Key Animator
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Jul 3, 2007, 11:13 PM
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Barney Bear
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Does anyone know about Barney Bear?
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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Intern
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Jul 3, 2007, 11:20 PM
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Does anyone know about Barney Bear?
His cartoons are highly underrated.
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Inbetweener
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Jul 4, 2007, 1:44 AM
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Rudolf Ising modeled Barney Bear after the actor Wallace Beery, who was under contract at MGM at the time. I think my favorite Barney cartoon is “The Bear That Couldn’t Sleep” (1939).
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Intern
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Jul 4, 2007, 7:04 AM
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I Do!
I first watched"Barney Bear"movie cartoons on a local NYC kids tv show titled"The Tommy Seven Show"on WABC TV Ch.7 in NYC.
The show was seen weekday evenings and weekday mornings and Sunday afternoons from Monday September 12,1960 to May,1963.
I saw the films again on "The DJ Kat Show" Saturday and Sunday Mornings on WNYW TV Ch.5 in NYC with The Flexitoons Puppets from October of 1987 to Sunday December 29,1989. The films were and still are funny! Mr.Billy Blecher was the first performer to do "Barney Bear's"Voice..later on? Another actor..whose name is unknown to me did the voice in a manner simular to Mr.Wallace Beery. This same actor may have done the voice of the father bear in the"Three Bears"movie cartoons that MGM Produced and released theaterically during the 1940's?
4CK. 
(This post was edited by bmode on Jul 4, 2007, 8:38 PM)
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Supervising Animator
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Jul 4, 2007, 7:18 AM
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yup-I know who you're talking about.
I honestly didn't care for him that much-thought he was a big idiot. I use to see Barney Bear cartoons on the Acme Hour. I did like the one with the possum and one called "Busy Body Bear" in which Barney stupidly tries to help a beaver.
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Bugs Bunny cartoons are not supposed to feature a lisping Viking rabbit hunter enthusiastically professing his operatic love for a bunny in drag.
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Supervising Animator
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Jul 4, 2007, 12:18 PM
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I'm not a Barney Bear fan. There are a few of his shorts I do like but for the most part I'm not into it.
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Jpeg Master / Moderator
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Jul 4, 2007, 8:39 PM
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They were all brilliant.
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Inbetweener / Contributor
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Jul 28, 2007, 4:31 PM
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Yeah--let's see a complete Barney Bear DVD set!
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"As we say in Swahili: 'OOP!'"
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Directing Animator
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Jul 28, 2007, 6:18 PM
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Rudolf Ising modeled Barney Bear after the actor Wallace Beery, who was under contract at MGM at the time. I think my favorite Barney cartoon is “The Bear That Couldn’t Sleep” (1939).
Animator-Director Dick Lundy said in an interview that when he was assigned the Barney Bear character during the early 1950's (he had been hired by MGM to temporarily replace Tex Avery, who was on a one-year hiatus), he had envisioned a "Wallace Beery"-type. Barney Bear had virtually no dialogue in his cartoons during the 1940's but in the 1950's he was voiced by voice-actor Paul Frees.
Paul Frees also worked at Disney and at the Walter Lantz Studio (where he did the voice of "Charlie Beary" in The Beary Family series, among other characters). He went on to provide the voice of Boris Badenov and other incidental voices on The Adventures Of Rocky and Bullwinkle for Jay Ward Productions, and to provide voices for the classic Rankin-Bass "Animagic" holiday TV specials.
I think that a multi-Disc set of all the Barney Bear cartoons, along with the best of the Harman-Ising cartoons (Bottles, Peace On Earth, To Spring, The Blue Danube, Little Buck Cheeser, etc.) would be great!
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"Sit, Ubu, sit... good dog!" ("Arf"!)
(This post was edited by zavkram on Jul 28, 2007, 6:19 PM)
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Inbetweener
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Jul 31, 2007, 5:08 AM
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Barney Bear is highly under-appreciated!
I thought I was the only fan.
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~Nick J. Phillips
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Apprentice
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Oct 4, 2007, 6:59 PM
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A set like Zavkram said would be fantastic, although it would probably never happen-- we haven't got the Tex Avery set yet. I used to watch Barney and the classic MGM shorts on an excellent program just called Cartoon Classics I think, in the late 80s/early 90s on the station fomerly known as CKVR.
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Directing Animator
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Oct 5, 2007, 8:43 AM
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Someone in another animation forum has suggested that Warner Home Video could have easily re-issued every single cartoon ever produced or released by MGM, from 1934-1967, in a six-volume set of DVD's composed of 4 discs apiece. Such a multi-volume set would have included all of the Harman-Ising cartoons, all the Barney Bear cartoons, all the Tom & Jerry cartoons (including the ones directed by Gene Deitch and Chuck Jones) and all the Tex Avery cartoons; along with oodles of bonus features (documentaries, audio commentaries, interviews, music-only tracks, etc.)
But noooo, that would have made too much sense!!! 
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"Sit, Ubu, sit... good dog!" ("Arf"!)
(This post was edited by zavkram on Oct 5, 2007, 8:44 AM)
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Jpeg Master / Moderator
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Oct 5, 2007, 2:52 PM
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A Barney Bear collection would make me happy. I really dig the later years under Preston Blair's direction.
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Inbetweener
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Nov 12, 2007, 5:54 AM
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"Rookie Bear" is my favorite. It only has a narrator
(like some Goofy shorts), but it's pretty darn funny.
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Directing Animator
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Nov 13, 2007, 1:41 AM
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Bear Raid Warden is available as a bonus feature on the Warner Home Video DVD of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum and Robert Walker.
This is one of a handful of MGM cartoons directed by George Gordon, who had recently been an animator in the Hanna-Barbera unit on the Tom and Jerry series and had previously worked at TerryToons with Joe Barbera.
One of the principal animators on this Barney Bear cartoon, Arnold Gillespie, received credit for special effects on The Wizard of Oz; including the floating animated bubble which heralds every appearance by Glenda the Good Witch.
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"Sit, Ubu, sit... good dog!" ("Arf"!)
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Apprentice
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Nov 25, 2007, 3:16 PM
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I like it too. Unwelcome Guest was one of my childhood favourites.
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