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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Betty Boop For President

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Betty Boop sings a push for votes in Betty Boop For President (1932). And she does impersonations, too, morphing her appearance. Oddly, she...
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Monday, 7 November 2016

Blast That Tongue

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Tex Avery made several cartoons involving noise and escaping it so someone doesn’t hear it. There’s Rock-a-bye Bear , Deputy Droopy and, in...
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Sunday, 6 November 2016

Jack Benny Visits Texas

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A few weeks ago, we posted a review of one of Jack Benny’s seemingly innumerable benefit concerts, this one in Austin, Texas in 1966. Jack’s...
Saturday, 5 November 2016

It All Started With Box Tops

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About the only thing I wondered when I first saw The Bullwinkle Show in 1961 is why they changed the name of the show (Rocky’s name had be...
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Friday, 4 November 2016

Don Foster Sighting

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Another inside reference in a Warner Bros. cartoon, the one in Mouse-Placed Kitten (1958). Don Foster was responsible for title cards at th...
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Thursday, 3 November 2016

I'll Get By With a Twinkle in My Eye

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Margie Hines voiced Betty Boop before signing an exclusive deal with Van Beuren to provide Boop-like voices for its cartoons. She appears as...
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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

In Hollywood, If At First You Don't Succeed

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There was no bigger failure in television in the 1960s than Jerry Van Dyke. Time after time, he was handed a new series only to fail yet ag...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Screwy Swirls

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MGM’s ink and paint department triumphs again with brushwork swirls in Screwball Squirrel (1944). Screwy yells to Meathead that he’ll save...
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