This is an unusual cartoon in that most Famous Studios / Paramount cartoons of the time had the title of the cartoon appearing AFTER the animation credits.
At the time, Paramount's New York "Famous Studios" unit could still create great cartoons, but within a few years, they were producing "formula" cartoons {Popeye, Casper, Herman & Katnip", the "Noveltoons" featuring Baby Huey, Little Audrey, Buzzy, and several "one-shot" characters} that looked cheap...and they were starting to "borrow" ideas, even from previous cartoons; the gag at 3:17 was "swiped" from Tex Avery's "Batty Baseball" (1944), as was the closing gag from "Baseball Bugs" (1946).
Borrowing your own gags was nothing new- Tex Avery did that CONSTANTLY, and you could argue that that's all Chuck Jones did with Roadrunner and Speedy Gonzales.
@RJRanke That's true, about the only halfway original things about each Pepe LePew toon was how the cat (or once, a chihuahua!) managed to get a stripe down its back.
Upload the video of Flip Flap 1948.
neton76 1 year ago
Strike One! Strike Touch! Strike Thee! You're Wrong!
CaptainOvide 1 year ago
Never saw this one before.
NEPatriot 1 year ago
This is a SCREEN SONG, NOT a NOVELTOON!
ThePopeyeFan 2 years ago
I liked the catcher signalling with the aldiss lamp.
GoblinXXX 2 years ago
This is an unusual cartoon in that most Famous Studios / Paramount cartoons of the time had the title of the cartoon appearing AFTER the animation credits.
AllRequired 2 years ago
The cleverness and super animation of these cartoons. I wish it would come back.
LastTree 3 years ago
FAMOUS STUDIOS has always been under-rated, IMO. They had a tough act to follow after Fleisher, but honestly, their animation was better ON AVERAGE.
GoblinXXX 2 years ago
@LastTree Two words: DREAM ON!
AllRequired 1 year ago
At the time, Paramount's New York "Famous Studios" unit could still create great cartoons, but within a few years, they were producing "formula" cartoons {Popeye, Casper, Herman & Katnip", the "Noveltoons" featuring Baby Huey, Little Audrey, Buzzy, and several "one-shot" characters} that looked cheap...and they were starting to "borrow" ideas, even from previous cartoons; the gag at 3:17 was "swiped" from Tex Avery's "Batty Baseball" (1944), as was the closing gag from "Baseball Bugs" (1946).
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
Borrowing your own gags was nothing new- Tex Avery did that CONSTANTLY, and you could argue that that's all Chuck Jones did with Roadrunner and Speedy Gonzales.
GoblinXXX 2 years ago
@GoblinXXX
And of course,Mr.Jones used basicly the same story in the Pepe Le Pew cartoons.
RJRanke 2 years ago
@RJRanke That's true, about the only halfway original things about each Pepe LePew toon was how the cat (or once, a chihuahua!) managed to get a stripe down its back.
GoblinXXX 2 years ago
The entire lyrics to "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"'
can be heard in the MGM movie musical of the same
name.
143AC 3 years ago
cool cartoon.
This kind of animation could've rivaled that from disney and Warner Bros.
GregTheLion 3 years ago
Additionally, I never knew that "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" had more lyrics.
And did Warner Bros. copy that last joke in "Baseball Bugs" or was it the other way around?
jasobres 3 years ago
Baseball Bugs (1940) came out 8 years before this cartoon, so it had to be the other way around!
OldsVistaCruiser 3 years ago
I have to correct myself - Baseball Bugs came out in 1946, not 1940. However, that's still 2 years before this cartoon came out!
OldsVistaCruiser 2 years ago
I thought "Baseball Bugs" was done in 1946.
byrd56 2 years ago
I don't get the "High ball" joke when it shows the ball as a glass of what looks like either root beer or soda.
jasobres 3 years ago
There's a family of cocktails called "highballs", which are served in a tall glass.
OldsVistaCruiser 3 years ago
The voice of turtle umpire is Jack Mercer
the announcer is the voice of Jackson Beck.
(Both actors were also the voices of"Popeye"
and "Bluto")
143AC 3 years ago
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"The more you know"
GregTheLion 3 years ago