Tuesday, 19 May 2020
A Drive With Woody
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Woody Woodpecker is in a car singing his original theme song in The Loan Stranger (1942). He opens The Screwdriver (1941) the same way but...
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Monday, 18 May 2020
Writer Vs Writer
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There’s going to be a fight, according to a poster that is actually part of a movie studio set in Hollywood Capers , a 1935 Warner Bros. car...
Sunday, 17 May 2020
A Little Trip With Jack Benny
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One way that Jack Benny relaxed after a hard season of radio was to jump in a car with a friend and get out of California. (No, not in a Max...
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Fred Willard
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For a while, he was hanging out with someone called Vic Grecco, and making appearances you probably don’t remember on the Garry Moore, Dean ...
A Grain of Terrytoon Wisdom
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The Terrytoons studio, by all rights, should still be around today. The demand for new cartoons on television has never ended. CBS owned Te...
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Friday, 15 May 2020
Apple For Teacher
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Blackboard Jumble (released by MGM in 1956) is full of warmed over Tex Avery gags and reused Tex Avery animation with modern backgrounds by...
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Thursday, 14 May 2020
Fishy Piano
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Flip the Frog’s quasi-Mozart piano playing inspires a statue holding a goldfish bowl to come to life and toss droplets of water like flower ...
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Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Batfad
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Batman was the most fun there was on TV for a brief period in the mid-1960s. The villains were crazy or calculating and, therefore, a real ...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2020
She Has Oomph
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“Hello, Ann. How’s the ‘Oomph Girl’ tonight,” enquires Eddie Robinson of Ann Sheridan (known as the ‘Oomph Girl’) in Hollywood Steps Out . ...
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Monday, 11 May 2020
Snafu on (Kitchen) Patrol
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The camera pans down a huge mound of potatoes and stops at the bottom, where Private Snufu is griping as he cleans a frying pan. That’s the...
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