Mark Zimmer
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The set looks very good with caveats about the watermarks and the fact that the title card has been replaced....I'm virtually certain that the "Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends TM" is a recent addition that did not appear in the 1960s runs of the series. The TM is a serious tipoff; no one was doing that back in 1959 or 1960. Another tipoff is that it appears in a segment where there is a yellow smear down the center of the film; the smear vanished when this card appears, and reappears after it leaves. The voiceover for the opening sounds like someone imitating William Conrad rather than Conrad himself, too. Did they pull a Deems Taylor? The R&B segments I've watched thus far do sound like Conrad, though much more subdued than he eventually became in the series.
Having watched 5 of these in a row, I am getting increasingly irritated by the amount of repeated animation that we see over and over and over and over ad nauseam. I've taken to skipping big chunks of repetitive material, which trims the running time down to about 10 minutes per episode. Clearly these were never meant to be watched in a marathon!
I think that they may originally have run as 15-minute episodes as conjectured above; in the voiceover to the first R&B segment, William Conrad says to tune in for tomorrow's episode, which here is part of the same show. Anyone know for certain? Does Ward's autobiography talk about this?
Having watched 5 of these in a row, I am getting increasingly irritated by the amount of repeated animation that we see over and over and over and over ad nauseam. I've taken to skipping big chunks of repetitive material, which trims the running time down to about 10 minutes per episode. Clearly these were never meant to be watched in a marathon!
I think that they may originally have run as 15-minute episodes as conjectured above; in the voiceover to the first R&B segment, William Conrad says to tune in for tomorrow's episode, which here is part of the same show. Anyone know for certain? Does Ward's autobiography talk about this?