Mejo Kallamthanam's Cartoon, Comics, TV Shows and Movie Blog

Whatever any of you do, DO NOT UPLOAD ANY TOON IN WITH ME OR SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS VIDEOS TO YOUTUBE. Lately, Weigel has been taking down any uploads of clips from those shows from YouTube. This resulted in my channel being terminated. This is corrupt and unjust. Many of these videos are short and do not contain much footage from Weigel. Sometimes, they copyright the whole video INCLUDING the cartoons. Something they do not own. I demand you to message Weigel about this. I laugh at the people who say "It's not a big deal" or "It's just a dumb YouTube channel". As if that justifies all of this. I can sympathize with a studio that takes down cartoons because they don't want to lose sales. It’s only fair that they do that. But it is even more unfair when a giant corporation takes down stuff without warning or any prior statement whatsoever, even more so when they don't even own the bulk of what they are making. Plus, many Toon In With Me and Saturda...

Here is a new series of blog posts I'd like to call Random Clippings and Other Stuff from Magazines, Newspapers and Other Places (Or RCAOSFMNAOP). These will feature some random clippings (including magazine snippets and ads) and other stuff that I found from some websites and other places and some of my commentary on them. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol in theaters? Love that special but I do wonder how poorly it would have looked on the big screen. "Two Full Length Features"? I think they were both just one hour, hardly feature length. This was back when Cool Cat was actually considered a major part of the Looney Tunes gang (love how the ad put "as if you didn't know" after his name, oh the irony now).  Wonder how many kids were disappointed when they found out that those Nutty Squirrells were only in the wraparounds and not the actual cartoons themselves (WSBK actually disregarded those wraparounds completely, so some kids had no idea why the show was ev...

On the internet, there is a lot of misinformation about some of the old cartoons we used to watch.  Whether it be from a young soul attempting to fill in the gaps for information that they don't know about, or a vandal trying to intentionally spread misinformation, these false facts end up being easily spread around the web, with everybody taking them at face value and nobody verifying them to see if they hold some water.  Let me be as blunt as I can be, some of the people who have contributed to the Deputy Dawg Wikipedia page got some of their facts wrong or worded some of their facts very poorly. Some of the ones I've noticed are: 1. " The Deputy Dawg Show  first ran weekly [on] January 1, 1960" Checking a couple of Newspaper listings, there are no listings for Deputy Dawg between January and April 1960. There is one listing for a May 22, 1960 airing in Warren, Pennsylvania (possibly as a preview, but I'm not certain), and then a whole bunch of listings in Augu...

1968 was an odd year for animation. Aside from DePatie–Freleng, most of the cartoon studios were starting to slow down, starting to stop production of animated cartoons or had already stopped producing cartoons (Paramount and MGM's cartoon department shut down the previous year, for instance), what little cartoons were left were mostly the mediocre limited animation stuff that you would see on a Saturday Morning (Cool Cat, Sad Cat and worst of them all: The Beary Family), the only real animated film that year was the psychedelic Yellow Submarine and parental groups forced networks to stop producing action cartoon shows and focus on comedy cartoon shows. With all of this said, it just puts a smile on my face that for one night in this year (October 17, 1968) you could watch a program with clips of Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse cartoons alongside full John Hubley and Zagreb cartoons. After the huge ratings success of The Fabulous Funnies that year, Lee Mendelson Productions (the guys w...

Here is a strange piece of art from a sales pamphlet produced by A.A.P. This ad is a strange mishmash of old and new. All but 2 of the character images are taken from comic books, the other 2 (Sniffles and Pepe Le Pew's) are taken from Lobby Cards of one of their respective cartoons (Lost and Foundling and Odor-Able Kitty respectively). My question is, how did A.A.P gain access to those specific comic art? Were they produced and owned by A.A.P. or since this was just an advertisement, did they just take any stock image they had lying around regardless of if they produced it or not? Who knows? One more question, why is Pinky Pig, that parrot and that grey duck in this ad? Last time I checked, there was never a Looney Tunes short about a grey duck getting confused at Daffy Duck's blue collar, though I could be wrong (maybe it's called "A Duck of Another Collar").

 Well this ain't good news. After Warner Bros made their promise to not purge any more cartoons from the studio, they are going to make a tax write off on EVERYTHING THAT THEY OWN, in order to gain more money to pay off the debt that they owe. According to an interview with David Zaslow (see here: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD0w5Ngfds4 ) "we are going to remove everything that we have in the studio, so we can have more money to fund further projects". Among the things affected are: Looney Tunes Regular Show The Amazing World of Gumball Bye Bye Bunny Scooby Doo Smiling Friends Tom And Jerry Droopy The Big Bang Theory Daffy Duck The Backlot The cookies The CW HBO  HBO Max HBO to the Max HBO GO Donkeys Krazy Kat Coca Cola Mcdonald's  The Farm The Well My car My slippers NBC The Lord of the Rings Drugs Weed Snoopy Domino's  and much more "no discovery though" Zaslow claims Again, if you want to see the interview, click here  https://www.youtube.com/wa...