Bakshi left Terrytoons in 1967 for Paramount, which closed its cartoon unit later that year.

" Independent animation studios such as Hanna-Barbera were selling shows to the networks, even as the series produced by Terrytoons ( which was owned by CBS ) were declining in popularity.

Although the series ' first two seasons were successful, Bakshi wanted to leave Terrytoons to form his own company.

Terrytoons were originally released to theaters by 20th Century Fox.

The Terrytoons cartoons ( especially Mighty Mouse and Deputy Dawg ) were syndicated to many local TV markets, and they were a staple of after-school and Saturday morning cartoon shows for over three decades, from the 1950s through the 1980s, until the television rights to the library were acquired by USA Network in 1989.

Lantz's animated shorts ( dubbed " Cartunes ") were considered superior to those of Famous Studios and Terrytoons, but they never gained the artistic acclaim of Disney, Warner Bros., MGM, or UPA.

The animation was strongly influenced by Fleischer Studios ( whose cartoons were released by Paramount ) and Terrytoons ( where Bakshi once worked, and whose Mighty Mouse character was also adapted into a series by Bakshi ).

As at Fleischer's, the head animators carried out the tasks that were assigned to animation directors at other studios, while the credited directors — Kneitel, Sparber, Gordon, and Disney / Terrytoons veteran Bill Tytla — acted more as supervisors.

The series came about when the Terrytoons staff were pitching series proposals to the animation company's parent corporation, the CBS television network, only to have them all rejected.

While researching the rights, he learned that CBS had acquired the entire Terrytoons library in 1955 and forgotten about it.

USA later briefly acquired the broadcast rights to Terrytoons shorts like Deputy Dawg and Mighty Mouse, and DC Comics related cartoons such as Superfriends.

While researching the rights, he learned that CBS had acquired the entire Terrytoons library in 1955 and forgotten about it.

When Bakshi was 18, his friend Cosmo Anzilotti was hired by the cartoon studio Terrytoons ; Anzilotti recommended Bakshi to the studio's production manager, Frank Schudde.

The animation was strongly influenced by the house styles of Fleischer Studios and Terrytoons.

Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox.

The character went through two later revivals, once by Filmation Studios in 1979, and again in 1987 at the hands of animation director Ralph Bakshi, who had worked at the Terrytoons studio during his early career.

Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry.

Despite the artistic drawbacks imposed by Terry's inflexible business policies, Terrytoons was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film: All Out for V in 1942, My Boy, Johnny in 1944, Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life in 1945, and Sidney's Family Tree in 1958.

The first official release of any Terrytoons material by CBS DVD has been announced ( Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures was issued January 5, 2010 ).

Other notable characters inspired by Wynn include: Terrytoons ' Gandy Goose, Doctor Blinky in H. R.

* Pink Elephants ( film ), a cartoon produced by the Terrytoons studio

Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio ( which by that time was a subsidiary of CBS, the network that broadcast Captain Kangaroo ), Tom Terrific ran in a series of five-minute cartoons created specifically for the Captain Kangaroo show from 1957-1959, and was rerun on Kangaroo for years thereafter.

However, when Paramount's board of directors rejected a proposal to produce episodes for a second Grantray-Lawrence series, Spider-Man, Culhane quit the studio, and was succeeded by former Terrytoons animator Ralph Bakshi in mid-1967.

Nancy was featured in three animated shorts by the Terrytoons studio in 1942 – 43: School Daze, Nancy's Little Theater and Doing Their Bit.

* Dinky Duck, a toon by Terrytoons

Deputy Dawg was voiced by Dayton Allen, a prolific Hollywood voice actor who voiced many Terrytoons characters in television and theatrical shorts in the 1950s and 1960s.

In order to bring down the budget so that layouts could be completed in house, a step normally done overseas by cheap foreign labor, the show opted to build three entire cartoon segments from vintage Terrytoons cartoon stock footage: " Mighty's Musical Classics ", " Animation Concerto ", and the bulk of " Scrappy's Playhouse ".

Heckle and Jeckle are postwar animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox.

The team's most successful project was Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures for CBS, based on the classic Terrytoons character.

CBS ' first in-house cartoon series since their original Terrytoons, it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in the 1985-1986 season.

In 1950 Kuwahara returned to animation, signing on with Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio, and stayed with the studio following CBS ' purchase of the studio in 1955.

Cartoon producer Paul Terry sold the rights to the Terrytoons cartoon library to television and retired from the business in the early 1950s.

The " New Terrytoons " period of the late 1950s and 60s brought us Sidney, Hector Heathcote, Hashimoto and Deputy Dawg as well as The Mighty Heroes and Ralph Bakshi.

The most notable talent at Terrytoons in the 1960s was animator / director / producer Ralph Bakshi, who got his start with Terrytoons in the 1950s and later helmed the Mighty Heroes series.

With a new emphasis on " star " characters, Terrytoons featured the adventures of Super Mouse ( later renamed Mighty Mouse ), the talking magpies Heckle and Jeckle, silly Gandy Goose, Dinky Duck, mischievous mouse Little Roquefort, and The Terry Bears.

Through the years that have followed since the last Terrytoons TV series material in 1988, the rights have been scattered as result of prior rights issues and corporate changes involving Viacom ( the ownership and distribution history is noted below ).

However, some Terrytoons shorts are believed to be in the public domain, and have been issued on low-budget VHS tapes and DVDs.

( He may have been named after a Terrytoons character of the same name.

When Van Beuren went under, Gordon and many of his colleagues went to work for Paul Terry ’ s Terrytoons.

* Bray Studios creates the Farmer Al Falfa series, the first of the Terrytoons.

In 1959, he moved his desk to join the rest of the animators ; after asking Rasinski for material to animate, he received layouts of two scenes: a hat floating on water and Deputy Dawg, the lead character of one of Terrytoons ' syndicated television series, running.

This was not Filmation's last dalliance with classic cartoon characters ; in the late 1970s the company produced new series based on the characters from the Terrytoons archive ( Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle ) and a new Tom and Jerry series as well.

After losing his Aesop's Film Fables series to Van Beuren Studios in 1929, Paul Terry established a new studio called Terrytoons.

Anderson was the nephew of Terrytoons founder Paul Terry, and had unsuccessfully tried to sell Terry a concept for a cartoon series made specifically for the new medium.

The concept of an animated series made for television came from animator Alex Anderson, who worked for Terrytoons Studios.

Deputy Dawg is a Terrytoons cartoon character featured on the animated television series of the same name in an original TV weekly run from September 8, 1962 to May 25, 1963, with no episodes on December 8 to December 29, 1962, resuming on January 5, 1963.

The series resurrected other Terrytoons characters, but acknowledged the passage of time: perennial menace Oil Can Harry returns to chase Pearl Pureheart once more (" Still Oily After All These Years "), 1940s characters Gandy Goose and Sourpuss and 1960s Deputy Dawg are revived ( Gandy and Dawg frozen in time in blocks of ice ) in " The Ice Goose Cometh ", " Gaston Le Crayon " has a cameo (" Still Oily After All These Years "), and Bakshi's own 1960 creations — The Mighty Heroes — appear, aged, in the episode " Heroes and Zeroes ".

The Mighty Heroes was an animated television series created by Ralph Bakshi for the Terrytoons company.

Wilson was also the voice of the title character in another famous Terrytoons series, Tom Terrific.

One of the most successful imitations / parodies was Terrytoons ' Mighty Mouse series, which became the flagship property of the studio.