| Display title | Sidney the Elephant |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Sidney the Elephant, also known as Silly Sidney, is a relatively successful character from the Terry Toons studio. He was one of several new characters introduced in the mid to late 1950s. In 1955, studio founder and owner Paul Terry had sold it to CBS and promptly retired. The new owners appointed a new creative director for the studio. So they hired Gene Deitch (1924-), one of the guys behind the UPA animation studio. Deitch was not particularly fond of Terrytoons' production up to this point. Animation historians quote him saying: "For thirty years they had been making the crassest of unadulterated crap". He proceeded to drop most of the old characters, and had his crew create new ones. |