Good animation is not about the smoothness of the animation. A flip book can be a good animation. Smooth motion animation MAY be important, but the quality of the art, the ideas, the writing, can make an animation, like Crusader Rabbit, be good too. This is not poorly animated. It is very good. It's just not smooth animation.
I' think I saw this on one of my all time favorite TV shows, Sheriff John, in LA, but I don't think he was an NBC affiliate. Maybe it was a different show.
That's right, '143AC'- right after they were originally shown on WNBT's {WNBC today} "CHILDREN'S THEATER" (Ray Forrest, host) from 1949 through '54 [at least]. Because Jerry Fairbanks originally "developed" this series for NBC- yet they decided not to schedule it on their network- they allowed him to syndicate the episodes, with NBC affiliates getting "first dibs" on them...which most of them did.
Great stuff. thanks for posting this. Not to quibble 143ac, but this aired in 1950, Sheri Lewis and Lambchop first appeared on Kaptain Kangaroo in 1956
Hey, you can't look at ancient cartoons and judge them by today's standards. If the only cartoons available were crappy and B&W then that was what kids enjoyed. And anyway, you can't as an adult judge what pleases a kid's eye. I mean, adults HATE Barney the Dinosaur, but tiny kids love him. He was made for tiny kids, not snooty adults.
Good animation is not about the smoothness of the animation. A flip book can be a good animation. Smooth motion animation MAY be important, but the quality of the art, the ideas, the writing, can make an animation, like Crusader Rabbit, be good too. This is not poorly animated. It is very good. It's just not smooth animation.
I' think I saw this on one of my all time favorite TV shows, Sheriff John, in LA, but I don't think he was an NBC affiliate. Maybe it was a different show.
gnikcohs 2 weeks ago
That's right, '143AC'- right after they were originally shown on WNBT's {WNBC today} "CHILDREN'S THEATER" (Ray Forrest, host) from 1949 through '54 [at least]. Because Jerry Fairbanks originally "developed" this series for NBC- yet they decided not to schedule it on their network- they allowed him to syndicate the episodes, with NBC affiliates getting "first dibs" on them...which most of them did.
fromthesidelines 4 months ago
Something endearing about these. Poorly animated, but still fun to watch.
eartant 1 year ago
Great stuff. thanks for posting this. Not to quibble 143ac, but this aired in 1950, Sheri Lewis and Lambchop first appeared on Kaptain Kangaroo in 1956
turkthagoras 1 year ago
where did you get these?!
SomeFluffer64 1 year ago
Hey, you can't look at ancient cartoons and judge them by today's standards. If the only cartoons available were crappy and B&W then that was what kids enjoyed. And anyway, you can't as an adult judge what pleases a kid's eye. I mean, adults HATE Barney the Dinosaur, but tiny kids love him. He was made for tiny kids, not snooty adults.
ybmagpye 2 years ago 2
The original Black & White Crusader Rabbit TV Cartoons
were seen on "The Merry Mailman" and on"Kartoon Klub"with
Shari Lewis on WOR TV Ch.9 & WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC in
the early 1950's.
143AC 2 years ago
Yet when was the last time you heard the Constitution mentioned in a cartoon?
plasticjesus108 2 years ago
50 years ago I watched this crap. My father used to grumble about it. Thanks for allowing me to see what he was grumbling about through older eyes,
plasticjesus108 2 years ago
Maybe so, but maybe not so. I'm from 90's, but I find this and Col. Bleep much better.
Rigshaw 3 years ago