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Noveltoon

Noveltoons
Directed by Isadore Sparber
Dan Gordon (uncredited)
Seymour Kneitel
Bill Tytla
David Tendlar
Al Eugster (uncredited)
Gene Deitch
Howard Post
Jack Mendelsohn
Shamus Culhane
Produced by Sam Buchwald
Isadore Sparber
Dan Gordon
Seymour Kneitel
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Story by Jack Mercer
Carl Meyer
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Voices by Jack Mercer
Mae Questel
Cecil Roy
Jackson Beck
Frank Gallop
Arnold Stang
Sid Raymond
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Music by Sammy Timberg (1943-1946)
Winston Sharples (1943-1967)
Animation by Myron Waldman
David Tendlar
Tom Johnson
Nicholas Tafuri
Al Eugster
John Walworth
Tom Golden
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Layouts by N/A
Backgrounds by N/A
Studio Famous Studios
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) 1943–1967
Color process 3-strip Technicolor
Cinecolor
Polacolor
Running time 6–10 minutes (one reel)
Country United States
Language English (usually)
Preceded by Color Classics
Followed by GoGo Toons
Merry Makers
Fractured Fables

Noveltoons was an anthology series of animated cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios from 1943 to the close of the studio in 1967. Casper the Friendly Ghost, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, and Baby Huey all got their start from this series. It was the successor series to the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios (indeed, several Noveltoons would feature characters who originated in Color Classics). This series was also very similar to the two series from Warner Bros., Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in that it features several recurring characters under one umbrella title.

The pre-October 1950 Noveltoons were sold to television distributor U.M. & M. TV Corporation in 1956. National Telefilm Associates acquired those cartoons soon afterward. Paramount sold the rest of the Noveltoons to Harvey Comics. As new Noveltoons were produced, they were also sold to Harvey, until 1962. Paramount still owns the remaining Noveltoons, and has reacquired the cartoons sold to U.M. & M., but a good deal of those cartoons have fallen into the public domain.

In total, 170 animated shorts in the series were produced.

On January 23, 2012, Thunderbean Animation released a restored collection of public domain Noveltoons with the following cartoons: Cilly Goose, Suddenly It's Spring, Yankee Doodle Donkey, Scrappily Married, A Lamb in a Jam, Cheese Burglar, Sudden Fried Chicken, The Stupidstitious Cat, The Enchanted Square, Much Ado About Mutton, The Wee Men, Naughty But Mice, Flip Flap, The Bored Cuckoo, Leprechauns Gold, Quack-a-Doodle Doo, Teacher's Pest, Ups an' Downs Derby, Pleased to Eat You and Saved by the Bell.


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