Friday, 23 November 2018
Shooting the Symphonic Slider
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A duck gets caught in a dog’s trombone slide in the 1945 Walter Lantz classical music short The Poet and the Peasant . The duck’s head gets ...
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Thursday, 22 November 2018
Naval De-Feet
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Occasionally, an animation checker will miss something and part of a character’s body will disappear for one or two frames. In Porky the Go...
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Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Garry Moore's Revelation
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As trite as this sounds, the host of I’ve Got a Secret had a secret. At least, it doesn’t appear to have been common knowledge at the time ...
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Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Sheep!?
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Favourite Droopy? That’s easy. It’s Drag-a-Long Droopy (released in 1954). The “moo-moo-baa-baa” and “hey, taxi” scenes are as funny as any...
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Monday, 19 November 2018
Headlines
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Ub Iwerks had a thing for emotion lines radiating from characters’ heads. You could almost turn it into a drinking game, but you’d pass out ...
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Sunday, 18 November 2018
Mickey, Bernie and Benny
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90 years ago today, the bill you see to the right is what was playing at the Colony Theatre in New York City. Mr. Yowzah, Ben Bernie, was ...
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Benny at the Crossroads
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Was Jack Benny’s weekly TV show shoved off the air by NBC or did he quit? We may never really know the answer to that question. We do know...
Saturday, 17 November 2018
What Noise Does a Pinto Make?
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Walt Disney didn’t like his cartoon voices to get credit, something to do with spoiling the illusion that the characters were like real peop...
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Friday, 16 November 2018
Flying Failure
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The dopey cat in Birdy and the Beast (1944) is flying. Until the Bob Clampett version of Tweety informs him he’s flying. Reaction time. ...
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Thursday, 15 November 2018
Sailing to America, Thanks to Maurice Noble
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“It wasn’t so long ago in the history of man’s voyage toward a better world that ships were carrying eager passengers toward the shores of a...
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