MEL-O-TOONS
A New World Production
Syndicated in 1960 by United Artists Television
Mel-O-Toons was a series of six-minute color fillers which used limited animation to illustrate preexisting 45 rpm children's records. Some of the cartoons featured famous legends, fairy tales and literary works, while others offered classical music as background to animal stories, using narration by top announcers such as Don Wilson, Stan Freberg, Patrick McGeehan, Art Gilmore and Jane Pickens.
Hansel and Gretel
The series was originally developed to showcase the works of
author Thornton Burgess (Peter Cottontail, Paddy the Beaver) utilizing both
live-action and animated segments. It was expanded to 104 episodes which
necessitated using material other than the work of Burgess.
Incomplete Episode Listing:
(click on a hyper-linked title to see a picture from the
episode)
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The Enchanted Horse |
The Trojan Horse |
Ali Baba |
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Sinbad |
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Cinderella |
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The Red Shoes |
Omicron and Sputnik |
Hunters of the Sea |
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Christopher Columbus |
Peter and the Wolf |
The Little Hawk |
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David and Goliath |
Aladdin |
Daniel Boone |
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Knights of Old |
Paul Bunyon |
The King's Trumpet |
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Peter Cottontail |
Tom Sawyer |
The Eagle and the Thrush |
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Paddy the Beaver |
Little Sambo |
Waltz Of The Flowers |
Click here to see the full-length Pinocchio Mel-O-Toon, in RealVideo.
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