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==Films== Between 1920 and 1922, 17 ''Toonerville'' silent film comedy adaptations were scripted by Fox for Philadelphia's Betzwood Film Company. These starred [[Dan Mason]] as the Skipper with [[Wilna Hervey]] as Katrinka. Only seven of those 17 shorts survive today. Four are preserved in the Betzwood Film Archive at Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.<ref>[http://faculty.mc3.edu/jeckhard/betzwood.htm The Surviving Betzwood Films]</ref> [[File:Toonerville Trolley lobby card.jpg|thumb|right|280px|''Toonerville Trolley'' with Wilna Hervey, 1920.]] '''1920''' * ''The Toonerville Trolley'' '''1921''' * ''The Skipper's Treasure Scheme'' * ''Skipper's Flirtation'' * ''Toonerville Tangle'' * ''The Skipper Strikes It Rich'' * ''Toonerville Tactics'' * ''The Skipper's Narrow Escape'' * ''The Skipper Has His Fling'' * ''The Skipper's Scheme'' * ''Toonerville's 'Boozem' Friends'' * ''Toonerville Follies'' * ''Toonerville's Fire Brigade'' * ''The Skipper's Treasure Garden'' '''1922''' * ''The Skipper's Sermon'' * ''Toonerville Topics'' * ''Toonerville Blues'' * ''Toonerville Trials'' * ''The Skipper's Policy'' [[Mickey Rooney]] starred as Mickey McGuire in more than [[Mickey McGuire (film series)|55 comedy shorts]] filmed between 1927 and 1936. Rooney (nΓ© Joe Yule, Jr.) adopted the professional name Mickey McGuire for a time before finally settling on the last name Rooney. Three ''Toonerville'' cartoons were produced by [[Van Beuren Studios]] in 1936 as part of the ''[[Rainbow Parade]]'' series. Distributed by [[RKO Pictures|RKO Radio Pictures]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |pages=127β128}}</ref> Katrinka was animated by [[Joseph Barbera]].<ref name="barbera">Joseph Barbera: ''My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century'', Turner Pub, Nashville 1995, {{ISBN|978-1-57036-042-8}}, p 44</ref> {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Release date ! Title |- | style="text-align:right;"| January 17, 1936 || ''Toonerville Trolley'' |- | style="text-align:right;"| July 3, 1936 || ''Trolley Ahoy'' |- | style="text-align:right;"| October 2, 1936 || ''Toonerville Picnic'' |} A ''Toonerville Trolley'' cartoon, "Lost and Found", was included in ''Simple Gifts'', a Christmas collection of six animated shorts shown on PBS TV in 1977. Over the years, various ''Toonerville'' characters acted as spokesmen for popular products of the day. Skipper, Flem Proddy and Katrinka appeared throughout the decades in advertisements for [[Drano]], [[Kellogg's]] cereals and [[Chef Boyardee]] foods.<ref>[http://graphic-design.tjs-labs.com/gallery-view?keyword=TOONERVILLE Toonerville characters as product spokesmen.]</ref>
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