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axis rnw gt Television cartoons said to give Theatre proves success bad name to animation viewing but director worries LOS ANGELES AP Tele vision cartoons are giving ani mation bad name So say many viewers who yearn for modern television equivalents of Fantasia Pi nocchio Bugs Bunny Woody Woodpecker and Donald Duck Some of the animators who created those classics are equally disdainful of the car toon series made for Saturday morning television They are but distant relatives of the fan ciful fluid wackily inspired cartoons of old these critics say and devoid of artistic merit call it illustrated radio says veteran animator Chuck Jones of the current Saturday morning style You build sound track which will carry the story if the pictures dont work Jones used to be part of the great Warner Brothers stable that produced Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Elmer Fudd Porky Pig and other unforget table characters Try it sometime he says Turn the sound off and you cant possibly understand whats going on but leave the sound on without the pictures and theres no problem With the stuff we did you can turn the sound off and still tell whats happening because the characters are acting CIRCUMSTANCES DIFFER The people who make TV car toons argue that critics unfairly judge them by the standards they apply to animated works created under vastly different circumstancesespecially fi nancial Its just different art form offers William Hanna cofounder of HannaBarbera Productions best known of the TV animation factories Its different technique The TV form called limited animation was honed to its present massproduction capabilities by Hanna and his partner Joseph Barbera after they left MGM where they had created Tom and Jerry in 1940 and formed their own studio in 1957 Since then they have pro duced more than 100 animated series for television including The Flintstones Yogi Bear Scooby D00 and Wait Till Your Father Gets Homeplus TV specials and featurelength car toons such as Charlottes Web Limited animation means that dialogue rather than action is used to tell the story and there is far less movement in each Scene than in the short cartoons made by the movie studios in the 305 and 40s USE FEWER DRAWINGS The old sixminute cartoons used two to three times as many drawings per minute as do the current 30minute Satur daymorning television variety The result Characters often dont move while talking and when they do move the action is repetitive and usually identi cal to the way other characters move When Fred Flintstone runs his legs and arms go back and forth but the rest of his body is rigid and he runs past the same background objects over and over again Complains Peggy Charren head of parents group called Action for Childrens Tele vision For many children their first art is the animated Saturdaymorning schedule and what they see from to in the afternoon on independent and UHF stations And its almost never exciting or delightful animation Hanna says there is nothing inherently wrong with limited animation but concedes There are certain studios that do not spend the time or money to do limited animation as it should be done Part of the problem he says is that there arent firstrate animators More than that theres problem of money And time is factor too BUDGETS SMALLER ABC CBS and NBC pay in the neighborhood of $70000 for Saturdaymorning cartoon Thats not much more than what Hanna and Barbera were spending for each sixminute Tom and Jerry episode 20 years ago By contrast Jones says he gets between $250000 and $325 000 from the networks to pro duce halfhour animated prime time specials such as Mowglis Brother or The White Seal be cause more people watch tele vision at night and the networks can recoup the additional outlay through higher ad vertising rates The primetime specials fall short of full animation but the quality is high enough to ex empt them from the criticism aimed at the Saturdaymorning lineup The animated weekly series are turned out under tre mendous time pressure Where Jones spends one year produc ing two halfhour specials and used to do 10 sixminute car toons in the same period for Warner Brothers producers to day have to come up with 16 or 17 halfhour episodes in about eight months Hanna says an animator who had to draw maybe 10 to 20 feet of film week in the old days now has to create 60 to 80 feet using about the same number of drawings What is the cost of full ani mation nowadays HannaBar bera spent $18 million to make Charlottes Web which ran 90 minutes Walt Disney Studios will have invested more than four years and an estimated $4million by the time their fea turelength The Rescuers is re leased late next year Dedication to the art of ani mation is why the Disney people never have entered the television field We cant do our kind of stuff in that medium explains Don Duckwell head of animation at Disney Economics prevents it Walt decided many years ago that we would not take shortcuts in our animation and we feel thats still the best way to operate Many television people con tend the visual aspects are not as important as the content of their cartoons My belief is that the concept overrides the technique when it comes to Saturdaymorning programming says Faith Frenz Heckman director of childrens programs at CBS TV think the idea that the style of animation should be criticized because it is limited is limited point of View Counters Mrs Charren of the parents group Everything matters when it comes to an ex perience on television You ask an advertiser how much the vis ual counts and youll find out the truth about how important it is If they cant produce more quality programming at rea sonable price they should just put on less No one says there has to be childrens programs from 7am to 2pm on Satur day Everyone would be better off if there was less of it and what there was was better Officials refuse to discuss case THUNDER BAY Ont CP Keith Pahpasay is three yearold Indian boy who prob ably will spend the rest of his life in hospital for reasons med ical authorities have yet to de termine But some authorities believe it is possible that the child mentallyretarded and physi callyhandicapped since birth is one of the first Canadian vic tims of Minamata disease mercury poisoning Officials at Walter Hogarth Memorial Hospital here flatly refuse to discuss the case He has been in there for al most two years and basically all officials will say is that he is treated as any retarded child and that no special testing is being carried out now However Dr Peter New berry Quaker who has done extensive mercury testing in northwestern Ontario says it is possible that the Pahpasay boy who he examined is suffering from Minamata It is difficult to tell whether the boys symptoms are those of fetal Minamata or cerebral palsy Dr Newberry said in an interview Monday from To ronto He said Minamata is possi bility in the Pahpasay case but he is unable to say definitely But the important thing is that this is the kind of thing mercury poisoning does cause The Pahpasay boy was born six weeks premature and stop ped breathing three times after birth Dr Newberry said it is possible that cerebral palsy developed from oxygen to the brain being cut off The evidence of possible Min amata however was sup ported by the fact that the boys home is Grassy Narrows Ont 275 miles northwest of here and the centre of the mercury pollution along the English Wabigoon river system Marcel Pahpasay the boys father was an active guide at the time of Keiths birth and the familys diet consisted mainly of fish Testing has shown that fish in the area are mercury contaminated and in 1970 the Ontario government banned commercial fishing there and warned people not to eat the fish FREDERICTON CP Last year was successful one for Theatre New Brunswick and artistic direc tor Walter Learning is both enthusiastic and apprehen sive about the future Increased box office sales for each of its seven years of operation and the best balanced selection of works to be offered yet makes Mr Learning optimistic However he starts the new season as he does all seasons with lump in my throat because he is never sure of how an audience will react to the plays The fears have proved un founded in previous years In its first year the theatre gossed $21000 at the gate last year the figure had risen to$175790 More than 60000 patrons made their way into the theatre in 1975 with full houses in Moncton Bathurst and Chatham and 70percent capacity in Saint John At its home playhouse here the troupe entertained 33200 Frankenstein drama and Godspell musical were the topdrawing attrac tions last season but director Learning says no one category has beeh the main attraction over the years REPERTORY CHANGES Every season we try to in troduce the audience to new types of plays Two years ago it was Shakespeare last year it was School for Scandal and this year its The Servant of No Masters which opened the 1976 season The theatre will also put on The Diary of Anne Frank the Londonproduced comedy Relatively Speaking the drama Wait Until Dark Neil Simons Last of the Red Hot Lovers and the return of Godspell Mr Learning and playwright Alden Nowlan coauthors of the 1975 Frankenstein play have teamed up to write The Dollar Woman an insight in to New Brunswick slavery It gets its premiere in Oc tober Selecting crosssection of plays is not easy the theatre is not exempt from current inflationary conditions It is highly labor intensive business with salaries accounting for 75 to 80 per cent of costs says Mr Learning Raw materials for sets had also increased especially wood and canvas We used to be able to buy yard of canvas for 70 to 90 cents Last year we couldnt get it for under $175raif we could getit So Mr Learning has to call for economies He is deter mined not to go the way of other theatrical groups and run deficit The theatre has not been in the red in its history Instead of choosing lavish productions re airing many set changes an large casts he has chosen to produce highcalibre works that keep the size of set and cast in pro portion to finances That meant no production this year of an American play to coincide with the US bicentennial celebrations New Brunswick audiences Backing longshots DUBLIN CP Canadians holding tickets on horses en tered in Saturdays running of the Lincoln Handicap at Don caster England found them selves backing longshots following Thursdays ticket draw No Canadians had tickets drawn on the top three early line favoritesGolden Aim to Bell Tent 10 to or Halicas 12tol Galiano at 14401 will carry the hopes of three Canadians Their tickets were identified as XKK4651 Jack Mann Vancouver XGA56850 TE Potts Hantsport NS XTM06490 Van der Lans Saskatoon Rhodomantade and Yams adori both made early 20to1 favorites together carry the hopes four other Canadians First prize is 75000 second 20000 and third £110000 Based on the current exchange rate holders of tickets on the top three finishers will receive about $142500 $38000 and $19 000respectively Holders of tickets on starters or horses out of the money are assured of about $1000 each News quiz answers PART 1c 2Garry Unger 3lonald Macdonald Saskatchewan 51abor PART II ld 2a 3c 4e Sb PART III le 2d 1121 5h PICTURE QUIZ Anwar Sadat will have to wait for another year perhaps to see Eugene ONeills Ah Wilderness It needs cast of 18 Still TNB will offer seven productions this year five of which will go on the road The season will be paid for by $135000 Canada Council grant plus ticket sales he hopes will top the magic mark of $200000 The theatre also hopes for pro vincial government grant city of Fredericton grant and $185000 from the Beaver brook Canadian Foundation Full staff for Alouettes MONTREAL CP Mon treal Alouettes rounded out their coaching staff for the 1976 Canadian Football League sea son with the appointment Fri day of Richard Dick Roach from Washington State Univer sity as defensive coordinator Roach 43 replaces friend Rod Rust who left the Alouet tes this month to accept an assistants job with Phila delphia Eagles of the National Football League The an nouncement of Roachs ap pointment was made at news conference by Bob Geary general manager of the Alouet tes Roach began his college coaching career as graduate assistant at the University of Wyoming in 1958 From 1960 un til 1964 he headed high school teams in South Dakota but re turned to college ranks as de fensive coordinator at Mon tana State University from 1966 101969 In addition Roach served as defensive line coach at Oregon State in 1970 before moving on for threeyear stint at the University of Wyoming OPEN SUNDAY SHOPPERS DRUG MART PRESCRIPTIONS DAILY mm to 10 EVERY SUNDAY 11 AM to RM us Wellington ma The Barrie Examiner Saturday March 27 197619 CROWN HILL By VIOLA DUNSMORE At the March meeting of Crown Hill Womens Institute Mrs Ed Sutton Agriculture and Canadian Industries Con vener introduced 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