Great minds think alike and so do Jerry Beck's and mine. Last Saturday, I wrote this item recalling a great cartoon special that Bill "Jose Jiminez" Dana wrote and appeared in. Right after I'd posted it but before he'd seen it, Jerry phoned to get some info for a posting he was readying for his fine blog, Cartoon Brew, about another Jose Jiminez cartoon. An odd synchronicity.
Jerry's post is now up on his blog (which has a spiffy new design, by the way) and it includes a link to a video of a 1966 Jose cartoon made but barely released by the Paramount cartoon studio in its dying throes. As I've mentioned in the past here several times, I'm a big fan of Mr. Dana's but it's easy to see why this short didn't prompt a demand for more.
Still, you might wind it worth a peek…and as I mentioned, Dana's big collaboration with Hanna-Barbera — Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? — runs on Boomerang later this month. So I think Jerry's right to hail Jose Jiminez as a Forgotten Cartoon Legend. He's also a Forgotten Legend of the Space Program. You almost never hear him mentioned when they talk about the great astronauts.