Space Barton

I have doing some prep work of my up coming History of Animation class at Laguna College of Art & Design. I have been editing some rare made for TV cartoons from 1950. Here is an episode of Space Barton from NBC Tele-Comics by Dick Moores and Jack Boyd.

Mark Kausler calls Tele-Comics illustrated radio and I see his point. There is a real question if this should be called animation at all. But they could meet the insanely low per episode costs dictated by early TV so they had a show.

Most people will not remember this show because it was off the air way before most people got their first TV sets. I remember Dwight Eisenhower and the convention getting in the way of my kid`s shows and that would mean our first TV was 1952. A big ugly model with a record player in the base of the cabinet that would shock you every time you touched the little metal fold out handle.

The voice work is all first class radio talent and the artwork is mostly Dick Moores. Dick went on to be the assistant to Frank King on Gasoline Alley. A stripe he took over after King died. A stripe that has not been the same since Moores passed away. Anyway, enjoy.