Here's a promo for the Rocky and Bullwinkle Stamp Club. Not sure when this aired but it can be found on the Special Features of the Rocky & Bullwinkle DVD Set Volume 1.
This was primarily seen in schools in 1961 (usually in the auditorium at "assembly time"), just before "THE BULLWINKLE SHOW" first appeared on NBC. Inbetween our heroes "pushing" savings stamps {instead of "Big G" cereals}, a "Fractured Fairy Tale" was originally inserted at 1:03; "an "Aesop & Son" episode" shown at 4:54. The opening/closing music is the theme from the syndicated "ROCKY SHOW" [the first two seasons of material from "ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS", repackaged into quarter-hour segments].
Animated and directed by Gerard Baldwin, who went on to direct Halloween is Grinch Night, produce the first few seasons of Smurfs for Hanna-Barbera, worked on Duckman and Rocket Power for Klasky-Csupo, and even worked on Aladdin and Muppet Babies.
That was also produced for the U.S Treasury [in co-operation with Chrysler, who presented the film to their employees]- "Wilbur Gets the Message.....About Payroll Savings!" (1964).
2:35 Jeez! The way Frees pronounces "Raskolnikov", it sounds so crazy and distorted! They say it was his common term for exclamation, but I don't remember it. Maybe I've not watched enough episodes.
Correct! Jay Ward insisted his studio produce this short. The Gamma animation crew was used for the TV episodes only (and even then, Jay produced the "Dudley Do-Right" segments himself).
