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Chapter 15A: Terrytoonery
Connie Rasinski. One of the old-timers, and probably one of those initially resentful of an outsider being brought in to become creative chief, and one of the most difficult to convince that I was doing the right thing for Terrytoons. But Connie was a capable, professional director, and he did much good work for me.
Phil Scheib. On the basis of the old Terrytoons I had seen, I assumed that I would be stuck with cornball hack musician, and I would have to find a way of sneaking in other composers if I wanted anything musically decent. However, after some nervous contact on both sides, I found Phil to be a real pro. I was able to release him from Terry's imposed limitations, and he ultimately created some great melodies and great scores for our new characters! Only on a couple of commercial projects we undertook did I feel the need of an outside composer. I got to like and admire Phil, and I remember him fondly. The rotten music for earlier Terrytoons was really Paul Terry's fault. In early sessions, Phil told me that when he had created what he felt were fine orchestral arrangements, Paul would sit in the recording studio booth, and when he heard that there were passages where the strings played, then they rested while the brass played, and so on, he was furious. Terry shouted, "I am paying for 30 musicians, and I want those 30 musicians to be playing all the time, not resting on my money!" he shouted. And that was the origin of those muddled and over-busy musical scores typical of the early Terrytoons!
Tommy Golden. A good animator. His animation of our test Bert & Harry Piels commercial helped me bring this account to Terrytoons from UPA.
Ernie Pintoff. Ernie was a gifted, but temperamental eccentric. He liked to sit in his little room and play jazz trumpet for inspiration, thus rattling the nerves of other nearby animators.
Bob Kuwahara. A very talented animator, who later directed his own series, featuring a Japanese character, I think was called "Hashimoto."
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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