keyleedaud (REAL ESTATE)

Run, don't walk, over to the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive, where they have a complete Jim Tyer storyboard for an unproduced Terrytoon called Blood is Thicker Than Water . The material includes the script and you can see how Tyer broke it down. Some of the drawings are in blue pencil and others are finished, such as the drawing above. The writer, whoever he was, clearly had Song of the South in mind. Two of the Uncle Remus stories are referenced here, the tar baby and the "born and bred in the briar patch" sequence. The ending of the Terrytoon is forced, but Tyer's great, cartoony drawings are so much fun to look at that they make up for the story the same way his animation saved the finished cartoons.

At Ralph Bakshi's website , there is a podcast where he remembers his time at Terrytoons in the 1950s when the studio was being run by Gene Deitch. Also mentioned are R. O. Blechman, Jules Feiffer, Connie Rasinski, Mannie Davis, Art Bartsch, Dave Tendlar and Jim Tyer. There are photos and artwork to accompany the podcast.