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Rainbow Parades
''Rainbow Parade'' was a series of 26 animated shorts produced by Van Beuren Studios and distributed to theaters by RKO Pictures, RKO between 1934 and 1936. This was the all-color series and final series produced by Van Beuren. History Many of the ''Rainbow Parade'' cartoons were one-shot stories with no recurring characters, but several of the films featured Parrotville Parrots, Molly Moo-Cow, Toonerville Folks, and Felix the Cat. This series was purchased by Commonwealth Pictures in 1941 and was later syndicated for television, sometimes under the name Kolor Kartoons. In 2021, Thunderbean Animation, in association with Blackhawk Films and the UCLA, released a collection of the first 13 ''Rainbow Parade'' cartoons from the existing master materials, updating the DVD collection from 2009. The second half of the series is available from the best existing prints released by Image DVD/Blackhawk Films/Film Preservation Associates. Filmography The first 13 cartoons in the series were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Gillett
Burton F. Gillett (October 15, 1891 – December 28, 1971) was a Film director, director of animation, animated films. He is noted for his Silly Symphonies work for Walt Disney Pictures, Disney, particularly the 1932 short film ''Flowers and Trees'' and the 1933 short film ''Three Little Pigs (film), Three Little Pigs'', both of which were awarded the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and both of which were selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Early life He was born in Elmira, New York. His animation career started around 1916 when he was employed by the International Film Service, an early animation studio under the ownership of William Randolph Hearst and the supervision of Gregory La Cava. The studio had been formed in 1915 and first employed experienced animators Frank Moser (artist), Frank Moser and Bill Nolan (animator), William Nolan. Within a year the veterans had been joined by several new recruits. Gillett was probably recruited along with notab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunshine Makers (1935 Film)
''The Sunshine Makers'' is a 1935 animated short film directed by Burt Gillett and Ted Eshbaugh, reissued and sponsored by the food and beverage producer Borden in 1940. It was originally released as a part of the ''Rainbow Parade'' series, produced by Van Beuren Studios. Plot Five red-dressed cheerful gnomes come out of their houses singing a song praising the Sun while marching up the hill. They go inside and bottle sunlight into a special milk. One of the gnomes rides a cart pulled by a cricket and sings a song and puts the bottles by the door and takes the scroll. A grumpy blue-dressed top-hat-wearing goblin shoots the hat off the gnome with a bow and arrow and the hat flies to a tree. Another arrow flies over the gnome's head, and the gnome throws a bottle at the goblin, who ends up having sunshine on his back and runs back home to the goblin swamp. At the dark swamp, a small group of goblins sing a gloomy song "We're happy when we're sad. We're always feeling bad." An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupid
In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupīdō , meaning "passionate desire") is the god of desire, lust, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus (mythology), Venus and the god of war Mars (mythology), Mars. He is also known in Latin as ' ("Love"). His interpretatio graeca, Greek counterpart is Eros.''Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia'', The Book People, Haydock, 1995, p. 215. Although Eros is generally portrayed as a slender winged youth in Classical Greece, Classical ancient Greek art, Greek art, during the Hellenistic period, he was increasingly portrayed as a chubby boy. During this time, his iconography acquired the bow and arrow that represent his source of power: a person, or even a deity, who is shot by Cupid's arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire. In myths, Cupid is a minor character who serves mostly to set the plot in motion. He is a main character only in the tale of Cupid and Psyche, when wounded by hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trolley Ahoy
Trolley may refer to: Vehicles and components * Tram, or trolley or streetcar, a rail vehicle that runs on tramway tracks * Trolleybus, or trolley, an electric bus drawing power from overhead wires using trolley poles ** Trolleytruck, a trolleybus-like vehicle used for carrying cargo * Tourist trolley, a rubber-tired bus designed to resemble an old-style streetcar or tram * Trolley (horse-drawn), a goods vehicle with four wheels of equal size mounted underneath it * Rail push trolley, a small vehicle for inspecting rail lines Tools * Airline service trolley, a small serving cart used by flight attendants inside an aircraft * Boat dolly, or trolley, a device for launching small boats into the water * Creeper (tool), a low-profile, wheeled platform used by auto mechanics * Flatbed trolley, or dray, for freight transport in distribution environments ** Piano trolley, a device for moving pianos * Golf trolley, a trolley designed for carrying a golf equipment * Laptop charging troll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orphan
An orphan (from the el, ορφανός, orphanós) is a child whose parents have died. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition). Definitions Various groups use different definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the United States is a minor bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". In the common use, an orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for them. However, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), and other groups label any child who has lost one parent as an orphan. In this approach, a ''maternal orphan'' is a child whose mother has died, a ''paternal orphan'' is a child whose fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old King Cole
"Old King Cole" is a British nursery rhyme first attested in 1708. Though there is much speculation about the identity of King Cole, it is unlikely that he can be identified reliably as any historical figure. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1164. The poem describes a merry king who called for his pipe, bowl, and musicians, with the details varying among versions. The "bowl" is a drinking vessel, while it is unclear whether the "pipe" is a musical instrument or a tobacco pipe. Lyrics The most common modern version of the rhyme is: Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler he had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he; Oh, there's none so rare, as can compare, With King Cole and his fiddlers three. The song is first attested in William King's ''Useful Transactions in Philosophy'' in 1708–9.I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Oxford Dictionary of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neptune (mythology)
Neptune ( la, Neptūnus ) is the god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion. He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon.''Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia'', The Book People, Haydock, 1995, p. 215. In the Greek tradition, he is a brother of Jupiter and Pluto; the brothers preside over the realms of heaven, the earthly world (including the underworld), and the seas. Salacia is his wife. Depictions of Neptune in Roman mosaics, especially those in North Africa, were influenced by Hellenistic conventions. He was likely associated with freshwater springs before the sea. Like Poseidon, he was also worshipped by the Romans as a god of horses, as ''Neptunus equestris'' (a patron of horse-racing). Worship The theology of Neptune is limited by his close identification with the Greek god Poseidon, one of many members of the Greek pantheon whose theology was later tied to a Roman deity. The ''lectisternium'' of 399 BC indicated that the Greek figures of Poseidon, Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix The Cat Filmography
This is a complete list of animated films released theatrically starring Felix the Cat. Short films Silent films Paramount Pictures (1919–1921) The first 25 Felix cartoons were distributed to theaters by Paramount Pictures. The character was named "Master Tom" until ''The Adventures of Felix''. Margaret J. Winkler (1922–1925) 64 cartoons General Electric (ca. 1925 commercial for Mazda Lamps) Educational Pictures (1925–1928) 78 cartoons. Sound films Copley Pictures (1929–1930) Copley Pictures was the first distributor to issue Felix cartoons with sound. There were 12 originally with sound, and 16 reissues, for a total of 28 cartoons. =Sound reissues= A number of silent Felix cartoons were also re-issued by Copley at this time, with their intertitles removed and sound added. Newer simple titles were also inserted in most reissues, which removed signs of Educational Pictures copyrights. Jacques Kopfstein was hired by Pat Sullivan to add sound to the film. This w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg (film)
''Rainbow Parade'' was a series of 26 animated shorts produced by Van Beuren Studios and distributed to theaters by RKO between 1934 and 1936. This was the all-color series and final series produced by Van Beuren. History Many of the ''Rainbow Parade'' cartoons were one-shot stories with no recurring characters, but several of the films featured Parrotville Parrots, Molly Moo-Cow, Toonerville Folks, and Felix the Cat. This series was purchased by Commonwealth Pictures in 1941 and was later syndicated for television, sometimes under the name Kolor Kartoons. In 2021, Thunderbean Animation, in association with Blackhawk Films and the UCLA, released a collection of the first 13 ''Rainbow Parade'' cartoons from the existing master materials, updating the DVD collection from 2009. The second half of the series is available from the best existing prints released by Image DVD/Blackhawk Films/Film Preservation Associates. Filmography The first 13 cartoons in the series were all produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toonerville Trolley (film)
Toonerville may refer to: * Toonerville Folks ''Toonerville Folks'' ( ''The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains'') was a popular newspaper cartoon feature by Fontaine Fox, which ran from 1908 to 1955. It began in 1908 in the ''Chicago Post'', and by 1913, it was syndicated national ..., a 20th-century comic strip * Toonerville, Colorado, an unincorporated community * Toonerville, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Toonerville, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Toonerville, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films running through a special camera (3-strip Technicolor or Process 4) started in the early 1930s and continued through to the mid-1950s when the 3-strip camera was replaced by a standard camera loaded with single strip 'monopack' color negative film. Technicolor Laboratories were still able to produce Technicolor prints by creating three black and white matrices from the Eastmancolor negative (Process 5). Process 4 was the second major color process, after Britain's Kinemacolor (used between 1908 and 1914), and the most widely used color process in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Technicolor's #Process 4: Development and introduction, three-color process became known and celebrated for its highly s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotty Finds A Home
''Scotty Finds a Home'' is a 1935 reel animated cartoon directed by Burt Gillett and produced for RKO Radio Pictures, which was later re-released by Walter O. Gutlohn Inc. Plot A young anthropomorphic kitten wants a pet. He happens to find a Scottish Terrier The Scottish Terrier ( gd, Abhag Albannach; also known as the Aberdeen Terrier), popularly called the Scottie, is a breed of dog. Initially one of the highland breeds of terrier that were grouped under the name of ''Skye Terrier'', it is one ... with no owner and takes him in. When the dog, now named "Scotty" tracks mud into the house, the kitten's grandmother says that her grandson cannot keep him. Scotty is thrown out of the house. After some time, a transient bulldog is walking by as the kitten's grandmother puts a pie in the window sill to cool. He barges into the house and terrorizes the family, demanding they feed him. Scotty rushes back to the house and saves the family; Grandma decides that they can keep h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
