Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Pink Descending a Staircase
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The Pink Panther has to be the best theatrical cartoon character to come out of the 1960s and his first short, The Pink Phink (1964), dese...
Monday, 16 July 2018
The Wheels on the Cat Go Round and Round
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Tom escapes from a rival cat in Springtime For Thomas (1946). Their feet turn into wheels. You’d see the same kind of thing in Hanna-Barber...
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Sunday, 15 July 2018
Cartoonist Pinto on the Radio
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What’s the big radio station in San Francisco these days? It’s not KDN, that’s for sure. But it was in March of 1922, just as KYJ and KOG w...
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It's Just Not Funny Any More
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Parody and satire was originally Jack Benny’s stock-in-trade, long before he turned 39, owned a Maxwell, or turned to the audience and shout...
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Saturday, 14 July 2018
The Birth of Saturday Morning Cartoons
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There are people who take it for granted that Saturday morning television was always a land of cartoons, and how dare it not be that way tod...
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Friday, 13 July 2018
Pluto Jolson
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Was there a cartoon studio in the early ‘30s that didn’t make an Al Jolson reference? Even Disney did it at the end of Mickey Steps Out (19...
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Thursday, 12 July 2018
Lazy Chicken of Tomorrow
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Genetic gene mixing is the main source of humour in Tex Avery’s Farm of Tomorrow which, unfortunately, is more miss than hit. “Picking up ...
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Wednesday, 11 July 2018
Miss Jane
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Toward the end of November 1946, television was demonstrated for the first time in South Florida, thanks to a joint effort by WGBS radio i...
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Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Wolf Blows Up Real Fast
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Ex Disney writers Dick Kinney and Milt Schaffer keep up a steady stream of gags in Red Riding Hoodlum , a 1957 cartoon starring Knothead an...
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