|
The Little Rascals (animated TV Series)
''The Little Rascals'' is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King World Productions. It first aired on ABC on September 25, 1982. A spin-off based on the live-action '' Our Gang'' comedy shorts, it was broadcast as part of ''The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show'' in 1982 and then as part of ''The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show'' in 1983. The characters were designed by Iwao Takamoto and Bob Singer by using tracing paper on top of actual photographs of the real-life characters, and used a pencil to sketch the characters. The same technique was also used in previous Hanna-Barbera spin-offs such as ''The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang'' and '' Laverne and Shirley in the Army''. Overview Previous ''Little Rascals''/''Our Gang'' animated television programs ''The Little Rascals'' had been animated for television twice before. In the 1960s, a series of nine clay-animated ''Little Rascals Color Specials'' were pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animation
Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). Computer animation can be very detailed Computer animation#Animation methods, 3D animation, while Traditional animation#Computers and traditional animation, 2D computer animation (which may have the look of traditional animation) can be used for stylistic reasons, low bandwidth, or faster real-time renderings. Other common animation methods apply a stop motion technique to two- and three-dimensional objects like cutout animation, paper cutouts, puppets, or Clay animation, clay figures. A cartoon is an animated film, usually a short film, featuring an cartoon, exaggerated visual style. The style takes inspiration from comic strips, often featuring anthropomorphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King World Productions
King World Productions, Inc. (also known as King World Entertainment, King World Enterprises, or simply King World) was a production company and syndicator of television programming in the United States independently established in 1964 until acquired by CBS in 1999, with its eventual 2007 incorporation into CBS Television Distribution (now CBS Media Ventures). Following the death of Roger King (producer), Roger King, the company continues to exist on paper as an intellectual property holder and under the moniker of KWP Studios to hold the copyright for television shows like ''Rachael Ray (talk show), Rachael Ray'', which premiered nationally on September 18, 2006. History Founding with ''The Little Rascals'' The division was started in 1964 by Charles King (1912–1972). It was a company that expressly handled television distribution of the Hal Roach-produced ''Our Gang'' short comedy films from the 1930s. When Roach lost the rights to the name ''Our Gang'' (it was retained by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Gang Follies Of 1936
''Our Gang Follies of 1936'' is a 1935 ''Our Gang'' short comedy film directed by Gus Meins. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 140th ''Our Gang'' short to be released and the first of several musical entries in the series. Plot The gang stages a big musical revue in Spanky's cellar ("6 Acts of Swell Actin," reads a sign above the cellar door). Spanky, as the master of ceremonies, persuades the neighborhood kids through song to come to the show, which includes performances by a miniature chorus line, a trio of farm girls, a group of kids dressed as skeletons, and featured spots for Alfalfa and a new girl named Cookie. Backstage, there is pandemonium involving Buckwheat's dealings with a mischievous little monkey, as well as Spanky's worrying over his star act, the Flory-Dory Girls, whose tardiness forces the would-be impresario to keep shuffling his acts. When the show reaches its final act with still no sign of the Flory-Dories, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiver My Timbers
''Shiver My Timbers'' is a 1931 ''Our Gang'' short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 109th (21st talking) ''Our Gang'' short that was released. Plot A loud sea captain (Billy Gilbert) tells violent stories about adventures out on the sea as pirates. The gang is playing hookey from school in order to hear his stories. Miss Crabtree (June Marlowe) finds where they are and decides to team up with the sea captain to teach the kids a lesson and scare them from ever wanting to be pirates. The sea captain invites the gang back that night to become pirates. When they board the ship, the sea captain puts on a show and scares the kids. He acts mean and pretends to be sending other pirates overboard. Miss Crabtree even is there and pretending that she would be next to walk the plank. The gang then decides they want to go back to school and take the sea captain seriously. However, during a staged "raid" on their ship, the children turn the tables on the crewmen. Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camberwick Green
''Camberwick Green'' is a British children's television series that ran from January to March 1966 on BBC1, featuring stop motion puppets. ''Camberwick Green'' is the first in the ''Trumptonshire'' trilogy, which also includes ''Trumpton'' and ''Chigley''. Background The series was written and produced by Gordon Murray and animated by Bob Bura, John Hardwick and Pasquale Ferrari. Music was by Freddie Phillips while narration and song vocals were provided by Brian Cant. There are thirteen fifteen-minute colour episodes produced by ''Gordon Murray Pictures''. The inspiration for the name is believed to have stemmed from the East Sussex village of Wivelsfield Green, supported by the nearby villages of Plumpton (Trumpton) and Chailey (Chigley). Each episode begins with a shot of a musical box which rotates while playing a tune. It is accompanied by the following narration: Then the lid, a hexagon constructed of six triangles in alternating colours, slowly opens up like an iris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laverne & Shirley (1981 TV Series)
''Laverne & Shirley'', also known as ''Laverne & Shirley in the Army'', is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Paramount Television broadcast on ABC from October 10, 1981, to November 13, 1982. It is a spin-off of the live-action sitcom '' Laverne & Shirley'' with the titular characters voiced by Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams and was loosely based on the 1979 two-part episode " We're in the Army, Now" in which Laverne and Shirley enlisted in the Army. Overview The series is set at Camp Fillmore and follows the comedic antics of roommates Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney as privates with the U.S. Army. They wind up getting involved in clandestine escapades with their immediate superior, a pig named Sgt. , who is always threatening to report them to his superior, Sgt. Turnbuckle. The series aired for one season of 13 episodes from October 10, 1981, to January 2, 1982. The following season, the series was re-titled ''Laverne & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
''The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang'' is an American animated science fiction comedy series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Paramount Television and originally broadcast during the Saturday morning schedule on ABC from November 8, 1980 until November 28, 1981. It is a spin-off of the live-action sitcom ''Happy Days''. It has been described as a knock-off of ''Doctor Who'', although the gang's time machine resembles a flying saucer rather than a police box. Premise Henry Winkler ( The Fonz/ "Fonzie"), Ron Howard ( Richie Cunningham) and Donny Most (Ralph Malph) all reprised their respective roles for ''The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang''. The series focuses on Fonzie, joined by an anthropomorphic dog named Mr. Cool, and his friends as they are visited by Cupcake, a girl from the future who pilots a malfunctioning time machine. After Fonzie repairs the machine, a subsequent accident causes the group to become missing in time. The series focuses on Fonzie and his frien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Singer
Bob Singer (born 1928) is an American animation artist, character designer, layout and background artist and storyboard director of animated television programs, most memorably of several Hanna-Barbera productions such as ''The Flintstones'', ''Jonny Quest'', ''Scooby-Doo'', ''Yogi Bear'', ''Droopy'', ''Tom and Jerry'', ''The Jetsons'', ''The Smurfs'', ''Super Friends'', '' Richie Rich'' and the ''Harlem Globetrotters'' cartoons. Life and career Bob was born in 1928 in Santa Barbara and raised in Santa Paula. He attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and graduated in 1955 with honors and a BPA. He worked at Carson/Roberts Advertising until 1956, then entered the fledgling Los Angeles television animation industry. During his tenure there he worked for such companies as Marvel, Hanna-Barbera, U.P.A. Pictures, Shamus Culhane and Warner Bros.. He drew ''The Flintstones'' and ''Yogi Bear'' newspaper comics. Hanna-Barbera used Bob's talents for 27 years, and during t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwao Takamoto
Iwao Takamoto (April 29, 1925 – January 8, 2007) was a Japanese-American animator, television producer, and film director. He began his career as a production and character designer for Walt Disney Animation Studios films such as ''Cinderella'' (1950), ''Lady and the Tramp'' (1955), and ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1959). Later, he moved to Hanna-Barbera Productions, where he designed a great majority of the characters, including Scooby-Doo and Astro, and eventually became a director and producer. Early life and career Takamoto was born in Los Angeles, California. His father emigrated from Hiroshima to the United States for his health, and returned to Japan only once, to marry his wife. At 15 years of age, Takamoto graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor and signing of Executive Order 9066, Takamoto's family, like many Japanese-Americans, was forced to move to the Manzanar internment camp in early 1940s. They spent the rest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
''The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show'' is a 60-minute Saturday morning animated package show co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King World Productions and broadcast on ABC from September 10, 1983, to September 1, 1984. The show contained the following three segments: ''The Little Rascals'', '' Richie Rich'' and '' Monchhichis''. Segments The package show combined new episodes and reruns of ''The Little Rascals'' and ''Richie Rich'' with the new ''Monchhichis'' series. The segments for each sixty-minute episode were as follows: * The Little Rascals (11 minutes) * Richie Rich Zillion-Dollar Adventures (11 minutes) * Monchhichis (30 minutes) The ''Monchhichis'' segment aired as part of the package show through the end of 1983. As early as January 7, 1984, because of lower-than-anticipated ratings (especially since it faced very tough competition against another HB series, the high-rated ''The Smurfs'' on NBC), the package show was revamped, and became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
''The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show'' is a 90-minute Saturday morning animated package show co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King World Productions and broadcast on ABC from September 25, 1982 to September 3, 1983. The show contains the following three segments: ''Pac-Man'', ''The Little Rascals'' and '' Richie Rich''. It aired during the 1983-1984 season as ''The Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show''. Ownership Because ''The Little Rascals'' segment was co-produced by King World Productions, the rights to that segment are under different ownership than the others – CBS Media Ventures currently owns the rights. The ''Pac-Man'' and ''Richie Rich'' segments have been incorporated into the Warner Bros. library, due to various corporate changes involving Hanna-Barbera. Segments The segment order for each ninety-minute episode was as follows: * The Little Rascals - First segment (11 minutes) * Richie Rich Riches (7 minutes) * Richie Rich Gems (30 seconds) * Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off (or spinoff) is a radio program, television program, film, video game or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events). One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' became the star of his own program ''The Great Gildersleeve'' (1941–1957). In genre fiction, the term parallels its usage in television; it is usually meant to indicate a substantial ''change in narrative viewpoint and activity'' from that (previous) storyline based on the activities of the series' principal protagonist and so is a shift to that action and overall narrative thread of some other protagonist, which now becomes the central or main thread (storyline) of the new sub-series. The ''new protagoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
