The Carnappers
Also known as: The Car Thief
- Studio
- Kayro Productions
- Animation studio
- Creston Studios
- Distributor
- Columbia Pictures Television
Synopsis
Welcome to the comic misadventures of Colonel Klaxon, a cool fox, and Calvin, a dim-witted bear.
Characters
Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, Calvin Burnside, Maggie Belle Klaxon, Susan Culpepper, Judge Oliver Wendell Clutch
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Charles McKimson, John Walker
Producing
- Producer
- Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
- Animation Producers
- Bob Ganon, Sam Nicholson, Gerald Ray
Voices
- Voice
- Freeman F. Gosden (Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon), Charles J. Correll (Calvin Burnside), Virginia Gregg (Maggie Belle Klaxon), Beatrice Kay (Susan Culpepper), Paul Frees (Judge Oliver Wendell Clutch)
Music
- Music
- George Bruns
Animation
- Supervising Animators
- Tom McDonald, Fred Madison, John Sparey, Bob Bemiller, Ben Washam, Volus Jones, Jim Davis, Harvey Toombs, C. L. Hartman
- Animator
- Buf Partch, Arch Lean, Bob Maxfield, Barbara Williams, Earl Combs, Casey Onaitis, Phil Roman, Barney Posner, Morey Golub, Tom McDonald Jr, Frank Andrina
- Layout
- Ellie Bogardus, Bob Gore, Bill Kohn, Al Hubbard
Art Department
- Art Director
- Norm Gottfredson
- Backgrounds
- Dave Weldman
- Ink and Paint
- Martha Buckley
Editing
- Editor
- Norman Vizents, Chuck McCann
Casting
- Recording Director
- Cliff Howell
Production Management
- Production Coordinator
- Dave Hoffman
- Production Executive
- Al Amatuzio
Crew
- Visual Adaption
- Lee Mishkin, Ed Levitt, David Hill
Companies and other credits
- Animation Produced By: Creston Studios
Production notes
Calvin and the Colonel is a thinly-disguised version of Amos and Andy, with the black human characters changed to a fox and a bear to avoid offense. In fact, Freeman F. Gosden (The Colonel) and Charles J. Correll (Calvin) portrayed Amos and Andy on the radio, as well as in a pair of Van Beuren Studios theatrical cartoons in 1934.
