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Sunday, 9 October 2011

Rock-a-Bye McGeehan

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Any fan of Tex Avery has seen his cartoons over and over again. They can tell you about Preston Blair and Ed Benedict and Heck Allen. But th...
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Saturday, 8 October 2011

Roger Williams, 1924-2011

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There was a benign place of refuge for music-lovers of the late 1950s from the clash and wail of rock and roll—popular music. Perry Como, Mi...
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Dance of the Big Snooze

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Most of Bob Clampett’s final cartoons at Warner Bros. are filled with remarkable drawings. His very last, ‘The Big Snooze’ (1946), features ...
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Friday, 7 October 2011

Yosemite Smash

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If Friz Freleng had a best-timed moment in a cartoon, this one from ‘Bugs Bunny Rides Again’ may be it. Yosemite Sam rides his small horse i...
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Thursday, 6 October 2011

50 Years of Rob and Laura

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How’s this for a TV review? Fred Danzig of UPI gave it to a show in his column of October 3, 1961. The acting ... was petrified. The dialogu...
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Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Cheese Chasers

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Was Chuck Jones not happy with the gags Mike Maltese gave him for this cartoon? He seems more interested in experimenting with eyes than any...
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011

The Story of “Hi, Guy!”

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Good entertainment can be burned in your mind forever. Even television commercials. Of course, that’s what the sponsor wants. Commercials ca...
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Monday, 3 October 2011

Bugs Bunny, Comic Strip Star

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Walt Disney signed his name to comic strips he didn’t draw. So Leon Schlesinger must have thought he could/should do the same thing. And he ...
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Sunday, 2 October 2011

Name That Walt

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No, Woody Woodpecker didn’t sneak his way into a Disney cartoon. But it sure looks like it. This is from the opening of ‘Pixie Picnic’ (1948...
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Saturday, 1 October 2011

Tex Avery

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Here’s Tex being interviewed for the feature film ‘Bugs Bunny Superstar’ (1975). At that time, he was 67 years old and working for Cascade, ...
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