Famous Studios cartoons

Paramount's cartoon studio with average-written yet memorable cartoons.

I remember watching Famous Studios cartoons when I was little. I had no idea Harvey Entertainment had a connection to Famous Studios until later on.My very first Paramount cartoon: Old Macdonald Had A Farm. My second: Shortnin' Bread. I loved the second a lot more, but I paid attention the the sing-along part on Old Macdonald because it was a classic sing-along with the bouncing ball, better than watching a stupid sing-along commercial on TV! Plus, I beleive it had the orginal Paramount titles. NTA logos kinda looked creepy for is redness and oldness, Paramount's was more, immortal. I saw Casper Harveytoon prints ! The crew ranged from Seymour Kneitel, Joe Orilio, Isadore Sparper, David Tendlar,
and more, kinda like the crew of Looney Tunes: Chuck Jones, Warren Foster, Friz Frleling, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery (worked later at MGM) and more!!! There was also music by the the same composer of the RKO-Van Buren Rainbow Parade cartoons, Winston Sharples.

In 1942, Fleischer Studios was taken over by it's client studio, Paramount Pictures, and renamed Famous Studios. There were first, Popeye and Superman. Superman was eliminated, and new toons, some working later for Harvey, were shown. Little Lulu was a Paramount star,and the Noveltoons were inbetween Fleischer Color Classics and Harveytoons.

In 1945, the first color Bouncing Ball sing-along was released. It was Old MacDonald Had A Farm. The image is the cover of the video that had a rare print of Old MacDonald, avaible from UAV Corporation:

In the 1950s, television was the YouTube of the time. Thus, there were TV prints of Famous Studios cartoons from U.M.&.M TV Corp. (United Film Service of Kansas City, Minot, and MTA TV Corp), later NTA (National Telefilm Associates). Harvey Comics sold the rest of the characters, even when new Paramount cartoons were released.

It was also at the time renamed Paramount Cartoon Studios. It closed in 1967. Paramount owns these again, yet THEY ARE REFUSING TO RESTORE FAMOUS STUDIOS CARTOONS!!!!! I remeber watching these. Let's all hope that Paramount will restore them by their 100th Anniversary in 2012.

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I have a lot of these on a vhs called "Fabulous Cartoon Funnies". It's a six hour tape which also includes a few Looney Tunes.

WHOA!!! Your article got ripped. Bro just make sure to buy a spell checker before your next article. However, it was a good article with a great point. I agree that old cartoons should be brought back.

If you're interested in the Superman cartoons, they've been remastered and all of them are on the Superman Ultimate Collector's Edition dvd set. I have the set but haven't watched them yet. I can't wait. I loved the Popeye short when I was a kid. Still love them now.

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I remember those cartoons since I was a kid. You might find these Famous Studios cartoons on $1.00 DVD's and even in numerous thrift stores if you might find the VHS tape of every cartoon which it has 4 cartoons in 30 minutes length or 2 hours of cartoons and even 6 hours of cartoons. Those were so hard to find VHS compilations along with a slew of Popeye cartoons from the Famous era. AAP at the time was purchased the Popeye cartoons to syndication along with the pre-48 WB cartoons. The non-Popeye shorts was at the time distributed by UM&M and NTA for TV syndication since it has been in the 1950's on numerous TV stations for decades. Great job, I have the DVD's, and all of the Paramunt's Famous Studio cartoons are in the Public Domain as it remains today.

Friz Frleling?
It's spelled Freleng sweety.