Friday, 24 June 2016
Shaking Simple Simon
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Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor series tried to imitate the Walt Disney world of fairy tales and nursery rhymes but didn’t display much of the polish o...
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Thursday, 23 June 2016
Walter Winchell Sphinx
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Everyone was convinced after the opening of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, where RCA demonstrated and broadcast television and then began s...
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Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Not Terrific
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The mid-1960s were a time of painfully unfunny comedies. I should know. I watched most of them when they first aired. They all seemed to hav...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016
The Lion is the Bomb
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Scare takes abound in Tex Avery’s Slap Happy Lion (1947). In one sequence, the lion manages to swallow a tormenting mouse, who responds by ...
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Monday, 20 June 2016
Breathe, Stupid
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There’s something funny about a cat that’s so stupid, it forgets to breathe. That’s what we get in the Art Davis short Dough, Ray, Me-ow , w...
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Sunday, 19 June 2016
Writing For Benny
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Jack Benny and his radio writers didn’t spend their time in Palm Springs because of the weather. Or because of the busy social scene, though...
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Saturday, 18 June 2016
Any Bonds Today?
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Porky Pig may have been the star of the Looney Tunes cartoon series but it’s clear that about a year after being created, Bugs Bunny had bec...
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