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Chapter 15A: Terrytoonery
Ralph Bakshi. During my time at TT, Ralph was the lowest of the lowly, a minor cel painter, and not a very good one. But in the democratic studio atmosphere I was creating, he took full advantage of his right to nose around, ask questions, and put in his opinions. He had a lot of brass and a lot of moxie. I began to notice that he was always tailing me around, trying to learn everything that was going on. Almost immediately after I left, Weiss tagged him as a potential replacement for me, and the rest is history. Ralph really shot up the ladder, and became the enfant terrible of the animation world.
My fondest memory from Terrytoons was the excitement of having such a neat job - the chance to do something big, trying to remold a studio with the worst possible reputation, having the 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope release, having the chance to create new characters, having so many people working on concepts that I was creating and directing, developing an entire new way of doing soundtracks for animation movies, with the help of Tod Dockstader. He was not only a terrific artist and gagman, but a genius sound man.. All of this great fun blinded me to the realities...
I was out of Terrytoons about May, 1958, and was then present at the birth of a new studio in Manhattan, with the intriguing name, Gene Deitch Associates, Inc.
Lw5wya Got it! Tnhaks a lot again for helping me out!
cKkag1 I'm imrsepsed! You've managed the almost impossible.
can you tell me why silly sidney, one of my childhood favorites, had, in his brief career, three distinctly different voices (one baby-ish and high pitched, one nasally, and one happy go lucky)? even as a child, i detected them (and liked them) all...thanx!
I like your cartoons, even though I only have Sidney tape. I guess your cartoons are rare. By the way, I think I'm the only 12 years who knows you an the other rare cartoons from other directors. I discovered most rare ones at Toon Tracker and Tonarific. The only reason I know you is because I saw your name credited on Tom and Jerry cartoons, the ones you did in 60s. By the way, do you, like, sell some of tapes containing the cartoons you did?
Hi, Gene. I am a big fan of yours. On your Terrytoon staff list, you also left off animator George Bakes. I worked with George 10 years ago (while in the employ of one of your other ex-employees, Ralph Bakshi). George did some of the best stuff in the picture. Love the book so far.
My name was omitted in the list of Terrytoon staff people at the time of Gene's regime. I sat next to the LISTED "M. Hurley" (Maureen Hurley) where we both began on the very same day, JUNE 11, 1956 as opaaquers...later rising through the ranks as inkers..
I had the honor of personally inking completely, both the entire cinemascope feature, Bob Blechman's "The Juggler of Our Lady" and 'FLEBUS.'
In 1959 Maureen and I married and recently celebrated 42 years of married life...I went on to become an Animator, and I'm still Animating and Directing, having spent all my life working in Feature films, TV specials and serials, but primarily animating Television Commercials, alongside many of the greats in the industry...Shamus Culhane, Bill Tytla, Dick Williams, Jim Tyer, Jack Zander, Art Babbitt and countless others.
I'm proud to say I learned an awful lot in my early days from being in the shadow of a truly talented animation master, Gene Deitch. Thanks, Gene !
D0UG CRANE
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