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Robert Clampett's "Beany and Cecil"
The Seasick Sea Serpent, Bugs Bunny, and The Brontosaurus 
Be sure to visit the Officicial Bob Clampett Website. www.bobclampett.com
All Beany and Cecil stuff is Copyright 1999,2000 Bob Clampett Productions, LLC. All rights reserved. It is incorporated here as part of a review
Dinosaurs
- Brontosaurus
- Cecil The Seasick Sea Serpent
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Cecil was made by Daws Butler's wife Myrtis. She designed and sewed the first Cecil puppet from their son's green pajama leg. Daws, by the way, was the original voice of Beany. He did lots of voices for radio shows and later for many Hanna-Barbera TV shows like Huckleberry Hound.
Here's how the Brontosaurus looked in the movie when he was growling.
The Brontosaurus growls at a crowd in London.and here is how Cecil looked:
Cecil doesn't have as many teeth as the dinosaur.Cecil's voice as well as the voice of Dishonest John (the villain) was done by Stan Freberg who became a very famous comedian.
On February 28, 1949, 2 years after Bob Clampett left Warner Brothers, Time for Beany premiered on Paramount's KTLA-TV studios in Hollywood as a 15 minute a day, 5 day a week, 52 week a year puppet show. Time for Beany was extremely popular, almost as popular as Howdy Doody (one of the original children's television shows.)
The show had many famous fans: Lionel Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford, Groucho Marx and Albert Einstein. There is a story (which may even be true!) that Einstein once left an important meeting of scientists just before 5 o'clock because he did not want to miss the day's Time for Beany adventure.
Time for Beany was taken off the air in 1955, but Bob Clampett brought it back in 1958 as an animated cartoon.
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