ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS (1959) Premier reconstruction
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I was seven years old
I was seven years old when I saw the premier of the over-the-top ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS that ran on Tuesdays and Thursdays on ABC at 4:30 in the afternoon. The first serialized adventure was a topical subject associated with The Cold War, coming two years after Russia launched Sputnik, which pushed the United States into the "Space Race." While I was a kid at the time, a lot of emphasis was place on rockets and missiles, as the U.S. government create NASA with a goal to reach the Moon and beat out The Soviet Union in this "contest." This was the basis of the premier adventure of ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS with the story line, "The Jet Rocket Fuel" story, which was the longest running series of episodes.
It is interesting to see the evolution of the characters as the art style and character designed changed after the fifth or sixth entry. Bullwinkle's design changed the most, while Rockys' remained the same until 1960. It is these details about the character design and art style that identify the original; 1959 material from the later.
The original film elements have been rearranged and recycled countless times over the past 63 years. New audiences have not seen them in their original form and further confusion has resulted with changes in the main and intermission titles in both visual and musical elements.
Originally, Frank Comstock was the composer for the theme song for ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS, along with the opening and closing themes for each cartoon segment, FRACTURED FAIRLY TALES and PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY. These cues were changed to new ones composed by Fred Steiner when the show was repackaged as THE BULLWINKLE SHOW for NBC in 1962. It is these versions that have largely been in circulation in syndication and cable since the 1980s. Interestingly, ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS went into first run syndication in 1962, and the first four shows contained the original laugh tracks imposed by the network. Fortunately they were dropped and all reissues sine as without the laugh tracks.
Another interesting alteration note is that in the beginning, Paul Frees was the Narrator. But as more characters were assigned to him, he was replaced by Bill Conrad. Later reissues have Conrad's voice dubbed, replacing Freese in the first entries of THE JET ROCKET FORMULA story.
So here is my reconstruction of the premier episode with the addition of color which was not available when originally aired on ABC. The color footage made available on the DVD release has the General Mills reference removed. I have filled that in with footage from one of the syndication prints and taken every effort to match up as much as possible considering some differences of 10 frames in some places that were removed in the DVD version.
Proper credit should be made to fellow YouTube posters who have made the original commercials available. They include Adpocalypse, Good old TV Commercials, The Projectionist, The AVTB Archives, Toon Tracker, and Poisoned Dragon 1964.
#rockyandhisfriends
#jayward
#billscott
#frankcomstock
#juneforay
#paulfress
#williamconrad
#thebullwinkleshow
#adventuresofrockyandbullwinkle
#hisoryoftelevision
#coldwar
It is interesting to see the evolution of the characters as the art style and character designed changed after the fifth or sixth entry. Bullwinkle's design changed the most, while Rockys' remained the same until 1960. It is these details about the character design and art style that identify the original; 1959 material from the later.
The original film elements have been rearranged and recycled countless times over the past 63 years. New audiences have not seen them in their original form and further confusion has resulted with changes in the main and intermission titles in both visual and musical elements.
Originally, Frank Comstock was the composer for the theme song for ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS, along with the opening and closing themes for each cartoon segment, FRACTURED FAIRLY TALES and PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY. These cues were changed to new ones composed by Fred Steiner when the show was repackaged as THE BULLWINKLE SHOW for NBC in 1962. It is these versions that have largely been in circulation in syndication and cable since the 1980s. Interestingly, ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS went into first run syndication in 1962, and the first four shows contained the original laugh tracks imposed by the network. Fortunately they were dropped and all reissues sine as without the laugh tracks.
Another interesting alteration note is that in the beginning, Paul Frees was the Narrator. But as more characters were assigned to him, he was replaced by Bill Conrad. Later reissues have Conrad's voice dubbed, replacing Freese in the first entries of THE JET ROCKET FORMULA story.
So here is my reconstruction of the premier episode with the addition of color which was not available when originally aired on ABC. The color footage made available on the DVD release has the General Mills reference removed. I have filled that in with footage from one of the syndication prints and taken every effort to match up as much as possible considering some differences of 10 frames in some places that were removed in the DVD version.
Proper credit should be made to fellow YouTube posters who have made the original commercials available. They include Adpocalypse, Good old TV Commercials, The Projectionist, The AVTB Archives, Toon Tracker, and Poisoned Dragon 1964.
#rockyandhisfriends
#jayward
#billscott
#frankcomstock
#juneforay
#paulfress
#williamconrad
#thebullwinkleshow
#adventuresofrockyandbullwinkle
#hisoryoftelevision
#coldwar
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