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Friday, 24 August 2012

The Tuba Tooter

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Early 1930s cartoons are all singing and dancing, with things coming to life and gags in between. Cartoons made on the West Coast were like ...
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Thursday, 23 August 2012

Tex Avery’s Rejected Puns

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Do I need to say it? Tex Avery made funny cartoons. There was a laser disc set (we all got laser disc players, right?) something like 20 yea...
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Wednesday, 22 August 2012

How MGM Made a Captain

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When you think of how Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera churned out Oscar-winners and Tex Avery was creating some of the funniest cartoons of all t...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Lantz Camel Dance

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The best part of Shamus Culhane’s “Abou Ben Boogie” doesn’t show up until about halfway through the way into the cartoon. We have to live wi...
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Monday, 20 August 2012

Mrs. Fang

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It’s highly likely that none of the ladies who heard a six-year-old girl playing the saxophone at a Methodist Church club meeting on May 6, ...

Rocket-bye Baby Exteriors

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Ernie Nordli worked on several cartoons for Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. when the cartoon studio re-opened after being closed in the second h...
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Sunday, 19 August 2012

Ban Rochester Van Jones

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Everyone loved Rochester on the Jack Benny show. Almost everyone. We don’t know if Lloyd Binford actually disliked Eddie Anderson. But I str...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012

Lew Who?

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Fans of old-time cartoons know who Warren Foster, Mike Maltese and Tedd Pierce are. They came up with some of the funniest cartoons ever mad...
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Friday, 17 August 2012

False Vases Backgrounds

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Poor Felix. Goes to all the trouble of replacing his wife’s vase (which breaks after it falls while dancing to his piano playing) only to ha...
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Thursday, 16 August 2012

Fraidy Cat

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“The more pantomime, the better” seems to be the operative slogan at the MGM cartoon studio until Tex Avery got there, when it changed to “t...
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