Kartunes

Title card of the series

Kartunes was a series of 12 theatrical shorts subjects from 1951 to 1953. The series was produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures. It succeeded the Screen Songs series because Paramount Pictures lost the rights to the series' name and the term "Bouncing Ball" couldn't be used any more. Even though the series ended in 1953, Famous produced one more cartoon called Candy Cabaret, which was part of the Noveltoons series.

Starting with Snooze Reel, the opening theme of each cartoon was Sing a Song of Six Pence.

List of cartoons (songs)

Title	Song	Director	Story	Animation	Scenics	Original release date
Vegetable Vaudeville	"Yes! We Have No Bananas"	I. Sparber	Larz Bourne	Myron Waldman Nick Tafuri		November 9, 1951
Snooze Reel	"I Got Spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle"	Seymour Kneitel	Joe Stultz	Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill	Robert Owen	December 28, 1951
Off We Glow	"The Glow-Worm"	I. Sparber	Larz Bourne Tex Henson	Dave Tendlar Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill Tom Golden	Robert Little	February 29, 1952
Fun at the Fair	"Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie"	I. Sparber	Larz Bourne	Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill		May 9, 1952
Dizzy Dinosaurs	"Sweet Adeline"	Seymour Kneitel	I. Klein	Myron Waldman Gordon Whittier	Robert Little	July 4, 1952
Gag and Baggage	"I've Been Working on the Railroad"	I. Sparber	Larz Bourne	Dave Tendlar Tom Golden	Robert Little	August 8, 1952
Forest Fantasy	"By the Light of the Silvery Moon"	Seymour Kneitel	I. Klein	Myron Waldman Larry Silverman	Anton Loeb	November 14, 1952
Hysterical History	"Yankee Doodle Boy"	I. Sparber	Irving Spector	Al Eugster George Germanetti	Robert Owen	January 23, 1953
Philharmaniacs	"Alexander's Ragtime Band"	Seymour Kneitel	I. Klein	Tom Johnson John Gentilella	Jack Henegan	April 3, 1953
Aero-Nutics	"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"	Seymour Kneitel	Irving Spector	Al Eugster and George Germanetti		May 8, 1953
Invention Convention	"Let Me Call You Sweetheart"	I. Sparber	I. Klein	Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill	Anton Loeb	June 10, 1953
No Place Like Rome	"Oh Ma-Ma (The Butcher Boy)"	I. Sparber	Irving Spector	Al Eugster George Germanetti	Jack Henegan	July 31, 1953

Note: Hysterical History is the only Kartunes' episode in public domain.

TV distribution

The cartoons were later sold to TV distribution by Harvey Films to replace the original titles with the Harvey reissued ones and syndicated by Worldvision Enterprises.

External links

Kartune at the Big Cartoon DataBase

Famous Studios

Theatrical short film series	Popeye the Sailor (1942–1957, list of shorts) Superman (1942–1943) Noveltoons (1943–1967) Little Lulu (1943–1948) Screen Songs (1947–1951) Casper the Friendly Ghost (1950–1959, list of shorts) Kartunes (1951–1953) Herman and Katnip (1952–1959, list of shorts) Modern Madcaps (1958–1967) Jeepers and Creepers (1960) The Cat (1960–1961) Swifty and Shorty (1964–1965) Honey Halfwitch (1965–1967) Merry Makers (1967) GoGo Toons (1967) Fractured Fables (1967)

TV series	Felix the Cat (1958 – 1961) Matty's Funday Funnies (1959-1961) Popeye the Sailor (1960–1962) The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963–1964) King Features Trilogy (1963–1965) The Marvel Super Heroes (1966)

Bray Productions Fleischer Studios Paramount Pictures Harvey Films

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