Previously, I stated that the influence of the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers cartoon series have entirely own a debt to probably the most unpredictable cartoon outing: The 1940s Columbia cartoons. I have watched them simultaneously with the Columbia ones when they came to me all new in 2008.
Russel Marcus is credited at creator of the TV show, has wrote a fewer of them, but didn't producing anything from the characters. It's Timothy Björklund wh do that in every season 1's segments until for season 2, John McIntyre has took his place. Regardless of who in charge of it, Disney can't keep silently to this mistake and reason why the company itself want to never pronounced the cartoon series all again, to the dimsay of its respectful fans like me.
On a point that I start to ended the season 1 review of the show, we can trust historian and animation teacher Steve Stanchfield, as that every animation snobs knows, he is a Home Video freelancer by himself, by have to secured films elements prints of very rarest animated works from worldwide and given it like anew with the tools he own by himself! It results of Stanchfield at a company, and where he were helped by a team of great and talented people to restored and remastered the films that otherwise, will all fallen to oblivion. If one where we have to give credits for the preservation of classic animation on a larger scale in the streaming medium age, it's him!
And he posted yesterday by Cartoon Research another Columbia oddity I discovered for the first time. The Crystal Gazer (1941) is... bizarre in any levels!
Directed by Sid Marcus, (Russel's grandfather?) he is regarded at a highly competent animation director, by also worked to the creation of the Tasmanian Devil by own a story credit for Devil May Hare (1954), while worked at Warners on the Robert McKimson unit throughout a 6-months shutdown of the studio. He also worked at director in several Lantz cartoons from the 1960s and it was the last great batch from the studio that didn't sucks! Compare the fluid and sophisticated designs of his to the bland, rigid and highly depressing ones form Paul J. Smith and see if they were came all from alternate universe by working to the same characters.
But I admit this one is just corny, and where every scenes require a gag from nowhere, especially in the Egypt scenes, when mummies singing, dancing and stuff like that for no rhyme or reason. Maybe the producer wanted to took his part of what makes the Tex Avery's comedic work in Warners at genius and revolutionnary, but despite some production values, this one is just forced and serve no points, but to just admired its set of weirdness.
The cartoon took again the Columbia's response to the Egghead/Elmer Fudd character, by be a future teller -- to thinking that this is the same character we have saw at a dumb contestant in the just-seen The Cuckoo I.Q. from the same year -- But he is more moronic than funny. Avery never would tolerated this any minute if he was producer of this thing.
I suppose that this Shmegghead character would be part of the Mr. Whiskers' off-beat and dumb personality and why it came out in our lives. Not Stimpy, Patrick Starfish, Roger Rabbit and its likes! Truly, one need to watch the Columbia cartoons from the 1940s decade to figure that this is by it that Brandy Harrington, Mr. Whiskers and the rest of the colorful Amazon Rainforest Jungle cast could be a real TV series six decades later, even by the commeupance from a corporation which it can't trust.
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