Friday, 20 December 2024
Santa in Candyland
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Cartoon studios didn’t waste time when Walt Disney’s exclusive contract to use full Technicolor in theatrical animation expired on September...
Thursday, 19 December 2024
Fashionable Fur Filtched
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A familiar gag ends Tex Avery’s Christmas cartoon One Ham’s Family (released nowhere near Christmas in 1943). There’s been a violent fight...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Mister Rogers
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The world would be a better place if we listened to Fred Rogers. He may have been the kindest, calmest man in children’s television program...
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Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Bedtime for Sniffles Backgrounds
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Bedtime For Sniffles has a low-key charm that makes it one of Chuck Jones’ early directoral successes. The story is simple and logical, a...
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Monday, 16 December 2024
How To Make a Christmas Tree
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Nothing says Christmas than a cartoon starring a Depression-era orphan in a shack unexpectedly getting presents from Santa Claus. Harman and...
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Sunday, 15 December 2024
Tralfaz Sunday Theatre: Tim Conway and Ernie Anderson
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Before he cracked up Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show , before he bumbled around with Joe Flynn on McHale’s Navy , Tim Conway had an...
He Banished the Blues
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Jack Benny had several stage names before Benny Rubin (so goes one version of the story) suggested Ben Kubelsky change his name to Jack Benn...
Saturday, 14 December 2024
Being a Cartoon Musician
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Is there any doubt that Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf was the most popular song written for a cartoon short in the 1930s? It was compos...
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