I found one today.
I can’t remember when I first saw this cartoon’s close “relative” — and I saw it in black and white. It involved two kids, Billy and Isabel, and their meeting with a wonderful fish, Red Lantern, guardian of the Land of the Lost under the sea, “to which all lost things make their way.” Only much later did I find that these cartoons were derived from a 1940’s radio serial (Art Carney was apparently the voice of Red Lantern on radio).
An offhand web search this morning informed me that there were actually three of these cartoons, and led me to LikeTelevision.com. This site has assembled a big library of old TV — classic cartoons, SF, classic TV (Jack Benny, Bonanza, Burns & Allen, Dragnet, etc.), movies, TV history (pick a day…) and toy commercials. All are available for viewing / download, and this is all on the up-and-up: make them a PayPal payment and save an .MPG of something you haven’t seen in a long, long while…
Wow!
It didn’t take long to download the third Red Lantern cartoon, which was waiting online. Now it’s just a matter of tracking down the first two…
