| Gabby | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Story by | Joseph E. Stultz Dan Gordon Bob Wickersham Pinto Colvig Jack Ward Carl Meyer |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Starring | Pinto Colvig Jack Mercer Margie Hines |
| Music by | Sammy Timberg |
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Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | October 18, 1940 — August 15, 1941 |
Running time | 6–7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Gabby is a short-lived Max Fleischer animated cartoon series distributed through Paramount Pictures. Gabby debuted as the town crier in the 1939 animated feature Gulliver’s Travels produced by Fleischer. Shortly afterward, Paramount and Fleischer gave Gabby his own Technicolor spinoff cartoon series, eight entries of which were produced between 1940 and 1941.[1] Gabby was voiced by Pinto Colvig, the voice of Walt Disney's Goofy, and Grumpy and Sleepy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Jack Mercer (the voice of Popeye and King Little, Sneak, Snoop, Snitch, and Twinkle Toes in Gulliver’s Travels) was regularly cast alongside Colvig, as either a king, mayor, snitch, fish, castle worker, fire fighter, or sometimes even as Gabby's humming.
The Gabby cartoons were sold to U.M. & M. TV Corporation in 1955, which later became part of National Telefilm Associates, which became Republic Pictures, and was then sold to Paramount's current parent ViacomCBS (now currently renamed and rebranded as Paramount Global) in 1999. Today, the Gabby cartoons are in the public domain. For official releases, the cartoons are currently syndicated on television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media (inherited from CBS Television Distribution and other companies), original distributor Paramount owns the theatrical rights, and Olive Films owns the DVD rights. However, most Gabby cartoons can be found in faded public domain television prints, usually featuring National Telefilm Associates openings.
Filmography
| # | Title | Date | Animation | Story | Musical arrangement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King for a Day | October 18, 1940 | Willard Bowsky James Davis |
Joseph E. Stultz | Sammy Timberg |
| 2 | The Constable | November 15, 1940 | Bill Nolan George Germanetti |
Dan Gordon | |
| 3 | All's Well | January 17, 1941 | David Tendlar William Nolan |
Bob Wickersham | |
| 4 | Two for the Zoo | February 21, 1941 | James Culhane Alfred Eugster |
Pinto Colvig | |
| 5 | Swing Cleaning | April 11, 1941 | Willard Bowsky Arnold Gillespie |
Bob Wickersham | |
| 6 | Fire Cheese | June 20, 1941 | Steve Muffati Joe Oriolo |
Jack Ward | |
| 7 | Gabby Goes Fishing | July 18, 1941 | Orestes Calpini Otto Feuer |
Carl Meyer | |
| 8 | It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day | August 15, 1941 | Orestes Calpini Irving Spector |
Bob Wickersham |
References
- ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 83. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
External links
- Gabby at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 31, 2016.
- Gabby at The Big Cartoon DataBase
- The short film Gabby Goes Fishing (1941) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
- The short film Gabby: Fire Cheese (1941) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
- The short film Gabby: All's Well (1941) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
- The short film Swing Cleaning (1941) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.