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John Blosdale’s
DenniLu Company Presents …
The Beatles Cartoons
In September 1965, King Feature's producer,
Al Brodax with the financial assistance of toymaker/sponsor
A.C. Gilbert produced the Saturday morning cartoon series
that aired on ABC TV at 10:30am. It broke new historical
ground being the very first weekly series to feature animated
versions of real people.
The half-hour show brought
us two episodes and two sing-a-longs complete with Beatle
lyrics to shout out between cereal bites. The Beatles cartoon
voices were not the Beatles. They were dubbed by two voice
actors, Paul Frees (John and George) and Lance Percival
(Paul and Ringo). In the fall of 1968, the series was moved
to Sunday mornings. It remained until its final broadcast
on September 25th, 1969.
A total of 78 episodes with sing-a-longs were
produced in four separate locations around the world by
numerous animators, background and layout artists, writers
and directors.
DenniLu Company has the priviledge to feature
a few of the original animators and the creator/designer
of the Beatle cartoon caricatures themselves.
These talented animators, who also directed several of the
episodes, are signing some of our limited edition sericels
and hand-painted cels!
These Sericels & Hand Painted Cels come in large sizes,
combine more than one scene and some are even signed by
an original animator to make this animation art very "Special".
Sericels, also called Serigraph Cels are created
by silk-screening each individual color onto the cel, one
at a time. Every distinct color or shade is a separate screen,
and a separate pass in this fine art process. Each color
is flawlessly reproduced. Sericels are also created in limited
quantities, typically 1000 plus pieces.
Hand-painted
limited editions use the same materials and techniques as
were used in making the originals. Some Hand-painted limited
editions are based on interpretations of several scenes
within an episode. The same process used to transfer the
artist/animator's black outlines prior to silkscreening
is transferred onto acetate cels, then each color is meticulously
hand-painted by studio artists. Each piece is hand-numbered
in small edition sizes between 100 and 750. In some cases
the finished cels are then signed by the original animator.
DenniLu Company offers several Hand-Painted cels signed
by some of the cartoon series original animators, such as
Peter Sander, Dale Case, Tom Halley and Ron Campbell!
The DenniLu Company has decided to keep their
Sericel editions and Hand-painted limited edition sizes
low, affordable and highly collectable. With Sericel edition
sizes on an average of 500 pieces, the DenniLu Company offers
it's Sericels and Hand-Painted Cels framed, ready-to-hang
and at price you can afford.
Here is Dan Kerr, of Ford City, PA, Grand Prize Mind Games
Winner.
See, listening to Beatle Brunch pays off, and joining the
BBC can even do more."
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