I need to know.How much did making CLutch Cargo cost per episode???
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According to Wikipedia:
Because of budgetary limitations and the pressure to create television animation within a tight time frame, the show was the first to use the ';Syncro-Vox'; optical printing system. Syncro-Vox was invented by television cameraman, and partner in Cambria Studios, Edwin Gillette (1909-2003) as a means of superimposing real human mouths on the faces of animals for the popular ';talking animal'; commercials of the 1950s. Clutch Cargo employed the Syncro-Vox technique by superimposing live-action human lips over limited-motion animation or even motionless animation cels.
To further cut costs, Gillette and special-effects man, Scotty Tomany supplemented Syncro-Vox with other time- and money-saving tricks. Haas explained, ';We are not making animated cartoons. We are photographing 'motorized movement' and-- the biggest trick of all-- combining it with live action. This enables us to produce film at about one-fifth what it costs Hanna and Barbera. Footage that Disney does for $250,000 we do for $18,000.';
Man, just thinking about this show again gives me the heebee jeebees. I would have gladly paid them however much it would have cost for them to animate the mouths.
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