Sunday, 20 April 2025
A Weighty Matter
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The Jack Benny radio show didn’t just develop over the course of a season, with a Maxwell, and age 39 and trains leaving for Anaheim, Azusa ...
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Saturday, 19 April 2025
Posters, Knights and Long-Johns
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Here’s a buried self-reference in The Girl at the Ironing Board (1934). Check out the poster on the left side of the fence. Poor Friz F...
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Friday, 18 April 2025
The Mountain is Correct
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“There’s gold in them thar hills!” proclaims Oswald the rabbit in Alaska (1930), a Walter Lantz production. The mountain confirms it by ...
Thursday, 17 April 2025
A Gandhi (Not Dandy) Gag
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Mahatma Gandhi believed in separating his people from British rule, opposed a British-imposed tax (on salt) and wanted an independent nation...
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Wednesday, 16 April 2025
The Screen Career That Was More Than a Picnic
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What do Fantastic Voyage , Ride Beyond Vengeance , The Silencers and Birds Do It have in common, besides being found on theatre marquees i...
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Tuesday, 15 April 2025
A Fishy Camel
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Before we get to the lacklustre Beau Bosko , let me grumble about the worse-than-lacklustre copies of many of the Bosko cartoons that circul...
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Monday, 14 April 2025
Pill Poppin' Pullet
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There’s a bit of stylised action in Porky the Rain-Maker (1936) as a hen swallows a lightning pill and turns into a bolt of lightning. C...
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Sunday, 13 April 2025
I'll Have a Can of Laughs, Please
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Have you read anyone defending laugh tracks? You’re about to. Anyone who watched filmed TV comedies in the 1960s (especially in daily reru...
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Saturday, 12 April 2025
Vanishing Binko
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Animation is full of footnotes, and Binko is one of them. I still can’t figure out if he was called Binko Bear or Binko the Cub. But he’s n...
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