Crusader Rabbit was the first cartoon show I can remember. As it turns out it was the first TV cartoon show. Alex Anderson had the idea of taking cartoons out of the movie theaters and putting 'limited animation' on this new-fangled thing called television. Jay Ward (who went on to produce other shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle) produced 5 minute black and white shorts. Anderson wrote the scripts and each show ended in a cliff hanger As the studio grew other talented artists were added, gifted animators, wonderful voices and talented writers, which really made the cartoon what is was.
I won't go into the legal battles over the control of the 'toon'. But the two men responsible for the creation of Crusader Rabbit lost control of their property. They were the pioneers of TV cartoons and somebody else with head not heart bought them out.
The version I watched was produced by 'TV Spot' later in1957. I still remember Crusader Rabbit ever since I was little. When someone finally gave me a copy of the cartoon, I was shocked how little motion was actually in the animation. There was a lot of zooming in on still shots. But my little 6 year old eyes must have filled in what wasn't there and changed the memory into this marvelous animation. I love that cartoon, the music, the story and the animation.
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