Noveltoons

Noveltoons
Directed by	Isadore Sparber Dan Gordon Seymour Kneitel Bill Tytla More...
Produced by	Sam Buchwald Isadore Sparber Dan Gordon Seymour Kneitel More...
Story by	Jack Mercer Carl Meyer More...
Voices by	Jack Mercer Mae Questel Cecil Roy Jackson Beck Frank Gallop Arnold Stang Sid Raymond More...
Music by	Sammy Timberg (1943-1946) Winston Sharples (1943-1967)
Animation by	Myron Waldman David Tendlar Tom Johnson Nicholas Tafuri Al Eugster John Walworth Tom Golden More...
Layouts by	N/A
Backgrounds by	N/A
Studio	Famous Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	1943–1967
Color process	3-strip Technicolor Cinecolor Polacolor
Running time	6–10 minutes (one reel)
Country	United States
Language	English (usually)
Preceded by	Color Classics
Followed by	GoGo Toons Merry Makers Fractured Fables

Noveltoons was an anthology series of animated cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios from 1943 to the close of the studio in 1967. Casper the Friendly Ghost, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, and Baby Huey all got their start from this series. It was the successor series to the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios (indeed, several Noveltoons would feature characters who originated in Color Classics). This series was also very similar to the two series from Warner Bros., Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in that it features several recurring characters under one umbrella title.

The pre-October 1950 Noveltoons were sold to television distributor U.M. & M. TV Corporation in 1956. National Telefilm Associates acquired those cartoons soon afterward. Paramount sold the rest of the Noveltoons to Harvey Comics. As new Noveltoons were produced, they were also sold to Harvey, until 1962. Paramount still owns the remaining Noveltoons, and has reacquired the cartoons sold to U.M. & M., but a good deal of those cartoons have fallen into the public domain.

List of Noveltoons

• No Mutton fer Nuttin' (1944)^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• The Henpecked Rooster (1944)^{[lower-alpha 2]}
• Cilly Goose (1944)
• Suddenly It's Spring (1944)^{[lower-alpha 3]}
• Yankee Doodle Donkey (1944)^{[lower-alpha 4]}
• Gabriel Churchkitten (1944)^{[lower-alpha 5]}
• When G.I. Johnny Comes Home (1945)
• Scrappily Married (1945)
• A Lamb in a Jam (1945)
• A Self-Made Mongrel (1945)^{[lower-alpha 6]}
• The Friendly Ghost (1945)^{[lower-alpha 7]}
• Cheese Burglar (1946)
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm (1946)
• Sheep Shape (1946)
• The Goal Rush (1946)
• Spree for All (1946)^{[lower-alpha 8]}
• Sudden Fried Chicken (1946)^{[lower-alpha 9]}
• The Stupidstitious Cat (1947)^{[lower-alpha 10]}
• The Enchanted Square (1947)^{[lower-alpha 11]}
• Madhattan Island (1947)
• Much Ado About Mutton (1947)^{[lower-alpha 12]}
• The Wee Men (1947)
• The Mild West (1947)
• Naughty But Mice (1947)
• Santa's Surprise (1947)^{[lower-alpha 13]}
• Cat o' Nine Ails (1948)
• Flip Flap (1948)^{[lower-alpha 14]}
• We're in the Honey (1948)
• The Bored Cuckoo (1948)
• There's Good Boos To-Night (1948)^{[lower-alpha 15]}
• The Land of the Lost (1948)
• Butterscotch and Soda (1948)
• The Mite Makes Right (1948)
• Hector's Hectic Life (1948)
• The Old Shell Game (1948)
• The Little Cut-Up (1949)
• Hep Cat Symphony (1949)
• The Lost Dream (1949)
• Little Red School Mouse (1949)
• A Haunting We Will Go (1949)^{[lower-alpha 16]}
• A Mutt in a Rut (1949) ^{[lower-alpha 17]}
• Campus Capers (1949)
• Leprechauns Gold (1949)^{[lower-alpha 18]}
• Song of the Birds (1949)^{[lower-alpha 19]}
• Quack-a-Doodle-Doo (1949)^{[lower-alpha 20]}
• Teacher's Pest (1950)
• Tarts and Flowers (1950)
• Ups an' Downs Derby (1950)
• Pleased to Eat You (1950)
• Goofy Goofy Gander (1950)
• Saved by the Bell (1950)
• Mice Meeting You (1950)
• The Voice of the Turkey (1950)^{[lower-alpha 21]}
• Sock-a-Bye Kitty (1950)
• One Quack Mind (1951)
• Mice Paradise (1951)
• Hold the Lion Please (1951)
• Land of Lost Watches (1951)
• As the Crow Lies (1951)
• Slip Us Some Redskin (1951)
• Party Smarty (1951)
• Cat-Choo (1951)^{[lower-alpha 22]}
• Audrey the Rainmaker (1951)
• Cat Tamale (1951)^{[lower-alpha 23]}
• By Leaps and Hounds (1951)
• Scout Fellow (1951)
• Cat Carson Rides Again (1952)^{[lower-alpha 24]}
• The Awful Tooth (1952)^{[lower-alpha 25]}
• Law and Audrey (1952)
• City Kitty (1952)
• Clown on the Farm (1952)
• The Case of the Cockeyed Canary (1952)
• Feast and Furious (1952)
• Starting from Hatch (1953)
• Winner by a Hare (1953)
• Better Bait Than Never (1953)
• Surf Bored (1953)
• Huey's Ducky Daddy (1953)
• The Seapreme Court (1953)
• Crazytown (1953)
• Hair Today Gone Tomorrow (1954)
• Candy Cabaret (1954)
• The Oily Bird (1954)
• Fido Beta Kappa (1954)
• No Ifs, Ands or Butts (1954)^{[lower-alpha 26]}
• Dizzy Dishes (1955)
• Git Along Lil' Duckie (1955)
• News Hound (1955)
• Poop Goes the Weasel (1955)
• Rabbit Punch (1955)
• Little Audrey Riding Hood (1955)
• Kitty Cornered (1955)
• Sleuth But Sure (1956)
• Swab the Duck (1956)
• Pedro and Lorenzo (1956)
• Sir Irving and Jeames (1956)
• Lion in the Roar (1956)
• Pest Pupil (1956)
• Fishing Tackler (1957)^{[lower-alpha 27]}
• Mr. Money Gags (1957)^{[lower-alpha 28]}
• L'Amour the Merrier (1957)
• Possom Pearl (1957)
• Jumping with Toy (1957)
• Jolly the Clown (1957)
• Cock-a-Doodle Dino (1957)^{[lower-alpha 29]}
• Dante Dreamer (1957)
• Sportickles (1958)
• Grateful Gus (1958)^{[lower-alpha 30]}
• Finnegan's Flea (1958)
• Okey Dokey Donkey (1958)^{[lower-alpha 31]}
• Chew Chew Baby (1958)
• Travelaffs (1958)^{[lower-alpha 32]}
• Stork Raving Mad (1958)
• Dawg Gawn (1958)^{[lower-alpha 33]}
• The Animal Fair (1959)^{[lower-alpha 34]}
• Houndabout (1959)
• Huey's Father's Day (1959)^{[lower-alpha 35]}
• Out of This Whirl (1959)^{[lower-alpha 36]}
• Be Mice to Cats (1960)
• Monkey Doodles (1960)
• Peck Your Own Home (1960)
• Silly Science (1960)
• Counter Attack (1960) ^{[lower-alpha 37]}
• Turning the Fables (1960)^{[lower-alpha 38]}
• Munro (1960)^{[lower-alpha 39]}
• Fine Feathered Fiend (1960)
• The Planet Mouseola (1960)^{[lower-alpha 40]}
• Northern Mites (1960)
• Miceniks (1960)
• The Lion's Busy (1961)^{[lower-alpha 41]}
• Hound About That (1961)^{[lower-alpha 42]}
• Alvin's Solo Flight (1961)^{[lower-alpha 43]}
• Goodie the Gremlin (1961)^{[lower-alpha 44]}
• Trick or Tree (1961)
• Cape Kidnaveral (1961)
• Turtle Scoop (1961)^{[lower-alpha 45]}
• Kozmo Goes to School (1961)^{[lower-alpha 46]}
• Perry Popgun (1962)
• Without Time or Reason (1962)^{[lower-alpha 47]}
• Good and Guilty (1962)^{[lower-alpha 48]}
• T.V. or No T.V. (1962)^{[lower-alpha 49]}
• Anatole (1962)^{[lower-alpha 50]}
• Yule Laff (1962)^{[lower-alpha 51]}
• It's for the Birdies (1962)
• Fiddlin' Around (1962)
• Ollie the Owl (1963)
• Good Snooze Tonight (1963)
• A Sight for Squaw Eyes (1963)
• Self Defense ... for Cowards (1963)^{[lower-alpha 52]}
• Gramps to the Rescue (1963)
• Hobo's Holiday (1963)^{[lower-alpha 53]}
• Hound for Pound (1963)
• The Sheepish Wolf (1963)
• Hiccup Hound (1963)^{[lower-alpha 54]}
• Whiz Quiz Kid (1964)^{[lower-alpha 55]}
• Laddy and His Lamp (1964)^{[lower-alpha 56]}
• A Tiger's Tail (1964)^{[lower-alpha 57]}
• Homer on the Range (1964)^{[lower-alpha 58]}
• Horning In (1965)^{[lower-alpha 59]}
• A Hair-Raising Tale (1965)
• The Story of George Washington (1965)^{[lower-alpha 60]}
• A Leak in the Dike (1965)^{[lower-alpha 61]}
• Tally-Hokum (1965)
• Op, Pop, Wham and Bop (1966)
• Sick Transit (1966)^{[lower-alpha 62]}
• Space Kid (1966)^{[lower-alpha 63]}
• Geronimo & Son (1966)^{[lower-alpha 64]}
• The Trip (1967)^{[lower-alpha 65]}
• Robin Hood-winked (1967)^{[lower-alpha 66]}

In total, 170 animated shorts in the series were produced.

Home media

On January 23, 2012, Thunderbean Animation released a restored collection of public domain Noveltoons with the following cartoons: Cilly Goose, Suddenly It's Spring, Yankee Doodle Donkey, Scrappily Married, A Lamb in a Jam, Cheese Burglar, Sudden Fried Chicken, The Stupidstitious Cat, The Enchanted Square, Much Ado About Mutton, The Wee Men, Naughty But Mice, Flip Flap, The Bored Cuckoo, Leprechauns Gold, Quack-a-Doodle Doo, Teacher's Pest, Ups an' Downs Derby, Pleased to Eat You and Saved by the Bell.

In 2016, Classic Media and Harvey Entertainment released all sixteen newly remastered Little Audrey cartoons, all three newly remastered Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons, all twelve newly remastered Baby Huey cartoons, all four newly remastered Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare cartoons and all ninteen newly remastered Herman, Buzzy and/or Katnip cartoons (the seven cartoons already restored by Thunderbean Animation and the fourteen post-1953 cartoons newly cropped to 1.85:1 widescreen formats).

Notes

1. First Noveltoon cartoon, and first appearances of Blackie the Lamb and Wolfie Wolf. Only cartoon directed by Dan Gordon.
2. First appearances of Herman, Henry, and Bertha. First cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel.
3. First sequel to the 1941 Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941).
4. Featuring Spunky, an alumus from the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios. First cartoon directed by Izzy Sparber.
5. Based on three books by Margot Austin
6. First appearance of Dog Face. First cartoon directed by Dave Tendlar.
7. First appearance of Casper the Friendly Ghost, and also his first in the Noveltoons series.
8. Featuring Snuffy Smith from the comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith; served as the bridge between the 1934-1936 Charles Mintz/Screen Gems Barney Google cartoon series and the 1963 Snuffy Smith cartoons produced specifically for the animated television series King Features Trilogy. Considered a lost film.
9. This cartoon appeared in Smart House. First cartoon directed by Bill Tytla.
10. First appearance of Buzzy the Crow
11. Second and final sequel to the 1941 Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941).
12. Last appearance of Blackie the Lamb in the Noveltoon series, before he moved to the first Screen Songs color cartoon, Circus Comes to Clown.
13. First appearance of Little Audrey
14. This cartoon was narrated by Ken Roberts.
15. Second appearance of Casper in the Noveltoons series.
16. Last appearance of Casper in the Noveltoons series, before he moved on to his own series.
17. A dog is at his wits' end when his mistress adopts a stray kitten, but a nightmare about Dog Heaven and Dog Hell makes Dogface change his ways. DVD 100 Cartoon Classics, Treeline Films, 2004.
18. Sequel to The Wee Men (1947).
19. Short is a semi-remake/reused plot of the 1934 Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon, The Song of the Birds (1934); featuring Little Audrey.
20. First appearance of Baby Huey.
    • Land of the Lost Jewels (1950)
21. First appearances of Timothy the Turkey and the farmer. Final cartoon directed by Bill Tytla.
22. First of two Buzzy and Katnip cartoons in the Noveltoon series.
23. First of two Herman and Katnip cartoons in the Noveltoon series.
24. Second and last of two Herman and Katnip cartoons in the Noveltoon series, before they moved on to their own series.
25. Second and last of two Buzzy and Katnip cartoons in the Noveltoon series.
26. Banned from being aired on television, due to its exploitations and exhibitings of smoking habits.
27. The 100th Noveltoon cartoon.
28. The only cartoon directed by Al Eugster. Al Eugster's only off-screen credit, but Izzy Sparber still gets a credit.
29. Featuring Danny Dinosaur, and first time he is named.
30. Final cartoon directed by Dave Tendlar.
31. Featuring Spunky, from the Hunky and Spunky cartoon sub-series of Max Fleischer's Color Classics.
32. Izzy Sparber's final on-screen credit. Final cartoon released in Izzy Sparber's lifetime. Seymour Kneitel's only off-screen credit.
33. Last appearance of Little Audrey.
34. Final cartoon directed by Izzy Sparber due to his death in 1958.
35. Last appearance of Baby Huey, but he moved on to the television shows, the direct-to-video Easter movie and his own website series.
36. Prototype of the two shorts, Kozmo Goes to School (1961) and its direct sequel Space Kid (1965).
37. Featuring Scat the Cat, a sequel to this short was produced and was entitled The Planet Mouseola (1960).
38. Featuring Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare.
39. Munro (1960) was a co-production with Rembrandt Films. First cartoon directed by Gene Deitch. Only cartoon to win an Academy Award for Short Subjects.
40. Featuring Scat the Cat, a sequel to Counter Attack (1960).
41. Featuring Sir Reginald Tweedledum IV.
42. Featuring Harry Hound.
43. One of the only two post-1948 cartoons featuring the belated return of Little Lulu after the end of her own cartoon series, the other being the 1962 Comic Kings cartoon Frog's Legs.
44. First appearance of Goodie the Gremlin.
45. Last appearance of Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare.
46. Featuring Kozmo the Space Kid, a short sequel followed just five years later under the title Space Kid (1965).
47. Featuring Ralph and Percy, a sequel short followed this cartoon and was called T.V. or No T.V. (1962).
48. Second appearance of Goodie the Gremlin.
49. Featuring Ralph and Percy, a sequel to Without Time or Reason (1962).
50. Anatole (1962) was a co-production with Rembrandt Films.
51. Third appearance of Goodie the Gremlin, Santa Claus' second Noveltoon appearance following from Santa's Surprise (1947).
52. Self Defense ... for Cowards (1963) was a co-production with Rembrandt Films. Final cartoon directed by Gene Deitch. Only cartoon to nominated for an Academy Award for Short Subjects.
53. The second and final of the two Screen Songs homages in the Noveltoons series.
54. Last appearance of Goodie the Gremlin.
55. Final cartoon released in Seymour Kneitel's lifetime.
56. Featuring Laddy and the Genie, a sequel later followed titled A Tiger's Tail (1964).
57. Featuring Laddy and the Genie, a sequel to Laddy and His Lamp (1964).
58. First cartoon directed by Howard Post.
59. Featuring King Artie.
60. Featuring Jacky, a sequel short followed entitled A Leak in the Dike (1965). First cartoon directed by Jack Mendelsohn.
61. Featuring Jacky, a sequel to The Story of George Washington (1965). Final cartoon directed by Jack Mendelsohn.
62. Final cartoon directed by Howard Post.
63. Featuring Kozmo the Space Kid, a sequel to Kozmo Goes to School (1961). Final cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel due to his death in 1964.
64. First cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane.
65. An animated short caper in the same vein as the stylized UPA limited animation cartoons of the 1950s and '60s.
66. Featuring Sir Blur, the very last Noveltoon ever produced after the studio closed down. Final cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane.

External links

• Freely downloadable Noveltoons shorts