“Le Avventure di Gatto Evaristo”/The Adventures of Evaristo the Cat (partially found Italian Super-8mm “Sylvester” copycat; 1970)

Evaristo drinks what it seems to be a “strength potion” in a very damaged frame of the cartoon.

Status: Partially Found

“Le Avventure di Gatto Evaristo” (The Adventures of Evaristo The Cat) was a 1970 cartoon believed to be made only on Super 8mm featuring Evaristo, a cat that likes to prank his friends, being a dog which name remains unknown, Filiberto the bird and a mouse named Sansone. Evaristo has a similar behavior to the Warner Bros Icon Will E. Coyote although being in design very similar to Sylvester, making it a kind of copycat of him.

Production Details

The cartoon episodes were made by a studio called “Polistampa S.P.A. Milano” later named “GLM Studio” in what is believed to be the cartoon’s production time, the cartoon was drawn and animated by Giancarlo Marchesi that was later joined by his daughter Loretta later in the production, Giancarlo worked in the production of other famous Italian cartoon such as “La Linea” and “Carosello” but on the internet few information about him are present. In the production time the GLM Studio was supervised by the famous Italian Disney comic artist Romano Scarpa who is believed to have voiced the dog.

Dub Anomaly

During the episode “Le Avventure di Gatto Evaristo” the dog dub seems off and with no acting saying:

“Veramente tremendo…

Vediamo adesso cosa combina!”

If translated, it goes:

“He’s really tremedous…

Let’s see what he does now!”

The distant noise of what sounds like a television program can be heard in the background, after further analyzing it seems to be an audio segment from the Italian dub of the anime “Mazinger Z” probably done in the same room, the cause of this anomaly can be the poor way the dub was recorded due to the cartoon being a “home only” release and not a television one.

“Amore Indiano” Anomaly

During the reproduction of the episode “Amore Indiano” owned by LMW user Hydragon23 it’s discovered that it’s an actual Woody Woodpecker episode, the episode is branded as a Gatto Evaristo episode because on the box a similar adaptation of title was printed. The original title in the cartoon is “Indian Whoopiee” and on the box “Amore Indiano” (Indian Love) is printed.

The possibility of this anomaly could rely on the fact that after being sued for the plagiarism of Sylvester, Polistampa had to recycle the Gatto Evaristo boxes to sell other movies and cartoons.

Current State

The cartoon was brought to light by a famous Italian YouTuber named Yotobi that owns what could be the two only publicly released episodes that are talked about here. The other owner is a man on an Italian auction site but the episode’s name and content is unknown. The series remains partially found (3 known episodes) to this day, it’s unknown if the other episodes existed or got unreleased or maybe destroyed and lost in time, but it’s possible that the show was canceled due to a lawsuit from Warner Bros regarding the plagiarism with “Sylvester” which at the Evaristo looked similar to.

Known Episodes

“Le Avventure di Gatto Evaristo” (Ep.1?) In Color; With Sound. Status: Damaged audio and orange dominant. Owned by: Karim Musa aka Yotobi.

“Evaristo e Filiberto All’Ultimo Scherzo” Black and White; Mute Status: Good quality picture. Owned by: Karim Musa aka Yotobi.

“Evaristo il ventriloquo” In Color; With Sound. Status: Good quality picture; good audio. Owned by: LMW User Hydragon23

“Sansone Contro Gatto Evaristo” In Color; With Sound Status: Good quality picture, good audio. Owned by: LMW User Hydragon23

“Amore Indiano” “Indian Whoopiee”; Black and White; Mute; Anomaly Report: Is another cartoon branded as a Gatto Evaristo episode. Status: Good quality picture; Reported Owned by: LMW User Hydragon23

All other episodes nowadays remain completely lost

Gallery

yotobi's video on the subject. (1/2)

another YouTuber’s follow-up video on the subject. (2/2)

References

• Romano Scarpa’s Wikipedia page:

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano_Scarpa

• Site with Giancarlo Marchesi’s informations:

https://carosello.tv/animatori/giancarlo-marchesi/

• Site with Loretta Marchesi’s informations:

https://carosello.tv/animatori/loretta-marchesi/

• Article regarding GLM Studio’s history and supervison with Romano Scarpa:

https://www.ilsestantenews.it/libri-e-fumetti/lo-studio-glm-e-romano-scarpa/

• Article regarding Romano Scarpa’s cartoons with GLM Studio:

http://www.giornalepop.it/tag/studio-glm/