Sunday, 22 December 2024
Jack Benny, 90 Decembers Ago
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The Christmas holidays in 1934 seem to have been pretty good for Jack Benny. Besides his radio show beaming out on the NBC Blue (WJZ) netwo...
Saturday, 21 December 2024
"D" Stands For "Don't Get Residuals for Christmas"
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“It should be an annual video classic,” decided Arlene Garber of the Citizen-News of Los Angeles 60 years ago. And she was right. Two even...
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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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