Jun 23, 2011

"Car" Lost Episode-

Pixar's Cars is preceded in animation history by such shorts as Warner Bros. Streamline Greta Green (1937), Tex Avery's One Cabs Family (1952), and even Disney's Susie The Little Blue Coupe (1952). But I grew up watching a boring Automobile Club pedestrian safety film called The Talking Car, which my gym class ran endlessly on rainy days. Some future rainy day I'll subject you to the original ten-minute 1955 black and white version I was routinely tortured with. For now, I just found an embed to the equally bad, sixteen-minute long, 1969 color remake with Brian Forster (The Partridge Family) as “Jimmy”, voices by Hal Smith and some very cool vintage Burbank locations.

(Don't forget to “See and Be Seen”)