In 1957, CBS had asked Terrytoons to produce a promo reel for network affiliates. No, you wouldn't see classic Terrytoons characters like Mighty Mouse (who had made his CBS debut 2 years earlier) or Heckle & Jeckle, but an experimental new style of animation under the direction of Gene Deitch.
Depth Study, I don't think, was ever shown over the air. All the voices, apparently, are performed by Allen Swift. There's also vintage footage of I Love Lucy, The Ed Sullivan Show, Person to Person, & The Jack Benny Program, among the CBS shows.
Deitch, then, would be credited with the development of someone like, say, Tom Terrific, maybe?
Rating: B--.
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