Hey everyone! I never talked about it on Newgrounds, but I wanna talk about it for the first time!
So, back in the days at DIC Entertainment on 1982, there was a bumbling and helpful inspector called Gadget. Inspector Gadget. The series was well known to be one of DiC's first cartoons to be made for American audiences, but can be also be viewable on France. But before that, there was 'The Littles', one of their first cartoons to be made for american audiences. But did you know there were 2 unknown cartoons that were also made by DIC Entertainment before Gadget even existed? Well, that is the topic for today's news post: DiC's Forgotten Cartoons!
DiC Entertainment was an animation (but sometimes live-action) studio formed in 1971 as OSAP and as a division of RTL Group. They were known for doing some memorable cartoons such as the infamous Nintendo adaptations, Inspector Gadget, The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the Archie adaptation, and many others. On 1978, DiC's first cartoon was starting to begin in production in co-production with Antenne 2. On 1979, production has finished and never aired until March 1980 on Antenne 2 as time fillers during commercial breaks. It's called 'Cro et Bronto', also known as 'El Cro y el Bronto' in Spain. Below is the title card for the cartoon.
This was notable for being DiC's first animated series and in similar fasion to movie theaters playing cartoons before a movie as fillers, it was played on French TV's as time fillers during commercials and was a co production with Antenne 2. It's about a funny caveman named Cro and his backfiring attempts to catch Bronto. This is similar to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, but with a caveman and a brontosaurus. There are only 23 shorts resurfaced on the internet so check the shorts out by clicking on this RuTube link:
https://rutube.ru/search/?query=Cro%20et%20Bronto
The series is also notable for being the introduction of Space Goofs and Oggy and the Cockroahces creator Jean-Yves Raimbaud, who worked on DiC as an animator and taught himself how to do cartoons. He later worked with Xilam Multimedia to created the Space Goofs and the ever popular Oggy and the Cockroaches cartoon series of shorts in both 1997 and 1998. Now, here are some screenshots of the currently resurfaced shorts, founded by Le Pays du Manga.
'BOULDER' (on YouTube):
'UNDER THE SEA':
I will make that face seen in here as my profile picture. X-D
'AIRPLANE':
This animation was reused two times. I forgot to add is that the series has too much reused animation! Especially Bronto's walk cycle!
I will later edit this one to take a look at Archibald the Magic Dog, DiC's second cartoon series of shorts and the first (and only series) to not have their logo and the first to be a major collaboration. Stay tuned! :-D
(C) Asael Polanco
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