A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1970

[@tindog13]

Yes, for a while this was a Thanksgiving staple for my and my brother and sister, then it just stopped. So glad to see it on KZbin, thanks!

[@greggeverman5578]

The 1970s sure had a lovely style of water colour painting.

[@nazgulabaki]

I used to watch this on Thanksgiving with my younger cousin. It gave us the opportunity, even as young children, to break away from the grown-ups at my grandparent's house and have a little independence even if all we did was watch it on an old TV.

[@tapthatt2012]

Loved these as a kid.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

@@tapthatt2012 IKR !!

[@josephbrown9076]

THANK YOU

[@billyt7081]

Orson Bean is a Legend - (Voice of Hero - Hank/Sir Boss) - He also did another of my childhood favorites - He was the voice of Bilbo Baggin's in the Rankin/Bass animated version of the Hobbit (1977). Memorable tales of yesteryear. Thanks for posting this Tap Thatt 2012.

[@chuckyoder5765]

Such a great memory of Thanksgiving past !!!

[@Mary_Kraensel]

Thank you for this!! I remember seeing this as a child in primary school and am so glad I found it!!

[@tapthatt2012]

I have a few more I want to post.

[@mmusicplus13]

Saw this one Thanksgiving Day, I was mesmerized by it. Thank you for posting it and bringing back such a great memory of that day.

[@intelligentcalisthenics]

same here. and I am from Iran, I saw it in 1983

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Same here. I remember it because for some strange reason, my father didn't have me doing something else (as usual) that day, and I was able to watch it without interruption.

[@privateprivate1865]

Absolutely beautiful artwork❤

[@terakiei]

The first isekai story, with an OP character. Except it is a good story because he being OP makes sense. A story so god they dubed it for Brazil audience. I had it on VHS.

[@intelligentcalisthenics]

last time i saw this was 1983 and since yesterday Ive watched it 8 times, very rich content

[@oscarfairley6600]

This and Treasure Island every Thanksgiving day , between parades and football.

[@intelligentcalisthenics]

1:12:11 everything was normoally forgotten until KZbin came along.

[@glenwoodreid5910]

Usually show these cartoon movies the weekend before Thanksgiving and in-between Christmas vacation. All networks and syndication. Sfm holiday network. Tap you've done it again

[@tapthatt2012]

Thought it was time to post these in best quality. Have a few more to upload. Always remember these. Usually late afternoons, with a chill in the air. Happy holiday!

[@tacopirate4488]

Some censorship. He made a machine gun for the final stand in the book. He also shot the knight dead in the dual. Other than that it was the closest book adaptation that I have found.

[@granddesade1887]

Sir Boss😂😂😂

[@jackbuckley7816]

I first saw this as an almost-teen in 1970, on a CBS Thanksgiving Day airing. Believe it was shown the next year on the day, also, which, as I recalled liking it, watched again. Lost track of it after that. Fun to see again after so many years, especially since I recently completed reading the original novel by Mark Twain, which is very good indeed, my favorite character, after Sir Boss, being Sandy. As seen in this TV production, Merlin pretty cartoony, bit of a clash with the other more realistic humans presented but okay. Twain treated the wizard in a less overtly comical style; in fact, the magician appears far less frequently than he does in this cartoon. I was surprised at how many of the novel's episodes & incidents are included in this animated version, though simplified, of course, & condensed. I like how it presented Sandy. The animation itself is crude & barely passable, with rather poorly drawn characters & scenes, many obvious money-saving techniques employed---& yet the film's amiable humor, charm, & general medieval atmosphere, along with its surprising, general faithfulness to Twain's great comedy, the latter largely a satire on the Christian religion, Catholicism in particular, absent in this cartoon version, makes it watchable nonetheless; in short, it has its moments!

[@SoloTURK11]

Anyone else just finished the book and searched it up on youtube?

[@Jonathan-w5f8y]

Pretty close to it too

[@MrPoestyle]

I am 51 and just now reading the book . I have never watched the movies or this cartoon until now .

[@matthewfergusons4318]

I like somebody like a cross between Ash Williams and the like a Yankee in King Arthur's Court in berserk he's from 21st century Colt manufacturing company in the United States gunsmith Andrew

[@terrorcop101]

I was less than a minute in and already I could tell that this was going to be very cartoonish, never mind the fact that it is a cartoon. 2:54 Always wear your helmet, kids.

[@intelligentcalisthenics]

The engineer reminds of Dolph Lundgren and the story tells us England was once saved by the Americans.

[@2up3rm4n1]

I remember this thing when it aired in 1970. I was four years old and I didn't watch all of it. Why? One word. MERLIN! That voice is creepy to a four year old.

[@행호할캥홍]

Brilliant Time machine HG well published in 1895 Mark Twain 1889 published A Yankee Arthur 6 years earlier on about time travel How mark got this inspiration as a confederate

[@redsonya3088]

❤❤❤

[@행호할캥홍]

If you drop a hammer on head is a time machine Boxing match?

[@orboakin8074]

So does this story count as the first isekai ever published?😂 But seriously, good piece of classical literature.

[@mrviking2mcall212]

Yeah pretty much, lol. This left out some good jokes from the book though, like his wife naming their baby ‘Hello, Central’ (the old greeting to phone switchboard operators) after he muttered it in his sleep, or him finding a monk endlessly walking in a circle as flagellation to bring the water back, only to rope him up to a generator.

[@orboakin8074]

@@mrviking2mcall212 Now this makes me even more interested in the actual story😲

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

5:30 June 19th, 528. Actually back then they used the Julian calendar so the year would have been about 1300. Also they spoke Old English, not modern english. Of course King Arthur is fictional. But the fact that the plot is based on using the calendar to predict the eclipse is problematic since it would have been impossible to calculate exactly the date based on Julian converted from Gregorian.

[@granddesade1887]

It's a cartoon bro

[@gsnfan]

If memory serves me right, General Mills sponsored this movie, promoting the many companies they owned at the time targeted to children and families. Kenner, Parker Bros, Lionel Trains.

[@Xalgucennia]

They got hundreds of years of technological advancement and they're still using encyclopedias at the end?

[@RANDOM-KNIGHT145]

16:39, 50:42, 52:16, 1:05:22 Knowledge is power lol