Friday, January 31, 2014
Terrytoons Mighty Mouse background Artwork
Introduced as Super Mouse by Paul Terrys animation studios in 1942, there were exactly seven animated theatrical shorts before they decided to change the main character to Mighty Mouse, with the short The Wreck of the Hesperus in 1944. Between 1942 and 1961 eighty theatrical shorts were produced by Terrys studio, which was sold to CBS in 1955, making it possible for them to air the animated shorts on Television. In 1945 the short Gypsy Life was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to MGMs Tom & Jerry in Quiet Please! Production numbers for every short are mentioned in the top left corner of the artwork. The corresponding scene numbers for every background are mentioned in top right corners.
From Eliza on the Ice, June 16, 1944. Story by John Foster and directed by Connie Rasinski:
From The Green Line, July 7, 1944:
From Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll And Hyde Cat, April 28, 1944:
Two backgrounds from At the Circus, November 17, 1944:
Two backgrounds from Mighty Mouse and the Pirates, January 12, 1945:
Three backgrounds from The Port of Missing Mice, Februari 2, 1945:
From The Wicked Wolf, March 8 1946:
Four backgrounds from The Jailbreak, September 20, 1946. In this short directed by Eddie Donnelly, Bad Bill Bunion escapes from Alcatraz and Mighty Mouse is the only one who can capture him again:
Three backgrounds from The Crackpot King, November 15, 1946:
From Aladdins Lamp, March 28, 1947:
From The First Snow, October 10, 1947:
Three backgrounds from A Fight to the Finish, November 14, 1947:
Below, two backgrounds from Swiss Cheese Family Robinson, released on December 19. 1947. In this short, directed by Mannie Davis, a family of mice float at sea on a raft of cheese that grows smaller each day as they eat it to survive. Mighty Mouse saves them after they land on a remote island that appears to be inhabited by cats who want to enjoy them as a feast. The second background is from the final scenes, when the island has become a successful tourist spot. It included a ride-along with rotating ponies, moving roller coaster cars and a moving ferris wheel (you can see the base on the background right).
From The Witchs Cat, July 15, 1948:
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