Monday 11 November 2013

Colourful Cartoon Collision

An asteroid (at least I think that’s what is it) collides with Tom in “Mouse into Space” (released March 1962), an MGM cartoon directed by Gene Deitch (though the animation director was Vaclav Bedrich). The first four drawings are consecutive frames.



The collision is accompanied by the “Boinnnggg!” sound effect endeared to many from Deitch’s Popeye cartoons for TV.

The Deitch cartoons were the only shorts MGM was releasing by this time; no travelogues, no sports reels, not even a Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry rerun.
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4 comments:

  1. Pokey11 November 2013 at 13:19

    That BOINNNNG sound effect was weird and was used in BOTH the Tom and Jerrys and Popeyes made by that company!Steve

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    1. Chris Sobieniak11 November 2013 at 19:09

      Heard it too much in my childhood to not thing of it as too weird (I recall a lot of kiddie crap on PBS used it), but certainly in the context of this cartoon, yes.

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  2. Chris Sobieniak11 November 2013 at 19:08

    The Deitch cartoons were the only shorts MGM was releasing by this time; no travelogues, no sports reels, not even a Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry rerun.

    Boy they must've really hated shorts over there!

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  3. Mrozik27 November 2013 at 05:06

    That "boing" was very often used in Czechoslovakian cartoons and live-action comedy. All Gene Deitch's series (not only Tom and Jerry or Popeye), but also others, from it one was produced in Netherlands, were had animation, sounds effects and music very Czech. Combination of Czechoslovakia a USA productions are very magic

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