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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023

Animation: Terrytoons Studio Tour 1939

Carlo Vinci and Connie Rasinski

Bill Weiss, Paul Terry, unknown, Larry Silverman, Carlo Vinci

Recently, the family of the legendary animator, Carlo Vinci lent us two 8mm films to transfer for the archive. I’ll post about the other one soon, but today I have a special treat for you… a color film outlining the animation production process from Terrytoons in 1939!

Here are frame grabs of most of the people appearing in this short. If you can identify anyone, please let us know in the comments below.

Animator Carlo Vinci

Terrytoons Makin Em Move

Story Man Larry Silverman

Terrytoons Makin Em Move

Story Man Tommy Morrison

Terrytoons Makin Em Move

Music Director Phil Scheib and Director Connie Rasinski

Terrytoons Makin Em Move

Animator Jim Whipp and his assistant

Terrytoons Makin Em Move

Makin’ Em Move (Terry/1939)
(Quicktime 7 / 30.7 megs)

Here is the cartoon we see the artists working on in this film…

Harvest Time (Terry/1940)
(Quicktime 7 / 13.8 megs)

Mike Fontanelli shares this great collection of Terry-Toons lobby cards with us…

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

This posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Animation.

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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022

Filmography: Gandy and Sourpuss in Aladdin’s Lamp

I’ve long thought that the Gandy Goose cartoons are underappreciated. They’re funny, well animated and have a great deal of variety. The early ones, in particular "Doomsday", have lavish production values. "Aladdin’s Lamp" is a typical wartime short featuring the duo, and it includes a great jitterbug dance sequence by Carlo Vinci. Vinci’s hand is evident throughout this short.

Gandy and Sourpuss

Gandy Goose & Sourpuss in
Aladdin’s Lamp (Terry/1943)
(Quicktime 7 / 14.5 megs)

Many thanks to John Kricfalusi for donating this great cartoon to our archive.

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

This posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Animation.

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Wednesday, June 15th, 2022

Story: Terry-Toons Storyboard by Jim Tyer

Archive supporter, Wynn Hamonic shared a real treasure with us today. This is a complete storyboard by Terry-Toons’ most unique animator, Jim Tyer. It’s a great batch of drawings. Terry-Toons art is very scarce, and complete storyboards are even scarcer.

Around 1959 Tyer did storyboards for at least three films in the format of Paul Terry’s early Aesop’s Fables cartoons. The first one, “The Tiger King” (1960) was released, the other two were unproduced. This storyboard, titled “Blood is Thicker Than Water” is particularly interesting because it includes both finished panels and roughed out ones. This gives us a chance to examine Tyer’s working process and see how he planned out his compositions. At Terry-Toons, storyboards were done on full sheets of animation paper and attached to the wall by binder clips. You can see Carlo Vinci and Connie Rasinski pitching a board at Terry-Toons in this photo…

It appears that Tyer swept through the board quickly with blue pencil first, roughing in the basic compositions and poses. Then he (or his assistant) went back and began to tighten up the drawings in black pencil over the top of his roughs.

The cartoon was evidently designed for fairly limited animation. It would even have worked well as an animatic in the style of the earliest Crusader Rabbit cartoons. The story is told primarily in voice over narration- see the breakdown of the VO script at the top. Tyer’s amazing expressions and fun designs make the whole thing work beautifully.

I’d like to thank Wynn Hamonic for giving Animation Resources the opportunity to digitize this important piece of Terry-Toons history for our permanent collection. Enjoy the genius of Jim Tyer!