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Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:53 pm

This 1959-60 series was probably the chintziest cartoon ever made for television. The animation was extremely limited, and it used a primitive special effect called "Synchro-Vox" to superimpose live action human mouths speaking the dialogue over nearly immobile drawings. To further hold down costs, still photo backgrounds were used in many scenes, and film footage of air and sea battles was repurposed from old movies that had fallen out of copyright.

Li'l Jay · 28 May 2006

That was the cartoon on the TV screen in Pulp Fiction when Bruce Willis's girlfriend was hanging out at the hotel.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59410

This was on TV when I was a kid. My brother and I thought it was hilarious.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59410

I found this in relation to Clutch Cargo. It's bizarre, and due to the language used (and the ending) it's NSFW.

Its a YouTube clip of the following...

YouTube wrote:

On a late-November evening in 1987, two Chicago television stations were victims of a broadcast signal intrusion.

After a brief intrusion during the sports report on WGN's 9:00 news, a later broadcast on channel 11 - PBS affiliate: WTTW - of the Doctor Who episode "Horror of Fang Rock" was interrupted by a man wearing a Max Headroom mask. The crazed person uttered mostly gibberish, crudely slammed the Chicago Tribune and its subsidiaries (WGN being one of them), and finally dropped his pants and was spanked by what appears to be a child with a flyswatter. 90-seconds later, the program returned to normal. To this day, he has never been caught.

Spoiler: show

At one point, the masked man hums the theme music from Clutch Cargo.

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

Li'l Jay wrote:

That was the cartoon on the TV screen in Pulp Fiction when Bruce Willis's girlfriend was hanging out at the hotel.

Actually, it's the one on TV when Christopher Walken shows up to give young Butch the watch that his dad wore up his ass.

That meddlin kid · 26 Mar 2007

I've heard of it before. I now realize that it's one of those things you've just got to see to really understand what folks were talking about. An animated cartoon with no actual animation!

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