
Friday, April 30, 2010
FOR THE LOVE OF CHOCOLATE MILK

Monday, April 26, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
FOR THE LOVE OF LAUREL AND HARDY



So thanks to Chuck I discovered these life-long, derby wearing friends.
I met him on Chuck's WNEW-TV 5 show - - THE LAUREL & HARDY FIX-IT SHOP. They'd screen the larry harmon Laurel & Hardy cartoons.








Saturday, April 17, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
SOUND TRAK
I did all the art work for the sales kit on animation cels with ink, paint, photo-montage and collage. Worked my brains off on it, too. Ultimately the series didn't achieve lift-off - - though GOOWINS BALLOOWINS did! (http://bugsandballoons.com/).
Sometimes getting there is half the fun.
Sometimes.
Just stumbled upon the art, posted below. Each scene represents a different function of listening and hearing.
Double-U Tee Eff? EL-OH-EL!




Here are Allynn's memories of THE ORIGIN OF SOUND TRAK - - or - - We Worked On A TV Series Together And All I Got Was These Drawings.
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After doing my cable tv show for a few seasons, I figured it would be good to have a message... and since I studied (and believed in) Speech... hey why not a tv series on it. At that point I thought about Annie Siedler... she had been my main Speech teacher in college (Montclair State College - now "University", in NJ). For my final exam rather than write the information about Speech correction... I had an inspiration and wrote a Fairy Tale using the Speech Problems and corrections as good Knights and monsters. She gave me an "A"... it turned out (I didn't know at the time) she had written a successful children's speech correction book - "The Hungry Thing". We've been friends ever since.
I mentioned the idea of this tv series to her and she wanted to work on it with me. After we worked on an outline, she felt it was a good time to bring in her writing partner... Jan Slepian. Ann and Jan wrote a couple books together and jan has written a number of books on her own. We met a few times before i said we should bring you guys aboard ... since they had the book writing experience and you had the puppetry and tv background (where did I fit in?).Then we all worked on it for some good time/s....
We submitted the project to several places... Jan had a friendship with Maurice Sendak... I had met some tv producers in classes I had taken... you had your connections.....My memory was that the best reaction was that they liked the proposal, but they were looking for minority shows.
That's my memory.Allynn
Thursday, April 8, 2010
THE CRAIG MARIN PUPPETS
Monday, April 5, 2010
VEGETABLE SOUP & OUTERSCOPE 2
OK, that's the Wikipedia version. However, it left out one of the creepiest puppet segments on television. Ever.
OUTERSCOPE II.
PADY BLACKWOOD's company was in charge of the puppets. DORRIS DOWLING sculpted and painted them, and OLGA FELGEMACHER did the animations, and was in charge of the puppetry. Olga also played EDGAR (shudder) and HENRY. Edgar's voice was redubbed by a kid, but Henry's sports O's Bil Baird coined "toy-voice".
Olga called them the "Village Of The Damned Puppets." Below is a scene - - you can see for yourself. Good night, children. Sleep welllll. . .
(that's Olga as Henry on the left)
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
ADVENTURE IN TELEZONIA
Adventure in Telezonia (1947) was the second film produced for Bell Telephone.