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Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Hans Conried, a Paart of the Show

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Maybe Hans Conried should have got a better manager. Conried worked continually during the days of network radio, one of those top support...
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Tuesday, 6 August 2019

Hey, What Does That Say?

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A searchlight tracks the path of an escaped convict wolf in Tex Avery’s Dumb-Hounded . The light realises it has zoomed past some writing o...
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Monday, 5 August 2019

Friz is Better Than Fritz

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Continuous movement? Sure. Gags? Uh...no. The Captain and the Kids short Seal Skinners (1939) is no eyesore, thanks to the work of the unc...
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Sunday, 4 August 2019

A Bit About Some Minor Players

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When you think of Jack Benny’s supporting cast on radio, there’s the ‘A’ list that was credited every week—Mary, Don, Phil, Dennis. And ther...
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Saturday, 3 August 2019

The Accidental Cartoon Producer

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Bullwinkle the moose may the only cartoon character who took a back seat to the publicity for his own show. When NBC picked up The Bullwinkl...
Friday, 2 August 2019

Shakespeare Silhouettes

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Some points to writer George Manuell and animation unit head Doc Crandall for trying something a little new in Shakespearean Spinach (1940)...
Thursday, 1 August 2019

The Leaking Mouse

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Gangsters riddle the mouse hero with bullets in the 1932 Terrytoons cartoon Romance . “They got me!” he exclaims. The mouse then goes...
Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Between 40 and Death

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Her first review may have been in a caption of a newspaper photo showing her and fellow aspiring actress Elaine Herman painting a stage back...
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Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Tex's Missing Gag

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There’s a gag you likely won’t see if you stumble across Tex Avery’s Happy-Go-Nutty on the internet. You might even notice there’s been a c...
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Monday, 29 July 2019

Hot-Cha-Cha in the Cold

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Blizzards, downpour, lightning, twisting wind. It all hits the Aleutians, Isles of Enchantment, in a 1945 cartoon starring Private Snafu. A...
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