![]() The series was not given the go-ahead, and Clampett was instead encouraged to produce an animated series, an offer that he later declined. The test footage, produced by 1936, received negative reactions from film exhibitors across the U.S., especially in small towns many gave their opinion that the concept of an Earthman on Mars was just too outlandish an idea for midwestern American audiences to accept. Was to release the cartoons, and the studio heads were enthusiastic about the series. He then produced footage of them riding their eight-legged Thoats at a gallop, which had all of their eight legs moving in coordinated motion he also produced footage of a fleet of rocketships emerging from a Martian volcano. Working with Burroughs' son John Coleman Burroughs in 1935, Clampett used and other hand-drawn techniques to capture the action, tracing the motions of an athlete who performed John Carter's powerful movements in the reduced Martian gravity, and designed the green-skinned, 4-armed Tharks to give them a believable appearance. Burroughs responded enthusiastically, recognizing that a regular live-action feature would face various limitations to adapt accurately, so he advised Clampett to write an original animated adventure for John Carter. In 1931, director approached Edgar Rice Burroughs with the idea of adapting A Princess of Mars into a feature-length animated film. ![]()
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