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Kartunes was a series of 12 theatrical shorts subjects from 1951 to 1953. The series was produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures. It succeeded the Screen Songs series because Paramount Pictures lost the rights to the series' name and the term "Bouncing Ball" couldn't be used any more. Even though the series ended in 1953, Famous produced one more cartoon called Candy Cabaret, which was part of the Noveltoons series.
Starting with Snooze Reel, the opening theme of each cartoon was "Sing a Song of Sixpence".
List of cartoons (songs)
| Title | Song | Director | Story | Animation | Scenics | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vegetable Vaudeville | "Yes! We Have No Bananas" | I. Sparber | Larz Bourne | Myron Waldman Nick Tafuri | November 9, 1951 | |
Snooze Reel | "I Got Spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle" | Seymour Kneitel | Joe Stultz | Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill | Robert Owen | December 28, 1951 |
Off We Glow | "The Glow-Worm" | I. Sparber | Larz Bourne Tex Henson | Dave Tendlar Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill Tom Golden | Robert Little | February 29, 1952 |
Fun at the Fair | "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" | I. Sparber | Larz Bourne | Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill | May 9, 1952 | |
Dizzy Dinosaurs (first Inchy the Worm cartoon in the Kartune series) | "Sweet Adeline" | Seymour Kneitel | I. Klein | Myron Waldman Gordon Whittier | Robert Little | July 4, 1952 |
Gag and Baggage | "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | I. Sparber | Larz Bourne | Dave Tendlar Tom Golden | Robert Little | August 8, 1952 |
Forest Fantasy (second and final Inchy the Worm cartoon in the Kartune series) | "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" | Seymour Kneitel | I. Klein | Myron Waldman Larry Silverman | Anton Loeb | November 14, 1952 |
Hysterical History | "Yankee Doodle Boy" | I. Sparber | Irving Spector | Al Eugster George Germanetti | Robert Owen | January 23, 1953 |
Philharmaniacs | "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | Seymour Kneitel | I. Klein | Tom Johnson John Gentilella | Jack Henegan | April 3, 1953 |
Aero-Nutics | "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" | Seymour Kneitel | Irving Spector | Al Eugster and George Germanetti | May 8, 1953 | |
Invention Convention | "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" | I. Sparber | I. Klein | Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | June 10, 1953 |
No Place Like Rome | "Oh Ma-Ma (The Butcher Boy)" | I. Sparber | Irving Spector | Al Eugster George Germanetti | Jack Henegan | July 31, 1953 |
Note: Hysterical History is the only Kartunes episode in the public domain.
TV distribution
The cartoons were later sold to TV distribution by Harvey Films to replace the original titles with the Harvey reissued ones and syndicated by Worldvision Enterprises. Currently, the Harvey reissued cartoons were now been distributed by NBCUniversal Television Distribution through its DreamWorks Animation subsidiary and their DreamWorks Classics unit.
External links
Kartune at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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