{"id":435,"date":"2004-03-20T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T21:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=435"},"modified":"2004-03-20T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2004-03-20T21:06:17","slug":"hunting-for-a-lost-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2004\/03\/20\/hunting-for-a-lost-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting for a lost cartoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found one today.<\/a><\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

An offhand web search this morning informed me that there were actually three of these cartoons, and led me to LikeTelevision.com<\/a>. 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…<\/p>\n

Wow!<\/p>\n

It didn’t take long to download the third Red Lantern cartoon, <\/a>which was waiting online. Now it’s just a matter of tracking down the first two…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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