More TerryToons' Background Artwork.

As promised, another post on the amazing background artwork from the Terrytoon studio's, created for their theatrical animated shorts from the 1940's. Beside Mighty Mouse, they had several other funny characters that became pretty succesful, like the magpies 'Heckle and Jeckle' and 'Gandy Goose and Sourpuss'.

Paul Terry had been producing a series of theatrical animated shorts starring 'Farmer Al Falfa' since 1915. It was in the Mannie Davis directed short 'The Talking Magpies' in January 1946 that introduced Heckle and Jeckle. Between 1946 and 1966 the duo starred in 52 theatrical shorts. As with the 'Mighty Mouse' cartoons, these were all directed by either Connie rasinksi, Eddie Donnelly or Mannie Davis. In 1979 Lou scheimer's Filmation picked up the characters for their TV show 'The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle'. Again, production numbers as used around the studio, were provided on the artwork in the top left corner, the relevant scene numbers in the top right corner, above the pegholes.

Four backgrounds from Heckle and Jeckle short 'Cat Trouble', released on April 11, 1947:

Three backgrounds from the 'Heckle and Jeckle' short 'The Intruders', released on May 9, 1947:

Below a series of background artworks created for Terrytoons' Gandy Goose shorts. Between 1939 and 1955, the studio created at least fifty of these animations. Now, for those of you unaware of Gandy, first off here's some great original cover artwork with the funny fella by one of the Terrytoon studio members (Gandy was usually accompanied by 'Sourpuss', but he wasn't included in this gag):

Below are three backgrounds from Gandy's war time era short 'Camouflage' (written by John Foster and directed by Eddie Donnelly) which was released on August 27, 1943:

More war time era shorts! Here are three backgrounds from 'Mopping Up' from 1943:

Below two more backgrounds from 1943 short 'Scrap for Victory':

Below a background from 'The Last Roundup' The Beerbarrels are used in this scene by Hitler (portrayed as a pig) and Mussolini (portrayed as a monkey) to hide behind when Sourpuss and Gandy are shooting up their mountaintop castle:

Below two backgrounds from 'The Frog and the Princess', released on April 7,1944:

Three background from 'Gandy Goose in Ghost Town', released on September 22, 1944

Four backgrounds from 'Mexican Baseball' (directed by Mannie Davis) released on March 14, 1947: