Here's another long one (22 minutes) that you probably won't want to watch in full but might want to sample. It's We Learn About the Telephone, a 1965 educational film for kids featuring animation by John Hubley. Most of the voices were done by Mel Blanc with a few by Paul Frees. This probably means Mel did them all, a few had to be redone for some reason and Mel wasn't available to come back and do them so they called in Paul.
The film was produced by Jerry Fairbanks and someone oughta do a big article somewhere about all the films and TV shows produced by Jerry Fairbanks including the Speaking of Animals film shorts and the Crusader Rabbit cartoon show. It was directed by Jean Yarbrough, who directed hundreds of TV shows and movies, including an awful lot of both with Abbott and Costello.
In the live-action segments, the father is played by Wright King, who some of you will recall from a couple of appearances on the original Twilight Zone. The boy is Pat Cardi, a kid actor on lots of TV shows of the sixties. He got out of that line of work and under his birth name of Pat Cardamone, he became a major producer of infomercials and educational films — kinda like some of what Jerry Fairbanks did. Cardamone is probably most famous for having invented MovieFone. The girl is Pam Ferdin (her name is misspelled in the end credits) who was the daughter in half the sitcoms of the sixties and seventies, including The Paul Lynde Show and The Odd Couple, and she was the voice of Lucy in many a Charlie Brown special. She is now an activist for animal rights.
And that's about all you need to know except that I have to thank Scott Marinoff for calling this to my attention…
