Matty's Funnies, Beany & Cecil 1962 Pt 5 of 5

[@fromthesidelines]

A.C.R. Stone was the series' executive producer, for "Television Artists and Producers Corp." [Clampett preferred to credit his staff through VISUAL images {i.e. Stone's credit is represented by an executive with dollar signs over his head}]. Because Mattel relinquished their full sponsorship of the series after the first three months, a new title {simply "BEANY & CECIL"}, theme, and alternate titles (eliminating "Matty" and "Sisterbelle", and announcer Marvin Miller) was used from then on..

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I always wonder who originated that design in the end credits of the guy pointing a finger while drawing a smile on his face? I noticed years later it was used for the "Happy Day Radio" campaign.

[@TServo2049]

@@ChristopherSobieniak that was the mascot of Mattel’s ad agency Carson/Roberts Advertising. (Jack Roberts was the “Roberts”.)

[@halbie71]

I was 9 years old then & still remember this intro especially "A Bob Clampett cartooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnn!!!

[@Juliaflo]

Thank you a multitude for downloading this. I remember it as if it were 1962, when I saw it. (Don't even think about figuring out my age, LOL). Here's hoping you are young at heart.

[@fromthesidelines]

"CALVIN & THE COLONEL" originally followed the show at 7:30pm(et).

[@fromthesidelines]

The theme, as heard here, is the same as the original "MATTY'S FUNDAY FUNNIES" theme (by Hoyt Curtin & Jack Roberts), with altered lyrics to fit "Beany & Cecil".

[@BuddyBoy600alt]

I remember Beepin' Tom. He appears on "Ain't I a little stinger?" That episode has not yet been released on DVD. I have it on Beany and Cecil Volume 9 on VHS. But my VHS/DVD Recorder won't let me transfer it to DVD. Because it's a commercial tape and all it will do is stop the recording and give me an error message that reads: "Recording Error!: This presentation is not allowed to be recorded!"

[@fromthesidelines]

Key voices for "Beany & Cecil" (uncredited) were Jim MacGeorge, Irv Shoemaker and Walker Edminston.

[@wakkowarner5765]

Wow. This ending made me howl when it says A Bob Clampett cartooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnn!

[@jeffmissinne3866]

Actually, it's there all right, but as you said, in very small type. Right where Cecil sings "A Bob Clam-pett car-toooon," the logo animates upward and in the lower third of the screen it reads "A Snowball, Inc. Production, Copyright by Bob Clampett, All Rights Reserved." But brother, is that type small...

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Certainly one of those cases were it was probably impossible to read it when it first aired.

[@markschildberg1667]

Bob probably incorporated Snowball, Inc. solely for producing the Beany and Cecil cartoons, because I don't recall seeing that name on anything else he did. The cartoons were made in a building on Seward Avenue in Hollywood, where Bob leased space. Later, Klazsky-Csupo Animation occupied the same offices.

[@SteveCarras]

Wow..Spike Jones regular Eddie Brant on the end creddits, under Bob and Sody and Jakc Roberts and Hoyt Curitn, of whom the four following my men tion of Eddie Brant were seen in syndication..onyl a few storymen, different from the 1960s syndication , derent original close theme song.

[@bluesonthelake]

....so who in the dickens was "A.C.R. Stone" in the closing credits anyway???

[@2005dave]

bluesonthelake I believe he was a production manager.

[@jeffmissinne3866]

I think he was also Bob Clampett's brother-in-law.

[@SteveCarras]

@fromthesidelines Regarding the first two sentences you wrote, those on A.C.R.Stone, in short Clampett liked rebus writing.:)

[@fromthesidelines]

Of course, he did, 'Steve'- he wrote a cartoon for this series featuring "Beeping Tom", who talked in rebus balloons...

[@Irisheddy]

I'm having flashbacks

[@OBSONCEN]

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[@Juliaflo]

Zounds! When you talk about 'Beeping Tom' and those rebuses, you really hit me where I live. Don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

[@OBSONCEN]

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