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Monday, 22 October 2012

Well Oiled Backgrounds

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It’s been a while since we looked at some of Fred Brunish’s backgrounds for the Walter Lantz studio, so let’s check out some from “Well Oile...
Sunday, 21 October 2012

A Parade of Jack Benny, Part 2

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A week ago, we posted the first part of a two-part profile of Jack Benny from Parade magazine, a Sunday newspaper supplement, published Ja...
Saturday, 20 October 2012

More UPA Critic Snobbery

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It wasn’t until “Gerald McBoing Boing”—and its Oscar nomination—that film critics noticed what UPA was doing and started dragging out the Di...
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Friday, 19 October 2012

Into the Inkwell

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Any child of five should easily be able to grade the Popeye cartoons. At least, as a child of five, I did. The ones with the opening and clo...
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Thursday, 18 October 2012

Deputy Droopy and the Cat

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I’m not crazy about most of Ed Benedict’s really flat character designs in “Deputy Droopy.” But I sure like the bizarre scraggly cat. The c...
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Catastrophobe

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Everyone laughed at how Jimmy Durante butchered the English language, Durante included. It wasn’t an act. Radio listeners and TV viewers kne...
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Tuesday, 16 October 2012

The Twirling Tom Cycle

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Jerry’s anger causes him to develop super-human, er, mouse strength in the penultimate scene of “The Milky Waif” (1946). He swings Tom aroun...
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Monday, 15 October 2012

If My Friend Rocky Was in There

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A lot of cartoons used the idea of crooks giving up to police so they wouldn’t be abused any more by the main character. None did it better ...
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