Wednesday, 20 September 2017
The Not-Quite Ink Spots
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The Ink Spots were a tremendously popular singing group in the early ‘50s. So it was they were parodied in that wonderful Tex Avery cartoon ...
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Tuesday, 19 September 2017
One Droopy Night Backgrounds
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When the second unit was revived at the MGM cartoon studio in September 1955, director Mike Lah acquired Fernando Montealegre as his backgro...
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Monday, 18 September 2017
She Worked for Cod Liver Oil
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June Foray made more people laugh than any other woman in animated cartoons. The title of her autobiography— Did You Grow Up With Me, Too? ...
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Sunday, 17 September 2017
Jack and the President
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Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In had Billy Graham and former vice-president Richard Nixon as guests. Big deal. Jack Benny did the same thing ...
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Saturday, 16 September 2017
Cartoons of 1960, Part 2
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At the start of 1960, he was in Chicago trying to sell TV stations a syndicated bowling show. By the end of the year, he was controlling the...
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Friday, 15 September 2017
Betty Boop Kills Bugs Dead
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There’s something about Fred, Betty Boop’s newly-militarised boyfriend, in Something About a Soldier (1934). He’s frightfully dull. The dec...
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