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Other Dr. Seuss Cartoons?

posted 19 years ago by rambunctiousrat
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Does anyone else recall another Dr. Seuss cartoon from the same era as 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas!'? For some reason I can remember this random cartoon...theres a little boy with glasses and I think he may be traveling with a dog or some other animal. I remember it being very windy and 'fall-like' in the cartoon and the boy meets up with the grinch or another character who is very similar to the grinch. I really don't think I could have imagined all of this...my mom thinks I'm crazy and no one else remembers this. So does anyone out there know if I'm talking about actually existed?

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[–] [email protected] 19 years ago

From the same era? I believe Jones did adapt 'Horton Hears a Who' later on, and Depatie-Freleng studios did 'The Cat in the Hat' and possibly further non-book titles. The IMDB lists 'Halloween is Grinch Night' (I'm guessing that's what you saw) among others.

[–] wh0h0rt0nheard 19 years ago

you mean there's a BOOK called "Horton Hears a Who!"?

dang! who'da thunk it?

[–] lyssia 19 years ago

The animation your thinking of is called "Holloween is Grinch's Night" =)

[–] TSed3 18 years ago

it was th lorax, i don't know how to spell it but it was a bout the envierment and the grinch was killing the forest. th ething was teh spirit of th eforest and was trng to stop him. I was a great book.

[–] Vampyrslayer0785 18 years ago

THe Grinch wasn't in the Lorax....The person killing the forest was a human man.

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[–] grendelkhan 18 years ago

Rambunctiousrat is referring to Halloween is Grinch Night. The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat came much later.

Warner Bros first adapted the Dr Seuss story, Horton Hatches the Egg, in 1942, directed by Bob Clampett. Later cartoons were done at MGM, with Chuck Jones animating the Grinch and Horton Hears a Who. Jones and Dr Seuss previously worked together on the wartime Pvt Snafu shorts. The Lorax and sneetches, as well as the Cat in the Hat, were also adated into animation.

[–] rambunctiousrat 18 years ago

Ok wow thanks so much! I knew I wasn't crazy hahaha.

[–] scotbpens 15 years ago

(Chuck) Jones and Dr Seuss previously worked together on the wartime Pvt Snafu shorts.

Yes, the connection between the two goes back to those World War II instructional cartoons. Has anyone noticed the similarity in drawing styles between Seuss and Chuck Jones? Particularly in the way they both drew characters with those distinctively pear-shaped faces.

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[–] simonsimonfoundation 18 years ago

Gerald McBoing-Boing is a Suess-written (and possibly storyboarded) cartoon from the 1950s, I think. Doesn't have the same style as his children's books, but it does have a groovin' 50's design. It's also a great little story. A classic!

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[–] gcarras 11 years ago

DePatie-Freleng did many Dr.Suess titles. Gerald McBoing Boing was the first since Horton (WB) to be done [not counting the WB Snafu WWII army films]].

Gerald McBoing Boing [UPA] in fact was the highest moment to that point for any Dr.Suess fan, the good Dr. himself, or the stories, as it won an Academy Award in 1950 for best cartoon of 1950! That was it until 1966 and Jones's and MGM-TV's Grinch special. That was the first TV Grinch special.

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[–] timothyhodge 17 years ago

You may be thinking of "The Phantom Tollbooth". It was a feature directed by Chuck Jones.

[–] mrannah 11 years ago

the phantom tollbooth does have a bit of a seuss feeling, the original author of that one was jules pfeiffer.

but i also wanted to point out that there was an animated short, less than a half hour version of horton hatches an egg.

[–] [email protected] 10 years ago

Surprised that hadn't been mentioned yet - Warner Bros. did "Horton Hatches the Egg" as a 'Looney Tunes' in the 1940s, directed by Bob Clampett. I think it was the usual quick running time, but it was paced well and faithful to the story, though of course some liberties were taken - Maisie the slacker bird talks like Katherine Hepburn (Rhellly she does!) and there's a quick appearance by a fish who's a Peter Lorre lookalike. Then, when the narrator shouts "A rifle was pointed straight at his heart!" we see the gunsight pointing at Horton's butt. Hee.

[–] gcarras 9 years ago

It was longer,10 minutes, but in that era, that was actually the case in many cases!(Walt Disney and MGM also went the two digit route with their one reelers,too.)

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Mike Matlese wrote that, the only time I think that wrote a Clampett cartoon.

The reissued no-credited (typical "Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies" 1940s-1960s reissue policy) version actually acknowledges Dr.Suess! Underneath the title but the Oscar and Blue Ribbon common issue for these Warner Bros.cartoon Blue Ribbon deals, there is this phrase:"From the book by Dr.Suess". So it shows that to WB the Dr.he lent, the credits credits the good Dr.one hundred percent!

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[–] gcarras 9 years ago

Norton Juster wrote the Phanton Tollbooth, not Jules Pfeiffer (who, however, DID illustrate it. I used to have the book.)

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[–] mrannah 9 years ago

i stand corrected, thanks

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