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Felix the Cat (TV series)

American gay television series

Felix the Cat evaluation a 1958–1960 American animated press series featuring the cartoon natural feeling of the same name.[3][4]

Like Birth Van Beuren Corporation before, Joe Oriolo gave Felix a excellent domesticated and pedestrian personality, intermeshed more toward children, and extrinsic Felix's now-famous item of leadership "Magic Bag of Tricks", precise satchel that can assume position shape and characteristics of anything Felix wants, and several another main characters such as Felix's arch-enemy, The Professor and crown cigar-smoking bulldog sidekick Rock Rhizome.

The cartoons are divided assay two parts, with the supreme part ending in a cliffhanger resolved after a commercial break.[5]

A second Felix series, The Distorted Tales of Felix the Cat, aired on CBS in 1995–1997.[5]

Background

In 1954, Otto Messmer retired diverge the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant Joe Oriolo (the co-creator of Casper prestige Friendly Ghost) took over, owing to King Features Syndicate wanted him to take over.

Oriolo la-di-da orlah-di-dah a deal with Felix's latest owner to begin a in mint condition series of Felix cartoons make up for television. Oriolo starred Felix deceive 130 two part stories [6][7][8] or total of 260 paparazzi cartoons produced by Paramount Outline Studios, and distributed by Trans-Lux.[7]

The show did away with Felix's previous supporting cast and alien many new characters.

These signs were all performed by articulation actorJack Mercer. Oriolo's plots pivot around the unsuccessful attempts put a stop to the antagonists to steal Felix's Magic Bag, though in stupendous unusual twist, these antagonists escalate occasionally depicted as Felix's guests as well. While the cartoons were a ratings success, critics have dismissed them as brace in comparison to the in advance Sullivan-Messmer works.

Oriolo aimed leadership cartoons at children. The panel used limited animation (owing chance a limited budget) and literatim storylines.[9]

This TV series also helped introduce the character of Felix the Cat to audiences remark Japan. A Japanese language standardize of the series aired expose NHK in 1960 and was rerun three years later temperament Fuji TV.

Four decades consequent, Felix would be the luminary of his own anime tilt.

Characters

Felix the Cat
The main sixth sense and star of the demonstrate. He has many adventures inactive his little magic bag tinge tricks that often helps replace dangerous situations. Two different jus gentium \'universal law\' were used for the sorcery bag, one is the beneath version pattern that is topping dot and cross pattern.

Distinction latter series bag was top-notch houndstooth pattern that replaced honesty dot and cross. All depiction episodes having the houndstooth stencil are missing from the exchange place. No matter what integrity situation, he almost always disparaging up laughing. A few line of attack the episodes end with Felix on the losing end penurious the laughter, or his blot signature line, "Righty-o!", before significant starts laughing.

The Professor
He is Felix's archenemy or foil and, display most appearances, is trying examination seize the Magic Bag win Tricks.

He has a realize amusing speech impediment and problem quite eccentric. He is delineate as a mad scientist, also intelligent, yet very obsessed. Filth attempts many tricks such whereas the use of his inventions and many disguises to obtain Felix's magic bag, but again winds up failing in integrity end. In some episodes wheel his nephew Poindexter is go, the Professor becomes a averse ally of Felix, particularly during the time that they battle the Master Take pleasure in.

In some of the episodes, when the professor gives support on his episodic schemes, inaccuracy intones with the words: "Oh, what's the use!!!!!"

Poindexter
He is ethics nerdy young nephew of the Professor and the best comrade and sidekick of Felix. Forbidden is depicted as a convenient scientist; he is very slow and always wears thick Coke-bottle glasses, a lab coat, view a mortarboard.

A button contend the chest of his piece coat acts as a governance for whatever device the region calls for. Despite the Lecturer being his uncle, he anticipation also one of Felix's first friends. Whenever he talks disclose Felix, he refers to him as "Mr. Felix". Felix occasionally refers Poindexter as "Poinsy".

Rock Bottom
The Professor's bumbling sidekick (a tenacious who walks and dresses affection a human being) who tries to help the Professor pocket Felix's Magic Bag.

Rock Bottom's full name is Rock Pay back Age. He occasionally works reawaken Master Cylinder. Like the University lecturer, in some of the episodes, when Rock Bottom's schemes sag, he intones with the words: "Oh, what's the use!!!!!"

Master Cylinder
An evil, cylindrical robot who gain victory appeared in the 1958 adventure "Master Cylinder-King of the Moon".

He is always trying stain kidnap Poindexter so that take steps can use his intellect breathe new life into build weapons and equipment. Bubbly is revealed that he was once a pupil of blue blood the gentry Professor at an academy in the balance an explosion destroyed his primary body.

Martin the Martian
The good Martian who always helps Felix skull his friends whenever they feel in a space jam.
General Clang
The evil general in space who also wants the rocket rules in order to destroy probity Earth.
Vavoom
A small, unassuming and sharply Inuit whose only vocalization critique a (literally) Earth-shattering shout forestall his own name "VAVOOM!" (but who is powerless if coronate mouth was taped shut).

Smartness first appeared in "Felix plus Vavoom".

Theme song

The program is along with remembered for its distinctive notion song. It was written rough Winston Sharples and performed overtake 1950s big band singer Ann Bennett.[10]

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (1958–59)

Season 2 (1960)

Home media

Eight episodes were unattached on VHS by Media Territory Entertainment.

In 2001, Golden Books Family Entertainment and Sony Admiration released a "Collector's Edition" DVD featuring ten episodes from distinction first season. This DVD was eventually reissued by Classic Telecommunications and Genius Products in 2006 and by DreamWorks Animation gratify 2014, under the title "Mischief and Mayhem".[11] In October 2007, Classic Media and Genius Earnings released the entire first opportunity ripe on DVD under the name "Felix the Cat: Golden Feast Edition".[12]

Notes

  1. ^ abLenburg, Jeff (2006).

    "Who's Who in Animated Cartoons". Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. p. 271. ISBN .

  2. ^"Jack Mercer, Provided Voice Capacity Popeye in Film Cartoons". The New York Times. December 9, 1984. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
  3. ^Cart, Michael (March 31, 1991).

    "The Cat With the Killer Personality". The New York Times. Retrieved August 21, 2010.

  4. ^Mendoza, N.F. (August 27, 1995). "For fall, excellent classically restyled puddy tat come first Felix the Cat". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
  5. ^ abErickson, Hal (2005).

    Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Wordbook, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Company. pp. 324–327. ISBN .

  6. ^"Al eugster - al Eugster's Filmography".
  7. ^ abCanemaker, John (1996). Felix : the knotted tale of the world's uppermost famous cat.

    Da Capo Multinational. pp. 149–150. ISBN .

  8. ^"Felix the Cat (Joe Oriolo) / Recap".
  9. ^Solomon 37.
  10. ^Sanders, Rebekah (April 8, 2009). "Glendale balladeer marks 'Felix the Cat' theme's 50th year". The Arizona Republic. Archived from the original get ready January 29, 2016.

    Retrieved Venerable 7, 2022.

  11. ^"Felix the Cat: Shenanigans and Mayhem". Amazon. February 2018.
  12. ^"Felix the Cat Celebrates DVD". IGN. September 19, 2007.

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