Showing posts with label Old Classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old Classics. Show all posts

Monday, October 14, 2013

Casper the Friendly Ghost

This is it. Here's one last cartoon character from the Old Classics and one of the Halloween cartoons.

Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. As his name indicates, he is a ghost, yet he is quite personable. According to the 1995 feature film Casper, his family name is McFadden, making his full name, Casper McFadden. Casper is also published in the Harvey Comics as well as Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios. He makes friends with one of the people who is not scared of him when other people screamed and ran away in terror. It's also the same thing with his ruthless uncle called the Ghostly Trio.

The original voice of Casper was played by Mae Questel who plays Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, and then Norma MacMillan in The New Casper Cartoon Show in 1963-1969.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Mighty Mouse and Pearl Pureheart

Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. The character who is originally named Super Mouse made its first appearance in 1942 and subsequently appeared in 80 theatrical films produced between 1942 and 1961. Created as a parody of Superman, Mighty Mouse appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short titled, "The Mouse of Tomorrow". He wears a yellow costume with red trunks and a red cape, which are his most popular colors. His girlfriend Pearl Pureheart used to be object of the evil cat named Oil Can Henry, which Mighty Mouse saves her from danger, and whenever he achieves the most impossible physical tasks, the narrator exclaimed, first softly: "What a mouse!" and then loudly: "What a mouse!"

The original voices of Mighty Mouse was provided by Roy Halee, Sr.  and Diane Preshing as Pearl Pureheart in The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse in 1979.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Kitty Kat

Kitty Kat is Felix's girlfriend. In her first known appearance, Feline Follies, Kitty was better known as "Miss Kitty White", as a pun of her natural coloration. When she first, met Felix the Cat, it was love at first sight, even though before that day he was what many refer to as a "cat-sanova", and after all his life breaking hearts of other women. Kitty turns the tables on him, as he couldn't help playing lively music for her dancing, dating her several nights ina row when he should be a mouse hunting, and even admitting he'd live all nine lives for her.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Felix the Cat

Felix the Cat is a funny animal cartoon character created in the silent film era. The anthropomorphic black cat with his black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealsim of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combine to make Felix one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history. Felix was the first character from animation to attain a level of popularity sufficent to draw movie audiences. Felix the Cat was also drawn by Australian cartoonist/film entrepreneur Pat Sullivan, then American animator Otto Messmer, Sullivan's lead animator. The theme song of Felix went like this, "Felix the Cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat."

The original voice of Felix the Cat was Mae Questel, who played Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. And then Jack Mercer in 1958.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Olive Oyl

Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1919 for his strip Thimble Theater. The strip was later renamed Popeye after the sailor character that became the most popular member of the cast; however Olive Oyl was a main character for 10 years before Popeye's 1929 appearance. Unlike most modern damsels in distress, Olive Oyl is tall and skinny, with tightly wound hair and enormous feet. In the films and later televisions cartoons, Olive Oyl is Popeye's girlfriend, although she could be extremely fickle, depending on who could woo her the best and was prone to get angry over the tiniest things. Popeye always comes to the rescue, winning her affection from his archrival Bluto in the end.

The original voice of Olive Oyl was played by Mae questel who also voiced Betty Boop and other characters.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a series of animated short films based on the fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer Studios adapted Segar's characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. The Popeye characters appear in the comic strips like: Bluto the evil villain, and his "sweetie" girl named Olive Oyl. Bluto clobbers Popeye when he eats spinach, which gives him superhuman strength and battles with him.

The original voice of Popeye was played by William "Billy" Costello.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Betty Boop

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with the help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. Despite having been toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more demure, she became one of the best-known and popular cartoon characters in the world. Betty Boop appears herself as one of the most sex symbols on the animated screen and sings like this, "Boop-Oop-A-Doop".

The voice role of Betty Boop was played by Mae Questel in all of the 1930s black and white cartoons.

Friday, September 27, 2013

Winnie Woodpecker

Winnie Woodpecker is the beautiful girlfriend of Woody Woodpecker's. She first appeared in a Walter Lantz short, "Real Gone Woody". In that short, Winnie had a date with Woody, but Buzz Buzzard stopped Woody because he wanted to date with Winnie. She also appeared in International Woodpecker as the caveman woodpecker's girlfriend and as Fifi from Paris. Winnie later appeared in The New Woody Woodpecker Show among with Woody, Chilly Willy, Splinter and Knothead, Wally Walrus, Ms. Meany and Buzz Buzzard.

The voice of Winnie Woodpecker was provided by Grace Stafford.


Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Woody Woodpecker

Welcome to the Old Classic Cartoon Page. Here is the first character I will talk about.

Woody Woodpecker is a funny animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker, who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures. Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben "Bugs" Hardway, who had previously laid the groundwork for other two screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s. He was also orginally voiced by prolific voice actor Mel Blanc, who was succeeded by Ben Hardway and later by Grace Stafford, wife of Walter Lantz. His laugh went ,"Guess who? Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha!" when Mel Blanc had already used a simliar laugh in the earlier Warner Bros. cartoons such as Elmer's Candid Camera.

Woody Woodpecker cartoons were first broadcast on television in 1957 under the title The Woody Woodpecker Show, which featured Lantz cartoons bookended by new footage of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz. Very much like Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, Woody is part of a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fameon 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.