suit one and I'm sure somebody in it did the Shorty George), shown between the two features? How's about the cartoons where you were to follow the bouncing ball for a sing-along?

[pygmalion]

Dwise1, it sounds like you're a contemporary of my some of my siblings. My sister used to call him "Theethil the theethick thea therpent." (A family joke.) She had trouble with esses (S's.) Her name is Stephanie. Must have made for some interesting formative years. LOL.

[Spitfire]

Beany and Cecil the seasick sea serpent.

Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.
Beany and Cecil as puppets? Or the latter-day version as animated characters?

Actually, I only barely remember having seen them as puppets where I was very young (as he quickly tries to recover from that slip that showed his age).

Actually, I'm sorry to say, most of the ones listed are way after my time.

Who remembers when the movie theaters always had double features? With a cartoon, like an old Tom&Jerry (I remember the zoot-suit one and I'm sure somebody in it did the Shorty George), shown between the two features? How's about the cartoons where you were to follow the bouncing ball for a sing-along?

The cartoon from the 1960's. I don't remember them as puppets - except those sold as toys.

Yeah, I remember the double features; do any theatres do this anymore?
I only saw cartoons at the drive-in's and never indoors - the exception being at the post theatres when I was serving in the Army.

[pygmalion]

A couple of recent animated kids' films have had cartoon shorts first. Is that what you mean? Other than that, I haven't seen a double feature except at one "dollar" theater when I was very young. It was an old mom and pop place that ran second run movies. Since the advent of the cineplex, I haven't seen a double feature. Nice idea, though.

[DWise1]

A couple of recent animated kids' films have had cartoon shorts first. Is that what you mean? Other than that, I haven't seen a double feature except at one "dollar" theater when I was very young. It was an old mom and pop place that ran second run movies. Since the advent of the cineplex, I haven't seen a double feature. Nice idea, though.
Ditto on the death of the double feature. After the rise of the cineplexes circa 1971, the only places showing double features, besides a few old independents, were the drive-ins. Are there any drive-ins out there still? I certainly know of none in So. Calif. for several years now.

There were a few disadvantages to double features as the standard. I only knew of my father going to the movies once in my life, when the three of us went to see "Lawrence of Arabia" (that's when my mother knew I was old enough to go to movies so now she had somebody to go with). His problem was that after a long day of work he couldn't sit through two movies without falling asleep, so he never went (LoA was a special showing of a single film).

The other disadvantage was that you'd end up eliminating potential movie nights out because you had already seen the second feature. Remember the manned-space disaster movie, "Marooned"? My mother-in-law hated that movie. Not the first time she saw it, but rather the umpteenth time that it was the second feature.

But now with nobody to go to the movies with (though I did go alone to "Return of the King"), I end up waiting for the video/DVD to come out on everything and rent it. Though I'm finding that I do not always recognize the titles when they do come out.

[pygmalion]

I've been to a drive-in!!! Miraculous, since they're mostly dead or dying. When I was little, there was one theater in the Philadelphia area. The last movie I saw there was Close Encounters of the Third Kind (double feature with Journey to the Center of the Earth. An aside: is there such a thing as a C movie? If so, that was one. LOL) I believe that theater closed not long after, certainly before 1980.

And I went to see Free Willy in a double feature with an actual good movie (Jurassic Park, maybe?) at a drive-in in Trexlertown, PA (near Allentown.) I believe that theater closed, too, about four years ago.


It's a pity, really. A drive-in is a totally different experience than an indoor movie. Oh well. The ending of an era.

[Spitfire]

Are there any drive-ins out there still? I certainly know of none in So. Calif. for several years now.

Yep, there's one within a block of my home which has three or four screens. It is called the De Anza.

[DWise1]

Let's see, the last we went was in '93 for Elijah Wood's "Adventures of Huck Finn" (don't you just love Google?). I'm pretty sure that that drive-in, one of the last in the county, closed within 2-3 years. So their dying out six to 8 years ago sounds about right.

We found them really good for when our boys were way too little. I wonder what young parents do now. Of course, our drive-in season was year-around, while it can only be a summer thing up north. I remember that the drive-in where I was stationed in North Dakota was a summer-only thing and it seemed to only run B-sleaze movies. But then we you also consider that dusk came much later in the summer evenings (I remember there still being a light touch of twilight when I'd get off duty at midnight), all the families would have already gone to bed, so I guess they didn't have much choice but to run it as a passion pit. BTW, it was also long gone when we visited there this year.

Was that the "Journey to the Center of the Earth" with James Mason and Pat Boone? As I understand, that was a major release in its time (1959 -- thank you again, Google) and I remember seeing it in the kid's matinees (35 cents) when I was a kid. Since its style was still current then and there was nothing better to compare its special effects to, I found it OK. But for a young-un like you in post-"Star Wars" 1980, I'm sure that it was really showing its age. I'd say that was poor judgment on the drive-in's part.

[pygmalion]

What's that saying? "Better living through google?" :wink: :lol:

As it turns out, there are some functional drive-ins still out there. Here's a web site that lists drive-ins (and, sadly, closings) all over the US as well as some in Australia. Enjoy. 8)

http://w w w.driveinmovie.com

[pygmalion]

Ha! I'm going to a drive-in near me on Thursday night. Get this. $3 per CARLOAD of people. Now how's that for a bargain? 8)

[chachagirlie]

...hmm...back to cartoons... :D

Does anyone remember a puppet animation show called "Fireball XL-5"?
I loved it!...also Rocky & Bullwinkle.

[pygmalion]

Hey. I can digress with the best of 'em. :oops: :lol:

Fireball XL-5 I don't remember, but Rocky and Bullwinkle were tops! 8)

[pygmalion]

Actually, Natasha was tops. Rocky and Bullwinkle were just there for decoration. Natasha rules! :wink: :lol:

You know, the funny thing is that I didn't realize until I saw some shows recently that Rocky and Bullwinkle was political satire/commentary. When I was little, it was just good cartoon entertainment. *shrug*