8mm Forum: classic cartoon buffs...question

»	8mm Forum » General Yak » classic cartoon buffs...question

UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!

Author

Topic: classic cartoon buffs...question

James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1375
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003

posted May 30, 2008 12:27 PM

O.K. forum brothers, you are my last resort.....

I'm trying to identify an old cartoon that used to come on T.V. back in the 70's. It was shown on one of the variety cartoon shows, like "Porky & Friends", or Popeye, etc., where usually a variety of different cartoons were shown.

In this particular cartoon, there was a statue of a Pan (boy with animal hind legs, and horns). He is holding a flute or something to his mouth. The statue is part of a fountain. At some point, there is a deer in the forest who is being chased by dogs and hunters. The Pan statue comes to life and saves the deer. He then runs back to the fountain and freezes back into a statue.

The animation reminded me of the classic Disney era, so probably from the 40's. I remember some classical music was used in the cartoon also.

I hope someone out there may remember this cartoon and can help me with the title. Thanks for reading!

James.

| IP: Logged

Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted May 31, 2008 06:30 PM

James, I REALLY wish I could give you some info, but my area of study is classic era studio cartoons, now, ask a question about that and I can probably help you.

--------------------
"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "

| IP: Logged

Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 31, 2008 06:55 PM

It sounds like the first movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony from Fantasia other than the hunters and the dogs. There is a Pan figure that keeps teasing a Pegasus and every time the Pegasus turns to see what happens Pan pretends to be a statue. (Derann, 200 ft, Code "E")

James, are you sure you aren't blending this one with Bambi?

--------------------
All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

| IP: Logged

Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted May 31, 2008 07:41 PM

It does remind me of a VERY short lived series of cartoons that Walter Lantz put out with a "Fawn' character. I remember that the backgrounds were quite striking.

--------------------
"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "

| IP: Logged

Larry Arpin
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 953
From: Sunland, CA, USA
Registered: Dec 2006

posted June 01, 2008 02:12 AM

TALE OF THE VIENNA WOODS:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PetnEZbxISE

This is available on laserdisc in the HAPPY HARMONIES collections. Sounded familiar and grabbed my laserdisc and it was the first selection. Shot in 2 strip Technicolor. There is a scene similar to BAMBI. Made in 1934.

| IP: Logged

Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted June 01, 2008 03:37 AM

I quote from Leonard Maltin's "Of Mice And Magic" :-

The Harman -Ising series was an immediate success, one exhibitor wrote to Motion Picture Herald, "Oh, how happy are we to be able to offer our patrons Metro's HAPPY HARMONIES cartoons, thus enabling us to rid our theater of the atmosphere created, in the last two years, by Willie Whopper and Flip the Frog."

I have all the Willie Whopper's on 16mm and a large number of the Flip's, and I know what I would choose to screen any evening.

Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising only hit the jackpot when they made "Puss Gets The Boot" in 1940, and only then were their cat and mouse team successful when William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were allowed to continue to produce the world's best loved cartoon films.

--------------------
Maurice

| IP: Logged

James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1375
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003

posted June 04, 2008 02:45 PM

Larry- Thank you so MUCH! That's exactly the cartoon I was looking for. It used to come on T.V. all the time when I was a kid, but hasnt been aired for decades. It was great to see it again on You-Tube.

Also thanks to everyone for helping [Smile]

.

Osi- I'm surprised this one isn't considered a "classic era studio cartoon"?? How far back are you talking?

James.

| IP: Logged

All times are Central

Printer-friendly view of this topic

UBB.classic^TM 6.3.1.2