Thursday, February 28, 2008
nutty squirrels
Once upon a time you had to die before your life passed before your eyes, now we have YouTube, at least for those of us whose life has mainly taken place in front of a television. This program, screened on the ABC 35 years plus ago was a favourite of mine when I was young and of course the theme tune and the zany wiliam tell routine bring it all back, though the most evocative moment for me was the Flamingo Telefilm logo at the very end. Funny that. The cartoon is quite funny too but don't worry I don't expect you to watch it, though if you did you'd have to admit the sleeping elephant's body movements are very inspired.
I found this link that explains more than anyone needs to know about the Nutty Squirrels, from the person who put the cartoon on YouTube.
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Sadly the link is down for the moment.
Australia got at least 90 of these cartoons which were broadcast Australia wide between early 1966 and early 1979 on the ABC. In color from 1976.
For a few years regional commercial TV stations in NSW also continued broadcasting the Nutty Squirrels Presents Cartoons, finishing Australias long time broadcasting run in 1982.
Fima Noveck edited these foreign made cartoons in the USA and over there he released at least 145 of the single short cartoons.
If anyone managed to download the above cartoon, "Tiger Trouble", can you PLEASE repost it on YouTube. Its not a copyright issue but the fact that the person who posted it there, didn't maintain his account.
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