Schoolhouse Rock NAUGHTY NUMBER NINE Animation Cel 1973

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TheDeepArchives ANIMATION / FINE ART GALLERYImportant Information about TheDeepArchives We are a FULL SERVICE Animation/Fine Art GalleryTo learn more about us check out EBAY STORE Email us at or call Original AUTHENTIC Animation Art From the ABC SATURDAY MORNING EDUCATIONAL SEGMENT SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK NAUGHTY NUMBER NINE DESCRIPTION: Original hand painted PRODUCTION CEL and DRAWING of the MOUSE. INCLUDES CLICK SOUND and the 4 and 9 Billard Balls. SIGNED By SHR Musical Director ComposerBOB DOROUGH NOTES : Hand Inked/Hand Painted: Produced in 1973 by Phil Kimmelman and Associates Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of 46 educational short films featuring songs about schoolhouse topics, including grammar , science , economics , history , and politics . Originally conceived by Thomas G. Yohe in 1972 , the shorts were broadcast on the ABC television network between 1973 and 1986 ; they were then broadcast infrequently during the 1990s and 2000s . An additional short, I'm Gonna Send Your Vote To College , was created for the 30th anniversary video release. Often viewed with nostalgia by members of Generation X , Schoolhouse Rock! has become part of American popular culture and has been frequently parodied. A detailed list of School House Rock! parodies can be found at the end of this article. The word "rock" is something of a misnomer, as only a few of the songs are in rock format (e.g., "Elementary, My Dear," "Conjunction Junction" and the progressive rock -like "Little Twelvetoes"), and the rest are either jazz (e.g., "I'm Just a Bill," "Naughty Number Nine," "Figure Eight") or are straight pop songs (e.g., "A Noun Is a Person, Place, or Thing," "Interjections!," "No More Kings"). AUCTION LOT:Original Animation Production Cel CHECK OUT OUR EBAY AUCTIONS ANIMATIONARCHIVE We have other ANIMATION Images listed on EBAY!Cel - Drawings - Animation Art Schoolhouse Rock! began as a commercial advertising venture by David McCall . The idea came to McCall when he noticed one of his sons, who was having trouble in school remembering the multiplication tables , knew the lyrics to many current rock songs. The first song recorded was "Three Is A Magic Number", by Bob Dorough . It tested well, so a children's record was compiled and released. Tom Yohe Sr. listened to the first song, and began to doodle pictures in relation to the lyrics. He informed McCall that these songs would make good animation. When a print workbook version fell through, McCall's company decided to produce their own animated versions of the songs, which they then sold to ABC (which already was McCall's company's biggest advertising account) based on a demo animation of the original "Three Is A Magic Number" for its Saturday morning lineup. They pitched their idea to Michael Eisner , who was at the time head of ABC's children's programming division. Eisner brought longtime Warner Bros. cartoonist/director Chuck Jones to the meeting to also listen to the presentation. The network's children's programming division made producers of its regular 30- and 60-minute programs cut three minutes out of each of their shows, and sold General Foods on the idea of sponsoring the segments. The series stayed on the air for 12 years. Later sponsors of the Schoolhouse Rock segments included Nabisco , Kenner Toys , Kellogg's , and McDonald's . The last of the original series were four segments about the then-novel personal computer technology. The shorts featured two characters by the name of Scooter Computer and Mister Chips, and so these were the only episodes in the series to feature any recurring characters read more

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