Huh, how come this looks like the color we get when someone tries to shoot at a TV screen with a camera without white-balancing, instead of just capturing directly?
Or... did you transfer a FILM yourself and forget to white-balance?
...and maybe just forgot to white-balance and move in all the way (to cut off the rounded corners) while doing it.
Yeah, because if it had been a camera shooting a CRT screen (a tube), we'd see the scrolling bar effect. So it's not a CRT. But if they had been newly shooting at an LCD or DLP, we wouldn't see that either. But that wouldn't explain the rounded corners very well. So yeah, I could see how it might be their own transfer of a film. Interesting that they would have it.
I was about 5 years old when this show was on ABC. One of the kids was named "Jerome" . I thought it's was ANOYING the the way his mother was calling him on the shop computer.
One reason this program failed...there was WAY TOO MUCH CONTENT. Trained animals, computerized gizmos, cartoon characters, live-action actors and puppets of all kinds. All sorts of goings-on. VERY busy and utterly confusing. It was hard for a kid to embrace even three characters, much less the dozens "Curiosity Shop" offered!
Others joined Chuck Jones (who had recently directed GAY PURR-EE for UPA, home of Mr. Magoo) and his Tower 12 Productions group under a similar contract deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. They created new TOM & JERRY product, won an Oscar for the short THE DOT AND THE LINE, and produced the first and only M-G-M animated feature, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH.
Depaite-Freleng subsequently made cartoons in a sub-contract type deal for Warner Bros, with old faces (Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzalez, the Road Runner) and less than memorable new creations like COOL CAT and BUNNY & CLAUDE (rabbits parodying what I think you can guess).
Achol...I didn't think Jones had anything to do with the original CAT IN THE HAT, because it was from Depatie-Freleng.
When Warner Bros. closed down its animation department in 1963, the staff coalesced into two groups. Some went to the entity led by David Depatie and Friz Freleng, to do things like THE PINK PANTHER cartoons--actually a spin off of thwir work creating title sequences for films (including DO NOT DISTURB and THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, among others),
I never knew that Chuck Jones was a network VP. And he certainly had capable underlings in Stan Burns and Mike Marmer, whose credits include GET SMART and LANCELOT LINK, SECRET CHIMP..
Is that last puppet possessed by demon or something? Because it looks and sounds pretty freaky. Like a mushroom trip came back haunting to me or something.
@143AC Amen to that! Not like the junk that's currently on Cable TV like ICarly, Big Time Rush & Victorious. And don't get me started on Spongebob Squarepants!
As a kid, I was very disappointed when this show went off the air. The first animated segment of what became known as "Schoolhouse Rock" aired on this show (it was "Three Is A Magic Number").
There were three kids, two boys and a girl, and they were always looking for the proprietor of the shop but never could find him. His name: Mr. Jones.
At one point, one of the kids was wearing a sweatshirt with the message "Mr. Jones, Where Are You" on one side and a big "?" on the other.
I only remember three things about this show, besides seeing the opening just now... Pamelyn Ferdin, and Gerard and the Onamontapeia! Thanks for shaing the memory!
Wow! The only thing I can remember watching on this show was Vincent Price and that little three-eyed monster at the end of this clip singing about onomatopoeia... "it's a word you spell by ear..."
She was also one of the two kids in Cat in the Hat cartoon which was co-produced by Jones animated at Depatie-Freleng. She was also over at Hanna-Barbara on the Roman Holidays in 72
this show was a sadly underappreciated gem back in '71-'72....this was back when Chuck Jones did his stint as VP of kids' programming at ABC back in the early '70s....unlike most kids' programming execs, Jones actually took what he did seriously..
I didn't know Chuck Jones was a VP of kids programming. I always knew him as one of the animation directors of Warner Brothers cartoons (he was the director who did the Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons, the Pepe Le Pew cartoons, the 'Rabbit Season/Duck Season' cartoons, that cartoon about the singing frog, and the one about the bulldog and the kitty [the one where the bulldog cries over the kitty being supposedly baked in the oven])
Another person involved was Michael Eisner before heading Disney and going ballistic. Jones and Eisner were also responsible for green lighting the popular Scoolhouse Rock segment a year later.
And another thing... I am somehow reminded of the ABC kids' educational series "Make a Wish", also from the '70s, which had a really trippy animated intro. The show itself was a real trip. If only someone could come across that one!
Sounds like the group Stereolab took an idea or 2 from the intro music. I have vague recollections of this show from when I was a child -- one of the kids was named Gerard and they did a version of the Mama Cass tune "Make Your Own Kind of Music".
Oh my god, thank you for putting this up! I haven't seen this since I was a kid! The puppets used to scare the hell out of me. The Mel Blanc-voiced one looks and sounds like Hardy Har Har from The Lippy the Lion Show. Freaky!
Huh, how come this looks like the color we get when someone tries to shoot at a TV screen with a camera without white-balancing, instead of just capturing directly?
Or... did you transfer a FILM yourself and forget to white-balance?
MaxxFordham 1 month ago
@MaxxFordham
I'm not positive, but I think I got this from someone who has the show on film and did their own transfer.
70sKidVid 1 month ago
@70sKidVid
...and maybe just forgot to white-balance and move in all the way (to cut off the rounded corners) while doing it.
Yeah, because if it had been a camera shooting a CRT screen (a tube), we'd see the scrolling bar effect. So it's not a CRT. But if they had been newly shooting at an LCD or DLP, we wouldn't see that either. But that wouldn't explain the rounded corners very well. So yeah, I could see how it might be their own transfer of a film. Interesting that they would have it.
MaxxFordham 1 month ago
I used to have the episode about wings!
loveforlogos 3 months ago
anybody know why the opening is in purple? did they just have bad color film printing?
inDASHcorrect 3 months ago
@uselesspieceofsheet It was Henry Mancini, I am sure of it. ...and if it wasn't, it was either Dean Elliott or Ed Bogas.
inDASHcorrect 3 months ago
@uselesspieceofsheet It was Henry Mancini, I am sure of it. ...and if it wasn't, it was either Dean Elliott or Ed Bogas.
inDASHcorrect 3 months ago
anyone have an idea of who did the music for this show?
uselesspieceofsheet 4 months ago
I was about 5 years old when this show was on ABC. One of the kids was named "Jerome" . I thought it's was ANOYING the the way his mother was calling him on the shop computer.
mcatuara1 6 months ago
One reason this program failed...there was WAY TOO MUCH CONTENT. Trained animals, computerized gizmos, cartoon characters, live-action actors and puppets of all kinds. All sorts of goings-on. VERY busy and utterly confusing. It was hard for a kid to embrace even three characters, much less the dozens "Curiosity Shop" offered!
KidCairbre 7 months ago
Others joined Chuck Jones (who had recently directed GAY PURR-EE for UPA, home of Mr. Magoo) and his Tower 12 Productions group under a similar contract deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. They created new TOM & JERRY product, won an Oscar for the short THE DOT AND THE LINE, and produced the first and only M-G-M animated feature, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH.
tomservo56954 8 months ago
Depaite-Freleng subsequently made cartoons in a sub-contract type deal for Warner Bros, with old faces (Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzalez, the Road Runner) and less than memorable new creations like COOL CAT and BUNNY & CLAUDE (rabbits parodying what I think you can guess).
tomservo56954 8 months ago
Achol...I didn't think Jones had anything to do with the original CAT IN THE HAT, because it was from Depatie-Freleng.
When Warner Bros. closed down its animation department in 1963, the staff coalesced into two groups. Some went to the entity led by David Depatie and Friz Freleng, to do things like THE PINK PANTHER cartoons--actually a spin off of thwir work creating title sequences for films (including DO NOT DISTURB and THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, among others),
tomservo56954 8 months ago
I never knew that Chuck Jones was a network VP. And he certainly had capable underlings in Stan Burns and Mike Marmer, whose credits include GET SMART and LANCELOT LINK, SECRET CHIMP..
tomservo56954 8 months ago
Is that last puppet possessed by demon or something? Because it looks and sounds pretty freaky. Like a mushroom trip came back haunting to me or something.
Meitti 10 months ago
@Meitti That's Onamontapeia. He/She always talks in sounds.
yardlet6 8 months ago
Dear Skipster,
Let's not forget "Nostalgia The Elephant"Puppet and that Hyena puppet voiced by June Foray and Mel Blanc.
143AC 1 year ago
i remember mattel was a sponsor:)
sexymama1966 1 year ago
Those were the days..when kids tv ment something.
143AC 1 year ago
@143AC Amen to that! Not like the junk that's currently on Cable TV like ICarly, Big Time Rush & Victorious. And don't get me started on Spongebob Squarepants!
TimelordR 8 months ago
As a kid, I was very disappointed when this show went off the air. The first animated segment of what became known as "Schoolhouse Rock" aired on this show (it was "Three Is A Magic Number").
There were three kids, two boys and a girl, and they were always looking for the proprietor of the shop but never could find him. His name: Mr. Jones.
At one point, one of the kids was wearing a sweatshirt with the message "Mr. Jones, Where Are You" on one side and a big "?" on the other.
Kqvic 2 years ago 2
I don't think I ever saw that as a kid, but it really looks trippy.
thimoneus 2 years ago
Onamontapeia!!! I saw an Onamontapeia!
I only remember three things about this show, besides seeing the opening just now... Pamelyn Ferdin, and Gerard and the Onamontapeia! Thanks for shaing the memory!
Skipster61 2 years ago
Who owns the rights to this show??? We gotta get it on DVD. I thought I dreamt it, I can never find any reference to the show on the internet.
oscdah 2 years ago 2
Peter Frampton called. He watched the opening credits, and he wants his voice back.
zkg 2 years ago 4
I did not see every episode of Curiosity Shop,but saw enough to recognize Pamleyn Ferdin in other shows later on(reruns and new).
RJRanke 3 years ago
Wow! The only thing I can remember watching on this show was Vincent Price and that little three-eyed monster at the end of this clip singing about onomatopoeia... "it's a word you spell by ear..."
PunkTiger 3 years ago 2
@PunkTiger OHMIGOD - me too! I always thought it was from The Mouse Factory - flashbacks!
zobop 1 year ago
I watched this show many years ago. Entertaining, yet educational. A great combo!
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
It was this. I had a crush on her (the voice of peanuts LUCY)
videoblast 4 years ago
She was also one of the two kids in Cat in the Hat cartoon which was co-produced by Jones animated at Depatie-Freleng. She was also over at Hanna-Barbara on the Roman Holidays in 72
acholl980 2 years ago
Was Pamalyn ferdin in this or was it the electric company?
videoblast 4 years ago
She was on this.
disneyfan81 3 years ago
Who, what, which, when, why, how?
heine71 4 years ago
this show was a sadly underappreciated gem back in '71-'72....this was back when Chuck Jones did his stint as VP of kids' programming at ABC back in the early '70s....unlike most kids' programming execs, Jones actually took what he did seriously..
citizenterryk 4 years ago
I didn't know Chuck Jones was a VP of kids programming. I always knew him as one of the animation directors of Warner Brothers cartoons (he was the director who did the Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons, the Pepe Le Pew cartoons, the 'Rabbit Season/Duck Season' cartoons, that cartoon about the singing frog, and the one about the bulldog and the kitty [the one where the bulldog cries over the kitty being supposedly baked in the oven])
FirstClassHeel 3 years ago
Another person involved was Michael Eisner before heading Disney and going ballistic. Jones and Eisner were also responsible for green lighting the popular Scoolhouse Rock segment a year later.
acholl980 2 years ago
Kids don't ask alot of "which" questions these days... I weep for the future.
DimensionO 4 years ago
Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace creator) was a regular and drew on the show - that was pretty neat.
karaloyal 4 years ago
And another thing... I am somehow reminded of the ABC kids' educational series "Make a Wish", also from the '70s, which had a really trippy animated intro. The show itself was a real trip. If only someone could come across that one!
chemicalcarlos 4 years ago
Actually, my prayers have been answered -- I found the Make A Wish clip!
chemicalcarlos 4 years ago
Sounds like the group Stereolab took an idea or 2 from the intro music. I have vague recollections of this show from when I was a child -- one of the kids was named Gerard and they did a version of the Mama Cass tune "Make Your Own Kind of Music".
chemicalcarlos 4 years ago
good call on teh Stereolab influence
MrSExperience 4 years ago
Who? What? Which? Who? Why? How?
heine71 5 years ago
I remember the Onomatopoeia song.
Julian9ehp 5 years ago
I can't believe I was ever that young, Wow!
All I remember from that show was when they did "Dance to the Music".
b003 5 years ago
Oh my god, thank you for putting this up! I haven't seen this since I was a kid! The puppets used to scare the hell out of me. The Mel Blanc-voiced one looks and sounds like Hardy Har Har from The Lippy the Lion Show. Freaky!
Lectronimo 5 years ago
whoa...i haven't seen this since it was originally on tv...any clips of Pamelyn Ferdin?
scalpo1 5 years ago