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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 04, 2007 04:41 PM
Sadly, I'm not old enough to remember them in the movie theater, but I saw many reruns of them on network TV on the Pink Panther show. Personally, I thought the series was at it's best in the first year, and then became repetitive after that, (still somewhat funny, however).
It's too bad that these were not released in thier original scope versions on super 8 (or were they?)
"Prehistoric Pink" was one of my favorites. "The Inspector" cartoons were also quite good.
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David Kilderry
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From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted May 05, 2007 04:02 AM
James, we had them here in Australia. They were distributed by United Artists both in the US and Australia. They ran supporting United Artists films (like Rocky, James Bond etc).
The major chains stopped running shorts here in the mid-1980's, but like you they were one of my favourite theatrical cartoon shorts made. In fact they were almost the last made-for-cinema cartoons. Many of the gags were recycled Warner Bros ones from the 1950's as Irving Friz Freleng ran the Depatie-Freleng company that made them for UA.
I love both the Pink Panther and Inspector on Super 8 and 16mm. Up until the mid 1980's here we still had Warner Bros. - WB, Tom and Jerry - MGM, Mister Magoo - Columbia, Disney- BVI, cartoons supporting the respective studios feature films. Finally it all went to feature only presentations by 1986.
We are running a Mickey Mouse cartoon with Meet The Robinsons during its season here at the lunar Drive-in. The kids love it, if only they knew Boat Builders was made before even most of their parents were born!
David
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Joerg Polzfusz
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From: Berlin, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted May 08, 2007 06:02 AM
Hi,
the "Pink Panther" (alias "Der rosarote Panther", "Paulchen Panther" or only "Paulchen" - sometimes the "Panther" was written "Panter") was shown in Western Germany cinemas as well.
There have been at least these Super8-releases with a German soundtrack (all in colour except for the Revue-titles; none of them in CS):
Der rosarote Panther (POP): Piccolo 7579
Der rosarote Panther - Paulchen der Glücksritter: Piccolo 3330
Der rosarote Panther - Paulchen, der Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel: Piccolo 3316
Der rosarote Panther - Paulchens lustige Abenteuer: Piccolo 3317
Der rosarote Panther - Paulchen und das verrückte Pferd: Piccolo 3333
Der rosarote Panther - Paulchen und der Zauberlehrling: Piccolo 3331
Der rosarote Panther - Paulchen und der zerstreute Sterngucker: Piccolo 3332
Der rosarote Panther und das verrückte Pferd: Revue 8769
Der rosarote Panther und der verrückte Professor: Revue 8730
Der rosarote Panther und der zerstreute Sternengucker: Revue ??
Die Abenteuer des rosaroten Panther: Inter-Pathe: RP12
Pink Panther: Adelheit, der Straßenschreck: Marketing 1013
Pink Panther: Bitte recht freundlich: Marketing 1017
Pink Panther: Der rosarote Baron: Marketing 1011
Pink Panther: der rosarote Ritter: Marketing 1016
Pink Panther: Flattermann: Marketing 1019
Pink Panther: Mister Dynamit: Marketing 1021
Pink Panther: Mäuschen aus dem Häuschen: Marketing 1014
Pink Panther: Ohne Zittern hinter Gittern: Marketing 1020
Pink Panther: Paulchen an der Angel: Marketing 1015
Pink Panther: Super Paul: Marketing 1018
Pink Panther: Symphonie in Müll: Marketing 1022
This webpage shows some of these releases
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/rezent-d.htm
Jörg
P.S.: I haven't found any clue on the web that any "pink panther"-cartoon was released in CS at all. Nevertheless some of the "screenshots" found on the web are in approx. 1.85:1, e.g. the "screenshots" for "Bully for Pink":
http://dfe.goldenagecartoons.com/filmography/1964-65.htm
P.P.S.: For some strange reasons most of the German soundtracks feature several "off" comments in rhymes. Hence there's a lot of speech even though the original series are more or less completely speech-less.
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted May 08, 2007 06:29 PM
What depathe-freleng (the company that released these cartoons)
did, was release to theaters the cartoons that they would produce for "Pink Panther show" on Network TV. While the Pink Panther cartoons were made before the TV show, the later ones made for TV, were released for theaters as well, thereby in-
-creasing thier profit margin. Its funny, the very thing that killed the quality levels as well as the eventual end of theatrical cartoons, also made a slight revival of them in the
70's. The studios noticed that Hanna Barbera were able to make thier TV cartoons on extremely limited budgets, and the other studio's took notice, trimming thier budgets, until there was literally no difference between the theatrical cartoon and the
TV cartoon. Walter lantz (Woody Woodpecker) said the reason why he closed his cartoon studio at the end of 1972, was because it would take 13 years for him to recoup his investment on each cartoon, and so even he had to stop production.
Getting back to the main point, Terrytoons followed the same trend, releasing thier "Hector Heathecoat" cartoons to the movie theaters, as well as thier Deputy Dog cartoons, and since they added laugh tracks to the cartoons, (which Depathe-freleng did for the Panther cartoons), this is why you remember laugh tracks on these cartoons.
By the way, my second favorite Pink Pnther cartoon, is the one when the Pink Panther tries to ride that rebellious horse.
It's interesting to note that Depathe-Freleng put more effort into these, than the Warner Bros cartoons they were also releasing at this same time. For one more year, Frelend did new Warner Bros. cartoons after the first close of the studio in 1963, and you can easily see the difference between the two series. It appears that the Pink Panther cartoons were much more a labor of love.
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