Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Watching the animated STAR TREK episodes on DVD, circa 1973, I found a curious name among the layout artists. Yup, Glen Keane. Must've been straight out of CalArts. Just a curious little thing I discovered... fun thing to pass on.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo How cool! I used to love the Star Trek Cartoon. I guess Glen had to start somewhere.
Originally Posted By mawnck If you start reading a lot of credits, you'll find famous names working on the most gosh-awful old cartoon series -- both young up-and-comers and of brilliant old veterans whose original gigs disappeared. Being a bubble-gum music fan, I just bought the box set of the tuneful but dreadful 70s series "The Groovy Goolies," * the original source of the hit song "Chick a Boom (Don't You Just Love It)." ** A quick scan of the credits brings up Rudy Larriva and Don Towsley as animation directors, Virgil Ross and Norman McCabe (!) on the animation crew, and Don Bluth doing layout. *Note to our British friends -- it does not mean that in the US. Stop snickering. **Now it's stuck in your head all day. You're welcome.
Originally Posted By avromark * In the videogame "Grabbed By The Goolies" it does mean that however. I'm thinking of getting this DVD set, how is the quality of the animation? I'm guessing sound is mono. Is there any special features? Would the average Star Trek fan consider this true and canon in the Star Trek universe? Will Disney be doing the next Star Trek series? J/k!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I don't have the DVD set; I got it way back when on LaserDisc (one of the reasons why I got LD: rare stuff only available in that format) The Animated Series is excellent. I am not sure if they are canon or not, but I cannot imagine any average Trek fan who has seen these would even care. It's only the weirdos that care about canon.
Originally Posted By mawnck It's an animated TV series from the early 70s, and it was made by Filmation (the same outfit that did the Groovy Goolies), so animation quality is certain to range from mediocre to ghastly. It just wasn't possible to do good work on Saturday morning budgets back then. I think this will answer your other questons: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_animated_series" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S tar_Trek:_The_animated_series</a>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA In other trivia news, when I was about 11 or 12, I enrolled in an animation class for young people a the local college. As part of the session, we actually took a tour of the old Filmation Studios [where that Star Trek series was produced and animated]. It was in the San Fernando Valley as I recall, and a group of us just walked through the hallways -- poking our heads into each room to see what was going on. I watched as a guy added sound effects to a 'Archie' cartoon. I remember him using an old Moviola type of machine, and hand-cranking the film back and forth, and adding the pieces of film that had the sound effects on them. About two weeks later, I was watching that show, and sure enough, there was the scene that guy was working on. Pretty cool. At the end of our tour, our instructor was given a pile of about 20-30 animation cels as gifts for us in the tour. Once we got back to the classroom, he opened the box and we all took one or two. I still have mine from a TV production of 'Oliver Twist.'
Originally Posted By basil fan Trekkeruss, I resemble that remark. To answer avromark's question *intelligently*, yes, the animated eps are part of the canon for most true-believing classic Star Trek fans (even though the all-time best Trek character does not appear). So, there! Jonny Quest Glitches <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/glitch/questglitch.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ glitch/questglitch.html</a>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <(even though the all-time best Trek character does not appear).> No Tribbles, huh?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<the animated eps are part of the canon for most true-believing classic Star Trek fans>> Hehe.Ttrue-believing or not, I think think the animated sereies is very enjoyable, and any fan who would shun them if they weren't canon I would classify as a weirdo.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger >>As part of the session, we actually took a tour of the old Filmation Studios [where that Star Trek series was produced and animated]. It was in the San Fernando Valley as I recall, and a group of us just walked through the hallways -- poking our heads into each room to see what was going on. << Yes. Sherman Way and Lindley, as I recall. It would have been the building on the Northwest corner of this intersection: <a href="http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=18&ll=34.201221" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/maps?hl= en&q=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=18&ll=34.201221</a>,-118.527208&spn=0.002028,0.003621&t=h
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA It could very well have been CrouchingTigger. It's strange how things come around. We visited Filmation, and then later that summer [maybe even during the same visit to the Valley], visited the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild [the union office] where we were given a tour I think. Years later, I was taking an acting class in a building on Lankershim Blvd. During a break, I was strolling around, and looked at the building right next to this building where the class was taking place. Sure enough, it was the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild office where I had taken the tour 20 years prior.
Originally Posted By brotherdave >><(even though the all-time best Trek character does not appear).> No Tribbles, huh? << LOL!! Actually, from what I remember of the show, the Tribbles actually did appear in an episode called "More Troubles, More Tribbles" (I think). Basil, if I recall correctly, the only main character from the original show that didn't appear on the animated version was Chekov. Is this who you were referring to?
Originally Posted By basil fan Ah, yes, Chekov, on whom I had a serious crush in the days of my misspent youth. The Perfect Collectible <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/collectible.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ disney/collectible.html</a>
Originally Posted By basil fan I read it once a long time ago. If I remember rightly, they just thought they had so many characters they ought to drop one. Walter (Chekov) Koenig did script one episode. Donald Duck's Family Tree <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/donald.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ disney/donald.html</a>
