tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post3967191261326259567..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: He's 75Yowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-1840737716678850902015-07-28T21:22:58.761-07:002015-07-28T21:22:58.761-07:00Makes perfect sense when you phrase it like that.Makes perfect sense when you phrase it like that.Steve Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-43192537849917533842015-07-28T06:10:25.608-07:002015-07-28T06:10:25.608-07:00Steve, I'd have to dig through papers to get a...Steve, I'd have to dig through papers to get an answer, but it sounds like WABD ran the Guild package of Looney Tunes in 1955 and augmented it with the AAP cartoons when they were first sold to stations in May 1956.<br />Regardless of the network's fate, the numbers did go up because of the cartoons and that's what AAP was using as a selling point. ("If a loser like DuMont can get numbers, think of what YOUR station could do!" might not have made a good sell line).Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-15049908529447040112015-07-27T22:02:30.008-07:002015-07-27T22:02:30.008-07:00AAP picked a strange endorsement letter to use in ...AAP picked a strange endorsement letter to use in that trade ad. The Dumont network was in a shambles by the Spring of 1955, and the last regularly scheduled program aired August 6, 1956. Judging by the date on the letter, Mr. Cott must've been burning off the last of the Dumont letterhead. Not exactly the ringing endorsement I would chose to put in a trade ad. And if Associated Artists Productions bought the TV rights to pre-1948 Warner's cartoons in 1956, how did any TV station air them in October of 1955? As Elmer would say, there's something awfully scwewy going on here.<br /><br />(I work at a former Dumont affiliate)Steve Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-86151554567019760832015-07-27T12:16:17.733-07:002015-07-27T12:16:17.733-07:00While it seems slow-paced by later standards, one ...While it seems slow-paced by later standards, one of the great things about the cartoon is even before we ever see Bugs' face or hear Bugs' voice, he is the Bugs Bunny everyone knows, in Avery's pantomime gag with Bugs' hand vs. Elmer's gun in the battle for the carrot. That's some amazing personality animation.J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com