Huck Finn

 Dear blog,

I finished a book just yesterday about the adventures of Huck Finn.. Also a book from my moms closet. 

No it's not the original book with Huck and Jim, (from 1884 -1885) but more or less some kind of more 'younger childrens audience appropriatie' spin off on his adventures. This book is mostly based on the 'new adventures of Huck Finn'.. an animated series from Hanna-Barbara from the 1960's. 

When looking for the episodes it's only series had only 20 episodes and ran from 1968 till 1969. When looking up those particular episodes (as written down in the book - mind you DUTCH ) the text do not match any of the prescribed tv episodes. And have other outcomes storiewise then on the tv show (as if this makes any sense?)

Maybe, just maybe.. the story in this book is somewhat loosely based on the episodes 4 'the little people'  and 5. 'Pirate Island'. Mostly with the characters in it that are also repicted in the book. 

Well - I guess H and B have taken ideas from Disney cos the whole adventures are in the animated world. There are pictures from 3 young teens everywhere in the book. It was recently i discovered this was from a tv show. 

here to find more info about it:

New adventures of Huck Finn (on IMDB)

New adventures of Huck Finn (on WIKI)

About filming:

The live actors' scenes were filmed in front of a royal blue backdrop (an early forerunner to the modern-day CGI green screen) and the cartoon background and characters were animated in later.^[10] Working with a technology still in its infancy, the young cast was required to master the art of engaging in conversational exchanges without having their animated co-stars to interact with. Shea recalled, "Injun Joe, for instance, was a cartoon character, so when I had to talk to him, I'd run my eyes slowly up the blue screen until the director told me to stop. Then I'd just try to remember where that point on the screen was."^[10] Since the voice actors would not record their audio tracks until after principal filming was completed, character actor Bruce Watson, whom Shea described as "the greatest dialogue coach in the world", would perform the lines of all the animated characters during filming for the live-action stars to interact with.^[15][10] Each episode reportedly took approximately 4 hours to film and six months to animate.^[6][10]

CAST:

• Ted Cassidy as Injun Joe (famously known for being LURCH on the original 'Adams FAMLIY!
• Michael Shea as Huckleberry Finn (acted till 1984 - where are they now? Retired from being in the Police Force/LAPD for years!
• LuAnn Haslam as Becky Thatcher -no acting credits after tvshow - (Retired from begin a math teacher - film teacher)
• Kevin Schultz as Tom Sawyer (acted till 1986 - went into photography) 

Some YT vids

                                        (intro tv show)

 series 1 put into dvd somewhere in 2016

Greetings

xxx

K.