Tralfaz
Monday, 24 August 2026

A Box Gag Returns

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Some old cartoon ground is ploughed by director Dick Lundy in Caballero Droopy , an MGM release starring Droopy, the matador wolf and a bull...
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Sunday, 23 August 2026

Tralfaz Sunday Theatre: The Islands of South China & Java Seas

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Here’s a promotional film from the 1980s that entices viewers to visit Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Hong Kong by ship. A Roya...
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Before She Was Mrs. Day

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Jack Benny’s radio show had plenty of secondary characters, many of them played by the most in-demand actors on the air in the west. People ...
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Saturday, 22 August 2026

From the Lantz Clipping File

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Walter Lantz had an admirable career, despite what may be considered less-than-entertaining cartoons in the 1970s. He starred in silent film...
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Friday, 21 August 2026

Friz Gets A Director's Chair

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Friz Freleng may have turned 121 today (see note below). Readers of this blog are knowledgeable enough that they don’t need me to go through...
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Thursday, 20 August 2026

Life Imitates Tex

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Tex Avery’s Car of Tomorrow (1951) made fun of the step-down Hudson and the wrap-around-window Studebaker; both were joked about on network...
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Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Rayburn of the Radio

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I liked both versions but The Match Game of 1963 wasn’t really the same game as The Match Game of 1973. The original had that great theme ...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2026

The Life and Death of Cancer

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In mid-1944, former Disney men Larry Morey and John Sutherland set up Plastic Productions with the idea of creating stop-motion animated sho...
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