The style used on Good Will To Men is most assuredly HB as produced by Fred Quimby. The characters are practically lifted directly from Tom & Jerry model sheets! It's from the time early enough in Hannah Barbera's careers that they still really cared about fluid motion and dynamic action in their animation instead of the "Talking Heads & Recycled Backgrounds" style there were ultimately famous for.
So there's the story of the actual Animation and the how/why... Bill & Joe wanting to be artsy, still working for Fred so they choose his artsiest cartoon to pay homage before Fred retires.
NOW I'm on the hunt for the writer, and for who made the changes to the script. Who changed it from a story about Critters developing Religion without knowing that it's Religion, in to a story about Christianity saving the Critters from a fatge similar to that of Man?
Most of my internal "Hunch" fingers are pointing towards The Billy Graham Crusades which were HUGE at that time, but I can't find a direct connection... yet.
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Date: 2010-11-19 06:57 pm (UTC)So there's the story of the actual Animation and the how/why... Bill & Joe wanting to be artsy, still working for Fred so they choose his artsiest cartoon to pay homage before Fred retires.
NOW I'm on the hunt for the writer, and for who made the changes to the script. Who changed it from a story about Critters developing Religion without knowing that it's Religion, in to a story about Christianity saving the Critters from a fatge similar to that of Man?
Most of my internal "Hunch" fingers are pointing towards The Billy Graham Crusades which were HUGE at that time, but I can't find a direct connection... yet.