Scrapped Cartoons

[gilligan fanati]

I was reading the post about A Jolly Good Fala and I think its interesting when cartoons are not finished like that one was. What are some others cartoons that were never finished?

[Leviathan]

For Starters, Disney Had a Mess of Scrapped Cartoons, which you can find at (http://disneyshorts.toonzone.net/miscellaneous/unmadeshorts.html)

Or were you just referring to only WB shorts

[rex racer]

Michael Barrier noted in his "Hollywood Cartoons" book that Harman and Ising were about half way through completion of an animated version of "The Nutcracker" when they first signed on with M-G-M in early 1934. Later when they signed on for a second go round in early 1939 (as employees not producers) they refused to finish films which had been initiated by Milt Gross. Materials from these latter films could conceivably still be in an MGM archive somewhere....

[Cartman]

I read in the book The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (not to be confused with the video documentary) that the Iwerks studio was making a cartoon short based on Dicken's Oliver Twist (how they could turn such a complicated story into a 6 - 7 minute cartoon is beyond me). The idea was scrapped because the studio was going bankrupt and was closing down.

[gilligan fanati]

interesting very interesting

[Bobby Bickert]

Famous Studios was going to do a Popeye cartoon with Bluto as the "King of Hades", but it never made it past the storyboard stage. (The storyboard survived but has been scattered amongst many collectors.)

[J. B. Warner]

I heard somewhere that Friz Freleng once wanted to do a cartoon that told the "Snow White" story with Hollywood celebrity caricatures, but he couldn't get legal clearance on most of the stars he planned to lampoon and the story had to be thrown out.

[Sogturtle]

I heard somewhere that Friz Freleng once wanted to do a cartoon that told the "Snow White" story with Hollywood celebrity caricatures, but he couldn't get legal clearance on most of the stars he planned to lampoon and the story had to be thrown out.

The "somewhere" was ultimately from Mike Barrier via moi;) . But the fuller story was that it featured a caricature of Frank Sinatra... romancing Marilyn Monroe!! And since such things were going on in real-life then you can understand nobody being willing to give legal clearances... And a darned bloomin' pity it is, would've made a great musical cartoon in Friz' nimble little fingers!!!

[parenthetically here, I wrote a another whole response to a couple of posts in this thread, but then it was lost as the site went down just as I posted it...:( ]