Re: Ripping off other shows' stories for your own

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DishRoom1) wrote in message 
> Not to be slightly OT, but I'm reminded of a silly LoonyTunes short where a
> truck driven by a road loses its huge stock of hats and the hats where turning
> Elmer and Bugs into different personalities.
> 
> John Shughart

Not OT at all. We need vintage examples as well..but there's no rip
off there..

Ever since Scooby, Josie, Archie,etc.EVERY studio seemed to rip those
off (but that's a given).

Theatrical 1930s-50s cartoons
MGM's 1941 10-minute or so Hugh Harman minitaure epic "
The Little Mole" borrows from its own 1939 Judy Garland classic "The
Wizard of Oz", right down to (thanks to Mel Blancand his voice,
accoridng to Jerry Beck in ANIMATION magaizne in 1989) a Frank
("Wizard" and other WOO characters) Morgan/Prof.Marvel-type
"flamboyant friend to the hero(ine) seeking his/her way in the world"
type-Primrose skunk ("with a line of junk"). Then it also borrows from
Warner Bros., Friz Freleng's 1936 two-color Technicolor (sometimes
wrongly ID'd as Cinecolor-either way, the last two-color Warner Bros.
cartoon theatrical short till "Doggone Cats" in Oct.1947) short (not
at all to be confused with the 1988 Oscar (Trade mark) nominee
National Film Board of Canada classic of the title) "The Cat Came
Back", for good measure for the "animal crying for its mother caught
in a river" (as Leonard Maltin described it in OF MICE AND MAGIC:MGM)
while discussing the "potent sense of meldorama" in Harman MGM's.

Hanna-Barbera had Mike Maltese and Warren Foster, in addition to (at
first) John Seely's library music, and Mel Blanc and Daws Butler from
Warners (of course Seely';s music and Butler's voicing would be more
famous at HB) for all olf their earlier comedy toons of the sixties. A
Loopy deLoop french wolf cartoon ripped Warner's Chuck Jones cartoon
from 1951 at Warner, the last Hubie/Bertie one, "Cheese Chasers" (the
famed "it just don't add up" addition/logic bit).Also, the Flinstones
used a  ultitude of soruces like its own show source "The
Honeymooners"(the hate letter to the boss, also used in the 1959 B&W
"Dennis the Menace"-Arthur Philips wrote this, though 'Stones writers
Herb Finn and Al Dinehart wrote also for the 'Mooners), and an episode
with Mel Blanc as a Sylveter like character and Verna Felton (or Bea
Benaderet) as Felton's battleaxe's sister, a early Pebblesd has Fred
thinking he has lost Pebbles (yet another use of the bit most
associated with Jones's "Feed the Kitty", elsewhere mentioned (WB
cartoon), Ising's "Chips off the old block", Pete Docter's "Monsters
Inc.", and Joanna SPyri and HB's "Heidi(8s song)).(See my self-reply
posting in WB cartoon).

And of course ESPECIALLY in boomer era and theatreical cartoons and
shows (most eerily on "Gilligan", in "Friendly Physician") and in the
oldest Warner owned (post-1948 library, that is )Bugs short, "Hot
cross bunny" and a Flinstoner, "Monster Fred", the "voices and bodies
switched". Used in many older shows of the 40s,50s,and 60s.