That's right, '143AC'- right after they were originally shown on WNBT's {WNBC today} "CHILDREN'S THEATER" (Ray Forrest, host) from 1949 through '54 [at least]. Because Jerry Fairbanks originally "developed" this series for NBC- yet they decided not to schedule it on their network- they allowed him to syndicate the episodes, with NBC affiliates getting "first dibs" on them...which most of them did.
Good animation is not about the smoothness of the animation. A flip book can be a good animation. Smooth motion animation MAY be important, but the quality of the art, the ideas, the writing, can make an animation, like Crusader Rabbit, be good too. This is not poorly animated. It is very good. It's just not smooth animation. I' think I saw this on one of my all time favorite TV shows, Sheriff John, in LA, but I don't think he was an NBC affiliate. Maybe it was a different show.
Hey, you can't look at ancient cartoons and judge them by today's standards. If the only cartoons available were crappy and B&W then that was what kids enjoyed. And anyway, you can't as an adult judge what pleases a kid's eye. I mean, adults HATE Barney the Dinosaur, but tiny kids love him. He was made for tiny kids, not snooty adults.
dude you have to realize, if it wasn't for this"crap" you wouldn't have had all the awesome cartoons in the 90's, this was history in the making
That's right, '143AC'- right after they were originally shown on WNBT's {WNBC today} "CHILDREN'S THEATER" (Ray Forrest, host) from 1949 through '54 [at least]. Because Jerry Fairbanks originally "developed" this series for NBC- yet they decided not to schedule it on their network- they allowed him to syndicate the episodes, with NBC affiliates getting "first dibs" on them...which most of them did.
Good animation is not about the smoothness of the animation. A flip book can be a good animation. Smooth motion animation MAY be important, but the quality of the art, the ideas, the writing, can make an animation, like Crusader Rabbit, be good too. This is not poorly animated. It is very good. It's just not smooth animation.
I' think I saw this on one of my all time favorite TV shows, Sheriff John, in LA, but I don't think he was an NBC affiliate. Maybe it was a different show.
2:26 - 2:30 is awesome
Hey, you can't look at ancient cartoons and judge them by today's standards. If the only cartoons available were crappy and B&W then that was what kids enjoyed. And anyway, you can't as an adult judge what pleases a kid's eye. I mean, adults HATE Barney the Dinosaur, but tiny kids love him. He was made for tiny kids, not snooty adults.
Well said,,some people just don't get it do they !
Awesome !!
where did you get these?!
¿In what days was this series broadcast?
1947 or 1948 is when it 1st aired.
First comment- kids love it. The rabbit is fur-lic-ious cute!
Something endearing about these. Poorly animated, but still fun to watch.
You do realize they had to animate it cell by cell
Schoolhouse rock?
As Seen on Garfield Goose and Friends
This is crap.. growing up with cartoons in the 90's were so much better!