Although this was theatrically realeased, by now the audience for cartoons is much younger, televiewers, and it costs too much to make high quality cartoons, and even though this has its moments, it is a far cry from the old Mighty Mouse theaticals which ended in 1954, when cartoons were still made with artisanship. 3 limited animation theatrical Mightys were made, from 1959 to 1961 and that was it. They were Outer Space Visitor, Mysterious Package and Cat Alarm. Still Mighty had a greart run
I believe this was the last "Mighty Mouse" cartoon produced until 1979. Note that a very young (21 years old??) Ralph Bakshi was one of the animators; he would go on to produce a 1987-90 revival of "Mighty Mouse", one episode of which featured "The Mighty Heroes" (which Bakshi had created in 1966); in the 1988 "reunion", the Mighty Heroes were middle-aged accountants (and Diaper Man was in his twenties!).
I had this on VHS. Was the first video we got with our first vhs. (Along with the Sound of Music) Its was on a tape with 5 terrytoon cartoons. Headliner was Deputy Dawg.
Yep Mighty Mouse with my boy I remember Mighty Mouse when I was 10 years old that was the show know so I thought it was no miles from the world is strong and mighty mouth at my fish show with Mighty Mouse love you you two people Mighty Mouse is the man peace
They've shown before that Mighty Mouse is in scale to cats and other things, meaning he really is the size of a mouse, so that old man is smaller than a mouse..
CBS bought Terrytoons in 1955; and it's influence on Terrytoons' cartoons can be seen at the very beginning of this cartoon: The credits at the beginning of the cartoon (beginning with the title) faded-out for a second or two (at the 0:30 point of this clip), then the title of the cartoon again appears, along with the copyright notice. This way, when this (and other Terrytoons cartoons of the early 1960's) were shown on TV, most of the opening credits could be deleted, leaving only the title and copyright notice.
Ralph Bakshi work Terrytoon cartoons was a animator, then he work in any movie studio, and finally, he works two shorts on What A Cartoon Show called Malcom & Melvin on Cartoon Network, which is the last two shorts. Interesting.
Ralph Bakshi eventually worked his way up to a director at Terrytoons by the mid 1960's, and created the cult classic "Mighty Heroes" in 1966. Production of "Mighty Heroes" ended abruptly in early 1967 when Bakshi left to join Famous Studios, where he produced the 1967-70 "Spiderman" cartoon series.
All of the old theatrical studios had to adapt to Limited Animation in order to stay in business. Terrytoons seemed to make the transition much better than Paramount Cartoon Studios did in many respects. While they had some interesting shorts like LE PETITE PARADE, much of their TV work did not seem as good as what Terrytoons was doing in terms of utilizing the Limited Animation technique as well as developing appealing characters.
A "good transition" needs further definition. In terms of remaining in the production of fully animated theatrical cartoons and a continuation of his career? With the exception of THE DOT AND THE LINE, which won the Academy Award in 1965, and the television special, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, the majority of his MGM work could not compare to his work at Warners.Hernan Hernandez
Well, yes, he was able to keep his career afloat in about the 80's. I personally prefer his 60's works, alongside Depatie-Freleng's animated output of the same era.
Hernan Hernandez Jones hit his stride with the success of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. This enabled him to start Chuck Jones Enterprises, which produced a series of successful animated television Specials for CBS and ABC. Even with the compromises on "cel count" due to production budgets from 1960 to 1980, the animation in Jones' Specials still contained more drawings with an attempt to continue the illusion of theatrical animation at a time when television was dominated by Limited Animation, which is the subject here.
Weird watching these last couple and notice the dialogue they have to give Mighty Mouse who normally didn't go so far as singing in the earlier shorts, but I guess the budgets dictated it.
Don't open the unsuspected package with no name and address on it. It might be a bomb and it will detonate when open it and cause serious injury or death.
Thankfully, it was a space helmet that brought all the kids - and Mighty Mouse - to the playground! Thankfully, that metal monster was friendly, and only pretended to be evil so Mighty Mouse could break the evil witch's 100-year-old spell!
WWETheDog An instrumental version of the song appears a few times in the soundtrack of this cartoon. I believe the song was written in 1955 when some "Mighty Mouse" cartoons began appearing on television. Only three "Mighty Mouse" shorts were made between 1955 and the time Terrytoons shut down (one short was made in 1959; the two others in 1960), and thus, the "Here I Come To Save The Day" theme, as an instrumental, appears in the soundtrack of these there shorts ("Outer Space Visitor" in 1959; this and "Cat Alarm" in 1960).
