Saturday, July 1, 2023

Behind the Scenes: The Making of Motormouse and Autocat for Our YouTube Channel


Motormouse and Autocat
 
is a made-for-TV cartoon that William Hanna and Joseph Barbera produced for their company, Hanna-Barbera. It ran in 1969 to 1971 as a segment under Cattanooga Cats, with a total of 34 episodes airing on ABC, with the remaining eighteen episodes being paired up with the It's the Wolf shorts for the Motormouse
program. Each episode followed took place at an auto repair shop called Spin-Your-Wheels Garage, where a hired mouse-catching cat named Autocat chases the cleaver motorcycling mouse, Motormouse.

When we started creating characters for our YouTube channel, the whole cast were in the first lineup we did for modeling, we made them as they were part of HB's history, I did the modeling work for Autocat's head.

The first Motormouse and Autocat story we produced for the channel, titled "Motorly Are We?," which was written by me. Not sure on if we still have the original storyboard. The plot followed Autocat chasing Motormouse. The second story, titled "Check Your Motor, Mouse," which was also written by me, involved Autocat chasing Motormouse once more. In the final story, "What's the Motor, Mouse?," which also was written by me, also had Autocat chasing Motormouse.

We are still in the process of writing more Motormouse and Autocat stories, as well as other Hanna-Barbera stories that you may see in the future. However, we haven't written a Motormouse and Autocat story in a while as of 2023, but I hope we can create more in the near future.

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