Modern Madcaps
Modern Madcaps is an animated film series produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios animation division between the years 1958 and 1967.[1] The series featured assorted characters that later became part of the Harvey Comics library. A total of 65 shorts was produced and released.
List of shorts
1950s
1958
- Right Off the Bat (November 17, 1958) (First short, also the first cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel)
1959
- Fit to Be Toyed (February 16, 1959)
- La Petite Parade (March 16, 1959)
- Spooking of Ghosts (June 1, 1959)
- Talking Horse Sense (September 14, 1959)
- T.V. Fuddlehead (October 26, 1959) (Submitted and screened at the 32nd Academy Awards for an Oscar consideration, but wasn't nominated[2])
1960s
1960
- Mike the Masquerader (1960)
- The Boss Is Always Right (1960)
- Fiddle-Faddle (1960)
- Trouble Date (1960)
- From Dime to Dime (1960)
- Trigger Treat (1960)
- Busy Buddies (1960)
- The Shoe Must Go On (1960)
- Top Cat (1960)
- Electronica (1960)
- Shootin' Stars (1960)
- Scouting For Trouble (1960)
- Disguise the Limit (1960)
- Galaxia (1960)
- Bouncing Benny (1960) (Instead of painting the film on cels, animators Place and Feuer created paper cutouts of the characters to create shadow effects)
- Terry the Terror (1960)
- Silly Science (1960)
1961
- Cool Cat Blues (1961)
- The Phantom Moustacher (1961)
- The Kid from Mars (1961)
- The Mighty Termite (1961)
- In the Nicotine (1961)
- The Inquisit Visit (1961)
- Bopin' Hood (1961)
- Cane and Able (1961)
- The Plot Sickens (1961)
- Perry Popgun (1961)
1962
- Crumley Cogwheel (1962)
- Popcorn and Politics (1962)
- Giddy Gadgets (1962)
- Hi-Fi Jinx (1962)
- Funderful Suburbia (1962)
- Samson Scrap (1962) (Co-production with Rembrandt Films; only cartoon directed by Gene Deitch)
- Penny Pals (1962)
- The Robot Ringer (1962)
- One of the Family (1962)
1963
- The Ringading Kid (1963) (Submitted and screened at the 36th Academy Awards for an Oscar consideration, but wasn't nominated[3])
- Drum Up a Tenant (1963)
- One Weak Vacation (1963)
- Trash Program (1963)
- Harry Happy (1963)
- Tell Me a Badtime Story featuring Goodie the Gremlin (1963)
- The Pigs' Feat (1963)
- Sour Gripes (1963)
- Goodie's Good Deed featuring Goodie the Gremlin (1963) (Final cartoon released in Seymour Kneitel's lifetime)
- Muggy-Doo Boycat: Boy Pest with Osh (1963) (Co-production with Hal Seeger Productions; only cartoon directed by Hal Seeger)
1964
- Robot Rival (1964)
- An So Tibet (1964)
- Reading, Writhing and Rithmetic (1964)
- Near Sighted and Far Out (1964) (Final cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel due to his death in this year)
1965
- Cagey Business (1965) (First cartoon directed by Howard Post)
- Poor Little Witch Girl (1965) (Honey Halfwitch's first appearance)
- The Itch (1965) (Submitted and screened at the 38th Academy Awards for an Oscar consideration, but wasn't nominated[4])
- Solitary Refinement (1965)
- The Outside Dope (1965)
1966
- I Want My Mummy (1966) (First cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane)
- A Balmy Knight (1966)
- A Wedding Knight (1966)
- Two by Two (1966) (Final cartoon directed by Howard Post)
1967
- The Blacksheep Blacksmith (1967) (Series finale; final cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane)
External links
- Modern Madcaps at the Big Cartoon Database
References
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 112–113. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1959 | Cartoon Research". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For the Academy Award – 1963 | Cartoon Research". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1965 | Cartoon Research". cartoonresearch.com.
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