Has any one here seen early..very early TV animation?

[davids]

I am talking my first memories here age 3 1955=
Silent black and white farmer brown cartoons.
silent black and white felix the cat cartoons

old 1930 Black and white cartoons=
popeye
Betty Boop pre and post censor versions
Black and white loney tunes 1930's

earlies cartoons made for tv
Crusader rabit and his tiger friend rags
clutch cargo [only thing that moved was their lips]
Billy Bong Bong
Hanner Barbara cartoons, deputy dog, yogi bear, ect
early marvel comic cartoons, very little animation but they did use the stories direct from the comics=
iron man
FF
Hulk
Thor
Captain america

First spider man cartoons

Then first DC 1960 superman and batman cartoons, later Super friends.

So how many of you here seen these early animated shows? :confused:

[DoubleWide]

My earliest memories of watching old cartoons is of Beany & Cecil in the early 60s, but I don't remember if I saw them in color or black & white, was born in 59 and most of my childhood memoried are a somewhat hazy. ;) I've also seen Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Superman, Batman and other super hero shows, as well as Space Ghost, Herculoids, Bird Man, Hot Wheels, Perils of Penlope Pitstop, Dasterdly & Mutley and too many others to mention. :eek:

[Donald M.]

Billy Bong Bong


I think you mean Gerald McBoing-Boing.

Anyway, though not as old as you I've seen a lot of these cartoons because when I was a kid local UHF stations used to play old cartoons like this in the early afternoon, cartoons from the 50's and 60's as well as some stuff from the 70's like the Banana Splits. It was a great time to be a kid in terms of cartoon diversity. These days there are something like half a dozen cartoon networks, but good luck finding anything on them more than 10 years old.

The exception I guess in Cartoon Network's Boomerang channel, but my cable provider doesn't carry that.

[sgt.candy]

koko the clown. and being creeped out by its animation style

[davids]

Your right that Fletcher did have a weird streak, check out his early betty boops! :)

[Ontir]

I went to the Museum of Telelvision and Radio last year, and watched an episode of the old Hannah-Barbera Fantastic Four cartoon. It makes the old Spider-man cartoon look like the Incredibles! Bad artwork, almost no animation, and less plot! It's hard to believe that this is the cartoon that allegedly inspired a kid to set himself alight. The only thing it inspired me to do, was not watch another episode!

[Grazzt]

I've seen episodes of the old Hulk cartoon. I loved the theme song.

I've also seen four of the Fleischer Superman cartoons (the one where he punches the laser beam, the one with the volcano, the one with the Bulleteers, and the one where he fights a gorilla).

[maggotbrain]

early marvel comic cartoons, very little animation but they did use the stories direct from the comics=
iron man
FF
Hulk
Thor
Captain america

First spider man cartoons

Then first DC 1960 superman and batman cartoons, later Super friends.

So how many of you here seen these early animated shows? :confused:
As a child of the 80's, several of these old cartoons were featured heavily on local and even cable programming.

I remember we had an old tape of the old Spiderman cartoons with well-known theme song w/c was later covered by the Ramones.

I've seen two versions of the FF cartoon (the one w/ H.E.R.B.I.E. and later, the Hanna Barbera version).

I've also seen the early animated Marvel cartoons w/ the stiff animations. I still remember theme songs!!!!- They're quite amusing that they pop up in my head whenever this topic comes up.

I've seen the early DC shows from Filmation (particularly Batman) but Superfriends was the show w/c was shown very regularly in various times of my life. Would have liked to see more of the other major DC heroes like Flash, GL, Hawkman,etc. aside from the Big 3 & heroes that were created for the shows (although they made alot of Firestorm episodes in later series).

[Scorpion13]

I went to the Museum of Telelvision and Radio last year, and watched an episode of the old Hannah-Barbera Fantastic Four cartoon. It makes the old Spider-man cartoon look like the Incredibles! Bad artwork, almost no animation, and less plot! It's hard to believe that this is the cartoon that allegedly inspired a kid to set himself alight. The only thing it inspired me to do, was not watch another episode!


Could not disagree more. I LOVED the old F4 cartoon. It had alot of the adventurous tone of other shows like Space Ghost and The Herculoids. Bright, tow fisted, monster fighting ACTION! Big, loud, colorful with otherworldly backrounds and such...good stuff.

And that thing about the kid lighting himself on fire? Urban legend. Never happened.

[Inkthinker]

Keep in mind that the Fleischer cartoons were made in the 30's and 40's and were actually intended for theatrical consumption.

Very little animation was made specifically for television broadcast until 1955, when Hanna-Barbera began it's foray into the industry and changed the face of animation forever (for instance, a friend of mine who animated in Japan in the early 80's said that the first book he was given as an animator was a copy of a Hanna-Barbera book heavily notated in Japanese.. which goes a long way towards explaining what many people think of as "anime" style animation).

While animation appeared on television prior to that, those features were theatrical shorts that were converted to the television format.

[Buzz Dixon]

SPACE ANGEL was done by the same studio that did CLUTCH CARGO but had better writing, really cool art design by Alex Toth, and -- since it was a sci-fi show -- a better flow since the characters were logically sitting down a lot in space ship blast couches and/or wearing helmets over their mouths to minimize the creepy superimposed live lips!