Sunday, December 04, 2011

Sunday Morning Cartoon: Mutt and Jeff


In early July 1911, during the silent era of motion pictures, at David Horsley's Nestor Comedies in Bayonne, New Jersey, Al Christie began turning out a weekly one-reel live-action Mutt and Jeff comedy short, which was based on the comic strip. The Mutt and Jeff serial was extremely popular and after the Nestor Company established a studio in Hollywood, in late October 1911.


In the fall of 1911, Nestor began using an alternate method of displaying the intertitles in the Mutt and Jeff comedies. Instead of a cut to the dialogue titles, the dialogue was displayed at the bottom of the image on a black background so the audience could read them as a subtitle, which was similar to the way they appeared in the cartoon strips. Horsley was very proud of the device and claimed to have entered a patent on it. He advertised the Mutt and Jeff movies as "talking pictures."

In 1916, Fisher licensed the production of Mutt and Jeff for animation with pioneers Charles Bowers and Raoul Barré of the Barré Studio. The animated series lasted 11 years and more than 300 animated Mutt and Jeff shorts were released, making it the longest running theatrical animated movie serial second to Krazy Kat.


In 2005, Inkwell Images released a DVD documentary entitled Mutt and Jeff: the Original Animated Odd Couple; included on the disc are several Mutt and Jeff animated cartoons. Also, individual Mutt and Jeff cartoons have been mixed with other titles on low-cost video collections, such as the Cartoon Craze DVDs from Digiview Entertainment.
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7 comments:

  1. olahus9:53 PM

    In romaneste erau Jeff si Mutulica, tata are niste benzi desenate din anii '40 cu ei, soricelul Oswald, Mickey Mouse si alte personaje americane.

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  2. traduse in romana?!?

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  3. olahus11:39 AM

    da, era o carticica "Banda vesela"

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  4. olahus11:41 AM

    ar fi o idee sa le scanez si sa le pui in Revista Comics, ce zici?

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  5. de bagat in revista nu prea am cum dar ti-as fi super recunoscator daca ai putea s-o scanezi pe toata ca s-o urc pe issuu.com si de acolo pe blog :D

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  6. olahus3:32 PM

    Ok, facem asa: vad cate pagini are, vad daca si cum il pot scana (sa nu se desprinda pagini) si cat m-ar costa povestea asta in centru. In functie de asta vad daca fac scan si, daca da, ti-l fac tot cadou sau cer sponsorizare partiala :P.

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  7. vezi ca s-ar putea sa coste chestia asta! eu stiu un centru xerox care ia 1 ron pe pagina scanata. mai bine imi imprumuti mie revista o scanezz si ti-o dau inapoi ;)

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