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OutOfOdor
a year ago
Porky's debut cartoon was apparently later a Krazytoon? Intriguing.

I've actually thought about the Transvideo Artists/Trans Artists connection a few times before, and Singer's team possibly having animated the opening/closing animation for the package. Good to know they're apparently the same company.
"With all respect to the great mousetrap."- Popeye, "The Spinach Overture" (1935)
OutOfOdor
3 months ago
Some of my guesses for the batch of titles Tommy shared here a while back when the thread first started. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong:

Always Happy = "The Sunshine Makers"? The sunshine elves in that short certainly fit the bill of being "always happy".

Little Round Man = Maybe "A Dizzy Day?" Sentinel Looey is a round little fellow after all. My other guess is that it's a Little King.

Billy Boy = Maybe the Terrytoon "Billy Goat's Whiskers"?

Funland = Shot in the dark, but knowing how some advertising/educational shorts were sometimes included in these packages ("Sailing, Sailing" and "See How They Won" come to mind), my wild guess is this is "Out of the Milk Bottle"/"Skinny and Husky at Coney Island".
"With all respect to the great mousetrap."- Popeye, "The Spinach Overture" (1935)
OutOfOdor
2 months ago
A slight update, because the true name of "Christmas Daze" has been found, thanks to the book "Australian Animation: An International History" by Dan and Lienors Torre (and relayed via a Cartoon Research comment by Paul Groh). It's called "Jingle Bells" and was released in 1957.
"With all respect to the great mousetrap."- Popeye, "The Spinach Overture" (1935)
ddbryan
2 months ago
Hello all, this is Dee Bryan, who had the Analog Archive channel where that Krazytoons print of "Christmas Up North" once was. I deleted the channel a few years ago because I got tired of fighting incessant copyright claims over public domain material, but it's back (though with a focus on commercials and TV interstitial material, not cartoons or films). But I hadn't realized that this video was noticed and missed, and since it fits the Christmas season, I just put it back up. Enjoy!



The tape in question is "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives" released by Amvest Video in 1988, under their Christmas Classics banner. Another tape in this same series features the same Little King short in its more commonly seen Official Films print, in case anyone finds that interesting. (Sorry, I find the endless different VHS releases of public domain cartoons just as interesting as these bootleg TV packages... and quite similar in terms of the care, or lack thereof, that went into their work, and the oddness that resulted!)
OutOfOdor
2 months ago
Nice of you to drop by, Dee! Thanks for reuploading "Christmas Up North".

And you've got nothing to apologize for! I'm somebody who has a big fascination for those public-domain releases myself, quite the interesting rabbit hole to go down.
"With all respect to the great mousetrap."- Popeye, "The Spinach Overture" (1935)
Tommy Stathes
a month ago
Dee, I'll note that Day Dreams had appeared on at least one other Christmas-themed PD tape. Can't remember which offhand, since all of my tapes are buried in storage. I think it was a one hour tape from one of the more obscure labels.

FWIW, I don't recall coming across any other store-bought PD tapes with a Krazytoons print present. Also in your YT description, your wording sort of suggests that "Christmas Night" is the original title of the cartoon. Might help viewers to clarify by saying what you've basically said here, which is that the more commonly seen Official Films retitle of the same cartoon appears on another KP tape. The original 'Pals' exists in fairly rare 16mm prints (mostly from England), and I don't think any made it onto home video in the VHS days.
ddbryan
a month ago
OK, I edited the description in line with your suggestion regarding "Pals" - although I left my remarks about "Daydreams" alone, as I only said that *I* haven't seen it anywhere else, not that it isn't out there! It seems like the video companies dug especially deep when they were looking for Christmas material... anything to stand out from the other guys, I guess. Everything from ancient silent films to those '60s Russian cartoons was fair game.

I want to say there's at least one other PD VHS release that has a Krazytoons title on it, because I can remember seeing the full intro on a tape I owned at some point. Not sure what title it would have been, but I lean toward "Toyland Caper" (which I know is also on video, DVD at least, in a different bootleg print as well).
OutOfOdor
a month ago
Updated the OP because I wound up finding a little more about the contents within the package itself while going through the invaluable World Radio History website's archives. I decided to search "Krazytoons" on a whim there, just to see if I could find any info on them, and lo and behold, I did!!

The package, although copyrighted to Transvideo Artists, was distributed by a company in New York simply called "Great Films, Inc.", who also distributed a package of Errol Flynn films and 38 each of Westerns and other movies generically labelled "features". The number of Krazytoons offered in the package? A nice even 150 (which lines up with what "Steve Z." said in that CR comment), although I have my suspicions this may have just been the initial batch prepared for it, keeping in mind what Stathes said about some of these having numbers in the 200s shown on the countdown leader on some of his prints.

Distribution-wise, the package is listed in several consecutive entries of the "International Television Almanac" periodical from 1960 to 1966, which seems to be about how long this package was in syndication!

Really, really nice to have this info shedding a bit more light into this rather eclectic package.
"With all respect to the great mousetrap."- Popeye, "The Spinach Overture" (1935)
OutOfOdor
a month ago

OK, I edited the description in line with your suggestion regarding "Pals" - although I left my remarks about "Daydreams" alone, as I only said that *I* haven't seen it anywhere else, not that it isn't out there! It seems like the video companies dug especially deep when they were looking for Christmas material... anything to stand out from the other guys, I guess. Everything from ancient silent films to those '60s Russian cartoons was fair game.

I want to say there's at least one other PD VHS release that has a Krazytoons title on it, because I can remember seeing the full intro on a tape I owned at some point. Not sure what title it would have been, but I lean toward "Toyland Caper" (which I know is also on video, DVD at least, in a different bootleg print as well).

Originally Posted by: ddbryan 



The other release you're thinking of might be UAV's "Mary's Little Lamb" tape, which features the Krazytoons reissue of the Columbia short The Gullible Canary ("Tweety Tweet").
"With all respect to the great mousetrap."- Popeye, "The Spinach Overture" (1935)
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