Beany and Cecil
1962 · 1 season · 78 eps · ★ 8.0 · Animation
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Beany and Cecil first appeared as a hand puppet TV show in the late 40's created by Bob Clampett. It later became an animated cartoon series under the Warner Brothers aegis. The puppet show, entitled Time for Beany, originally aired in 1949, with the animated series first appearing in Matty's Funday Funnies in 1959, later renamed Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil and finally Beany and Cecil in the USA. Another season was produced in 1988. In its original form of hand puppets, the show conveyed a greater sense of personal communication than did the animated series which followed. The hand puppets were extensively marketed and did well as a merchandising function.
Created by Robert Clampett
Network: ABC
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★ 7.7
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Camera Three is an American variety show devoted to the arts. It ran on CBS from January 22, 1956 to January 21, 1979, and moved to PBS in its final year to make way for the then-new CBS News Sunday Morning. The PBS version ran from October 4, 1979 to July 10, 1980.
Camera Three featured programs showcasing drama, ballet, art, music, anything involving fine arts.
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★ 7.31942
MovieAnimationComedy
Sammy Seagull and Cecil Crow have stowed away on the same ship. Cecil, from Iowa, wants to see a hula dancer; fortunately, they've just come within flying distance of a tropical island with a lovely dancer. They take turns trying to impress her, with such stunts as skywriting hearts (Cecil almost drowns) and fancy dives (Cecil almost crashes, then gets into a fight with a shark, a turtle, and a starfish).
Bugs Bunny Superstar · 1976Bugs Bunny Superstar
★ 7.31976
MovieDocumentaryAnimation
Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and black-and-white home-movie-type footage shot at the time showing such animation greats as Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Also featured are nine complete Warner cartoons.
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★ 7.31939
MovieAnimationComedy
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Porky's Hero Agency · 1937Porky's Hero Agency
★ 7.11937
MovieAnimationComedy
Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece.
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★ 7.01977
MovieAnimationFamily
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The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil · 1988The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil
★ 7.01988
SeriesAnimation
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★ 6.91940
MovieAnimationComedy
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Baby Bottleneck · 1946Baby Bottleneck
★ 6.91946
MovieAnimationComedy
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Wagon Heels · 1945Wagon Heels
★ 6.81945
MovieAnimationComedy
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Prehistoric Porky · 1940Prehistoric Porky
★ 6.71940
MovieAnimationComedy
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★ 6.71939
MovieAnimationComedy
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Hare Ribbin' · 1944Hare Ribbin'
★ 6.61944
MovieAnimationComedy
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The Film Fan · 1939The Film Fan
★ 6.61939
MovieAnimationComedy
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★ 6.61939
MovieAnimationComedy
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MovieAnimationComedy
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