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TheDeepArchives Animation / Fine Art Gallery specializing in RARE and OBSCURE AnimationFOR MORE INFORMATION call or email ABC TELEVISION SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK VERB: THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING GRAMMAR ROCK Item Type : Rare Original Animation PRODUCTION CEL and MATCHING DRAWING of the VERB MAN taking off in his boat from the 1973 SATURDAY MORNING Children's Classic SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK; VERB THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING . From GRAMMAR ROCK on ABC Television; created by TOM YOHE and GEORGE NEWELL. Animation produced by PHIL KIMMELMAN AND ASSOCIATES.SPOT: VERBSize: 12 Field 12.5 x 10.5Condition: GOOD Featuring: THE VERBMAN in his BOAT Circa 1973 PRODUCTION CEL and MATCHING DRAWINGcomes with a laser print background of WATER and WORD BOAT Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on U.S. television network ABC . Topics covered include grammar , science , economics , history , mathematics , and politics . The series aired between 1973 and 1986, and infrequently during the 1990s and 2000s, with new shows created between 1993 and 1996 until its cancellation by ABC in 2001 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 ," written by Bob Dorough . It tested well, so a children's record was compiled and released. Tom Yohe listened to the first song, and began to doodle pictures to go with the lyrics. He told McCall that the 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 , then vice-president 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 had 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.A 1987 production of the series for VHS tape featured Cloris Leachman opening the collection and some songs with child dancers and singers but "Three Ring Government," "The Good Eleven" and "Little Twelve Toes" were not included on the videos. [ 1] [2 ]In the 1990s, the team reunited to produce Money Rock and two more Grammar Rock segments ("Busy Prepositions" and "The Tale of Mr. Morton"). JACK SHELDON Jack Sheldon (born November 30 , 1931 ) is an American bebop and West Coast jazz trumpeter , singer , and actor . He is probably best remembered as a trumpet player and comedian on " The Merv Griffin Show ". His role expanded after Griffin's sidekick, Arthur Treacher, left the show.Jack Sheldon is the subject of an award winning feature documentary, Trying to Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008). Produced by Doug McIntyre & Penny Peyser , the film features interviews with Clint Eastwood , Billy Crystal , Merv Griffin , Chris Botti , Dave Frishberg , Johnny Mandel , Tierney Sutton and many more, as well as nev... read more

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