Holy crap! I found a great site where you can get tons of old cartoons that they don't run on TV anymore!
WORLD'S BEST COMICS!
It's almost impossible to find B&W cartoons anywhere. They don't run them on TV because the execs tell me that kids don't like B&W. I know this to be a lie, because I have little cousins and whenever I visit them I bring armloads of old cartoons-Betty Boop, Popeye, Terrytoons and stuff, and the kids sit in front of the TV in awe! They laugh, rock back and forth cluthing their little toes and then after the cartoons are finished they act them all out then watch them all again! And again and again!
There was a kind of humor in the old cartoons that you can't find in modern cartoons and even in the great 1940s color cartoons.
Terrytoons from the 1930s have these lost styles of animation that later disappeared as animation techniques became more standardized and influenced by Disney.
Carlo Vinci was way ahead of his time. In the late 20s he had already figured out squash and stretch, he could animate dancing, he animated really sensual little furries.
Each animator was figuring out how animation works in his own way. There were no rules and the gags are cartoony and crazy.Farmer Alfalfa cartoons are completely wacky and unpredictable and a lot of pure cartoony fun.
50s TV Cartoons Had Cool Packaging!
Hey, in the 50s TV was a lot smarter than today. They had a great idea for showing old cartoons.I remember when I was a consultant for the Cartoon Network, a few years ago, they used to have these 3 hour blocks where they would throw together unrelated old cartoons from different eras and studios and give the block a retarded name like "Down Wit' Droopy D". This was a dead giveaway that these were "old" or "used" cartoons. Kids would know this and the feel cheated, because kids think that new means better.
In the 50s, they would take old cartoons and make half hour shows out of them. They would animate a new fun title sequence and write a rousing theme song-like the Bugs Bunny Show's "This Is It". Then in between the classic cartoons, they would get real animators to animate "bumper" scenes of the characters talking to the audience which made the kids think the characters were real. It made the cartoons feel special and new. This was the inspiration for the bumpers in the Ren and Stimpy Show.
The studios that now own all these old cartoons tore off all these great title sequences and threw out the bumpers, so most of these shows are lost.
THE FARMER ALFALFA SHOW!
Here is a great discovery. The Farmer Alfalfa Show from the 1950s.
The shows are intact as actually aired on TV 50 years ago! With:
Rare classic Terrytoons-even black and white ones!
New Titles animated in the 1950s
by Carlo Vinci and the old Terrytoons animators- but -here's the really cool part- animated in the 1930s style! So...it's like they had to remember how they animated 25 years earlier-so it has a bit of 50s UPA influenced style (what they were doing at the time), mixed with the typical Terrytoons style - mixed with the rubber hose style! It's a really funny combination!Jim Tyer Bumpers!
Between the cartoons are these weird non sequitor bumpers animated by the craziest animator of all time!
The Original Commercials!
As in all old TV shows the programs were directly sponsored, and the characters from the cartoons in Farmer Alfafa do these long elaborate commercials for Tootsie Rolls. Animated by the real Terrytoons animators! So cool
I just ordered a whole bunch of the Farmer Alfalfa Showhttp://wbcomicshop.com/shop/searchBase.asp?stS=alfalfa&selectcategory=0&1=Go&kfg=fromsearch
Now I'm gonna dig through the rest of the cartoons at World's Best Comics and dig for more animated treasure...