Rainbow Parade (RKO)

Show Summary

Aired: 1934 - 2006
Show Type: Animated
Country of Origin: US

A Cartoon Series feautring Felix the Cat, Molly Moo-Cow, and others. Burt Gillett and Ted Edsubagh were the main directors of the shorts. These shorts were done in the popluar Technicolor. These shorts have fallen in the public domain, and Turner, the owner of the classic RKO films, does not own this sereis. One of these shorts was a commercial for Borden, Kraft Foods' processed dairy rival, and the short was "The Sunshine Makers", which had dwarfes bowing down to the sunshine to make Borden Milk so that everyone is happy. RKO-Van Buruen has a reissue print of this.
There is a special collector's edition public domain DVD called "Cartoons That Time Forgot- The Van Buren Era".

Comments

musicradio77Posted: 10/21/2006

I guess this was a series of many cartoons that are in the public domain. The RKO Rainbow Parade cartoons was the series featuring several episodes of Felix the Cat and Molly Moo Cow. All of the Rainbow Parade shorts are produced by Van Beuren from the Tom & Jerry days (not the MGM ones). By 1937, RKO gave up both the Rainbow Parade and Van Beuren shorts to distributed the Walt Disney shorts with Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and the rest including the Silly Symphonies until 1939 and continued to produced the animated shorts under Walt's name until it ended 1954 when the company becomes Buena Vista. RKO distributed the animated films made by Walt Disney starting with "Snow White", "Pinocchio", "Dumbo", "Bambi", "Cinderella", "Alice in Wonderland" and "Peter Pan".

Posted: 10/22/2006

Thanks for the comment. I would really appriciate it if someone could upload the origanal Paramount titles to Fleischer and Famous Studios Screen Songs. Most prints of Fleischer screen songs have the U.M.&.M titles (allthough Lillan Roth's Aint She Sweet is the only cartoon has the orignal theatrical title cards) while Famous Studios has quite a mixture. The Noveltoon/Screen Song "Old MacDonald Had A Farm", for example, has the fake 1949 Paramount mountain card and NTA titles, but I have clamied to have seen an uncut version with all the orginal titles because the Paramount mountain is very blue , it was from PD video company UAV (United American Video Corp.) . I can't prove it for sure, because something happened to the tape.

The orginal titles are easy to find on the cartoon I got the intro off of, because many prints of Bold King Cole, if a PD video company doesn't cut off the titles, has the orginal titles.

There is such a thing as a "common cartoon" because its an easy-to-find animation on PD videos.

Posted: 10/22/2006

BTW,

PD refers to Public Domain

Posted: 12/29/2006

I got a newer version of the same tape, but the Paramount logo was cut out. It DID have the orginal titles.