
Directing
Connie Rasinski
Born — Died
1907-01-28 — 1965-10-13
Place of birth
Torrington, Connecticut, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
41 titles
Known for
7.0Heckle and Jeckle, the talking Magpies, are running rampant and causing much havoc in a supermarket mush to the dismay of the proprietor. Seveal wild chase ensue, with the store owner on the short end of most of them, until all three are caught inside of a giant soap bubble and carried skyward. The bubble bursts, and H & J are returned to the cartoonist's inkwell.
Satisfied Customers
1954
Papa Bear is off for a relaxing day of fishing at the lake, but he is followed by his little cubs, who proceed to make his day miserable. They catch more fish than he does and use unconventional ways to do it, and they are also responsible for him getting dunked in the water several times.
Little Anglers
1952
After a rainstorm ruins their picnic, Heckle & Jeckle make a wish on a wishbone that it will never rain again. Their wish only leads to a massive drought that dries up all of the water in the world. Realizing their mistake, the pair invent a makeshift helicopter and head for the clouds. They cause the clouds fight amongst themselves and rain is finally produced. The magpies return home to a hero's well-deserved- and wet- parade.
The Rainmakers
1951
In 'Trapeze Pleeze', bizarrely, Heckle and Jeckle operate a marital bureau and work as matchmakers.
Trapeze Pleeze
1960
Papa Bear, his cubs and the Hound Dog go duck hunting and, as usual, the experts (Papa and the dog) have nothing but misadventures, while the amateur hunters bag all the ducks. When Papa returns home, empty-handed, angry and frustrated, he throws the ammunition into the fireplace, followed by a barrage of bullets firing upward through the chimney and bringing down a flock of ducks that were flying overhead.
Duck Fever
1955
A favorite plot at the studio: a character running around the house being terrorized mostly by his own imagination. A sure-fire setup for freak-out animation by Jim Tyer, Carlo Vinci, Conrad "Connie" Rasinski (the director, after whose dog "Pago" was named) and Paul Sommer.
A Howling Success
1954
Film credits
Behind the camera
7.0Heckle and Jeckle, the talking Magpies, are running rampant and causing much havoc in a supermarket mush to the dismay of the proprietor. Seveal wild chase ensue, with the store owner on the short end of most of them, until all three are caught inside of a giant soap bubble and carried skyward. The bubble bursts, and H & J are returned to the cartoonist's inkwell.
Satisfied Customers
1954
Papa Bear is off for a relaxing day of fishing at the lake, but he is followed by his little cubs, who proceed to make his day miserable. They catch more fish than he does and use unconventional ways to do it, and they are also responsible for him getting dunked in the water several times.
Little Anglers
1952
After a rainstorm ruins their picnic, Heckle & Jeckle make a wish on a wishbone that it will never rain again. Their wish only leads to a massive drought that dries up all of the water in the world. Realizing their mistake, the pair invent a makeshift helicopter and head for the clouds. They cause the clouds fight amongst themselves and rain is finally produced. The magpies return home to a hero's well-deserved- and wet- parade.
The Rainmakers
1951
In 'Trapeze Pleeze', bizarrely, Heckle and Jeckle operate a marital bureau and work as matchmakers.
Trapeze Pleeze
1960
Papa Bear, his cubs and the Hound Dog go duck hunting and, as usual, the experts (Papa and the dog) have nothing but misadventures, while the amateur hunters bag all the ducks. When Papa returns home, empty-handed, angry and frustrated, he throws the ammunition into the fireplace, followed by a barrage of bullets firing upward through the chimney and bringing down a flock of ducks that were flying overhead.
Duck Fever
1955
A favorite plot at the studio: a character running around the house being terrorized mostly by his own imagination. A sure-fire setup for freak-out animation by Jim Tyer, Carlo Vinci, Conrad "Connie" Rasinski (the director, after whose dog "Pago" was named) and Paul Sommer.
A Howling Success
1954
Gandy Goose pulls a "Chicken Little," announcing that the sky is falling.
Doomsday
1938
In this Cinemascope Terrytoon, Spoofy is a zany little fox that comes to life on the animator's drawing board and subdues a western gunslinger with trick props and gadgets.
Gag Buster
1957
7.0Entry in the John Doormat series of shorts.
Topsy TV
1957
A Terrytoons cartoon released May 1950. With Gandy Goose and Sourpuss.
Dream Walking
1950
Gandy Goose inherits a wealthy estate, which turns out to be haunted.
Fortune Hunters
1946
Entrepreneurs Heckle & Jeckle are pursued throughout a building construction site by the bulldog watchman...
Steeple Jacks
1951
Sidney is counting coconuts and dreams of getting a job as a circus elephant. He soon applies for a job which requires him to use his memory – to count coconuts!
Home Life
1962
8.0Heckle and Jeckle see a seemingly helpless baby bird (who keeps saying he is only three years old) in danger as a cat is trying to capture it.
Cat Trouble
1947
The boys wake Deputy Dawg up: the tool shed's on fire. It burns before they can put it out. Then the city hall burns, too. The Sheriff warns Deputy: Form a new fire department made up of volunteers, or you will be out of a job.
Where There's Smoke
1962
10.0Gandy's Baseball team, composed mainly of fowl, takes on another made up of pigs.
Barnyard Baseball
1939
7.7We see a house cat next to an unoccupied birdcage as he pulls a canary feather out of his mouth. Hmm, I wonder what happened? Now he hangs up a sign: 'Songbirds Wanted'.
Taming the Cat
1948
A Sidney the Elephant short.
Peanut Battle
1962
Possible is practicing for a barn dance when he is told that Mr. General's barn is burning. They offer to rebuild it for free, but Hill the builder says that he's the only one who is allowed to build anything. They try to get by him, but he stops them at every turn.
Darn Barn
1965
Possible Possum hears there's a new barrel of dill pickles down to the general store, so he and his good buddies mosey on down the holler to the store. They strike a deal with the shopkeeper to bring down a load of goods from the train station in exchange for some o' them thar pickles. Now, you know Possible Possum ain't about to do no work, so they talk the bear into helping with an old railroad handcart, and o' course, they get into a heap o' trouble.
Freight Fright
1965
6.3Mighty Mouse encounters a Time Machine while trying to save pure-hearted Pearl Pureheart from the unwanted advances and clutches of the evil oily-villain, Oil Can Harry. After brief stops in 1620 and 1890, and ancient Egypt, Mighty Mouse finds himself in the prehistoric age of the dinosaurs. He mops up on Harry and the dinosaurs, proving he can take care of anyone, anyplace, anywhere at any time.
Prehistoric Perils
1952
8.0Two nutty little gnome-like men that look exactly alike, meet in the woods and proceed to hunt and fish and even attempt a duel with clumsy incompetence.
Ickle Meets Pickle
1942
8.0Dimwit the hound is going fishing. Heckle and Jeckle are roommates in this one, sharing a single large birdhouse. They taunt Dimwit for no particular reason, then try to steal his catch of fish.
Fishing by the Sea
1947
The adventures of Possible Possum and his swamp-bound friends.
Don't Burro Trouble
1968
8.0A rich woman on her way to a costume party thinks Gaston is a babysitter; Gaston thinks he's there to paint her child's picture. Gaston mistakes her husband, in costume, for the child, and takes extreme measures to make him sit still for his portrait.
Gaston's Baby
1958
A CinemaScope cartoon in which Clint Clobber, in his usual job as an apartment-house manager, is annoyed no end by a brat of a girl who seems determined to drive him out of his mind as she goes about wrecking the place. But, in the end, he finds out he needs her.
Old Mother Clobber
1958
8.0Gaston Le Crayon is a French (kind of beatnik-looking) artist who brings his artwork to life. He's doing a famous painting to be. Movie director Alfred Fitchcock moves in next door. Fitchcock is making a movie about a man stranded in the frozen Arctic. Gaston takes it seriously. He paints a toaster, stuffs the freezing man in it, and pops him out like a piece of toast. Gaston thinks that he's doing a good deed. Fitchcock is furious.
Gaston Is Here
1957
Hashimoto teaches his son gets a lesson in the history of aristocratic cats in the history of Japan.
Honorable Cat Story
1961
6.0A pirate cat has his eyes set on a beautiful island mouse princess. He and his fellow pirates kidnap the beautiful girl. When singing cat pirates decide to kill all the mice on board for the buried treasure, the natives call to Mighty Mouse for help. Singing his way from the skies, Mighty Mouse flies to the pirate ship, fights buccaneers to the death, and saves the young beauty. He returns her to her people, to their thunderous applause. Lots of opera singing in this one.
Mighty Mouse and the Pirates
1945
9.0Mom goes to the hospital and daddy is left at home to take care of the baby, and he has a terrible time feeding, bathing and changing him as disaster is the result of every thing he attempts. Finally, after hours of exhaustive work, the baby is asleep, and the father hears from the hospital that his wife has just made him the father of triplets. He then goes outside and starts shoot of the passing storks.
Daddy's Little Darling
1957
The adventures of Possible Possum and his swamp-bound friends.
Slinky Mink
1970
9.3Hashimoto tells his friend G.I. Joe about the Invisible Mouse.
House of Hashimoto
1960
A Terrytoons cartoon of 1959 with Gaston le Crayon
Gaston’s Mama Lisa
1959
Astronut arrives on Earth, insists on trading his spaceship for the Sheriff's car, and wont take no for an answer.
Astronut
1963
Answering a call for dogs to contribute to the war effort and join the "W.O.O.F.S." a small white puppy falls in with the others at a training facility manned by Gandy and Sourpuss. To clean them up, Gandy removes their fleas with a vacuum cleaner labeled "Flea Internment Camp". While the rest go through exercises and drilling, the puppy isn't big enough, so he's washed out. Moping around the beach, he sees a German submarine land and three fat pig Nazis emerge, one looking like Hitler. The pup alerts Sourpuss and the dogs, and a shootout ensues, the Nazis holed up in a shack. They toss out a bomb, but our hero tosses it back, blowing up the structure, and leaving the pigs as three hams with a swastika imprints. The pooch is truly patriotic, and gets a flag-waving medal ceremony.
Patriotic Pooches
1943
A Terrytoons cartoon released 12 April 1946.
It's All in the Stars
1946
5.5In one of the great (hooray!)spoiler titles of all time, this version of the Hare vs. Tortoise fable finds the contest being done on ice skates between teams of rabbits and turtles, and the turtles cheat like crazy...and, since the title tells all, I suppose it's okay to mention the plodders win again.
The Tortoise Wins Again
1946
9.0The Cheeseville Cat Defense is ruthlessly efficient at keeping cats out of the city, so the cats trick Mighty Mouse into luring them out.
Cat Alarm
1961
In the land of Wicky Whacky a muscular young mouse takes heroic efforts to rescue his favorite hula-dancer from the attentions of a ruffian band buccaneering cats. The hero and his lady friend are disporting themselves in the ocean with the aid of a friendly swordfish when the pirates sight the enchanted island, and he has many difficulties in scuttling the ship of the villainous pirate crew.
A Wicky, Wacky Romance
1939
Heckle and Jeckle try to steal food from under the watchful eye of Dimwit the dog.
Happy Go Lucky
1947
