1935 Paramount yearbook on eBay

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[David Gerstein]

Very interesting: the announcement of Betty Boop cartoons featuring King Features comic strip characters includes the Katzenjammer Kids and Toots and Casper, neither of whom ended up in an actual Betty cartoon.
And hey, look at the other King characters illustrated in the ad. That's Paw and Maw Perkins from Polly and Her Pals—and hey! Barney Google!
Tentative theory here. This would seem to explain why Columbia's successful Barney Google series got canned in 1936: King was attempting to consolidate its properties with Paramount.

[JERRY BECK]

Tentative theory here. This would seem to explain why Columbia's successful Barney Google series got canned in 1936: King was attempting to consolidate its properties with Paramount.

I just think Columbia/Mintz/Screen Gems did a lackluster job on those cartoons and audiences were not enthused. Keep in mind Columbia continued to have a healthy relationship with King Features in the suceeding years, adapting Blondie as a long running series of features and Mandrake The Magician (1939), Terry And The Pirates (1940), The Phantom (1944) and Brick Bradford (1947) as live action serials.

[David Gerstein]

I just think Columbia/Mintz/Screen Gems did a lackluster job on those cartoons and audiences were not enthused.You may be right; still, the reviews I've read in the 1935 trades suggest to me that Columbia's Barneys were certainly received well by some faction of the public.

Let's look at the timeline here:
1934-35: Barney shorts in development at Columbia
October 1935: First Columbia Barney short released
Fall 1935: Paramount yearbook implies Barney to come in 1936 Betty shorts
Winter 1935-Spring 1936: Three more Columbia Barneys released
One does the feeling that King kneecapped Columbia before waiting to see whether their Barneys were successful or not.

Of course, all of this is contingent on the assumption that Barney's appearance in the Paramount yearbook wasn't a mistake by some Paramount staffer.

[Sogturtle]

You may be right; still, the reviews I've read in the 1935 trades suggest to me that Columbia's Barneys were certainly received well by some faction of the public.

Let's look at the timeline here:
1934-35: Barney shorts in development at Columbia
October 1935: First Columbia Barney short released
Fall 1935: Paramount yearbook implies Barney to come in 1936 Betty shorts
Winter 1935-Spring 1936: Three more Columbia Barneys released
One does the feeling that King kneecapped Columbia before waiting to see whether their Barneys were successful or not.

Of course, all of this is contingent on the assumption that Barney's appearance in the Paramount yearbook wasn't a mistake by some Paramount staffer.

...And much more important is this... IFFFFFF the Fleischers had really used "The Katzenjammer Kids" in one or several Betty Boops in 1936, then dollars-to-doughnuts that MGM would've have NO interest in using the identical "Captain And The Kids" for their new cartoon studio in 1937!:bbear::twoshoes: