Paul Terry: Slow and Steady

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@stephenholloway6893 Жыл бұрын

One could argue that Terry helped paved the way for limited animation in terms of the different cels per body parts for example.

@RayPointerChannel 8 ай бұрын

Yes, the argument is that Terry had nothing to do with "inventing" limited animation. That came with the Bray-Hurd process of using animation cels. Bray held the Patent on that. Terry had to pay a license to use it.

@SussyPoster69 Жыл бұрын

Paul terry is super underated

@RayPointerChannel Жыл бұрын

Interesting start on chronicling the career of Paul Terry. Terry began with his Farmer Alfalfa character at The Bray Studios in 1916, which had a contract with Paramount. He was not working for Paramount. He left Bray after a year. Regarding Terry's first sound cartoon, DINNERTIME, it was being shown in New York as early as August 1928. I was September when Walt Disney came to New York to record the soundtrack for STEAMBOAT WILLIE that he was shown this cartoon, which was waiting for general release as the Keith-Orpheum theater chain was having sound equipment installed. Disney remarked on how unimpressed he was with the use of sound and he could not get RCA, who recorded DINNERTIME to follow the Post-production directions he brought with him. At that time, Disney saw the first Max Fleischer Screen Song for Paramount, SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK and was impressed. This cartoon would no be released until February since the Paramount owned theaters were also having sound equipment installed. And for the record, MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME from 1926 was silent. This has been confused with the 1930 sound re-release by Alfred Weiss, who added new animated sequences to several of the silent Ko-Ko Song Car-tunes made by Max Fleischer. So this one is not a true Fleischer sound cartoon, although he did produce 18 out of the 36 Song Car-tunes with deForest Phonofilm soundtracks, which were superior in quality to what you hear on KENTUCKY HOME. The interesting connection here is that it sounds like Weiss used the Powers Cinephone System, the same used by Walt Disney to record his early sound cartoons.

@vincentfranklin17 Жыл бұрын

Even though he appeared after Paul Terry's time, I love Deputy Dawg. Also, the Mighty Heroes! (Ropeman, Cuckoo Man, Tornado Man, Strong Man, and Diaper Man!)

@davidscott3820 Жыл бұрын

Great info thanx. I love terrytoons ever since 1959

@studiocartoonsdeluxe Жыл бұрын

I am all about your statement here: "one mans trash is another mans complete inspiration and livelihood" 100!

@GeckosLink Жыл бұрын

I have been binging your videos. Thanks for nice content that I can just have running in the background while I work.

@Dizographies Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thank you for watching :D

@anthonyperdue3557 Жыл бұрын

🤓Frank Tashlin , former animator who wrote the screenplay for the 1950 film "The Good Humor Man" starring Jack Carson who plays the title role in the only film about a comic book superhero (Captain Marvel ) that doesn't feature a live action performance of the super hero but does provide plenty of referenced presences of him : comic books , radio show excerpt , cos playing kid members of a fan club. In 1957 Tashlin directed the Dean Martin - Jerry Lewis film "Artists and Models" which centered on the comic book controversy of the time and the comic book character causing chaos in the film is the sci-fi/horror super heroine The Bat Lady! Interesting to note that Dean Martin was an avid comic book reader and his favorite character was Batman. In a TV interview done a short time after Dean's passing Jerry Lewis mentioned Dean's comic book reading and spoke of how wherever they were performing Dean would send Jerry out to buy him comic books.

@richardranke3158 7 ай бұрын

I sure remember Farmer Alfalfa...and then Mighty Mouse cartoons-and then Heckle and Jeckle, Dinky Duck, Gandy Goose,Little Roquefort and more of the classic Terrytoons-which I saw many of in my preschool days

@msgfrmdaactionman3000 9 ай бұрын

Paul Terry making educational kids programming, now I've heard everything. Thinking of the ultra violent and funny Heckel and Jeckle.

@kootunesscrewy Жыл бұрын

Jim Tyer is the true man at Terrytoons, tbh. I really love his cartoony style. Also, 7:01 didn't aged well.

@elchanchopato9601 Жыл бұрын

You're right with that last part. Despite how entertaining very few of his cartoons are, Paul Terry might be one of the very first animators in history to believe in the Animation Age Ghetto.

@thatdude6233 Жыл бұрын

@@elchanchopato9601I mean, can you even blame him at this point considering that Western animation these days are targeted towards kids?

@elchanchopato9601 Жыл бұрын

@@thatdude6233 I wouldn't say that. At this moment, we're far behind from the toy-driven cartoons era. Also, the expression of art through animation is being more and more valued when compared to profit. For that, look no more than stuff like Gravity Falls or The Owl House. They are tecnically kids shows, but they also treat topics that resonate more with adults. There are even noteworthy adult cartoons like Invincible, Helluva Boss or Unicorn: Warriors Eternal.

@thatdude6233 Жыл бұрын

@@elchanchopato9601 Here is the thing. The industry these days rely solely on serious shows, featuring characters with absolutely no personality, that that’s their moto to impress the general public. Almost all of these shows are soft marshmallows that don’t want to take risk at anything. Not to mention the artstyle in most of these shows are such a massive downgrade compared to what the industry was like 30 years ago. It’s funny that people complain about modern SpongeBob being too wacky, over expressive (and visually appealing), yet they don’t mind watching boring dribble like Owl House or Craig of the Creek with nothing amusing or enjoyable about it. I wish people in the industry nowadays would inspire old, much better cartoons like Looney Tunes or Walter Lantz. It feels to me like the industry is back to what it was in the 80’s, with cartoonists having no full control with the shows they’re making and shipping everything overseas. The only difference now is that children don’t even bother watching these garbage shows, it’s manchildren who like to pretend that animation is for everyone. (Do kids these days even watch Craig of the Creek, let alone TV?)

@RayPointerChannel 8 ай бұрын

Ever heard of Carlo Vinci? He was better.

@DanzigFan-vq3zf Жыл бұрын

It is a nice video but as a Terry fan myself tho, Paul was born in San Maeto, not San Francisco. However, he DID grow up in San Francisco Terrytoons wasn’t located in new Rochelle until 1935. They were initially located in Long Island for their first year of operation before moving to the Bronx and Manhattan. Also, two final things. 1. Isadore Klein initally came up with the Mighty Mouse concept. Paul just turned him into a mouse, apparently because a small fly would’ve been too hard to animate/see on screen (that, or the most likely option that paul just loved that old cat and mouse battle). And 2. Terry was no saint. He screwed over various staff (like his business man from audio cinema, Bill Weiss) and only gave Screen credit to the heads of the animation department, story department, and that musical man, Phil Scheib. That, and there was the strike of 47 that screwed his studio a lot. It is still a fine video tho. Nothing too bad. Terrytoons had a lot of talent going for it and one thing I can say about paul Terry is that you don’t see a lot of businessman/studio heads be involved in the production of his cartoons tbh. For better, or for worse.

@Dizographies Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the corrections and the compliments! I love to learn about these big leaders in animation and find out about their human mistakes. Disney is fascinating to me in that way, and So is Paul. Thank you for sharing!

@DanzigFan-vq3zf Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Glad to help

@RayPointerChannel 8 ай бұрын

It looks like the wrong person made this video. It's clear who did his research.

@racerx4152 10 ай бұрын

I really love the original mighty mouse and heckle and jeckle.

@willedelman7960 5 ай бұрын

For someone who claimed in his later years to making cartoons exclusively for children, he produced in 1932: Father Alfalfa's Ape Girl, a jaw dropping pre code cartoon that makes Betty Boop seem like Shirley Temple by comparison. It is on KZbin.

@RodneytheOperaRat Жыл бұрын

Mighty Mouse was a cartoon opera star back in the 1940’s and the 1950’s sadly he’s not popular around this time of year of animation anymore

@RayPointerChannel Жыл бұрын

MIGHTY MOUSE is not popular because he has not been in the public eye for 40 years. There were several attempts to revise him in the 90s in addition to the new TV series. A Mighty Mouse feature was in development at Nickelodeon when I was there in 1997. It was cancelled a year later. But the issue is whether contemporary audiences would appreciate the Opera parodies of some of these cartoons. Opera is not a popular form of music among the vast majority today, and I'm afraid that most would find things like this boring and corny.

@RodneytheOperaRat Жыл бұрын

@@RayPointerChannel No wonder Mighty Mouse was rotten cheese of animation industry *no pun intended*

@stephenholloway6893 Жыл бұрын

That and Paramount Global, who now owns the Terrytoons shorts not really caring about them anymore.

@samp.8099 8 ай бұрын

Also the cartoons being not very good doesn't help either

@RodneytheOperaRat 8 ай бұрын

@@samp.8099 Good point

@dinkyrobb9993 5 күн бұрын

Paramount global owns Terry Toons.

@vincentfranklin17 Жыл бұрын

While I like some of the classic Mighty Mouse shorts, I absolutely loved Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures! Since superhero comics and movies are popular, I think Mighty Mouse should come back. Maybe if the cartoons were gentle, but fun pokes at superhero tropes.