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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna
All those TV cartoons from the early 1960s - absolutely abominable animation.  I can't stand 'em. |
If you're talking about anything other than
Charlie Brown* or
The Grinch**, I'm right there with you. I know that so many people love them, but watching the stop-motion animation makes me want to poke my eyes out, and the music/soundtracks make me want to poke my ears out. My daughter loves
Rudoph -- she asked for her own copy on her Christmas list a few years ago -- so I just try to make sure I'm somewhere else when she's watching it.
* I'l admit that the animation and sound in
Charlie Brown aren't the best, which is not surprising given that they had almost no budget and some of the children voice-over actors couldn't read yet. But still, between the story, the writing and Vince Guaraldi's music, the technical "problems" just add to the charm for me.
Trivia: The creators of the show, including Schultz, had lots of fights about the story, the inclusion of the passage from Luke, the music . . . . When CBS execs previewed it one week before it aired, they thought it was horrible and a sure flop. When it premiered, half of all American TVs were tuned to it, and to the surprise of CBS execs, it immediately became a critical and popular hit, winning an Emmy and a Peabody.
**
The Grinch was directed by Chuck Jones of Looney Tunes, and it shows in the animation. Couple that with Dr. Seuss's words -- and he wrote the extra script not in the book, including all the song lyrics -- and Boris Karloff's voice, and it just can't be beat.