Inbetweener
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May 12, 2009, 1:21 AM
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Yogi Bear's Big Break
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Cast: Yogi, Kid in car, Ranger - Daws Butler; Narrator, Boo Boo, Kid in car, Guy in car, Gopher – Don Messick.
Released: October 2, 1958.
Plot: Sick of being a kiddie tourist attraction, Yogi tries to break out of Jellystone Park. He finally succeeds, only to want back in to avoid bear hunters.
Here, in this first Yogi Bear cartoon, Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna symbolically enact their own career advancement. As Yogi attempts to escape from the attention of toddlers, so do Hanna and Barbera escape from the world of strictly toddler entertainment with Ruff and Reddy as they produce a cartoon series for old and young alike.
Yeah, people with lots of spare time who like to read things into this cartoon may read THAT into this cartoon. To quote Sylvester: “It beats me where they get all this guff.” I’m waiting for them to read something into the fact that Charlie Shows, a former uniformed police officer, liked to write cartoon gags with someone’s butt being attacked (see below). But I digress.
Ken Muse is said to have done the animation here, but it really varies wildly. An example is above. There are motion lines around Yogi—but he’s actually stopped moving some a while. This can be found several times in this cartoon. And there are times—much like in Little Bird Mouse—where the characters go from pose to pose with no in betweens.
Muse liked to draw tongues and top teeth when his characters talked, but there are none in some close shots and are in others. It may have been a case of Mike Lah pinch-hitting in some of the scenes; Yogi and the gopher both have that wheel-lines motion around their feet like Lah used in Pie-Pirates.
There are some lip-synch problems. Yogi is “ooching” in one scene but Daws Butler is silent. There’s another scene where a gopher is talking but his lips don’t move.
Bick Bickenback does the layout and Fernando Montealegre provides shades of green for the turned-up evergreens.
This is mainly a spot-gag cartoon of Yogi trying to escape; it reminded me a bit of the Road Runner cartoon where the Coyote is on a catapult, but that didn’t his screens until several years later. The story’s generally well-constructed and the ending has a strong twist, but there’s at least one plot hole. I don’t understand why the ranger suddenly recognises a housewife in a trailer is Yogi. There’s nothing to set up the gag.
Other than the theme music, it looks like all the music came from the Langlois Filmusic Library composed (in part, if not all) by Jack Shaindlin. I haven’t been able to find the source of two cues—used often in the early Yogis and Hucks—but they don’t sound like Loose-Seely compositions in the Hi-Q library.
0:00 – Yogi (vocal) opening theme (Hanna-Barbera-Curtin-Shows).
0:26 – 21-F-3 RECESS (Shainlin) – Yogi tries to crawl out park; Yogi attaches himself to back of station wagon.
2:01 – bassoon and zig-zag strings (Shaindlin?) – Yogi disguised as housewife; pretends to be dead animal.
3:24 – 10-F-7 RELUCTANT ELEPHANT (Shaindlin) – Yogi tries pole-vaulting over wall; digs into ranger station; tries to escape using tree.
6:03 – F-? PIXIE PRANKS (Shaindlin) – Yogi escapes using log cannon.
6:50 – circus chase music (Shaindlin?) – Yogi locked out of park gate.
7:10 – Yogi closing theme (Hanna-Barbera-Curtin-Shows).
Dodsworth
http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com
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Inbetweener
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May 12, 2009, 6:32 PM
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São Paulo - SP, Brazil, May 12, 2009.
Hi, "Yowp-Yowp" Dodsworth!
Here's the photo gallery from the first (and anthologic) Yogi Bear episode, Yogi Bear's Big Break, originally presented on the first season from The Huckleberry Hound Show (Hanna-Barbera/Columbia Pictures, 1958-62).
And, for your pleasure, here are the snapshots:
Well, this was what I've had to show here.
Tchau!
Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,
Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
You're always welcome!
 "Every day is always the same old thing: LOOK THE BEAR! LOOK THE BEAR! LOOK THE BEAR!"
HANNA-BARBERA - 50 YEARS OF QUICK DRAW McGRAW - 40 YEARS OF SCOOBY-DOO - 30 YEARS OF SCRAPPY-DOO
Attention, HB-fans! Enjoy to visit the Hanna-Barbera official site (http://hanna-barbera.com) and have some fun!
IN MEMORIAN OF WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA
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Inbetweener
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May 13, 2009, 6:27 PM
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São Paulo - SP, Brazil, May 13, 2009.
Hello, "Yowp-Yowp" Dodsworth!
Here are more snapshots from the first (and anthological, too!) Yogi Bear episode Yogi Bear's Big Break, which I've found on the Internet.
I've found the following snapshots on the Brazilian site Videolog (http://videolog.uol.com.br).
Enjoy to see them:
   
And here are some snapshots which I've found on YouTube (http://youtube.com):
     
Well, this was what I've had to show here.
So long!
Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,
Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
You're always welcome!
 "Hey, squirrel! What's the hurry?" (Ranger Smith, here drawn by Ed Benedict, in One Day in the Life of Ranger Smith [directed by John Kricfalusi in 1999])
HANNA-BARBERA - 50 YEARS OF QUICK DRAW McGRAW - 40 YEARS OF SCOOBY-DOO - 30 YEARS OF SCRAPPY-DOO
Attention, HB-fans! Enjoy to visiti the official Hanna-Barbera site (http://hanna-barbera.com) and have some fun!
IN MEMORIAN OF WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA
(This post was edited by rodineisilveira on May 13, 2009, 6:28 PM)
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Yogi Bear's Big Break - photo gallery
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