History Creator / Terrytoons

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In 1999, there was an attempt to revive the Terrytoons characters at Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}--''Curbside'' was a pilot for a proposed animated series which parodied the talk-show genre starring WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle as the hosts with a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] Dinky Duck as co-host. Due to the fact that it has never seen the light of television, its evidence of existence can only be attributed in an animation highlight right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0iSafDyjOI here]], but the finished project has been uploaded on Website/YouTube (as an unlisted video) in 2012 which can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQZ-uu93p00 here]].

* Hector Heathcote

* SceneryPorn: TerryToons, surprisingly, have some of the most beautiful background art of all the Golden Age cartoons, with gorgeous composition, and beautiful rendering and color styling. Even their B&W films have slick, attractive looking backdrops, but the stunning backgrounds ''really'' become obvious once the studio started making color cartoons ("String Bean Jack", their first color cartoon in 1938, perfectly demonstrates this, with very atmospheric, rich backdrops, and amazing perspective work).

One of the more obscure yet prolific studios from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, Terrytoons was an animation studio with a close relationship with Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, who handled distribution of the cartoons throughout much of its history[[note]]Fox was the only studio in Hollywood who did not have an in-house cartoon department, relying solely on the third-party Terrytoons to fill the hole[[/note]]. It was founded by former Creator/{{Van Beuren|Studios}} employee Paul Terry. It produced classic cartoon serials such as WesternAnimation/MightyMouse and WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle.

One of the more obscure yet prolific studios from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, Terrytoons was the animation division of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. It was founded by former Creator/{{Van Beuren|Studios}} employee Paul Terry. It produced classic cartoon serials such as WesternAnimation/MightyMouse and WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle.

* StockFootage: As early as their 1933 Robin Hood short, there is an [[AnimationBump impressively animated staircase moving in perspective]] that was reusued several times throughout the series, even popping up in at least one of the 1940's shorts.

* DependingOnTheArtist: The shorts fast production schedule and low budgets ironically allowed the animators much more leeway in getting their individual styles into the cartoons. Jim Tyer's scenes in particular are so distinct from the other animators that they can be spotted in a heartbeat.

* RecycledScript: A lot of the shorts.

** It didn't last long. Bill Weiss took over the studio after Terry sold it to CBS, and he wasn't warm to the idea of Terrytoons becoming a rennaisance animation house. It was said he wanted Deitch fired from day one, so after Deitch did leave, Weiss chose to fall back on the same old same old, only on TV budgets.

One of the more obscure yet prolific studios from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, '''''Terrytoons''''' was the animation division of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. It was founded by former Creator/{{Van Beuren|Studios}} employee Paul Terry. It produced classic cartoon serials such as WesternAnimation/MightyMouse and WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle.

In 1999, there was an attempt to revive the Terrytoons characters at Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}--''Curbside'' was a pilot for a proposed animated series which parodied the talk-show genre starring WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle as the hosts with a [[gender-flipped GenderFlip]] Dinky Duck as co-host. Due to the fact that it has never seen the light of television, its evidence of existence can only be attributed in an animation highlight right [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0iSafDyjOI here]], but the finished project has been uploaded on Website/YouTube (as an unlisted video) in 2012 which can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQZ-uu93p00 here]].

The animation was helter skelter, but it had its merits: from the beginning it was [[BuffySpeak cartoony]] and lively, and the cartoons had good pacing and crisp visual jokes. Jim Tyer and Carlo Vinci in particular made some creative, wild animation in these shorts, which helped contribute to their popularity back when they were popular.

This was the debut studio of ''five'' major animation stars: [[NoteworthyDisneyStaff Bill Tytla and Art Babbitt of Disney fame]], Creator/FrankTashlin before he became a director on WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, Joseph Barbera of Creator/HannaBarbera before he went to {{MGM}}, and Creator/RalphBakshi, who joined the studio in [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation its twilight years.]]

One of the more obscure yet prolific studios from TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, '''''Terrytoons''''' was the animation division of Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. It was founded by former Creator/{{Van Beuren|Studios}} employee Paul Terry. It produced classic cartoon serials such as WesternAnimation/MightyMouse and WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle.

Terry himself didn't care how these cartoons were drawn or animated as long as the animators met their quota. There were and are many, many cartoons from this studio, but most of them (even the good ones) haven't gotten much airtime since the end of TheDarkAgeOfAnimation.

This was the debut studio of ''five'' major animation stars: [[NoteworthyDisneyStaff Bill Tytla and Art Babbitt of Disney fame]], Creator/FrankTashlin before he became a director on WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, Joseph Barbera of Creator/HannaBarbera before he went to {{MGM}}, and Creator/RalphBakshi, who joined the studio in [[TheDarkAgeOfAnimation its twilight years.]]

* DerangedAnimation: Any scene done by Jim Tyer, arguably Terry's top animator.

This was the debut studio of ''four'' major animation stars: [[NoteworthyDisneyStaff Bill Tytla and Art Babbitt of Disney fame]], Joseph Barbera of Creator/HannaBarbera before he went to {{MGM}}, and Creator/RalphBakshi, who joined the studio in [[TheDarkAgeOfAnimation its twilight years.]]

CinderellaCircumstances: Sad Cat is forced to slave for his two mean brothers, Latimore and Fenimore.

These cartoons were also a big influence on anime legend OsamuTezuka.

->"[[SelfDeprecation Disney is the Tiffany's in this business, and I am the Woolworth's.]]"

* AmbiguouslyGay: Gandy Goose, mainly due to his giddy, childish personality and for hanging around with the cantankerous Sourpuss, even sharing the same bed bunk in several cartoons. This element of the duo was recognized enough to be parodied in ''MightyMouseTheNewAdventures''.

* BigDamnHeroes: Their headlining star, MightyMouse, makes this his stock and trade.

This was the debut studio of ''four'' major animation stars: [[NoteworthyDisneyStaff Bill Tytla and Art Babbitt of Disney fame]], Joseph Barbera of HannaBarbera before he went to {{MGM}}, and Creator/RalphBakshi, who joined the studio in [[TheDarkAgeOfAnimation its twilight years.]]

* Comic/{{Nancy}} (1942-1943): The studio made two shorts based on the classic comic, "School Daze" and "Doing Their Bit".

* {{Nancy}} (1942-1943): The studio made two shorts based on the classic comic, "School Daze" and "Doing Their Bit".

* LimitedAnimation: One of the most prominent and early users of this.