I remember watching this a few times as a kid. I haven’t seen it since. I remember thinking it was beautiful then and I still feel that way. Wonderful story. And really well animated. Thank you for posting this.
This is a one-shot Gene Ditch-Bill Weiss-TerryToons CinemaScope animated production with narration by Boris Karloff & based on the “Juggler Of Our Lady” book written by B. O. Blechman. Also, this cartoon is both Mr. Karloff & Mr. Blechman’s 1st animated project & 1 of many 1-shot TerryToons CinemaScope cartoons both Gene Ditch & Bill Weiss did.
You too! & oh, by the way, this is such a wonderful beautiful greatest outstanding amazing film Gene Deitch, Boris Karloff, B.O. Blechman, Bill Weiss & The TerryToons Cartoon Studio ever did apart from their slapstick funnies. Keep up the good work. Thumbs 👍 up!
Hey Reg! I used to attend your screenings in Toronto when I was at Sheridan in the early 80s. Re: Terrytoons -- they did a lot of wonderful work once they got Gene Deitch on the staff, like "Tom Terrific".
@@MyFriendlyCrow Indeed. This short is the product of the short-lived Gene Deitch era, which was basically UPA 3.0 (Deitch led the actual UPA's New York division prior to Terrytoons). Deitch wrote extensively about his experiences there, though there is almost no one else to corroborate him. I tracked any info I could find on notable staff members in this era.
Gene Deitch had definite ideas for the studio. Unfortunately, he clashed with their business manager- and executive producer- Bill Weiss.....and Gene was out the door by June 1958. Within a year, Weiss had revived "Heckle & Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse", continued "Sidney", had new characters created {"Hector Heathcote", "Hashimoto"}, and produced cheaper cartoons with even less production budgets than before [CinemaScope and Technicolor were, for the most part, also phased out by 1960].
