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The
S Greatest Cartoons
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More
two-thirds in
fifty
full
color
showcase
greatest cartoons of
all
the
time, selected by
animation professionals.
The
result
is a
fascinating
like
Winsor
more, including
Walter Lantz,
plot
history,
and
a critical
are interviews
artists, as well as
sidebars
Leonard Maltin.John
Leslie
Cabarga
And hundreds
comment on
their
of illustrations culled
art,
from the
finished work.
For
a
many
is
art
form.
Brimming with
this is a nostalgic
look
lively text
at old friends
and childhood
pleasures.
Greatest Carto
As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals
Edited by Jerry Beck
Copyright
1994 Lavla Productions. In; and Sammis Publishing Corp All rights
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Bros
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Wolf
Cat (Tela
in
Hollywood)
Hounded
(Nortrruest
Police)
Police)
Pluto
(Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor)
Wimpy
(Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor)
Popeye
(Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor)
Olive Oyl
(Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor)
Bomg
of Seville)
Porky Pig
(Duck Dodgers
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Contents
Editor's note
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Line
22
23
26
The
29
Fifty Greatest
Cartoons
20
20 Brave
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27
Clock Cleaners
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28
Northwest Hounded
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48
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Toot, Whistle,
Rabbit Seasoning
132
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The
136
Duck Dodgers
in the
T-
z^T/zth Century.
Dinosaur
Wackyland
60
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68
Canary
33
Little Tailor
124
Police
Scarlet Pumpernickel
138
140
34 You Ought to Be
35 Ali Baba Bunny
in Pictures
12.
Rabhit of Seville
74
13
Steamboat Willie
78
37 Bimbo s Initiation
38 Bambi Meets Godzilla
Bad Luck
l6
17
18
20 Minnie
21
the
Moocher
23
Little
*4 The
25
Tell-Tale
Heart
152
1
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82
40
Peace on Earth
158
84
160
162
88
42
Cat Concerto
9*
156
166
43
94
44
The
98
45 Book Revue
170
102
46 Quasi
174
Man Who
Planted Trees
at the Skiackadero
Corny Concerto
47
48
112
49
116
Felix in
Unicom
in the
Hollywood
Illustrations
187
188
189
Index
190
and Contributor
192
credits
180
182
186
Acknowledgments
168
178
Garden
Illustration
50
39
108
Little
106
22
80
Blackie
9 Snow White
144
148
36
Little
130
Superman
72
Three
126
Pigs
ii
20
192
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plot synopsis,
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consensus.
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history also
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setups.
group of friends
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New York
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through
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drawn with
Hollywood; the
Edison,
cohesive chronology.
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legs in several
films
began
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element
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stories of
animation histo-
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ry, as is
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experiment by photographer
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unique
Edward Muvbndge. To
finally,
them
restaurant.
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bet
set-
California) as to
on immortal and
lives of their
fantastic
own, and
time,
all
to cap-
who were
moving
live-
pictures.
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the
same
set
up
tion,
trip-
one, a photograph
snapped.
was
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all
one point
Muvbridge found
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audiences
tivate
at
ground
none
Muvbndge
off the
their
whether
way
to
ings.
Faces (1906), in
which an
and
pictures,
and French
nHOW A CARTOON
IS
Many
MADE
people are amazed
cartoon.
when
they leam
its
own
effects,
how much
and voices
skill, effort,
and labor
eels,
making of a
plus a script,
stu-
In most studios, ideas were fleshed out on storyboards, where gags were plotted and refined. Usually,
dialogue
Once
work was
divided up; in
most
car-
toon. For every second of film time, between twelve and twenty-four drawings were created, each only slightly different than the preced-
ing one.
The master
the rest.
animators drew the main poses for each character, expertly capturing motion and expression; "in-betweeners" drew
celluloid
At
and
eels
eels
the same time, background paintings were prepared by layout and background
Two
were painted
to exact specifications.
artists.
Cameramen combined
aver-
proper background in continuity, frame by frame. Musical scores and special effects were then
film.
important stages in the creation of animation: Above: Animation drawings from Northwest Hounded
animation drawings are produced, each slightly advancing the motion. Below: Cel and
in the
For the
were required.
them
celluloid;
in sequence.
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eel
Police.
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separately.
Cameramen combined
Emil Cohl,
artist
who made
cries
and
Dinosaur
considered
Fantasma^one (1908), in
the
which
morphosize against
films ever
hlack
number
background.
as
an
credited to
toonist
art is often
newspaper
produced
si.\
in this
car-
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1).
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tween
was
toon, he
leap torward
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bv imbuing
into
With
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mischievous Gertie
and
the basic
still
method of eel
practiced
draw everything
was so success-
made people
forget
impact,
it
had to
in the pic-
ture, over
with onlv
slight
changes
in
might
The
Max
Fleischer invented
illusion of movement.
J.
animated cartoon.
all its
artist
been
R. Brav
first
patented the
1 9 14 to paint the
background.
characters,
a personality.
animation
background
today.
in film histories as
first
animated cartoons,
static
McCay, the
Dinosaur, with
major
first
it
it,
named
the
The
car-
life
Of
ceded
art
the animated
ful
liest
ment.
film.
McCay breathed
ticed. Gertie
Nemo
drawn pictures
Little
Earl
over the
this
As
make
thousand meticulously
animated cartoon.
(it is
book).
mation
is
nical innovations to
static
The moving
still
drawn and
at a
time for
TECHNOLOGY
Throughout the
ture the
years, ani-
movement
First (limited)
of actual
he following
time line does
not purport to
be an all-inclusive history
of animation. Listed in the
famous
cal
creators,
and techni-
achievements.
J. Stuart
Blackton
Humorous Phases of
- Funny Faces.
Nemo.
The
This
accompanied Fleischer
illustration
M. FLEISCHER.
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bodies.
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tical as
Max
as prac-
envisioned, the
but
it
when he
introduced Mickey
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r
t)
n
a
Mouse
many animated
1^
features,
trum
the
Trees
Rings.
and CinemaScope,
all
to animation at the
same
(1932).
survive oi hand-tinted
made during
Max
The
their cartoons.
ing McCay's
1950s brought on
Little
Nemo.
Heischer experimented
and
Max
craze in
which
early
3-D
several stu-
1924 with
ters (including
of sing-
Kjazy Kat
J.
News
Pictorial.
K0K0
introduces Gerric
the
Dinosaur
First
Max
Bugs Bunny,
Woody Woodpecker,
Fleischer
in Feline Follies.
Cat
Van
Beuren's Aesop
to vaudeville audiences.
Hurd
Max
First
Popeye,
series begins in
Hearst Vitagraph
spec-
color cartoons
McCay
lull
Technicolor on
still
tnama
came
3-strip
map
Steamboat Willie
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tfajr
in
Winsor McCay's
Alice comedies
begin.
apply for
techniques by using
Walt Disney's
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of irri-
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manv
featuring
and
for
the
Tramp and
try
1960s.
manv
eels in
TV animation producers,
ing in an effort to
fill
effect, particularly in
Disnev shorts
our
though surprisingly
the
Toot. Whistle,
made use
The
on
large
was
it
first
of the procedure.
of
screens
of tiny
final
35mm nega-
put directly to
animation
multiplex cinemas
to appre-
eels.
ciate todav.
The
televi-
mourn-
logical adv
and
hand
films
development of xerography
Xerox
process
became
the indus-
Fleischer's Beery
Boop appears
and Barnacle
Dishes
Adventures of Prince
is first
Lone
Ub
hverks create
first
Dizzy
in
Bill.
Walter Lantz
Disney and
Looney
First
first
in
King of Jazz.
three
Achmcd
animated feature, by
Reiniger, produced in
Germany.
Lucky Rabbit
Max
series debuts.
First Silly
Symphonies cartoon.
Ub
for
and begins
Ball
series of
Bouncing
Columbia
Van Beuren
Pictures.
Tom
and Jerry
cartoons begin.
First
rives.
In addition, complex
computer-generated dimen-
background
ducing
improve their
craft
and
sig-
quantity of anima-
Thus
ed,
was
business.
art form.
and the
making
movie industry
were
sional
settings,
But just
as in the
Winsor McCay
Bray,
it still
artist to
day of
andj. R.
ally
human
takes a
one animated
never
will.
The
year, person-
tually
the Dinosaur.
technical
ists like J.
make just
Gmk
film like
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located in
The
"Golden
first
itself
Jeff,
jammer
studio released
tion studios
Warner
Bros.,
like
Mutt and
or arose
new
First color
peak.
produced
at a
wood
films
stu-
The
drawing twenty-four
screen time, to
first
of a volume of animation.
the
like
Disney,
MCM, and
Sullivan,
Merrie Melodies
Little
in
Hen.
Harman and
Ising begin
Harmonies
for
supervision at
Happy
MGM.
Van Beuren
Warner
Bros.
studio closes.
released by Heischer.
1936
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Fleischer begins
First 3-strip
Technicolor
Oscar
for animation.
Disney's Three
becomes
cartoon
Little Pigs
national sensation.
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in
Merrie Melodies
starts
Porkv's
Termite Terrace
unit.
Bob Clampett
Porky
Bros, studio
premieres.
Daffy Duck.
Badtimc
Story.
Multiplane camera
!5
arfs
first
used in
77ie
career.
Old
Mill.
One
of the earliest
known photographs
of Walt Disney.
Though
still
forerunners
prized as the
of
modem car-
dis-
and
skill
The
synchronized-sound
Fleischer studio
was
modern cartoons
advances
in
both animation
brought
ot
what vou
is
[make]
fellows have
it
hut
done
A relative youngster to
into a trade."
Quality returned
when Otto
Messmcr breathed
life
the field
and
Cat,
whose adventures
when he
mined
match
to
mation studios
in
entered
Disney was
in 1923,
Chuck Jones
By
,unWS
up and
He
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artist
studio to
Bros;
brothers,
cartoon
sells his
Warner
Schlesinger
are
and Disney
on
introduced.
Travels)
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sat
As
(Gulliver
said,
Disney people
of
nicnrKjnr
the
it
in quality.
fine artistry to
it
deter-
sophisticated cartoons
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car-
or
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popularizing
his
from
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intro-
Squirrel.
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1938
Porkv's Hare
Hunt
1942
intro-
Fleischer begins
Superman cartoons.
1943
First
Chuck Jones
Watchman.
Bugs Bunny
asks
in
Crow
for
Columbia's Screen
Gems
the
studio.
Hanna-Barbera's
Tom
t.
Snafu
16
Tex Avery
Droopy cartoon
for
MGM.
Opening
where
not
grow
dio,
only
could
at his stu-
on
Where Disney
Disney's lead:
had
Silly
By the time
late
crown
els,
to
Uncle Walt.
rival
during
cumbed
to the pressure of
was
were adapted
in color car-
indi-
SCREEN SEMS
standard.
car-
tial
and polish
Disney
ol
style
MARCUS 4
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the emerging
and concentrate
his
\4-
Sylvester
3-D
Woody Woodpecker
cartoons released.
its
Academy Award
Wile
E.
Coyote make
Cinemascope
by Disney.
Robert
First
McKimson
Toot, Whistle,
first
is
TV cartoon produced.
at
at
Warner Bros
UPA
UPA's
Terrytoons.
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classics.
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PROOOCtO
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many lev-
was
Fleischer studio
depth and
can be enjoyed on
ters in popularity.
in with
RKO weighed
them
MUthTS
atmosphere
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and
a surreal
that gives
Classics;
contain
MGM began
Disney's biggest
released
danced
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Symphonies,
Warner Bros,
white releases.
world."
credits for a
graphic style.
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Animation
comrades
his
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in
arms Frank
Boh Clampett,
toon with
kevitow, and
men
Maltese,
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Warren
Foster) were
bisrger
laughs
introduced us to
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and
menagerie
before:
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Pig, the
LePew, and
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fifty
dio
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this stu-
known
for its
never lacked
it
Hugh Harman
Mel
Zagreb, Yugo-
and
modem
graphic
art,
critics
moved
to
Gerald
pioneer animators
community
were
a creative
who
work
contin-
animation today.
The
such
McBomg
personal styles of
cartoon directors
first
became prevalent
in the
Tom
influ-
in
fifties
UPA
turning point.
It
proved that
MGM
styles,
could be popular.
MGM from
in
and the
Magoo and
Wamer Bros,
The
form.
art
in
to
also gave
cartoon
starring
Academy Awards.
The Hollywood
Hollywood
Hanna
lar
duo ofjoseph
of
Pictures, that
cat-and-mouse team,
ol great
a series
directing
Boing
slavia,
by Columbia
The
America began
results with
among
were produced by
United Productions of
many more.
one-third
sty lish
is
Screwy
and
Pierce,
in quality.
Squirrel,
car-
a series of films
comedv, but
Road
story-
(including Michael
Tkeir work
Washam, Abe
and
Rod
animators (including
1942)
TV Show "
and
television (both
ABC).
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s short,
anima-
Goliath
//.
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First
appearance of
Tasmanian
Devil.
Paul Terry
dio,
Terrytoons, to CBS.
Hanna-Barbera
begins
TV animation
Reddy."
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UPA
1001 Arabian
debuts.
Nights, released.
grounds
World War
tors to
ism
forced anima-
work faster on
train-
medium
personal
artistic
how to
proved to be unlimited.
modem graphics.
at adults, it
UPA
featured classic
Aimed
car-
inventions.
communicate information
and
series.
tion,
animation have
(Actually, the
And
television
first
made-for-
animation
appeared
ferent styles
in 1947.
tion
and
their
films
and
from
tors as
artists
full-length features,
in
commercials,
Otto Mcssmer
Another
in
early effort
Hungary
stream of animation
new and
classic
duced to
London's Channel
The
From
art
the
of Gerald
to the
in
famed Zagreb
4.
Unicom
in the
Tcll-Talc Heart, a
new
In 1956, a
A backlash
powerful
The
TELEVISION
The
ANIMATION FOR
Garden to
both
was
intro-
new generation
new medium.
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boom
just as other
Ersatz,
is first
Warner
"A
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TV series, debuts.
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first Japanese
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animated
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studio closes.
foreign animation to
and "Thejetsons
(top)
network animated
"The
counterparts
first
of
pioneers of televi-
the
real-
new
"Jonny Quest
premieres.
Walt Disney
dies,
Chuck Jones
Clinch
Grinch
December
creates
"How
"How
15.
the
th
Stole Christmas.
Tcnytoons and
Paramount
close animation
studios.
and
Hanna-Barbera's "The
needed to maintain
artistic
Sam
Adventures of Pow-Wow"
became
with
like
radio
cal
on dialogue and
shows than
cartoons.
to theatri-
The
artists
had
men
lor
Michael Maltese
like
national sensation
succession of stars
Huckleberry
(1958), Quick
youngsters, including
McGraw
Hound
in
spawned
rime cartoons
of a second that
since, for
budgetary
was seen
for
much
is
standard
by
"The
Gene Dietch
Much
years
was highly
result of
stylized, a
tor
In 1957, William
Hanna
Tom
The
"The Alvin
Colonel"
cessful (and
and
TV
at adults.
ol
Cecil,"
and "The
Famous Adventures
Macroo"
Rcddy
series.
to
Using strong
Bullvrinkle" (1959),
Ed
the-
"The
Like
Even
atrical
still -vibrant)
plunge, with
and Jem'
with
creative artwork.
i960); "Thejetsons"
theatricals for
to static drawings.
(all
ot
slot
slew of prime-
i960 premiere
"The
(i960);
skill,
Singer's
as
Draw
to
in
UPA produc-
of Mr.
an escalating
o
ear-
"The Woody
hosting
hilari-
Batchelor's
"Do-Do
the Kid
Channel,
The
By
future of made-for-
and
television animation
The
actively
producing
new car-
replaced by merchandise-
animation.
new and
Age
of televi-
and
fifties
The
acters
such
as G.I.Joe
and
the Smurfs.
sixties.
CBS
Saturday-morning
series
and popular
specials,
encour-
Brown Christmas"
forgotten.
this
Grinch Stole
Christmas" (1966).
Among
a fully
starring their
ters.
(1970), Richard
being pro-
network
for
television
home
famous charac-
Spent
How
My Vacation,"
1992).
Network
later
1960s
also
brought animated
on Saturday
October 1992,
its first
made-for-television animated
feature in 1993. Cable net-
satire
in
System produced
and
characters
international Cartoon
"Tiny
brought
Toons Adventures:
the
laugh, and
for the
Melendez's
for
television
for cable
Carol," and
Bill
make us
on
1992; "Family
blin Entertainment's
It is
is
The Animated
"The
craft,
Television
animated series
Who"
is
series.
looked
diverse high-quality
Chuck
Series," Fox,
sur-
humor,
Disney continued
change
has never
("Batman:
"How the
toon
whole
duced
"Mighty Mouse:
animation industry as
programming
Charlie
for the
works such
as
The Disney
star
on
XV animation producer
nrndnrer DIC
DTC
TV
enters the U.S. market with
Inspector Gadget.
Who
Beauty and
Snielhero- presents
nresenrs
Steven Spielberg
An American
Tale.
Mouse: The
New Adventures.
77ic Rescuers
Disney
airings.
film
the Beast
nominated
for
an
first
completed with
"Batman:
starts.
The Animated
Scries" debuts.
Steven Spielberg
presents Animaniacs.
Walter Lantz
company and
Friz Freleng
(1867- 1 9 34)
(1900-1994)
(1906-)
Creator of Woodv
Animator and
Woodpecker and
classic
and
illustrator
duced the
who
intro-
possibilities of ani-
Nemo,
Chillv
director of
Wamer Bros,
car-
many
Gertie the
ot
Tex
Pig, Sylvester,
many others.
Yosemite Sam,
Clyde
creating
Chuckjones
the Lusitania.
was instrumental
duced
sible tor
many Oscars,
Max
Fleischer
theatrical cartoon
(1884-19-2)
studio,
more than
fifty
and he
won
Special
Achievement
t-979-
of the
Fleischer pioneered
most
sets,
and
in
Pie (1947),
K0K0
Tex Avery
Jones contributed
(1908-1980)
Animator and
figure in twentieth-century
animation. Creator of
Hollywood cartoon
made
in the 1920s,
he
later
Bugs Bunny
significant contribu-
for
wacky
style of
first
Duck and
Wamer
(1892-1983)
Screwy
the
first
animated
for
(1949), So
Much [or
So
Little
the
Line (1965).
and Red
for
MGM.
Bob Clampett
(1913-1984)
length animation.
also
tele-
Wamer Bros.
Tunes. Instrumental
teen years at
Squirrel,
signifi-
director
Otto Messmer
made
Dos
(1900-1966)
cartoons of Daffy
Messmer
Walt Disney
a star.
E.
Mouse
to
The
car-
become
many classic
(1912-)
Director and creator respon-
are but a
three-dimensional
an Oscar for
including
sound
years,
in develop-
Douglas
Leigh Corporation.
MGM, where
of
in the
Porky
Pig,
Academy Award-winning
Tom
and Jerry
series.
rev-
22
development
Looney
forming their
own
and
Cecil.
Cat
Donald Duck
Popeye
Nash
(Otto Messmer/Pat
(E.
Sullivan/ 191 9)
Studios/1933)
Created as
strip con-
temporaries, Felix
was the
first
toons
who was
created and
Betty
Boop
(Grim Natwick/Fleischer
Studios/1930)
The
charm
that endeared
him
he was the
first
and
cartoon star
to be mass-merchandised.
Mickey Mouse
(Walt Disney,
Iwerks/
The
Mouse, the
toon
star,
first
talking car-
became
a national
became
a star in the
comics
Paramount cartoon
take
the
basis of
first
animated
Little
was developed
in
Mickev Mouse
as the biggest
toons.
by
Donald Duck,
tive to
Ub
voice
Many
was the
(voice)/
"Boop-oop-a-doop"
classics
supporting
(Clarence
in the
Fleis-
take-off ol
cher's
C. Segar/Fleischer
talents
way and
such
as
Cab
Porky Pig
Callo-
Louis Armstrong.
The Motion
Freleng/Wamer
(Friz
Picture
Bros./
r 935)
Created as part
animal characters
of a cast of
in the
mode
K0K0
moments
and he
is
best
known
as the Sorcerer's
today
Apprentice
in Fantasia (1940)
and
the
with
Grampy and
etc.
for the
Owl.
Merrie
Melodies cartoon
Pudgy.
Haien't
Mae
Questel.
black-and-white Looney
of
TVs "Mickey
Mouse Club"
dev eloped
by
(I955-59)-
He
ulti-
Warner
Bros, cartoons
23
"That's
all.
folks."
Gallery
of
Cartoon Stars
Woody Woodpecker
Mr. Magoo
(John Hubley/
Productions/1940)
Legend has
sighted Mr.
moon
Barbera/MGM/ 1 940)
Grade, inspired
this batty
Mel Blanc
originated
cat
bird.
we always
ol
wife.
their
Ben "Bugs"
play,
mumbles, and
Pete
Bumess
cackles.
directed the
Academy Award-winners
When Magoo
Song," became
(i956).
to
won
Oscars doing
seven
one
it.
hit record in
number-
Flav (1954)
1948.
Bugs Bunny
Wile
E.
Coyote
(Chuck Jones/Wamer
1940)
Bros./ 1 949)
Pig.
1950s into
cal toil for
a selfish egotisti-
to
Blanc
on producer Leon
car-
the
ways
937)
Magoo was
minds.
Duck
wood-
This
Daffy
that a
it
UPA/1949)
the
lirst
cartoon in which
Acme
Doc?"
his
in his
novv-tamous
bunny was
tion
most household
a collabora-
Jones,
pattern.
(Bob Clampett/Wamer
Bros. 1 942)
"Beep-Beep," occasionally
"I
Tawt I Taw
star of
smart aleck
who
takes
assault
The
on
on
Puddy Tat"
Sylvester's senses.
innocent
little
was responsible
comes out on
Academy Awards
top.
Wamer Bros.
usual,
ILL
for
canary
two
in the
camp.
Mel Blanc
As
originally
*4
The
Road Runner,
is
Leon
tools.
Tweety
the
roadrunner traps on
object of his
stopping to hold up
a picket
A speaking Wile E.
also appears with
Bunny
Coyote
Bugs
in a handful of hilari-
ous cartoons.
Ward
The Simpsons
Pink Panther
and Alex
(Friz Freleng/DcPatie
(Matt Groening/Gracie
Anderson/Ward
Freleng/ 1 964)
Films/ 1 990)
Productions/1959)
This cool
(Jay
cat
was created
for
titles
its
winning weekly
Edwards's
1990, but
rel
from Frostbite
character
that
Falls,
963
Tne
was so appealing
sioned a series
Pursued by
feature film
of
pantomime
won
first
Emmyseries in
appeared in
"The
short segments on
afficiona-
ular
Bill Scott,
theme music.
do
favorite
TV shows are
respectively.
Yogi Bear
Fred Flintstone
(Hanna-Barbera/1959)
(Hanna-Barbera/1960)
"Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" Fred
is
on "The Huckleberry
televisions
Hound Show,"
but became
own
series in
A freeloading inhabi-
Nickelodeon/ 1 991)
prime-time
Flintstones." Originally
Bamey and
first
(John Kricfalusi/
average
bear," Yogi
to
o
his
Wilma; neighbors
Betty Rubble;
is assist-
ed in his picnic-basket
Happy Helmet,
^3 "V^
Dino, in hundreds of
and thwarted
animated
at ever)'
turn
feature.
The
There,
It's
toy called
Man
first
Man
are
but
tew of the
in a feature-length movie,
Hey
make an
show an
instant success
Yogi Bear, in
1964.
25
made
adults.
What Makes
The
fifty
short films
presented in this
volume share
humor or
its
ol skill
and
its
art.
displav
its
Most
ol
Boys earned
its
genre
is
them
do with the
the creation ot a
In
a single
brought
memorable humor.
brilliant
it
comic
graphic style
the
fifty
They
aren't just
tiltv
on par
that
the
making
great film-
strip
ORIGINALITY
In
some
when
ol this
you can
Without ignoring
the finely
its
intrin-
when
recognize
w ould not be
as admired
it
come
was
is
an
approach;
her emotion in
drawn
scene;
tension.
and
The
in
bird,
but more so
feel
breaks, you
essence
star-
new
the cartoon
color
madman's thoughts.
Superman presents
a totally
more
and
literal
less car-
seem almost
real.
of
the bird
the
is
cap-
ANIMATION
Animation drawings
on paper; they
are created to
is
judged
in rela-
motion.
Winsor McCay's
ty to
swallow and
marked by
trunk.
combination of
tling
because
lorm
art
because
quality of animation,
and dialogue.
to
It is
humor,
as difficult
charming
it is
to
at the
com-
in
broke
seven minutes
cess, critical
style
it
and popular,
ol field,
its
creating intricate
cities that
heightened the
comic
lallincr feeling.
first
it
to use sound.
was
effect
of the almost-
Expert drawing
And
was used
clfect in
are
the
we can
artistry to
films, originality is
sic value,
it
producers and
field.
example
similar cartoons;
can.
world
who moved
brought European
and
offbeat
animation,
madman
combined with
test of rime.
It
originality.
of
first
of a
more
mind
cartoons,
and with
many more
important than
type
straints,
skilllul artistry is
it
total
movement
Heart, limited
them
new
manic energy to
ARTISTRY
of
artists
strict
place because
animation.
skill
way for
wide enough to
set out to
and
charms, or
its
enthralled us with
moved us with
a Cartoon Great?
ability
The
see Gertie
"feel" the
a tree
animators
Band
Concert
make
of
managed
The
to
to very different
make us
abili-
as trees
objects,
and laundry,
Little Tailor,
tinct types of
two
dis-
animation
shown: the
excellence are
Fuehrer's Face,
it is
the con-
the top
sewing up the
suit of a beautiful
giant's sleeve
and
Mickey
both
The
riveting.
Planted Trees
Man Who
a tour
is
de
excess. In BcjJ
Luck
idea
dog's path
is
no
until
ous:
it
Music
and expanded
is
lous object
often an important
component of cartoons,
ranging from
(Corny
classical
Often
Duck turns
Daffy
jazz (Minnie
not
successful
when animators
is
regarded
as purely a tale ol
attracts
reminding us
random
gags.
Boop
Evening
hersell
was
sufficiently
profound
is a
Hays
state-
to
needed to be censored.
UPA's A Unicom
And
into an
all
its ability
ried couple,
kind
it is
in the
mar-
makes another
of adult
its
concept;
The
genius
it's
to surprise us with
of the
cartoons in
PERSONALITY
this
Some
book
made
so wonderfully apt.
Perhaps none
acter's state of
mind.
at
same
scene
image
ful as
Mercer's mumblings in
that
visual
HUMOR
Even
if
we
recognize and
admire the
cartoons,
artistry
it is
usually their
humor that we
Often
it is
the
behind
truly love.
humor
of the
is
is
in
Winn's
on
Duck
he
Seasoning.
Humor often
is
as
Bunny cre-
is
almost stream-of-conscious-
revolves
Elmer Fudd
Chuckjones's Duck
sonality of Daffy
Avery, of course,
ten,
as success-
Popcyc or Chuckjones's
dog of Feed
is
immortal "Pronoun
is
lies in
statement.
Many
inability
random image;
dampen
us
the con-
ridicu-
When
Raue,
made
it is
image cap-
In
cases,
pops
on the dog's
a single
eyeball in Book
Moocher,
it
head.
by many
some
woman.
Bimbo's Initiation
CONCEPT
In
filled
hilari-
cat
and more
tails
by
of
Blackie,
achieved the
among
wolfs pur-
were preceded
in the 1940s,
normal
are
out, a larger
MUSIC
humor
on
fifty)
famous
Smt brings us
ter,
But something
together with
tic
bet-
integrity,
ingredients
of arris-
or adding
extra ingredient
much more
kind
of
the
some
or so
same
that they
whose
pcrsonalities,
*7
characters.
foibles
and bickering,
make us
recog-
truly great.
The
Fifty Greatest
Cartoons
rt&ct on Bnrth
Whats
Opera,
Doc?
WARNER BROS.,
1957
CREDITS
A Menu Mclodiu
Directed by
Cartoon
Chuck Jones
Effects animation:
Layouts:
Harry Love
Maunce Noble
Brown
W*mrr Broi.,
In,
n What's
Opera, Doc?,
to the top of a
tower.
"Return
resume
a six-
He man-
same
Fudd unleashes
lines
and
with
ments
begins,
in a stylized
to the audience
"What
cartoon
opera?
Wabbit"
Valkyries'
to the
and
asks,
you expect
in
ordinary.
It
rRETURN
Animators
Elmer:
Russes de Monte
Rhinemaiden
looney. Maurice
trived a
Elmer
Noble con-
dousing
in bright shades.
Moore developed
love,
wantyou always
ELMER: Love
like ours
must be
BUGS: Made
for
and for me
vou
.
Return,
from
For
a less
complicated
Obviously, they
the\'
all
knew
were working on
masterpiece.
my
my
love
love isyours.
31
love,
beside me.
The
[They dance]
BUGS: Return my
set-design materials.
my
inside me.
a tech-
in specialty
it.
Brunhilda, he
Ken
by cutting holes
it,
ELMER: Return my
know
can't help
ELMER:
love.
Bnmbilda,
BUGS: Yes
you're so lovely.
MY LOVE
contains 106
They
an
A happy ending?"
shots, a record.
falls
did
Bugs turns
as a
theme and
into a pigtailed
kills
As Fudd mourns
on
smog, and
As the
rabbits in
the
a lethal
the rabbit.
Valhalla.
his wrath,
time,
most of their
and they
been duped.
realizes he's
and Disney's
Fantasia at the
My Love,"
sere-
minute cartoon.
dizzying
hours of
tall,
There Elmer
IL
nCHUCK
]ONES
Charles
Chouinard Art
Warner
armed
He
stylized
field in
services during
also directed
is,
was
an extra in
bom
in
Spokane,
World War
a
some of the
DL Jones, the
first
Uh
Jones
art instructor
Iwerks studio.
most
intellectual of the
He
and
Warner crowd
was one
of the
first
in creating
he quoted G. K.
artistic
Marvin Martian, the Road Runner, and Coyote, and many memorable Bugs and Daffy cartoons, delving into
(now the
as
1938. His earliest films were slow -paced Disneyesque adventures featuring such characters as
ment with
Institute
Bros, in 1933 and climbed through the ranks as inker, painter, in-betweener, animator,
finally director in
Sniffles the
fifty
in
but with
who
he
is. I
w ant
34
"Not with
The
all
greatest cartoon of
rime?
The
point
remains debatable.
Nevertheless,
Chuck Jones's
rors, in significant
ways, several
many
watching cartoons.
And it
pleasure of breaking
us to serve as
largest
assemblage of animation
its
both
universe.
With
its
charac-
bombast and
intimidation of the
exalts
Wagnerian
artful adroitness,
awesome
puny
lisping
Toontown
order to
The
work of stunning
beauty, great
roots.
It
illustrates
tacle
it
in the
all
status of also-rans
is
that
it
mir-
first
place
example
because their
low
its
shadow of
up pretensions only
we
in
it
was
mixed.
Also, as
Fantasia-like figures
film piles
its first
and
as
Wagnerians. From
this
bedizened
and foremost, in
almost invites
The
first
mythic
coconspirators with
opposites.
Bugs Bunny
as the clear,
sight
down our
satire.
into
an archetypal Bugs
Doc? pulls
gling of reverence
touch with
off a
darling minand
ridicule.
Steve Schneider
t is
likely the
It is at
once
by demonstration on the nature and condition of the animated film and the mechanics of film
Dafify
in general.
sample
They
my blade,"
But
after a
suitable scenery.
few thrusts, he
When he
ground scenery.
scenery?"
paintbrush
appears and
farmyard
ending
setting,
He
teer costume.
into overalls
changes
o
and gets
a hoc,
now the
but
scenery
presents the
North
'Would
much
it
to ask
Pole.
be too
if
we could
Hmmm?"
In
idea
Koko
Felix the
the
swings, creatine:
was created
own worst
nightmare.
scenery, colors,
sound
and
and
woes only
increase.
The
fre-
but
WARNER BROS.,
1953
to
it
mood
show of
cartoon
in a free-form,
stream-of-consciousness
style. Recalls Jones,
started out,
sat
started drawing,
"We
CREDITS
down and
and
came
it
he
idea that
pened
that point
right
as such,
his
it
a hilarious,
The
desperation.
The
did
animated, one-man
We
send-up of all
Amuck
cartoon conventions
Duck
Cat and
Clown
From
self in a surreal
new
Duck's schizophrenic
in a
tills
was not
fourth wall
"Where's the
asks,
cruel
caprice.
rounded by
met with
requests are
on
hap-
it
on the board.
we made one
story
after-
we were making
at
the time
it.
was not
the last
out."
hit
upon
week
until
of lay-
Directed bv Charles
Jones
Vaughan
W,
Stalling
"
Duck Amuck
r,DAFFY DUCK
Duck
Daffy
has a
split personality. In
was
Jumping, laughing,
ol a
and 1960s,
foil for
First appearing in
between starring
{Daffy
star.
The
Porky
Duck
character alternated
in
Hollvu'ood)
and lead
voijv
rt>e-if
otu Si&Qi.
black-and-white Looney
as T7>c Daffy
in
Pictures).
roll his rs
from that of
and
lisp
The
voice
was sped up
By
the time
same
to
The
it
zanier. Syl-
it is
created, Daffy
make
voice, but
had been
new persona
as the frus-
much
cast Daffy as a
wanna-be
celebrity try-
fun
McKimson
most "dethpicable
role
HllHWIf I li
"Ob,
38
brother,
Buzz
Boy.
Duck Amuck
fee
Band
Concert
is a
staff to
felt
manages
that
It's
it
to blend music,
certainly
one of their
finest
achievements
Walt
Leonard Maltin
Thi Walt
4"
Deng Campon.
be
Band
Concert
was an
his baton
Designed to be something
slides
the
As
first
color
his five
is
Tell Overture,
The
darkens.
and the
responsive to every
Donald
pulls out a
starts playing
Straw."
The
fife
and
"Turkey
in the
musicians
fife,
D'orsi,
Cy Young.
Louis Schmttt
tricks
performed
for the
audience.
Hucmer
resumes
his melody.
Then
mance.
It
lands on Mickey's
of ice cream
at
cream lands
in the
it,
the ice
trumpet
41
leaves begin
tornado
his
band reach
max
at
musical
cli-
back to
his
band mem-
in
Mickey and
finale.
his
in the
Mickey and
of Mickey's baton
Ugo
Soon
plaung
up
front of them.
move
of his
formance of "Selections
band
CREDITS
"The Storm"
William
it
1935
down
as
band's music.
WALT DISNEY.
Concert
blown back
is
twister,
promise.
Band
mouth and
ideal
The
Mickev turns
of the
to take
applause
is
from Donald.
has
It
as the sleeve of
Mickey
baton;
it
down
to conceal his
band, against
turn;
it
its will,
has to
to the grandstand. In
flashing details
nado
unmotivated
villainy of
competing tune on
itself
during the
is
line of
the
tor-
the general
when
there
comedy
many
Donald;
itself
no other
observed so
it
the flute
by playing
picture have
They
are miraculous
if
if
you catch
you do
not,
miraculous
is
all
still.
Gilbert Seldes,
moments
in this scene
w hen
the
42
Compjm
DISNEY ANIMATION
The
ly
release of The
on course
full
Band
Concert
Each new
Silly
Symphony,
Walt Disney's
goal
life
classic
was
was
a subtle
studio
this one,
were
now
in
Don Graham,
taught by
the
Seven Dwarfs.
From
as well,
art classes
Disney
The
for bigger
intuitive character
Technicolor, and the series would play an important part in the growth and maturity of Disney's an form.
(whose
was
Stciimfiodt Willie,
like
(a specialist in
action
wo of the Nine Old Men, the elite team of artists who set the standards known as
animation.
the outset, Disney strove for realistic personality animation. "I definitely feel that
we
know
first
the real,
Walt
said.
"The
we cannot do
on
its
neering use of music and sound, depth and color, as well as action and special
effects.
maximum
entertainment,
The
little, if it
is
is
caught and fixed in a typical gesture rendered laughable through exaggeration or through transference into the unfamiliar; and for the swift
way
all
full
on one another.
No one
ever
saw
flute
air
band
swap
of the brass
section.
The
New
Otto Ferguson,
Republic,
1935
43
pio-
by most of his competitors, improving the quality through the entire industry and influencing animators around the world
fa,
made
DUCK DODGERS
in the
<ENTURY
Acme
intergalactic void
during the
ly
The
conflict
bit,
spaceship were
Duck Dodgers
Co.
barely big
earth-
to a single
enough
tor
By 1953,
(Daffy Duck)
Daffy
Duck and
Pork)' Pig
Duck Dodgers
ities.
were
stars
with
Daffy'
like
in the z^'/i*
And
Porky,
Bugs
who now
With
lar
cadet
(who
him "Your
calls
of a regu-
become
smarter,
more
comes
planet
(it
Planet
Y) and claims
until
Mamn
and claims
planet
right after
it
it
lor
Earth
The
Bunnv
which only
enough
for
isn
in
1948
s Haredcvil
Hasty
Hare).
t bis.
both of them, so
Lucas
is
particularlv fond ot
this cartoon,
aters
unplcasantries,
first
Martian lands
as well.
third
making use
booked
alongside his
44
WARNER BROS.,
1953
CREDITS
A
Directed by Charles
Jones
Ben
Wjshjm
Stalling
Duck Dodgers
in the
14
Ccmury
'/,
nPORKJ
PIG
A
Metric Melodic:
Porky further in
Duck
Warner
1930s. Porky
w as
first
of Looney
Tunes
in 1936:
acter s
Gold
seen in a
a series
many
Porky's
Duck
it
"That
Bros, cartoons.
L
s
always amazed
It
the
Warner
me
that
Bros, cartoons
II
they'd
on current
entertainment for
kids.
But
if
wouldn
for the
be quite so
much
fun
was Warner's
principal entry in
daresay
it's
as
more
Leonard
Maltin
Duck Dodgers
l
/
in tie
'
Century
c
4.
J.
The
Warner
Disney renegades
mators
its
own
like
home
the
During World
effort.
War
II,
Warner
situations.
stable.
Warner
Warner
Bros.
The
cartoon department
won
dumbest
its first
in
America.
Oscar
in
1947 fotlwecbe
the 1950s and
Pic.
war
the
tirst
960s triumvi-
atrical shorts,
in
left
and Ising
cartoon to team Tweety and Sylvester, and the studio went on to win a total of six
rate of Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng,
When Harman
of funny cartoons.
1.
identity as the
Ising.
owned by Leon
TV commercials, public service spots, and merchandising artwork. Today, the studio produces the
Series,
among many
highly successful
others.
Jl
IL
47
ter night.
when
was
ble,
and
fame
its
is all
the
the cartoon
is
silent
(entertained
Opening
in the cornerstone
greets the
is a
frog,
worker with
him, and
My
A singing
Much
a rendition of "Hello,
frog!
soon
to be his, the
home.
sive
and
New
Washam
it's
"but
ribbiting
uses his
life
windows
and
savings to rent
mance
beer to
fill
the house)
the
man
park bench on
ends up on
a
tures,
to a theatrical agency
Canoon
animation of
company of others,
clear when he
the
man
the
humdrum
tell
they started)
frog.
CREDITS
of the cartoon's
'
will
simply
Mcrrit Melodies
Jones's decision to
man
Acme
frog, of
WARNER BROS.,
by the
Ragtime Gal."
Evening
it
who
Froggy
explains
story
man
the
except
The
in a psychiatric hospital
One
The
cold win-
49
"It
he
think of all
I
like
it
was
a diffi-
said,
my pic-
best."
There
enduring
silent-
screen comics
still
who
owner's mental
remaining cheer-
health deterio-
The
owner's
The
cartoon
plight.
directly
With
stomach
Gal" on
simplicity
and economy of
foils
the plans
increasing sophistication.
hat and cane give
way
demanding
aria;
frog
The
movements
The
is
an
is classical
in
from the
Warner
paints
Bros, cartoon,
a familiar
to have
is
enduring enough
been imitated
in
which the
alien
pops out of a
to perform
a
"Ragtime
who had
"ribbit.
story
structure, a departure
vocally
are
impolite
to a high-
is
and
scenario of the
laughed
at
is
Jami Bernard
as close as
Time
magazine,
973
MICHIGAN ]. FROG
Chuck
eschew dialogue
in
in
"I
if
that discipline
one thing,
it
the son of
that
had an explosive
a
bitch frog
quality.
was going to
to hear
it
This
is
My House,"
and
"Please
don
Fight,"
talk
about
me when
I'm gone,
51
McCay is
major
extreme poses to be
fig-
system
McCay,
insor
popular newspaper
Two
first
ville
talks."
it
McCay began,
in 1909. to
comic
Little
was the
first
animated
McCay's
animated
first
And though
wrong,
Gertie is
car-
was Winsor
it
is
first
his
most tamous
ation.
of
cre-
McCav followed
up that
film animation,
"lightning sketches,"
film with a
if
duced cartoons
ahead
until
one drawing
time, each
car-
then
at a
movement drawn
This process
character animation.
by being the
a
most notablv
first
tive" cartoon.
to Gertie,
ed
"interac-
McCav talked
obeying
his
commands,
pumpkin thrown
by pioneers J. Stuart
catching a
were essentially
"trick
more ambitious
of
the
Hollywood
a mile-
later
all
in succession.)
car-
both are
still
to Gertie the
toon.
strip character
by
appeared in vaude-
doing "chalk
was
falsehoods have
become attached
it
in
filled
For
Gertie,
McCav developed
"The McCay
of
Split
John Canemaker,
McCay's biographer, wrote:
"Where McCav
differed
in
drawing with no
sacrifice of
and even-
individualistic personality
traits into his characters, are
qualities that
McCay first
medium."
5*
li
GERTIE"
MNOSAURUS
WONDERFULLY TRAINED
Gcrtk
the
Dinosaur
CREDITS
Written, dirccicd. animated, and
produced by \\ insor
PeesioofT.
EXCHANGES
IN
53
McCay
insor McCay's
endearing
Gertie, the
who
a
when admonished,
cries
is
Walt Disney
before the
studio
Drawn
in
McCay's elaborate
illu-
means:
When
Gertie drinks an
bulge in
instead,
cartoonish manner;
pan
of the
cliff
on which
When she
boulder
attempts to toss
at a
mischievous
is
slips
twice
grip.
also a thinking
who
She
is a
show
off,
headstrong and
enough
to
be provoked to tears.
Gertie's tears are, in fact, a
baptism, consecrating a
new
Dopey, Happy,
et al.
John Cancmakcr
i,jtj.K>-
'
RED HOT
RIDING HOOD
had
fait
56
ittlJkJ
Riding
Hood was
skipping
on the
way, bud,
do
lamp
variation of
of
Red
up, he
vows
he'll
babe."
onstage, the
makes
to
himself
kill
at
and
has done
singer.
way!"
this
a girl-crazy
is a
a charac-
immediately popular
spinster with a
"Grandma's
skyscraper:
Come up and
see
me
The Wolf
act, a lively
drives
him
crazy.
He
when we made
num-
Animation: Preston
Blair
Quimby
and others
roared.
promises of diamonds,
ington, to
of sidewall
off to
tires
He
soon
tries to
bit
the
MGM to plan
some
It
got back to
it
Wash-
from
us. Finally,
the Red
The Wolf
is
to trim
out quite a
set
and hurries
Grandma's.
new
first in
drags
we had
the
and
sergeant [stationed at
pearls, ermine,
we were
dually,
catch Red's
Producer: Fred
Rural
is
Little
Hood (1949).
nightclub
and Grandma
singer,
super sequel.
reintro-
Wolf is now
Red
Wild
his ghost
Tex Avery
Cinderella (1945),
Riding
it
(1945), Swing
sometime."
Directed by
Shift.
Wolf blows
stamp
Joint
MGM Carloon
them) appeared
Dan McGoo
another
some
(or
man-hungry
CREDITS
five
before
"look
the eye-popping
Hollywood Woll
lands
playboy.
An
Red and
dives
So the narrator
1943
and
this a
quit!"
MGM,
It's
story, over
window and
street
or noth-
fed
same old
new
stop
'Tm
"Imagine
No Door!")
out the
he complains,
like
the
Hood
That,
ing.
up with
Riding
esque signs
it!"
Re J Hot
Red
Little
it
for his
don't
personnel overseas.
went over
prints they
great overseas.
Tex
escape
interviewed by Joe
The
Avery,
Adamson
|
57
Haudjence reaction
1943, the manager of an
ater noticed that
In
ting whistles
was
Iselin,
get-
manager wanted
shouted to see
it
again.
felt
so he cancelled
second
as enthusi-
astic
fied,
the audience
to see
it
again.
obligat-
demanded
The
Though
satis-
a full
cheer
on
it
anyone
who
cared
to stay;
An
animation business
that
stuff'
to be
during
branded "kid
diers,
and
sailors,
in this case,
with
less
and
for
going to get
all
sol-
randy
less
fry
concern
were
tics
MGM
Who
cartoons
Early Bird
anyone
he
a critic of the
to that
to
be
a distancing effect
Wolf interrupts
flow-
trast is adroitly
consummate
abruptness and
absurd in
Blair in
MGM "pro-
the pseudo-Disney
by Harman and
its
at
Ising; and,
day he
left
Wamer Bros., an
it
was
shat1
Although
sets
it
this dates
apart
pared-down,
stylized, nearly
effortless effects
at his
Avery achieved
peak in the
allows for
late 1
moments
940s,
it
of subtlety
less
more
familiar
foot in
with Avery's
lacks
its
it
way
him
way
own
hipness.
indomitable
humor
40s
What
is
the
of its domi-
keeps one
simultaneously
foot.
rubbing your
it
ani-
adult world
and
and Red
we think
is
adult about,
its
on
answer
Blitz
off a trace
up
inflection.
In the
worn
nose in
with
It,
full,
face,
Killed
Dood
becomes
we had up
stylistic characteris-
Who?, The
effectively
achieved by
character in
to
that unexpected
very film
many of its
him with
"What
postwar baby
Hood,
crowd (only
it's
sleeve
and
it's
probably
us.
Joe
Adamson
mm M IT* it
elcome to Wackyland.
It
can
needed.
ever
bird.
Bob Clampett
to
some
ol
goon
his face
that
in
and demands to be
sways on
swing sus-
own ears;
pended by
Porky
is
its
plumage; and
weirdo
its
don't
in a
lit
newspaper
sign)
headline.
bird
feet,
(his
three-headed
mama was
scared by a pawnbrokers
monetary value
zeros in
in front of
Using
his
own
dis-
the
truly a rare
dodo
but was
the last of
CREDITS
Merrie Melodic! Girroon
dampen
Wacky
who holds
convict stripes
other
banana
The
characters of the
it
landscape include
the
lift
pnson window
The
Norman McCahe,
to crash into.
Directed hv Robert
exit
artist
Animation:
it
with
\\ ackvland (as
home
land),
through when-
about an expedition to
Mncan
1938
door to
can draw
It
WARNER BROS..
ckyland
It
to avoid capture:
dodo
Porky in
IP* ft
Ellis
Stalling
60
them
it
really
Porky
Wackyland
in
STAFF REACTION
orfcy in
1938.
Wachland was
The
Porfcv in
staff
to wTite their
picture
i,
and
ever:
he sign
As
far as
was
tops
I'm concerned,
swell.
One
it
the animation
is
Frank
Keep
s best. It s
good story
this
up and we
11
all
T:
be
Michael
other units.
of Clampett
stating, "It
can hap-
Maltese
Clampett
Lee Larson
Tashlin
the begin-
at
ning of Wackyland,
mantra
Perhaps Clampett
his career.
wasn't just
artist
when Porky
into
with pencil
Wackyland, but
mate
as well.
By
his soul-
stretching
BOX
SCORE
rasas
OfflCIALM*
DEBATE
was unstoppable,
some studio
what
is
despite
resistance to
now
"Warner
P0RmSEARCH0;
DODO
called the
Style."
By
heading their
BtUtVEO
style of
0,000,
p. s .000,00
MUStUWtf
wacky new
EXTINCT
units, the
own
new wave
was building up
.
fP*
...
totor'y
(<"
L.r,l
lh pir*
t*l
cre-
head
of steam. Everything
f If
"Merry-go-round
broke down" theme
FV. P
music to Porky
Pig's
'
1
embarrassing stutter
proved nothing was sacred to
this
bunch.
Bob dampen.
62
Jr.
Porky
in
Wackylahd
than
a year
made Porky
By
for its
own
films,
Parts'
this, his
more
Gabby Goat,
was eliminated.
for
the pig in outrageous situations with equally outrageous costars, such as Daffy Duck,
Wackyland, Bob Clampett had been doing black-and-white Porky Pig cartoons
in
when
the storyboards
on
his
hunt by
J
63
'9St>.
64
Renewed tgpi Co
The neighborhood
don't
happened
of
to that
landmark
is a
animated
in the history
films, for
it
boy"
little
With such
boy."
style
to
Downhearted, Gerald
fol-
cartoons as
about to board
"UPA
when
new standard
lor
cartoons in
McBoing
to
Boing
but declares,
lor this,
case."
"I've
can't
With
the
make
boy
star of the
Sam Steelheart"
"Silent
His
who examines
owner
needs someone
becomes the
tor
He
is
home and
a freight train
a radio-station
appears.
the 1950s.
Gerald
children
Seuss,
western showdown.
crowd
time, Gerald's
of
autograph seekers
any cartoon
Pigs has
no cure
Little
by making
Disney's Three
handle this
or.
tion
Based on
its
lies
a story
by Dr.
revolutionary distinc-
in
its
Its
drawing
its
is
UPA, 95i
sound
repertoire increases,
and
trains.
When
he makes
CREDITS
Columbia
Picturcs/jollv Frolics
Directed by Robert
Cannon
him
to
it's
time
not
"Now Gerald is
composed by
friends,
go to school, but
him home.
is
Story:
richer in
Color
all
style:
Herb
music,
modern, completely
is
dar-
in
humor and
picture far
spirit
than
tional cartoons.
Dr Seuss
Pyle, [-rank
Backgrounds
ingly
The
Gail Kubik,
delight of this
Matthews, Willis
realistically.
keeping.
Bill
has
Adaptation
rich,
is
Not
little
the least
film
is
the
Smith
lulcs Engcl
They look
like
after
all, is
what they
are.
Arthur
Knig/ir.
Celumhu
65
All rijbtl
DR. SEUSS
Gerald's
ter
tale is told in
known
the distinctive
who saw
who had
children's
phonograph
relied heavily
record,
on sound
effects,
it
it
Geisel, bet-
to
Stephen
which
pleased with the finished film. "It started a revolution in animation," he proudly declared
New
short can cut across the whole of the audience and can be
made
"We
later.
attractive
and entertaining to
iSU PERFLEXM
VIRTUALLY UNBREAKABLE
67
BILLY
MAY
"KinG-SIZE
^^M#lT.
ing-Sizc
Canary opens
hungry
alley cat
itsell as
but quickly
bird
and
mouse recommends
like a
one of Tex
cat
is
about to
gate a refrigerator
Gro"
bulldog charges.
The
Canary
a live
The
explo-
save vour
life!"
all
dnnk
The
there's
none
left.
larger,
back
cat
and
until
"Ladies and
the
The
taller.
it
is
stopped bv the
now
dog
tall.
The dog
but
is
good
bull-
thirty feet
soon scared
off bv the
bottle
and gets
but
... if you're
.
after the
end
this picture.
We just ran
"
doom bv offering
me
life.")
save your
but
in a sardine tin,
I'd
nothing
The
947
MGM Canoon
Story:
"Jumbo-
and mouse
Producer: Fred
CREDITS
An
you
Still
tion.
over,
MGM
told
sidesteps
Size
cat
down
"I
Then the
With
emaciated.
King-
the cat
idea.
investi-
when
is
The
Directed
TEX AVER>
Quimby
Heck Allen
68
out of the
The
pair
goodbye
stuff.
Goodnight.
camera pulls
a tiny
planet
69
I'm
not because
ous
simulacrum
isn't
it
critics, theorists,
have beat
me
because
deserves
its
it
own
to
terms: a
it),
(numer-
and French
issue cat,
MGM standard-
but mainly
tend,
1947
MGM cat-
ment.
is
(i.e.,
in
which the
become
really, really
premise as early as
McCay s 1921
one ever did
job
ot
it.
No
The
Pel,
that
biggest
is
if
and
but no
Not merely
scaled-up
big
is
funniest.
tively funniest
Tex Avery
funny, then
And Avery's
cartoons in the
industry.
human
In character animation, a
artist
and
and subsequent
dis-
at the core
ing.
Thev function
as subversive
freak
ratings for
Geraldo.
are
to Clampett s
real
glandular disturbances.
graffiti
and stretch
legs,
Winsor
definition
expand heav-
more thorough
knew
their plight
for
Tom
and Jerry
dis-
comment on
characters
Avery's 1947
big
is
fantasy, or surrealist
Oprah,
Sally,
Mark
and
Nciegarden
Kjng-Sizc Canary
HUMOR
of it
squashed.
slapstick comedies.
Mack
if
You can
see
Sennett with his Ford that goes between two trolleys and comes out
a character,
if it's
funny, a
human
could do
it
funnier.
71
You
If a
human
can do
it, it
isn't
always funny
milk bottle."
possi-
Three
little
Pigs
WALT DISNEY,
Be
Wdl(
Dunn
Compan;
WALT DISNEY
resents
1933
CREDITS
Directed by Bert Gillett
An
Babbitt,
Norm
Man
Be
7*
car-
Churchill,
Little
by the hair on
chin chin"
ens,
Pigs
is
by which 1933
of animation. Although
the
little
I'll
puff and
in."
little
pig
The two
house
The
bricks
dance to
hold.
is
breakthrough
in "personali-
ty animation."
Disney had
hard
Norm
bine
who
first
two
The
down
a boiling kettle,
and
down
little
is
skv,
sent
then
theme song.
"Who's Afraid
of the Big
Bad Wolf?"
Tattered and scraggly, the
com-
tale
comes
was Disney's
standard folk
the woli
for
sincere effort to
sony when
most
brick.
principal anima-
and in
work on
tion,
at
straw house,
with
when
the pig
ors. Its
depends on building
hull and
his
undermining national
my chinnv
as well as their
"Not
movements
off the
in
A flute-plaring
Moore was
I'll
"I'll
him
at
tors,
strong
be
will
refuses to let
begun
and
Sears,
remembered."
Ted
on
self-
Ameri-
the door:
"Who's
$125,000
The
afraid of the
film earned
release.
M. Thomas
Inge
C
73
TTw Wslt
Dunn Campjnt
he directors
were given
at
Warner
a great deal of
autonomy over
their produc-
As Chuck Jones
tions.
Bros,
they
made
for adults.
were made
for
Thev
music, and
of
made
Rabbit
of Seville
for
Elmer
tempo with
Bugs
larger axes
gives
a close shave.
He
then
grows and
a fruit salad
on
mows
and guns
until
Bugs
offers flowers
ring.
dumps him
and
into a cake.
it.
he
calls out,
"Next!"
beard on
Although
lond of classics
music, Jones was
aware
fullv
animated-film
of
1950
it.
CREDITS
all
in front of
Senile the
In
vou put
if
something tunny
music
played straight.
Jones
comedy."
Thus
Rabbit of Seville
always
is
It's
what the
makes
characters do that
it
the music in
is
the origi-
enough
rabbit,
hunter as
comedic quality
Directed by Charles
is
potential.
This
who
Fudd,
on
flowers.
for
hair
and tosses
nv,
his
ris-
cal
WARNER BROS-,
up
The
grow
Fertilizer" to
the overture.
Bugs Bunnv
a series of
cement
his customer. In
taste,
it's
Bugs
the rabbit
me." Since
them
Nor were
for children.
of
takes
of the
said,
made
hunt
him
Mel Blanc
HI
MICHAEL MALTESE
name
Chuck Jones
less
said,
is
that of
only the odd, the unusual, the hilariously peculiar interested him.
He
"The quirky brilliance of his ready wit was never, never neutral.
way
Maltese's
74
Furry-ous.
among many
other
hits.
One Froggy
12,
^RABBIT OF
SONG
SEVILLE
How
do
Welcome
to
my
shop
mop
Let
me
cut your
Lei
me
sfctf-uc^our crop
Daintily
daintily.
Hey, you
Don't look
so perplexed.
sec
he vexed
you
rc
next
You're so next
Haw
about a nice
close
to
shave
behave
Lots of lather
Lots of soap
Please hold
Dont
still
be a dope
Now were
rant
and
rave
There's no use, you need a shave.
Although your
it
IL
:.\\
75
.,
Bio.
In,
Rabbit of Seville
One
obvious distinc-
tion
between Rabbit
and other
of Seville
previous
Warner
Jones
end,
s film,
is
music
to classical
is
that
from beginning to
anything but
that he applied to
much
da of its
One
own
all
work
musical agen-
must
be introduced in an envi-
ronment indigenous
Fudd hunting
cycle.
As
a per-
made
and
"disciplines'
the peculiar
fell
swoop
the
working overtime:
hills,
and with
effort-
left
to
pursued by Elmer,
available
the backstage of an
It
isn
mous
a close-up
outrightly provoked by an
76
Priceless
is
it
its
dawns
is
first
is
outdoor amphitheater.
rises,
expression
on Fudd
Elmer
facial
sanctuary
to rabbits,
at
right as Bugs,
Bunny
is
one
through
less
first
in
in
the distant
as Rabbit of Seville.
pics
it is
both
his
still
shot"; instead
ele-
"one-
very
ments
and structural
with as intricate
synched
narrative
that he s not in
Kansas
fully
Greg
Ford
^BUGS BUNNY
ugs Bunny
is
car-
we
all
intelligent
enough
to defy
a series of
any opponents.
screwball duck-hunting
The
a bit in Preslo-Cbango,
revised
him
the personality
while
Blanc's
World War
II,
for the
American
spirit
the
A Bugs Bunny
Oscar
L
.
for Best
during
Animated Short
in iq<;8.
won
the
J
.
77
Tli
The
self-reliant personality of
ed
all
Mickey Mouse,
and jaunty
in history.
figure
According to
she arrives
late.
s great originality
and sound
effects is the
H'jfl
Dnntv Compjnv
is
proba-
who
Straw" using cooking utensil drumbeats, duck quacks, and pig squeals.
logue,
Ub
Wilfred Jackson. Disney, influenced by fellow Missourian Mark Twain, cast Mickey as
when
made an image
The consonance
dia-
key to the great success of Disney animation from then until now. Oh, yes: Walt also spoke for the parrot.
James Culhanc
78
music
Mickey opens
Mickey
Minnie cranks
but
earlier
thrilled
first
eaten by a goat.
combina-
notes that
mal's mouth.
was
offers
new
Mickey
them
Mouse
car-
is
when I had
put the
on
ishing touches
said Disney.
"My
silent
Mickey was
New York
soundtrack for
The
cartoon
and
iq 2 8
gleefully explores
all.
The
orgy of sound
Pete,
on Mickey,
mouse knocks
the bird
a
CREDITS
Directed hv V\
Animation:
caris
WALT DISNEV,
hurried to
ani-
boat
potato.
recorded
the
in,"
dead dodo.
.
from the
The
came
spill
my first
talkies
Willie
fin-
and
its tail,
ended by Captain
who
Steamboat
carrying
intro-
character with
series of Mickey
mouth,
its
audiences were
by the
is
Ub
alt
Disney
paean to synchronized
sound, but, as noted by
teamboat Willie was
first
(Mickey's
at
official
18,
1928
visual
birthday),
"We
As Disney
discovered
have just
amuse
we didn
we had
"it
was Disney's
extraordinary popularity."
said,
Mickey
first
appears
at
the
cartoon toy to
children,
in WctJt in
Wonderland,
Theater.
Kaufman
shown on
* November
im pressive
illusion."
j
"Turkev
in the
Straw" sheet
17m
79
WUl
Dlifi( Li>niftjnt
1,
Old Mill was made
he
two reasons:
iment to see
It
if
for
was an expereffects
bird
as
which
it
new
As
depth to the
The
stars; as
flat
is
the
world
of
cartoon has
storyman Dick
"Our
water
lilies
in
on within the
fireflies join in
era
signal
arrives,
and
cam-
Cows
is
film
when her
new day
it
The
begins.
I multiplane cam-
bravura
And
doves
But beyond
tors
Bill
for use
"Our
saw
punctuates
eyes popped
all
of The Old
when we
Mill's
men-
magnificent innovations
to
things
understand.
The
an Academy
Award
own from
Animated Short
an industrial
encroachment.
It is
on
power
it
and
leavening of
its
era,
Garity built
measure of sur-
her
dis-
began, just as
destined to ride
ly oblivious
endangered bv the
thrill
The
bluebird panics
comedy
cows
tance where
is
as the
The mother
nest
The cam
mill.
moves back
begins to move.
sweep, retains
priateness.
bluebird's
Crickets and
Blowing leaves
toward
the cam-
The
era's prying.
con
wind; a storm
moves
curl up,
the soundmaking.
a distance, the
era slowly
fly off,
ace.
hatched nestful.
prise
The
inhabited by mice,
mill,
totter.
the endangered
momma bird
a
making it
From
out
windmill."
who knows
story
viewer
At the
a drver location.
of Disney's
a test
Rikard explained,
trie
is
no
OH Mill is splendid,
The
cartoons.
even for
al
The
a blue-
was
suspense in The
flies
and
anima-
tion,
h Disnty Company
tremen-
Oscar
Michael H.
Price
The Wall Dimtf Cempai
80
for the
film
won
for Best
in 1937,
won an
camera
82
ike
all
wires, or in a
pipe
cats
mates
it
begins with
The
for
Bad tuck
when he
bulldog.
The
Blackie,
who
Blackic a bedrock
path.
The
meets
erpot
one
in
which he
a device
A black cat
bad
will
after
still
happen
something
further
on you
does Avery
imagination
lenged.
is
will
fall
him on
followed by the
recalled to ani-
"We
it
ting hit
by
flowerpot to the
kitchen sink, to
.
needed.
of
Finally,
we
amthing
a battleship
couldn't think
else to
drop on
him.
switch
end
alley,
come
An
the end
all
like
the
MGM
Cartoon
Producer: Fred
bulldog did
in a dead-
at
CREDITS
Quimbv
through the
Preston
picture."
Blair,
Louis Schmidt
on high telephone
sufficiently chal-
Then he makes
the cus-
And he
1949
in the air,
MGM,
but
Only
to you.
is
it
luck,
flow-
out. Blackie
blow whenever he
tosses
Tex Avery
Warners.
good
The
falls
lor
entire horse.
time Blackie
again to
the head
named
offers to help
first
Blackic
hvdrant,
a tire
laughing
kitten
Luck
and
horseshoe
end
cash register,
a sadistic,
its
by accepting
And
a piano.
by
Bad
calls,
at
path.
ani-
story
and
anarchy, hits
pitiless
drain-
ized
Tex
and
life
the possible.
narrow
the kitten
premise
when
begins.
]ejf Miller
IP
83
\>l
ut
on the
CASTOON
HgQS.
iarm, comic-book
bv the
WASNtR
At Joe's"
elated
is
gun and
He
Twacv." Phone
kissing: a
looks
like a
calls arrive
1946
sow.
bank only
"I
to
love that
is
His neurot-
ic
Porky Pig in
frantic allv
gunning down
periectlv
characters as
WARNER BROS.,
his
kisses the
Mouse Man,
ter.
fits
his
zany charac-
such
Hammer
Head, Pussycat
and
Puss, Bat
Man, Double
as Pruneface, the
Flattop,
w ere
Brow,
ideal inspi-
An ear-
lier
Dandruff
Dome, Snow
Slot Face,
Rubber Head
Daffy out.
"rub"
tangles with
to blow!").
Neon Noodle
^DICK TRACY
The
popular Diet
Tracy comic
strip,
created in
was
a perfect inspiration
such
as Pruneface, the
head makes
runway). Sherlock
piggy bank
even
streetcar (with
Robbery
crime wave!")
Bank
machine
("It
Great
mows
knocks
The
sign. Daffy
Coat,
got
fictional detective of
all
cameo gag
originally
that
was
planned to be a
CREDITS
A
(.oonev
Tuna
cartoon.
Cartoon
iZ
Story
Warren
Foster
I.
Ellis
Thomas
McKimson.
DeGuard
Philip
Stalling
84
85
Robert
mission
is
to
come up
to con-
people,
somehow,
stay with
making of ephemeral
lan-
change
ciple.
lives.
power
Applying
Bob Clampett's
to
this prin-
forever
And
then
prompting the
ity are a
film's
manic
hilar-
selves, inspired
Gould
by Chester
and high
cartoon
one of the
ishables,
and 88 Teeth
animated
Hammer
Duck Twacy,
or agonizing over
smacking
to Pickle Puss,
ings.
it
terror
the gangsters
lair,
its
or stalking
86
films.
finest
melange of unhinged
and inspired
silliness.
don
spirits, this
after
Bank
mock-
is
Even
of the
clearly a
after
moments
and the
incomparable cine-surrealism:
Scene
work
is
in cartoon history.
Robben
real cher-
that, of all
hold dearest.
innumerable view-
remains unbelieva
and
ble.
Steve Schneider
One
and
Bob Clampett
I
was
man had
floored.
cartoon, and
It
when
his
name came
ever produced.
on,
Robbcn',
and
it
was
who
my favorite.
thought
it
was the
out cold and have a dream about being "Duck Twacy." All the Chester Gould villains are there;
Duck was
instantly
it
was
totally surreal
and
bizarre.
And
Daffy
actually daffy.
]obn
87
Kricfalusi
Sindbad
result
dimensional
sets.
The
tech-
on
Cwelve-
mounted
in front of
an
ani-
on
a glass plate
one frame
is
hung
vertical-
and shot
at a rime.
The
set
rotated incrementally,
speeds than
background elements,
giving a realistic sense of
dimension.
88
'
Popeye
Mickey Mouse's
greatest
"Wreck
deserved to be showcased in
the
wish
fulfillment:
It's
Somehow eating a can of
spinach miraculously gives
to beat
your
The
early
funniest
moments
Popeye cartoons
hilariously clever
knocks the
Bluto.
(or
are the
stuffing out of of
Those
action scenes
Kricfalusi calls
as John
more than
And
this
"Twister punches,"
arrives
was
The
a pair of lions
way, soon
island in
He
and smashes
Max
first
The
"Who's
the
most
Sindbad,
finally
conquering
punch
that spins
him around
The
a "twister
like a
propeller.
remarkable, extraordinary
strolls
around the
is
fellow''
Isle
home
island's ani-
and the
new
king
The
mayhem
Also on hand
all
topped off by
Jerry
Max
Fleischer Cartoon
Rokh, an
Music and
On
are prizes
CREDITS
cartoon was so
Technicolor,
of
the island.
timed to patriotic
FLEISCHER, 1936
for his
him with
he
the Sailor
Rokh
of
remarkable, extraordinary
as
Sindbad
question:
Meets
the Sailor
outroars
bird
through
to a menagerie of beasts,
electric
on the
search of Olive.
Popeye cartoon
of Sindbad, which
usual:
this
me!"
to
in the
ways Popeye
"funny beatings,"
film has
it:
woman
than
Popeye
Seventeen
more
Oyl
v\ith Olive
minutes long
singing his
own song,
a special film.
sailor,
he was
rival
Popeye the
popularity soared
airplane-size bird.
is
ful
Beck
AJl F
1
89
Lamp.
lyrics:
Sammy Timburg,
the Sailor
POPEYE'S ORIGINS
Created in 1929 as
supporting player in
E. C. Segar's
comic
strip
sailor.
Max
Boop cartoon
immediate
ly in
new
hit;
and was an
within
cartoons.
Matching
sailorman was
difficult,
were not
Edwards
(later
if it
the voice of
know him
today.
among them
number
of imitators,
Costello
Billy
earliest
(at least
One
two of his
ingredient that
(known
as
ogists)
for years
historian
by vaudevillian
Mike
earliest
Kieffer
voice.
"You
re
Gus
year, at
B'oop,
M.D.
(1932). Costello,
who
record
in the
also
artist
humor
fit
Traces
first
soundtrack of Betty
voiced
to be the
which
mumbles and
Will Ryan
I
91
he Skeleton
first of
Tnt
tion of animation
on
first
Mickev Mouse
leaves;
At the
bats
was thinking
him
life
mated actions
in a
dog
from
rises
its
a skele-
grave.
The
momentarily
graveyard,
is
frightened
by the
owl, and
is
The
skeletons.
four dance,
articulated bones.
their
They
tebrae as a xylophone,
and
ani-
-A
became very
belfry, a spi-
when
music
fitted to
out of a
Two
or flowers coming to
fly
moon.
inanimate
of
blowing branch.
the
is fright-
at
make
"I
and Hying
stroke of midnight,
in a grave-
even an owl
ened by
pic-
musical score.
spooky night
to
howls
ton
expand
and music
even further.
an oppor-
this as
tunity to
without leading
for experiments to
Dunty Company
Disney saw
a series
VV'aft
He
back to their
coffins,
interested."
four-skulled skele-
tomb.
In
by
The image
Ub
and
playful.
grisly characters
seem benign
many
it's
Grieg's
March
of the Dwarfs.)
silent-era cartoons.
The
The
skeleton
like
an
ordinary visual today, but in 1929, only Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat
Charles Solomon
C Trie
92
Walt
Dunn Company
The
Skeleton
Dance
WALT DISNEY,
1929
CREDITS
A
Sii/v
Svmpboru
Animation:
Music: Carl
93
Ub
W.
Iwerks
Stalling
Snow White
ho
Wicked Queen
time
it's
visit
The Queen
"stepmaconsults
nil
Cab Callow
ay
Bimbo
tongue
and the
film
ends with
circle.
Disney,
is
agree
all
now the
Of Cab
fairest.
orders the
Bern'
Boop
Calloway's three
cartoons, Snaiv
White
w ho bemoans her
song ("Always
fate in a
in the
Way")
their
is
story reveals
less
how meaning-
which had
situation
many
solo gig
ing.
was
The
reward for
his
supposition. Crandall
Fleischer cartoons.
with
Queen shows up
and changes
Bimbo
The
coflm to
The
as a witch
K0K0 and
cartoons in
which he
week or two
live
prior to his
engagements.
With
show up
adroit
which
Wicked Queen
s castle
and the
Dwarfs. There,
long-legged
mournful
Blues'
was
woman" he found
ticket
stay-
into a dragon.
cottage ol
Paramount Canton
of
The Queen
said to have
that Betty
1933
is
Queen
ma."
PARAMOUNT.
White
the castle to
White
Sncrw
asks the
Snow
"St.
James Infirmary
another
sings, Calloway's
ure transforms
tale
of sex,
roll.
As he
animated
itself to
fig-
describe
As
if
of boo-
a bottle
such dazzling
enough,
background
macabre images
filled
with
slides steadily
Here
is a
use of the
and
cartoon making
medium
model of the
ber hose
full
of animation,
classic "rub-
cartoon style
ol
the
early 1930s.
Leslie
Cabar^a
95
Snow White
96
Snow While
r^THE FLEISCHERS
ax Fleischer, cartoonist
and
animation.
making
Max and
clever
animated
Disney's greatest
rival.
lifelike
films, eventually
becoming Walt
K0K0
his brother
this
live-
the Clown,
who
cavorted in the
tricks.
The
Fleischers
first
to
Betty
With
Boop and
King
(in 1924),
came up w ith
Features, embell-
Another innova-
that
The
two
to
later
Town
Travels (1943)
first
for
and
an Oscar for
in a series of realistically
drawn
adventure cartoons.
In a
move
still
controversial today.
Paramount Pictures
Max
went
L
:
Handy industrial
film
company, Dave
Columbia
J
1.
98
his cartoon
opens with
ol
Cab
Betty and
cave.
seated
at
room, Betty
"Home
all
was
became
his
and
calls
her
who meets
As it
first
She
in a plausible setting:
Mae
Questal,
hers.
who
is
in the
provided the
Use
first
incongruous
until,
of Calloway's
enigmas of cartoondom.
Was
of
is
one of the
acknowledged by
the
Fleischers?
Leslie
The
manner
classified a
great
Man
animation.
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Walrus dances
in front of an
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Boop cartoons
Calloway
the
film at the
is
of three
voice for Betty, always claimed the animators based the character's
the
who recalls
bandleading was so
to feature
shown
and
is
1932
lyrics
his trademark,
PARAMOUNT,
a star.
style of
her
Moocher
recording in 193
His "Hi-de-ho"
be sorry that
dog. Bimbo,
time, Betty
a hit
farewell note,
Sweet Home."
"They'll
first
the
to
Minnie
finds her
the
the
in her
For
Bimbo from
Back home
"head film"
in the 1960s.
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first
began
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as a singing dog.
life
Designed by
ani-
to feature a nondescript
doop" character
eventually, this character, Betty Boop,
stole
known
one of the
was starring
need of a starring character to compete with Disney's Mickey Mouse, had begun
in the cartoons,
player, decided in
1934
When
in a series of cartoons.
when
crooning "Boop-oop-a-
roles.
than her. Unfortunately for her, Paramount and the Fleischers were able to prove that her style of singing had been around
Boop
This was
most interesting cartoons were produced during 1932 and 1933, during the heyday of inspired lunacy
also before the
who
eccentric inventor,
years.
Only
will
1934,
effectively "cleaning
at
the Fleischer
up" Hollywood.
"Boop-oop-a-doop" away.
effect in
was lowered
little
to her knees
s first
studio retired Betty in 1939, but her popularity has lasted without the assistance of
Office
The Heischer
Hays
any
effort
career.
An appearance
new
in
Who
fifty
TV specials (produced by Bill Melendez and Colossal Pictures) have kept her name alive, ensuring that Betty
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^GRIM NATWICK
Menrion
At
the time he
animated Dizzy Dishes, Natwick was already an animation veteran, having begun his career
After studying
Looking
for
at
the Chicago
Gregory La Cava,
Hearst's animation shop (producing films like Krazv Kflt and Bringing
many Flip
Whopper
cartoons.
He
left
in 1916.
in
1931 to join
Ub
Up
who was
Father) in
in charge of
New York.
the Fleischer
rejoined the Fleischers in the late 1930s, where he designed and animated Princess Glory for the feature film Gulliver's Travels.
His
skill led
him
to
many
for
UPA
creating
an
TV car-
the Cobbler).
Grim Natwick
died at age
102
his
rhyming parody
Snow While
Disney's
wartime themes,
jazz
telling
with
and
Zoot
Watson
Chawmin
sex,
begins with
oi
mother
(Prince
The Wicked
So White.
Queen
(a
hoarder of
magic mirror
To
for a prince.
dunns the
kiss.
a fright/
is
So White
Coal
Black
and dc
Scbbcn
dynomite!"
is
Murder,
Inc., called
Queenic
to "blackout
Seven Dwarfs
Bob
by
at their
So
call
the
the
army
camp.
The Queen
with
puts So
White
his
arrives
to sleep.
The
"Rose-bud"
kiss,
but
is a
mili-
943
ref-
cartoon, but
its
animation,
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A
Story:
Warren
Foster
Stalling
timing make
it
a classic.
Disney
up
his film So
White
its cast.
Coal Black
is
but
it
are, they're
Jump
at
who make
Duke
of course, a
Draftee Daffy
is,
for joy in
Ross
recalled,
The
say,
in cartoons like
when Clampett
saw the
dancing."
What
tary secret!"
WARNER BROS.,
Clampett
twist
girl in
Prince can't
Dwarfs
film: energy.
vitality
He
translated their
since.
Michael
Barrier
dc
Sthbtn Dwarfs
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QOEENIE
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Of
104
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who knows and
Everyone
certainly
sive to
among the
en age of animation,
that
is a
would be
it is
with
rife
it is
parents in Minnie
the
like
it
certainly
is
offen-
racist, sexist,
s gold-
and
it is
difficult for
most audiences
to see past
its
is
of racist stereotyping.
either:
it is
difficult to find a
There
prints,
is
and radio
no question
as to
The
as this one.
There
is
is
black
movie, play, or book before the 1960s in any but a menial position. Thus, today
Huckleberry Finn
roles are
and that
1942 masterpiece
totally
stereotypes. But
knows two
loves cartoons
is a
growing inclination
to
Amos
are
remembered
as the epitome
only question
do just
and Andy
supporting
that.
is if
are racist
from Der
Fuehrer's Face
Donald appears in Nazi uniform. Similarly, Birth of a Nation can no longer be viewed
at
because
the Library
No one
would suggest
indiscriminately
history and
make
ments.
The
is
and
shows. But
that era
it
shown
never existed.
One
the depiction of their times: every national event, trend, and fad
is
them, from the Depression to gas rationing, from censorship to the liberation movecartoons are racist because the country was
racist.
To remove
is
now
seen as objectionable would be to divorce the cartoons from their very identity, and to remove one
of the most important features of the genre as
l_
105
whole.
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f.
TITLE
PMEI9'J7.
OLIVER WALLACE
SOUTHERN MUSIC
PUBLISHING CO^mc
ISI9
BROADWAY,
106
MW YORK
his
and-blue pajamas.
(the others
1943
Chicken
were
on the
written by Dick
wall,
was
Nightmare
Huemer
zen
for a series of
with
be
film
ends
Euehrcr's Face
parades
Donald
munitions
all
and
is
clos-
appears. Forced to
faster
goes
and
faster,
mad and
He
work
Donald
it
awakens
its
pro-
in
don't think
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Nazis. In
hallucinates
finally
which used
him.
Russia,
"heiling"
fact,
we heard
that
Hitler
could
tind.
A Walt
We loved that."
Layouts;
Animation: John
Walt
War
and
The
title
when
sequence
in
Donald Duck
in
Nutxiland,
song
for a
"I built
called
that cartoon
director Jack Kinney. In a masterpiece of satirical design, everything in Nuiziland, from the trees
hedges to the houses w hose chimneys seem to give the Nazi salute,
of Nazism.
World
down on Donald
1943
New Year's
ing shells
WALT DISNEY.
of Hitler
tomato thrown
off to a
Face
a citi-
The
Released on
cartoon.
it
Fuehrers
A German marching
er's
shadow
turns out
he hugs the
over,
a caricature
struck by
Duck
it
Der
begins
United States of
ol the
America."
but
it
He
turned
in red-white-
to salute a "heiling"
Education for
Little,
bedroom,
as
is
shaped
like
said
and
he struggles to keep up w
ith
inhuman
quotas on making shells for Hitler's war machine. Les Clark animated the surrealistic depletion of oppression with panache.
John Culbant
107
Milt Neil,
Don DaGradi
Clark,
LITTLE RURAL
JGHOOD
OlAtCTtO BY
TX AVRY
hillbilly
Riding
version of Red
Hood
is
gal.
Come
and
skipping
show you
a real
I'll
of a sexy
ol
whiskey. Meanwhile,
Grandma's,
sion of the
jug
Wolf
(voiced
at
country ver-
bv
the
Wolf shoves
her
lips
sup-
He
citv.
Hood
up, but
gonna do
do
is
and
it.
ain't a-
All I'm
gonna
kiss her
When
last,
all
He
but
and
Red
MGM,
1949
is
him
in tails, the
country
arrives, the
only a cow.
catches her at
Hood
a baseball bat.
Decked out
Red
with
in kissing
arrives, hootin'
."
.
at
love her
Riding
cow
the
and takes
Rural
my fool!"
little
Red Riding
a repeat of
mu-
and makes
Shift Cinderella]
such
the
with whistles,
a fuss
cat-calls,
the city
much
"I'm
a mallet.
life is
for you,"
he
too
a bit
tells
his
motor you
Once
the city
there,
Wolf gets
the hillbilly
manv
look
gaga,
of his
mimic-
country
ping takes.
The
country
his
108
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at
Red Riding
however,
An
MGM Cartoon
Producer: Fred
Story: Rich
Quimby
Hogan.Jack Cosgriff
Hood
no
Tex
Avery's unerring
riming and
effect
effortless
Riding Hood.
is
were not
2)
wheeled away on
head
like a
He
his rotating
is
performing
from Su ing
sequence, she
"Oh, Wolfie!"
Shift Cinderella,
and
that the
more
Walter Lantz
atrical
moved from
inked-and-painted Tech-
nicolor photography,
would
3)
by
are
where
city's
version of a
Little
Rural Riding
its
Hood
is
three big
as foun-
tour-de-
The
showman-
all
Wolf rushes
Director," a mid-
that
pell-
Tex must
of these
most expensive
and around
er
it
lands
ceiling,
is
slammed
a single
in
room, help-
doorways wherev-
on
the floor,
on the
single element in
cartoon production)
repeat.
With
is
again a
the resources
an extraordinary
able to create
film.
What appears on
lessly creating
the country
Dog
well constructed,
"Fido the
witness the
is
as
the screen
of control in
all
directions at
was
in reality
up out
oi a multi-
timed animation:
percussion
Persian rug.
i)
around
farmhouse in genuinely
effects,
only to be
When the
Screuy Truant.
III
tude ol small
is
city's
Hood
effects,
each as per-
Joe
Adamson
112
ased
on
short story by
Mason
ed by actor James
on the verge
a voice
The
zy.
one of the
first
to stop
The
was
over.
uses of the
still,
the eye
tell a
psychological horror
tale.
film uses
He had
was
animated cartoon to
The
oi Ircn-
Heart
Tcll-Talc
modem,
free."
He
"Then
it.
was dead,
buned the
old
man
Dalf-
The police
UPA. 1953
arrive
scream
madman.
will
am
and
premises. But
all is
why
"
madman
who
insists
Then he
tea.
how he
it,
of his older
madman
teel
breaks
The
down and
the corpse.
moment
and on
"I
will
So ends the
The
UPA
fellows have
why
am mad?"
madman Irom
define
it
as an
comprehension, in
does and then
with
all
fitful
images, of a
fatefully rues.
sorts of
modern
experiment in the
field
The
have.
madman
style
It is a
bizarre
is a
treat-
and
eerie
view of a murder he
overtones. This
highly
Dali's
commendable
of animation.
Nat- York
TI 3
Production
Ted Parmalee
Design and
Bill Scott,
Fred Grahlc
Camera work
lack Eckes
cell.
UPA
Directed by
Story adaptation:
could
CREDITS
ot
the right
softly
ol
the eye."
He
the
at first,
They
hears
louder. "It
had to get nd
quite in
when
about to leave
are
explains, "I
inspect the
mad r
Heart
beneath
was
then carefully
of murder by a
Tcll-Talc
it
was
heart
The
in
Times,
1953
n 1944,
a trio 01
Steve
formed
Schwartz
Industrial Films
and Poster
Service.
Their
first
campaign
film
oj
Man and
(particularly
UA.Ws The
modern
art
soon began
ceeding in the
new
Tempo
field ot
Productions of America
renamed
al
in
Walt
Productions in
New
1946
in
York, suc-
(as the
company was
officially
UPA
and
toons that
won
car-
Magoo,
a caricature of
UPA
also
animator/storyman Leo
businessman
father. In
created a
The
range
book adaptations
(Madeline) to jazz updates (Rootv Toot Toot) were given innovative spins
by
Cannon,
"5
he film begins
in the
home
man
and
wyfe,
ing Scrabble.
who
The
While
a
sound
TV puts
wife has a
the
miss
war
position.
tele\ision
up
power
is
to
all
Es.
The
wife gets
his
man
his
for
some kind
jam
is
startled.
He
"Were you
mv letters?"
denies
it
man
look-
she asks.
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National Film Board of Canada Cartoon
Richard Condie
Producers: Richard Condie. Michael Scott
Guest
116
husband
happier days.
He
wife's
dion.
Expo
recalls
tries to get
good
by playing the
Their love
accor-
reisnites
sumed by
its
of
ins: at
saw
it's
TV
traffic
parade on?"
at
1957, the
cord.
looks
graces
Frustrated, the
The
by chewing on the
Bill
and both
tiles
Randy Woods.
to sleep,
Picking up a photo of
newscast informing
of
man
Snit
vacuums
are play-
The Big
his wife
fight
realize the
to an end.
"7
'
fie
Big
Sni't s
comes from
ness in
humanity.
about
It is a
couple
house, watch
simple story
who do mundane
TV,
still
after
is
Snit is a brilliant,
about the
fragility
recommended
ages
worthy
who may
film
of life and
is
one time or
snit.
many
deeply in love
what
all
they want to do
their
remains
for
end.
film
clean
fight, loss,
w orld.
The
rich-
humor and
is
its
things:
and
appeal
game.
is
finish
Condie
a bit
is
from Manitoba,
know
seem
in this couple.
The
laughs
Richard Condie
wonderful
come from
The
film
cabin fever
attention to
detail.
strange bass
mood
opens
a
line.
tuba
The
for the
is
the house
It is
always something
hard to
deserves
new
chuckle.
is
why Manitoba
has
and
toon
al
decor
is
that
K_arl
Cohen
The
Bis,
r,RICHARD CONDIE
Richard
made
first
it
many international
Festival,
undercurrent
can
clips for
we were
Sesame
Award
at
Annecy 85
films;
make and
"I tried to
what
recalls
Condie.
"It
was
Aided
In
1978
"We
ten-minute story."
it
are well
known
recall
lacking in experience,
Street to a
he cannot
International Critics
World Film
funnier, but
Snn
Chicago Film
make
it
as
funny
for their
Aw ard
Festival, Best
as
at
humor and
have
won
Short Film
at
the Montreal
explain.
The
NFBC
was founded
in
1939 by an
initiate
production and distribution of films in the national interest and in particular ... to interpret Canada and
artistic
NFBC
animators to produce
NFBC
have
NFBC's animation
unit in 1941.
From
film, pixilation,
119
the
NFBC productions.
to pinscreen, clay,
20
he
tale
begins in a medieval
work
is at
kills
swarm
all
Busy
Mickey Mouse
by
large."
that
is
so he
you ever
kill a
giant?" the
dow and
proudly exclaims,
blow."
Directed by
Bill
Riley
Thomson,
Roberts
Bill
Tytla.
Otlie Johnston.
Wood, Frank
Follmer,
Don
is
thrown
He
The
The
talking about
flies,
He
is
but the
Mickey uses
During the
ing
skill
to
his tailor-
sew up the
tor Fred
final scene,
Mickey and
kiss
on
The Disney
cized
Bnne
a carousel
Studio publi-
Little Tailor
as a
giving
him
give
most appealing
The
interplay of
Mickey an almost
sistible
charm:
to like him.
publicity.
his
proportions.
largely
The
him
Moore redesigned
motions and
mid-thirties, anima-
cir-
millions of "pazuzas"
cinematic career
tion
Minnie
high point in
face.
atten-
misunderstand-
This
into
escapes, but
like a
Mickev
well,
tailor,
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in his path.
his stomach.
1938
A Wah Disney
As he
"I
WALT DISNEY,
hand
s
is
tailor
Tailor
Mickev
Little
in marriage.
pestered
of flies,
flyswatters.
Brave
an entire story
irre-
To look at him
The
fluid
is
animation,
Frank Thomas,
is
perfectly
wed-
and
tions
way
his face
when
scis-
falls
and
he reluc-
When Willie
leel his
settling into
place.
Charles Solomon
Brave Link Tailor
MICKEY MOUSE
ickey
Mouse
is
image
his
household
is
an
internationally recognized
icon of good
will.
Walt Disney
created
back to California
"I killed
seven
Mickey on
after a disastrous
a fabled
1928
meeting in
train ride
New York.
He
and
decided on
name, and
Ub
new
character
lu erks
Walt needed
distributor.
worked up the
Mickey
in
(Plane
up
for
Some
This
easily could
and Walt
it.
never forgot
like
many
Donald Duck,
alive, fresh,
and
Mickey starred
in short subjects
though 1952.
FiinwsicJ
Walt entered
youngsters.
television,
as the Sorcerer's
was created
One
in special cartoons
Apprentice in
the
Beanstalk (1947).
When
new generation of
Goofy goes
large
and lands on
side.
skyscraper.
the
Mickey mops
numbers by
riding the
Donald becomes
giving
mainspring.
Mickev
prisoner
A stork is
on one of the
tries to force
gears.
it
away,
ladder
under
and then a
which Mickey
his feet.
through
bounces on
up fighting
battle
coil.
a flagpole,
and
is
fly
clock's innards,
off
Donald's just-
repaired mainspring.
trio
is
falls
bouncing
torch.
Goofy
gets
broken rung,
through the
is
The
doom.
verba
1937
which pushes
him onto
a balance
CREDITS
Disney Mickey Mouse Cartoon
Roberts.
Frenchy DcTremaudan
Lavouts
He
rope which
adding
o to his confu-
Still
spring,
Bill
headache.
sion.
a rope.
raps
A Uj/l
who
te
WALT DISNEY,
rings,
is
Goofy
figure
falls
Time
Goofy
the
sleeping
Cleaners
to
oi the
Clock
work on
Ken O'Connor
124
1 27
Clock
Cleaners crosscuts
Mr.
Fix-its at their
better
man-
way
uettes that
ing out to
like
and
back
identifiable characters
clickety-clack-
Donald
New
weight and
gravity, inertia,
momentum. The
Yorker Al Eugster.
Future Disney director
stat-
Duck an argument
itself
come
toll
and Goofy
and-blood personalities of
Duck
ages to
Mickey
and
sequence,
masterworks
Clock Cleaners,
getting
dibly
reminds us that
when
and
live-action
adapting
basic physi-
boingingly mimicking
Donald
squawk
in a
trio
Greg Ford
!25
126
ike
all
come
the
arts,
cartoons
and the
in genres,
genre here
num
opus.
is
his
mag-
At Alka-Fizz
He then
heads north
it
more extreme,
where
it
got
to the point
The
new
form. This,
truth
fear,
itself in a
ate
it.
think,
is
essential
to great
that
fresh, different,
and
Hounded
Now;
You're
dozen
only to
Bill
it.
Plympton
cliches" in
But
The Wolf
and quite
An
MOM Cartoon
Producer: Fred
Story:
Quimbv
Heck Allen
Blair
ater; in a lion's
humor was
original
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swimming underwater;
movie
modern anima-
"eye-popping" to audiences.
eagle's egg;
oi a
the
in 1946, Avery's
ot visual
new and
are
brand
is
McPoodle
its
tion.
in
on tunny drawing
be shocked to find
on the screen
hit
MGM. North-
wilder.
at
the master at
he had
faster
Sgt.
runs
makes truth
laugh.
Police,
his stride at
and surprising.
exagger-
1943; by the
McPoodle:
which manifests
scream
And
art
in
a series of road
He
1946
made Northwest
warned by
"Don't Look
MGM,
Dumb-
linds himself
became completely
ol
Wolf soon
it
hundreds
cartoon,
Hounded,
mountains, slams
first
time he
(Droopy) to
Hounded
think, brother?"
Mc Poodle
the
do you
McPoodle."
is
ol
Police
headquarters,
Being Followed; By
Police
guys."
remember
little
chorus
"Mounty County."
signs:
those
o(
in his cell,
part
one
effects his
it,
At police
The
there
"if
and
opens
into
Wolf wonders
door
draws
Northwest
Hounded
McPoodle.)
escape.
and ends up
turns out to be
tor, too,
was Tex
genre's maestro
face
wild, eye-pop-
is
new
get a
the-
stomach.
goes to plastic
127
nDROOPY
Tex
at
Warner
chant for funny gags and outrageous situations outweighed his desire to create enduring characters. Droopy
was
his
portrayed by
Bill
Thompson on
the radio
more than
newfound
on Wallace Wimple,
Droopy debuted
in
hired
a character
Thompson
to
to leading roles in
twenty-five theatrical cartoons, but the character never achieved stardom during Avery's lifetime.
him
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celebrity.
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later
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UPA,
ani-
liberated graph-
and whimsical,
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themes
designs.
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uralistic
to concert hall.
Ward
Kimball,
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full
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and
past master of
"personality animation
Pinoccbio,
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(in
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demonstrating
came 3-D.
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May
began with
first
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Professor
Owl
in
Music
cal lecture
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of
ly
jumped
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led to today's
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was the
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and
critics alike,
toon
Academy
Animated
Oscar
Company
130
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and Disney
the 1953
for Best
Kimball
Huemer
Character styling:
won
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Ward
Story: Dick
impression on moviegoers
topped
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form of
earliest
cartoon
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his biz
percussion sound.
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musi-
modem-art
WALT DISNEY,
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including Disney.
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short. Melody, in
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teaching his
studios,
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cartoon presents
Professor
Plunk
and
like
Whistle,
stylized
of
CinemaScope cartoon,
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Toot,
the
first
ic style
stylized
after
mators.
months
screen. Six
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here are lettered signs in the
Daffy.
woods:
Bugs
fun;
looking for
"If you're
is
a reason;
gun;
Elmer
indeed
tour
a rabbit,
and
but
impatient, Daffy
is
excitable,
It's
Those
rabbit season."
rabbit season,
It's
is
is
Seasoning
Then
home
he
is
Bugs.
oi the rabbit
It
unsporting of me,
know,"
some
fun.
besides,
really
duck
it's
I've
And
got to have
sea-
is
soon blasting
when Bugs
and
himself appears,
hole,
duck, rabbit,
engage in
of verbal duels.
able question
is
The
a series
invari-
who'll get
inevitable
answer
can't wait
He
of them.
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hole, but
shoots
at
WARNER BROS.,
1952
any
both
in Bugs's
Bugs decides
to
Dressed in
Lana Turner
sweater, high-heeled
easily
pumps,
wins
much
ofi
rabbit.
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calls to
CREDITS
to the
and the
longer."
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congenial hunter
Elmer Fudd
hunter
says, "but
and wig, he
son."
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this.
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to
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if
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d completely
draw ings
laid
it
didn't write
out.
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it
was
inter-
as a script.
was bound
off, it
tried to
worked
it
always
make
the
to suffer.
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r
34
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Rabbit Seasoning
Rabbit Seasoning
second
is
the
in a series of
three cartoons in
Dafly, the
hunting ambitions,
stall
him
flummox him
is
moment, and
(Duck!
little
is
Hardy comedies.
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together as a featurette).
of snow
.)
it
takes place in
single gag
all
Daffy Duck?, in
which Daffy
gets both
hungry
"Duck
Fire,
the
first
in
explored,
is
same gags
some
reappear,
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would
Bugs Bunny
ing so
much
as its obviousness,
it
no
first
of the trilogy
He
longer.
as the
in
female
if
to deliv-
sum-
mon
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and
"Pronoun Trouble."
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stick that
and
slap-
rebound, highlight,
comedy
style of Jack
George Gobel,
gust.
playing, role-reversal,
It is
shaded
With
or
as a sputter of dis-
finely
one-reel cartoon.
animators
like
Ken
Vaughan
little
Benny
appear in
Harris,
of the
and
soon
tled
is
by
and
for years,
Elmer and
that distinguish
from Rabbit
The
What Makes
and ricochet
Hills
more damage
his
overlap, intensify,
Laurel and
dressing as a
anomaly on
(an
Them Thar
to dis-
duck than
comedy
two-reel
of the
this.
title
a foot
Duck!
the
Rabbit.
already
on board, the
fact,
there's
no development whatso-
acknowledgment
ever^
just the
ture like
is
Seasoning.
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we
135
Joe
Adamson
.t
DAFFY DUCK
.n
ijnipcniii'Ki'l
ts title is a
takeoff on the
role), a
has been
parody of The
an animated tribute to
for "that
Flynn, and
acters.
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cast of thou-
Wamer Bros,
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stars Daffy
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an epic
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it
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telling you,
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to death.
me
Comedy, always
a trap
stinker"
story,
written by Daffy
Dumas
is
Scarlet
at
"King
bv Elmer
Pumpernickel
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time.
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Jones's character
Back
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ish
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only the
man-
the inn, he
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as the
fin-
first of
writer's very
sensitivity to the
pitchman
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over,
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cooked-up crescendo
after
(including skyrocketing
charging
the
of course, in an Errol
something of an anomaly in
for 1950,
role
ot
was unusual
prove himself in
1950
nickel
in a
serious
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by
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among
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me! I'm
masked
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and
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WARNER BROS.,
parody" ranks
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today the
idea of "genre
love,
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dashing masked
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so
all
down
to the
kreplach.
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earlv
and 'Henery'
Hawk
appeared as
messenger.
was an
acters
epic,
had
so
all
to be in
It
my charit.
Everybody appreciated
it
we were
talking about
in the cartoon."
136
him
about 77k
Daffy's character
chasm
between
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"little
black duck
is.
that he really
Greg Ford
38
house on
his
Johnson
is
a hill,
at the door,
in a
left
interrupted from
ten
Mr.
by
knock
and finds
tains
it
baby basket on
inside
and enter-
and
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mat
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bit of
think of
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timing
by piece.
road scene
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the gags.
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watching
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as vic-
his destruction ol
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his
dynamite and
and
CREDITS
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kills
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amount
film,
of time
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premiered
at
it
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gious awards.
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years. The
the 8th
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on the
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to repeated
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to
perfect.
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him
about an
a cat
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for a film
man and
considered to be
can't
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an idea
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World
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and backgrounds:
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a part
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than
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short
arrival
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paintings, lol-
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1940 Paramount
Superman
the era's
and
on simple
Story
Seymour
Sammy Timburg
realis-
and deuscd
many
animation
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and Joe
and
teenagers Jerry
first
Sinister,
appeared in
Bud
man became
Collvcr,
Superman's
was the
nominated
lor
voice for
which was
an Oscar.
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series con-
more
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used lor
and
uperman was
stories,
SUPER BIRTH
effects
realistic
'
circular designs,
The
previ-
radio voice,
cartoons.
had
Fleischers' artists
Max Flaicha
alter Siegel
Superman
Superman Cartoon
all
production, and
scientist threatening
chair,
CREDITS
studio.
in
the
mad
Picturri Pristnts a
1940
Miami
Fleischers'
at
total destruction
Paramount
the winter of
phases
first
film
PARAMOUNT,
Superman
as
unique
tion,
a sensa-
spawning
a radio
He
first
appeared in
live
action
comic
in 1948.
George Reeves
played
Superman
1950s
TV series, and
in a
him
in big-bud-
charac-
ter
was
in
'officially killed'
portrays
him
nineties
TV version
in a
Superman
THIS
Many
up
of the
in the
and
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than
a bird
no,
it's
speeding bullet"
plane
were
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minimum. With
fantastic ideas.
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less
reflected
more
realistic
World War
II
it's
Superman!"
cliches, dialogue
was
Paramount Superman
Bulleteers, the
Magnetic Telescope, and the Arctic Giant are just some of the
produced
no,
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series
packs a feature
Studios,
142
Superman
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first
Fleischer worried
and
in order to dissuade
realistic
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$100,000
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The
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made
such
More
efforts failed
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in the three-dimensional
of reality.
came
world
When animation
along,
it
and
to design
to translate
ver screen.
more attention
proved to be a
Art Deco
The
acter designs,
ors to create
mood combine
to
artistry
for
easier adaptation.
The one
adaptation that
was the
Nothing
else the
matched the
Superman cartoons
for
power,
Thomas
Inge
43
movements.
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alive.
set
but
is
thrown out by
A stampede on
stage hand.
Pork)' Pig
Daffy convinces
go into feature
a eag;
film
films. In pro-
office
camera,
to
and studio
staff,
make
Schlesingcr gives
The
result
is a
is
in,
performing ior
Schlesinger
his
he wants
aware
Daffy
back to work
soon be
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and gets
combination
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lot
debut in
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Ought
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unique cartoon
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lor a
with a tomato.
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Terrace.
During lunchtimc
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the
guard
In addition to Schlesinger
a stage
Schlesinger's,
their voices
all
Pictures
footage from
Warner Bros,
WARNER BROS.,
and shots
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This
and
film has
films.
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credit-
Who
Framed
Roger Rabbit?
CREDITS
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Directed by
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Stalling
to
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are animated,
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and the
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Warner
combine
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and
Leon Schlesinger
it
it
Porky
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is
Porky's acting
ability,
still
photographs. Far
makes
live
images or
treats
make
Friz Freleng's ability to direct his star, and Jack Miller's script.
convincing manner.
145
Karl Cohen
You Oughi
Be
to
in Pictures
FRIZ FRELENG
Freleng entered the animation world
'Friz
Isadore
u hen he went
Kansas
City'
to
Film
work
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at
company
the
to continue
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in
his partner,
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Uiome. O,
wmm
and
in the 1920s.
left
comedies
Hugh Harman
for
HarmanTsing
later rejoined
new
for their
series of
in
1930
Looney Tunes
for
as
series,
head animator
Warner
Bros, and
left
the
Promoted
becoming
cartoon.
Yosemite
sonal
life.
to
Sylvester.
Be
in Pictures parallels
In 1937.
Bros, with
offer.
new
on
Sam and
You Ought
He
freedom to develop
Warner
Bros.
and
set
Warner
Bros, from
doors in 1962.
He
its first
it
closed
its
and Sylvester
series,
Bugs (1958).
After
Warner
founded his
ing
own
1980
to direct
to
Warner
Bros,
146
You Qugbl
to
Be
in Pictures
bugs Bun
Baba
Bunny
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like
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are a
comedy team.
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blasted
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in
Rabbn
as
Fire
and Rabbit
is
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Chuck Jones
ion Richard
Levicow, Ben
Effects animation:
in
which
Bugs
finds.
happy miser!"
Chuckjones had
his
own
The
their
the clams
("and
all
eat!"),
but
we can
full
Baghdad and
cool,
"It's
of Arabian treasure.
his ageless
I'm
Bunm
In
Duck per-
he
as greedy as
Daffy's
one
of
is.
the
think
most
attractive characters in
the lexicon.
He
something we
don't
want
simplv
full face,
all feel
to admit.
but
"Red
secure;"
cap, call
me
heavy ripper!"
When
it
a cab.
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added to
Hassahn
an
Harry Love
..
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CHOP!"
whose
Brown
gives
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that
made out
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next scene
Bugs maintains
Merm
The
tall
cave
Directed by
in ancient
per-
but then
at
CREDITS
humor
lamp and
tricks,
forming rope
on
1957
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finds
in A.!
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leathers,
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Bunny
real genie.
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to deal with.
Seasoning, or show-business
Like
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Hassahn
be a genie in
ries
named
ogre of a guard
the result
is a
lie
Stalling.
Milt Franklyn
148
film
stuff.
Steic Schneider
49
5o
rabbits
always
come
down
all
this
Marc Anthony
cuteness.
Chuck
for a nap.
Vanquished by
him one
she
He
shaped! In
where the
do.
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off well.
feel
ticularly trustworthy.
most dogs
brings
it
more thing
think
home, where
to "bring
Marc Anthony's
are protessionals;
one
efforts to
them
pretending
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senti-
and
tbc
it's
powder
batter,
The
dear
lady
little
kitten
and
Anthony
posing, and
of his pet.
it's
facial
one of the
est cartoons
expressions,
falls
kitten
if
you want
make
more remarkable.
kitten
scene of true
decides to
kitty
happilv.
wind-up toy
puff.
offers
Feed the
settling
or at least -any
house
cookies, the
as
long as Marc
studio's funni-
and
also has
heart.
Kitty
Confronted by
bulldog Marc
assumes
WARNER BROS.,
a kitten,
Anthony
his professional
The
cruard do;.
ever,
knows no
kitten,
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and
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it
purrs and
CREDITS
A Mtme MeUiia
Directed by
Cartoon
Chuck Jones
O:
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illustration of Jones's
remember
contains
a hilarious series
is
a pencil,"
and
on
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wonderful
convincing
it
Sin
Thai 's
Stalling
51
dis-
s difficult to
paper.
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Kjm
of grimaces, pouts, strains, shudders, sweats, smirks, smiles, and angelic grins.
the
All, Folks!
Bros.
Schneider
Animation
hen sound
films
became
popular in 1929,
Max
Imps
the
a talking doe.
named Bimbo.
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achiev ed a
The
particularly for
his
[to
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escapes. Betty
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into a surreal
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When
blending of layers takes places that defies the usual two-dimensional cartoon environ-
ment. Filled with enough dream imagery to keep an analyst w orking overtime.
also provides
in.
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bad dream, wonderfully portrayed in an unusual cartoon that holds the cartoon format upside down and shakes
and
members
Bimbo, but he
Whew
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mov ing
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and
wrote
be
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fraternity'
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last lead
fraternity of characters
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become
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Initiation
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animator
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Bimbo's
who performs
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meets
finally
forceful presence,
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K0K0
Fleischer dropped
Clown,
for
mark of great
Initiation
art.
52
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of Disney's
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for
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film.
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When
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in the final
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film
animation.
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up wonderfully
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comes with
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film delivers
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all
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masterful
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title
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quickly.
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possible.
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CREDITS
the joke
Distributed by International
lthough essentially
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56
39
aking fun of Mother Goose
was standard
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Rabbit
1941
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one of
Red
the Wolf.
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fairy-tale spoofs, a
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toon sound
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and
a little
and
Warner Bros,
got everything
It's
door gags,
brought
rabbit for
Warner Bros,
effects. It's
"Silly, Isn't
He?
even got
sign.
Warner
car-
tend to
Bros, car-
imitates
how many
liry
you can
lines
and how
appears singing
is
first
"The
Five
in
ing the
sing "Put
the 1940s).
The obnoxious
and
distract-
Bonnet." But
it's
truly annoying,
Red who
and
in the
is
remember and
repeat,
from
it.
Little
know
have" and
do
"I'll
it,
but
I'll
where
morning."
she'll
some and
WARNER BROS..
essential
Red
in
working
Little
is
is
when Red
Grandma!
Riding
is
the quint-
The Woll
fairy
on
some ways
cartoon.
years the
toons, he takes
in
Granny hersell
any
this,
Little
house;
little
Grandma s
Hiawatha. In
taking Bugs
is
Warner
a surefire hit, so
the
to
Red
Bugs
tare at
teenage
be
less bother-
shares a carrot
found
I've
anywhere and
sing,
o'clock whistle
and
find
is
can go
"The
five
on the blink
someone
will finish
it
CREDITS
A
Directed by
i.
Freleng
Stalling
Linda Simensky
ecice
on Earth
anv standard:
war parable
senous
anti-
told in cartoon
was
hailed for
lor
Award and
Academv
Nobel Peace
most antiwar
Prize. Like
messages,
an
it
seems sadlv
month when
fourth
was
Christmas near
A trio of squirrels
battlefield.
sing "Hark!
this
rel's
the
Herald
earth,
good
will to
men,"
Gran'pa
tells
The
implements of war.
The
for
man.
them the
story
bright sunrise.
Peace on Earth
duced by
was pro-
Hugh Harman,
who
approach to animation.
who
argued and
shouldn't have
made
it
Earth
it
Harman
interview.
it
"We
as a
it
we should have
tried to stop
ing
made
about three to
reels," said
1973
me
five
in a
"They
from mak-
was too
But Harman
serious."
believ
ed in ani-
cry
T
'
CREDITS
MGM Cartoon
Peace on
An
film
one-reeler,
MGM.
and
left,
on Earth supenmposed on
men were
Peaceville
squir-
meaning of "Peace on
with knives
released.
The
only two
ruined
its
nominated
The
unusual by
is
Hugh Harman.
Charles McGurl
bombing
he technique
tasy in a
toon
is
arresting for
it
craft.
all
fan-
traditions of car-
The
characters also blend into the lovely backgrounds of the fantasy, and
there
is
technique
is
films,
Sara Bcrner
158
mood.
Parents magazine
his
make audiences
and
think.
i59
i6o
thought
and
when
was
it
first
released,
suited
of their excite-
ment
UPA's
is clear.
cre-
ballet,
mation to
of
tell
the tragic
Bill
first
suggested the
jilted
ballerina
it,
dance
specialist
vows
cian to
compose
her
scene
is
so con
innocence that he
Moore
for the
to
marry
but when
studios) to
The
a musical in
is
vinced of Frankie's
is
Frankie
at
shooter instead.
Honest John
Art Babbit
car-
which
Johnny
killed the
choreograph, animation
toon
Jolly Frolics
hiring
Olga Lunick to
Hollwood
CREDITS
for
UPA, 1952
bining
Toot
defended by white-
Rooty
Toot
is
all
courtroom, where
A"
and
murder weapon
its
the
Cartoon
Lyrics:
Alan Arch
'
Twenty-five
Vocals: Annette
Warren
Bill
Scon
Tom
first
junk
his
Disney
that
picture.
It
we remembered
was such
sensation.
seeing our
It 's
W.
161
R.
Wilkenon,
Reporter,
1952
95 1
Rinm 1 d
t)-S Columbia Ti
will mm Hnrm
JOSEPH 'IflflBERA
the pair
was asked
ue their
efforts.
but
handed.
Rudolph
with
a series of beautiful
their
nowhere. In 1937,
MGM's
to contin-
They
and
Tom
Concerto
and
Tom
sitting at a piano,
No.
2.
poorlv received.
Tom
off a battle
man Joseph
in
1939
to direct a
the Boot,
was expected.
nothing
ular acclaim
much
When the
and pop-
and an Acad-
at
teamed
1947
Barbera were
MGM,
and begin-
The
Cat
did so
of wits between
CREDITS
An
Directed by William
Producer: Fred
his feet.
is
in a tuxedo,
viewer assumes
is
Tom
Editing: Fred
play-
realistic,
modeled on performances of
musician Scott Bradley. The
Cat Concerto
won
Academy Award
Animated Short
an
for Best
Subject.
17
-
McAlpin
the
human
Tom's piano
remarkably
Irven Spence
he per-
Dressed
ing
Ed Barge,
"human."
forms
audience.
the
is
cartoon in which
treated as
at
Quimby
Hanna and
Joseph Barbera
HANNA-BARBERA
I
New Mexico, in
in Melrose,
Born
course
1931.
when
He worked
his
way up
York's
Van Buren
"I started
"Within the
Fred]
studio,
there the
first
and
later
for
MGM,
The
in 1957,
finally
his
let
each
recalls
Hanna.
"I
washer and
MGM's The
office assistant at
knack
we
I
and
after
full
to the
magazines until he
West
coast in
MGM as
New-
storyman.
suggested
[producer
stop us."
its
own
story
all
studio,
where
star characters
our eggs in one basket," in reference to the appealing cat and mouse
The
series
won
seven
MGM Tom and Jerry cartoons, however, are only one part of an amazing career. When MGM closed
Hanna and
Barbera were suddenly thrust into a world that no longer required their unique talents.
for television,
five
movements and
a
Academy Awards
and sold
it
to
its
cartoon department
They
quickly created a
to dialogue-heavy pictures;
from complex
lavish
full
$45,000
animation to
sparse settings.
medium hungry
for their
kind of entertainment. "Ruff and Reddy" was followed by Huckleberry Hound, Yogi
made more
He changed
Ising s studio in
moved
think
Harman and
the
did,
so desperate he didn
content to
Bear,
York City
eel
low-budget pilot
limited
on
to director
New
within a year
in
Hanna
two years we
Quimby was
Quimby was
1911, William
all
their eggs in
one basket,
164
this
for
animation in
star characters
and
The Cat Concerto
f all the
Hollywood
While
mouse.
different
it.
is
Rhapsody No.
2),
which func-
two protagonists
new
action.
The
revel in the
mechanisms
vir-
itself.
Will
Friedwald
165
ne
oi
was James
Culhane's
Woody
first
Woodpecker cartoon
director of the
as
new
Walter Lane
studio.
Film Technique, a
hook by
Russian director V.
I.
Pu-
adding
around
ror.
Dash
it's
Woody
what he had,
what he was
him so much
overheating
what
did, it's
takes
is
at first a
mouth and
the headdress
geous
catapult his
customer out of
fantasies.
actions are
still
more
outra-
His impossible
a cartoonist's
of a cigar store.
hands
As
Woodv Woodpecker
admires the hairstyles
played in the
Scxillc
window
dis-
the
Figaro, proprietor)
Next,
works."
for "the
blowtorch
Factorum" from
and
whole
77ic
Woody destroys
on one
construction
worker asks
ol
level
himself
only to re-create
himself on another.
We can
still
el
Barber
Woody in
is
of Seville as he lathers
exposed
("How
can
lose with a
reading
"Gone
physical.
Woodv
to take
my
Back soon,"
realizes
Tom'
and
is
out
tools
self
all
high-speed version
"Figaro,"
He
completes the
ceil-
hair-
time.
and the
Woody gets
bopped with
supply of
shaving
mugs and
il
animation
of
chair and
ing.
ty,
an understandable personali-
if
he was
all
character.
Joe
Adamson
CREDITS
A
Walter Liiniz
Storv:
Animation
layout: Art
Hcincman
rederic Back,
talents,
L^gJ
bom
in Saarbriicken,
Germany,
ed stained-glass artworl
foi
Place-des-arts
the
and
Crac.'
(198
Man Who
1),
tell
Illusion?
first
animated
the story of a
in
won Back
his
168
of
many
in
first
[967
In
creat-
CBC
who
evil
magician
on
L_
Montreal
A man
film, a collaboration
little girl
Planted Trees
for
subwaj station
when
leam
When he felt
five
Man Who
The
result,
Trees, is a
men.
Planted
testament to the
indomitable
It is
spirits oi
flowing
wash
tor
sounds and
seems
able to
its
The
eminently
suit-
Story: Jean
Giono
beech.
Years
the
Music:
first
later, after
WWI,
returns to the
site.
plantings are
now
him
man
to return time
The
and
Man Who
Planted
The
a lonely traveler
fields,
French Alps.
encounters
him
He
shepherd
night,
man
He
who
young
observes that
"Men
as effective as
God in
1935
est"
1947
at
As
w orks
his ecological
By
screen
is filled
Man Who
the narrator
states,
be trulv wondcrlul.'
"A man
Bouffier
vas.
was Elzeard
the age of
eighty-nine.
and
tasks
Bouffier,
could be
died in
wandering in
He
destiny can
The
Planted Trees
many "message"
films.
profound dignity,
Gagnon
77>c
Man
VVlio
Normand Roger
Narrator: Christopher
man
The
Assistant: Lina
of thou-
stops
He planted and
a forest
again,
subject.
state
a narra-
nurtured
remedy the
offers
CREDITS
oi affairs."
his opin-
and he had
resolved to
both
in the
was
for
prepared, he devoted
Trees
to
Planted
and had
about him.
Man
Who
fifty-five
The
the
him he was
animation in the
Plummcr
(English version)
169
Charles Solomon
came
to
so often during
liie
considered
genre
which
piece both
audiences
all
this master-
thor-
Modem
book
references
this cartoon
remains
vel of comic
timing and
In
night, a
bookstore
Young
at
mid-
Man with
Book
Rcvuc
alive to
solo;
Sea
perform
trumpet
Wolf leer
Strip;
at
Cherokee
Henry
WARNER BROS..
1946
the Eighth
runs
Whistler's Mother,
home
Toms
and Mother
Pie-Eyed Piper
clcr
have
Gazette
the
The
the
calls
Law
Police
Krupa), The
(Benny
Goodman), and
to
the Arkansas
Life,
Jimmv
a jam session.
Durante's So Big
nose and
Duck who
Meme
to complain.
suit
Infemo.
dance
Melodies Comics
He
gets a zoot
to
tates
Danny
Dannv Kavc
celebratorv jitterbug,
sillies."
"Saratoga in the
with
vou
along Skid
slides
singing
Morning"
Russian accent.
nTWO
He
TOP TALENTS
Rod
turning
Wolf
CREDITS
A
one of the
history.
for his
Story
lalion
W arren
w arning
Foster
Gould.
C Melender
It is
Cornett
I/O
is
in cartoon
frantically
Danny Kaye-esque
skat
song sung
children's album.
Stalling
moments
performance of Daffy
Wood
classic
later
Tbomas McKimson,
Little
wrote the
Manny
on
and
is
Petrified Forest.
(Tommy
Mohawk (Gene
replay
Girls'
Trai
funny animation.
The
a lively
are Freckles,
Goose. Brass
the
Women
him
mocks and
oughly outdoes.
stand
is
cartoon
Little
in that scene.
recorded one of
Billy
May)
for a
i7i
Book
Rauc
The
apotheosis of the
early
Warner
Bros,
cartoons: Warner's
hook
life
covers
coming
despite
cartoon was
its
cascading cross-cul-
to
less
pack
did at the
with spectacularly
supplanted by
Daffy
Duck
that
performance by
is,
well,
one
for
Bob
ment
after
florid,
even
power
to engage us
than even
And there
great
gift for
is
more: Clampett's
conjuring phantas-
all
ability to
evoke character.
that
director's virtuoso
stronger
shows the
far
surrounds him. In
graphics. Daffy
moves
is
the graphic
us.
immense humor,
Daffy
Duck emerges
is
immediately
The duck
taken to another
astonishment in this
film
but bursts
compendium
all
seams;
at the
s
remark
cartoon
feels
ty that
of 1940s
ence as something
When
with
its
comes
deeply.
for the
breathless
this
and that
remain breathtaking
and
instantly
we
and
film's cen-
tion of
reck-
summa-
work
of genius, Boofc
is it.
172
film's
Revue
From
is a
car-
Animation has
sidered a
anchored, earned,
utterly credible.
becomes the
ter of gravity;
anarchic energy
level:
Steve Schneider
Book Revue
BOB ClAMPETT
Bob
in his teens,
Mickey Mouse
joined the
While
doll;
mated scenes
first
shortly thereafter, he
ani-
Merrie
his
team
at
humor
that
new
became known
as the
Warner
style.
memorable cartoons
in
animation history
(five
of
them
Bank
and Corny
and dc Scbbcn
Dwarfs,,
Book Revue,
Concerto).
development of Porky
Pig, Daffy
He
left
Wamer in
173
Cecil.
own
studio.
!74
4
Holes," which offer peeks
cake over
a helpful
trip to
of Time Mirrors
and
notice a
where
Back
"Think-O-Blink,"
college
are
her film
tures:
which
stream of consciousness.
is full
of strange crea-
house
talks, a
clock
objects
time
and
Dream Today,"
in Sally Cruikshank's
all
forth in
to a fine sound-
track.
As J. Hoberman
"Sally
Cruikshank has
put
all
After lunch
they
an animated
reveals
visit
at
Porky' s Diner
where Quasi
is
rooked into
lives.
"Time
style
totally
Its
mixture of funk)'
its rolling,
folding per-
spective
and soundtrack
sighs,
enthralls
ers
CREDITS
with
it
some
of
view-
A Cartoon
b\ Sa/Ii Cruikibank
Sound engineer:
it,
but
Special thanks
to:
Kim Deitch
Steve Halbert
E E Gregg Snazelle.
band
her own."
as authentic an
it
is
with
and made
experienced studio.
as jug
on her
American idiom
cartoon
at the Qiiackadcro
in
directed,
Night's
Cruikshank began
Sally
Quackadero
reptile.
at the
CRUIKSHANK, 1975
Time Hole:
See your-
as skeletons; "Roll
rolling
in time.
Time,"
push Irom
prehistoric
themselves as youngsters
Porky in Wackyland,
chocolate
and with
delic
dampen s
Quasi
a railing,
at
Karl Cohen
175
Quasi
ai ihc
Quackadtro
r,INDEPENDENT ANIMATION
handful of the
this
fifty'
cartoons in
the
work
of independent animators.
While
freedom in
style,
artists
experiment and
Solo
to
its
potential.
fact,
Winsor McCay
could be
to
produce
a short
in
Norman McLaren,
Carolyn
Plympton
Leaf,
are just a
and
Bill
few of the
field.
J
I7 6
Quasi
177
at the
Quackadtra
CORNY CONCERTO
omv-Gee
Fudd
as
monies,
Hall," with
Elmer
master of cereis
recounts the
of
Elmer
introduces
duck
the
as 4-F.
The
whythym
as
comes out
in the
here!"
(a
unto
polite to point."
es Bugs, but
gets his
The
all tall
satisfied
Pig,
Porkv chas-
his
and
when
made fun
knew
bow
compositions.
first
could have
ments
own
but with
in
made
it
CREDITS
in the
paid
a sly
grin
on
Story:
Frank Tashlin
Animation: Robert
adjust-
them
makes
its face.
Mike
178
Melodies Cartoon
timing ..."
Bob Clampett
A Mcmc
by
to Fantasia
to ani-
the
me
shot.
up
is
rab-
next piece
was
The
"It
classical
to the ground.
Porky and
it.
an angrv squir-
ties
with
Bugs eventually
classic
but Bob
experiment, for
"It ain't
Bugs pretending to be
is a
considerable departure, an
who
pig, dog,
itself,
tale
Thev
bit
The
and
pointer) out
rabbit.
encounter Bugs,
them.
hunting
rel
license"
vulture.
Corny Concerto
wolls
of the
it
Concerto
black
woodwinds,
homage, acknowledging
A vulture
Woods,"
pering
Corny
Disnev's Fantasia.
first
of an ugly
tries to join a
family of swans.
send-up
tale
duckling who
Barrier
McKimson
Stalling
79
i8o
Unicom
The
Garden, an
in the
adaptation of humorist
"Once upon
morning" with
story,
sunny
hen-pecked
rushes to
his sleeping
Hurt to
"A unicorn
mythical beast."
look
a closer
beast.
He
feeds
it
a lily
tell
human
and
Duck
The man
Bunny
coming
to
life.
it
startling to see
Thurber
it, it
was
Academy Award
atrist,
and suggests
jacket be called
for.
this
morning."
The
now
a fact of
her.
animation history,
in
As
Leonard Maltin
if
unicorn.
"Of course
a
ing
He
not.
mythical beast."
ered
me
thought
at first,
il
around to
replies,
unicorn
William Hurtz
husband
is
would do
long as
181
CREDITS
it
but
it
he probably
this
way
Hum
James Thurber
Tom McDonald
Backgrounds: Robert Dranko
Music: David Raskin
he ever got
it
Directed by William T.
Story:
animate Thurber's
faithfully,
on
To
doctor
straitjacket
vehicle for
Mr. Magoo.
unicorn
is
considera-
more commercial
studio's sec-
for
to retain the
tion
it
a strait-
The
spirit
refused to enter
When
revolutionary.
reportedly disappointed.
psychi-
UPA tried
acclaimed
ani-
continued
critically
He
a familiar one,
series,
returns to the
when
UPA's
have you
but
The Kim
are a booby,
UPA
traditional to
calls
featured
and
Hollywood cartoons.
Donald
or Bugs
"You
am going to
UPA, 1953
in the
it
characters,
mal subjects
Garden
Hurt
short.
and
in the
Thurber
Garden" because
at
replies,
Unicom
chose "A
adapt
subject as
to
when
him
garden for
audiences accus-
based on
Unicorn
The man
tomed
a feature film
is a
To
tell
as
'
"'jflc
DOVER BOYS
ii
PIMENTO UNIVERSITY"
-no RIYAtS or
ROUDEFORT HALL"
he
full
on-screen
cartoon
is 77ic
this
title oi
Dover Boys
at
rolls
on
It is a
wheels.
Dan
film with
it's
in
as a
watershed in animation
his-
wood animators
Jones
True
oldtimer
Chuck Jones
he almost got
claims that
fired
from
intentionally unrealistic
booking
movements.
known
as
simply
"Good Old
U."
are the
Dover Bovs
after
me
out."
and
it
Wamer
ot
the
and lunnier.
cartoon to contain
sly, intelligent
humor com-
human
stylized
most
and
and those
became
is a
was not
other studios
taster
it
But the
cartoons
it,
theaters, they
new style
also
Pimento U., or
P.
"They hated
Dover Boys
first
such
toon.
thrown
The
up unexpectedly.
com-
pany of an oddly-dressed
The
to
Warner
Pimento University,
WARNER BROS..
bullying cad
including
if
form, the
artistic
The
also the
which Chuck
Boys
who plav
cartoons, hut
Diwer
caricatures
Be
human
UPA
series of
Kimball cartoons
at
in
Ward
Disney in
later.
more inno-
Tom,
without losing
believability.
Milt Gray
CREDITS
A Mtmt
VI
lo
I'
Slory:
Cartoon
[ones
Ted
Pierce
Directed hv Charles
Carl
VV
Stalling
TJie
Dwer
Boys are three actual successive frames from the film, demonstrating
the innovative use of limited animation throughout the picture. Characters pop from pose to
182
LL HAVE TO
SACRIFICE MY
I
ART AND CO
IN THE MOVIES.
i8 4
he
cartoon characters
store, sells
hands
moved
most became
extinct before
tures as
The
such sapient
lineage ol
named
toon
Felix
the
a cat
first car-
medium
the
crea-
Most
itself
his contemporaries
ol
were
Holh'wood,
WINKLER,
1923
Ouo Messmcr
after
ly accurate
impression of Charlie
Chaplin's walk
by the
Little
Felix
Tramp
my stuff!
is
accused
himself of
"stealing
This
brief
by Otto Messmer,
designed with
Felix
(K0K0
little
indnidu-
the Clown,
Farmer Alfalfa).
Felix
and
was
A thinker, he
different:
the animated
shoots two
Felix
to a contract.
was the
first
lor a trip to
Hollywood (he
actor
money
Hollywood.
Felix
med
one
known
The
influ-
first
baby
oil,
and even
of cigars.
still
merchandise, including
actor)
cartoon
pan-
was
work
expressions
films
him
own brand
in
for
facial
signs
Within
as popular as Charlie
tomime and
dolls,
Hart,
them,
S.
ol
Felix's creator
who
Animation:
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his acting,
CREDITS
and demonstrates
memorable encounter
year of Felix
where
(a carica-
screen. In a particularly
(Krazy Kat,
Felix
j.
human
on popular
strips
own
comic
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M.J.
owner $500. In
Hollywood
his
Feisty
either based
ality
Felix in
earliest ancestors of
today
up.
185
ol
cats.
More
later,
America
his
he's
s best-
appeared in 1919.
John Cancmakcr
are. of course,
than
fifty
many
great car-
Although our
toons.
bal-
Van Beuren
(Wilfred Jackson/Silly
S\Tnphomes/ 1938)
(Burt Gillett,
some
there were
sions.
Toward
(Charles
Ted Eshbaugh/
Melodies/
Pig, Sylvester
Moving Day
A Talc
(Robert Clamperr/Meme
o/Tuo
Kitties
list,
Warner
surprising omis-
Bros. Studios
M. Jones/Meme
1948) Porky
Rainbow Parade/1935)
Scaredy Cat
Studios
Melodies/ig42);Tweety
Baseball Bugs
list,
was minute;
some
cases, only
in
made
(I.
the
Bugs Bunnv
Music Lund
(I.
SMnphony/ 1 93 3)
these cartoons
toons that
number
receiv
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ot votes
all
Mouse
a
Bugs
substantial
Bunm
is a classic.
Note:
The
Some
ol
Mouse
(Charles
greatest car-
all
Cartoon/ 1 939)
list
list
are
does not
Averv/Meme
(Fred
Melodies/
Fudd
MGM Studios
The Bill: Wolf
Three Bears
M. Jones/Meme
Melodies/1948)
Mouse Cleaning
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Mirror
Fust
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the
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A Wild Hare
The Pointer
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Fudd
s first
Each
the
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Plane Crazy
Freleng/Merrie
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(Hanna-Barbera/1948);
M. Jones/Loonev Tunes/
Tom
and Jem
E.
Screwball Squirrel
Who
Killed
Coyote
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Hand/Silly SMnphonv/1935)
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Gorilla
Dreams
Droopy
Serior
(Robert Mcfximson/Looney
pet-animated films
Fleischer Studio
Swing
Winsor McCay
Lmlc
Nemo
(igi
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(Charles
Mechanical Monsters
Disney Studios
Education
for
(194 1 ), Superman
The Old
Man
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M. Jones/Loonev
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Pig, Sylvester
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Forty Thieves
946) Porky
short in color
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Elmer Fudd
The Box
Mouse
Ub
Iwerks Studio
Rhapsody
(I.
(I.
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First
Woody Woodpecker
Woody
Woodpecker cartoon
Crac
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Rafchit
Lane/ 1 94
Trailer
(Murakami-Wolf Films/
Rivets
Man) (1935)
Rhapsody
Mickey 's
lea
Terrytoons
Kitty
Poor Cinderella
Mclodics/1936)
1932);
UPA
When MaGoo
Singa
Cab
Rickard/Special/ 1938);
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(Tex Averv/1945)
Calloway
Shift Cinderella
Fluir-Ruismg Hare
Bunny
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Producrions/1971)
Rahhn Hood
(Charles
M. Jones/Meme
ErsaK
Bunny
(Zagreb Studios/ 1961)
Frank Film
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Index
Adamson.Joe.
166
186
Ali
1S6
Allegretto,
American
Show The", 20
"Bullwinklc
Pete. 24,
Cabarga.
Leslie, 94.
25
.Alex, 19,
"Animaniacs
46-4-. j
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.
59. 62.
J 73-
186
"Do-Do
Donald Duck.
*4
Lannon, Robert,
14
Cannon, |ohnnv,
20-21
Data
Droopy.
138-39
162-5
Charlie Dog, 22
Bond
40-43
166-167
Barker. Cordelk
Bill.
128
24
in the
Green. Gene, 91
Grocning. Matt. 25
Gullna
130
bn imi-
<
Elmer Fudd,
Ike".
186
107
124-25
"Clutch Cargo", 20
Farmer Alfalfa, 13
the Beast. 2
Feed
Cohl. Emd.
Feline Follies, 1 3
2.
52
Reiman. Nancy, S3
Benedict. Ed. 20
"Colonel Bleep
9+
186
Big
Sflit,
Columbia
The. 29,
116-19
132-53
Comv
Figaro,
18-19
185
Tonv,
Fischingcr,
178-79
Fichus,
Hurd.
146
Costello, Billv
Birth of a Nation,
105
66
Fiaien't
Loxe
187
Black Fun'. 63
20
Fleischer.
MeL
Blanc.
Cruikshank.
Crunch
145- 170
Don, 20
Bluio. 89
[75
Posustou Stephen.
.
Bouffier
9.
Foghorn Leghorn,
Ub, 13-14.
Foster. Alan,
Foster.
Box.Thc, 187
Dd/fy Doodles. 17
Little Tailor,
Bray.
J.
28.
120-123
164
186
Jimmy
77
the
Cricket.
[ones. Charles
74
170
Fred Flintstone 23
Kaufrnan, J.
Kicffcr,
77. 145-48,
187
Mike. 91
Ward.
Kimball.
130. 182
Kinnc\
"Deputy Dawg", 20
Funcs, The,
Kj'tv Komcrcd,
Bugs Bunny,
Dcr Fuehrers
Face, 29,
87
105-07
1 3, 1
-9
P.,
13.
lack,
68-71
107
186
Knight, Arthur. 65
Dictch. Gene, 20
kpko
64-67, 130
190
164
77
187
Kjng-Sizc Cdndrv,
15
Crcu. The. 16
Foxy, 14
164
24-23. 28-29,
182.
18. 22.
186
Johnston. Ollic. 80
170
Warren.
box and
73, 143
Fion as and
Hxard. 169
Braic
101
"The
187
145-46
164, 173
Sally,
Bird. The,
Thomas,
Rudolph,
Cnppcn. Fred. 20
Preston. 37. 59
46,
Iwcrks.
Blair.
186
94
Got a
Smga. 18-
to
143
Ising,
Earl, 12. 13
Ingc,
Birds Anonymous,
Christmas", ig, 21
Norm. -3
Ferguson. Otto, 43
184-85
186
the Bull,
Ferguson.
17,65,97,
14
Fiolhnood, 22-23,
Fadinand
173
20
Honevmoon Hotel.
"How the Gnnch Stole
150-51
Felix in
178
186
102-05. '73
19-20. 22
Hoberman.
77
14. 18. 4-. 59, 46. 158, 162,
164. tji
Fiarc,
Harman. Hugh.
Beaky Buzzard. 16
Bcalc. Eddie. 103
Hare Meets
186
Kent, 140
Gark.
16. 18.
Happy Harmonics, 15
91
Eugster. Al 125
Gark
178
101
186
162. 164
Edwards. Giff"Ukclele
Churchill, Frank. 73
Hdir-Ruijing Hare,
Bane, RaouL 15
Beuutv and
Cenrurv, 11.
'/i*
39
14
Baseball Bugs.
16, 107,
Ersatz.
Barnacle
182-83
67
Hanna. William,
164
43
34,
162.
Dumbo.
Graham. Graham.
Bdtn6i, 16
29
Gracie Films. 25
44-47. 74
Duck Amuck, 29, 36-39
Back. The.
41-42.
Dreams. 187
22
Duck Dodgers
Adnana. 155
Mv
Gontla
A", 20
Special,
Came
',
Champion. Ken. 18
186
Balloonland.
"Dooncsburv
Dot and
~8
19.
Cat
82-83
185
Captain Pete. -9
Caselotti.
Gordon. George.
Backus. Jim. 24
Bakshi, Ralph.
20
Canemakcr, lohn.
Blackic. 29.
"Goliath rr, 18
100-101, 152
Dishes. 14,
Bad Luck
Dizzx
52
Cambria Studio, 20
Averv.Tex.
186
Goojv Gophers, 22
55
"Gigantor". 20
58,
14
Talc. .An, 21
Aficbon Auagh, 16
Anderson.
Gillett. Bert,
Bumess.
86
1S7
the Boid,
92
the Clerun,
,85
3.
146
814
Rabbit of Seville,
Krazy Kat,
Moving Day,
Raggedy
15, 101,
1 3,
85
86
186
Tasmanian
Tempo
Ladv and
Muvbndge, Edward, 10
Republic Pictures, 97
Tramp, 14
the
185
12, 15,
166-67. 186
Rhapsodv
116, 139
Natwick,
187
Mvron "Grim",
Under, 21
Rn cts, 1 86
in
Thru
Road Runner.
47
Rabbit,
1
55
"Newly-weds, The", 12
Little
"Roger Ramjet
108-111
Watchman,
Night.
Northwest Hounded
'.
160-161
1 8.
Loonev Tunes,
OfdGrcy
46-47, 146. 170,
Old
Man
Hare, The,
186
Lucas. George.
44
Out of the
73
Inkwell,
74
the Butcher.
142-43, 152
Parmalee. Ted.
168-69
34,
Oozy,
Plane
B.,
57
McCay, Winsor,
55, 70.
73
Plvmpton.
14,
Melody,
21,
89. 186
Memtt,
78
Messmcr, Otto,
79
18. 20. 22, 19,
22-23,
Pig, 18.
Porfcy in Wacfcyfand.
Porky 's
Mickev Mouse, 22-23, 2 9> 4 I- 43- 5578-79, 89, 92, 100, 121-23, 124-25,
Duck Hunt,
Badume
Pncc, Michael
Miller, Jeff,
the
38, 46,
Story.
Owl
77
80
47
130
Pudovkm,
V.I.,
Warner. Jack,
186
140
Who
Who
"Simpsons, the
Wicked Queen,
Symphonies.
",
Sinkm
186
25
2,1,
and
nite,
Much for
So
Little,
28.
94, 103
W. R,
Willie
161
Whopper, 101
Wist
169
\\ impv, 89
Winkler, M.J
22
Socictc Radio-Canada,
92-93
Snow
Killed
Wilkcrson,
Sneru VVbitt
Bathtub, 14
in the
136
18,
185
Hen, The, 23
Little
"Wizards,", 20
Woody W oodpecker. 14
166
Stalling, Carl, 15,
145
Woolen
Adrian,
1
1
Stanford. Lcland. 10
83
Moonhird, 187
Moore,
46
145
5,
Professor
186
Duck Hunt,
Miller, jack
140
Siegel, Jerry,
So
Party's
Parley's
Mickty'sTrailer,
Sinister, Joe,
173 185
185
MGM,
186, 187
88-91
Porkv
Russell,
Singer Sam, 20
3+
Silly
100
3*
42
186
30
173.
Wardjav. 19-20. 25
\\ amcr Bros.. 16-25,
23
186
\\ alms. 99
Memc Melodies,
Studios. 13.
Sharpstcin, Ben.
Bill,
187
Ted, 73
ofNimh, The, 20
Segar,
Melcndcz.
Pluto,
187
McfGmson,
Van Beurcn
Seldes, Gilbert,
170
14
Scnbner. Rod, 18
187
in the
Pinocchio, 130
Pintoff. Ernest,
173
121
Universal Studios, 97
UPA
Screwy Squirrel,
Secret
Pmk
Scrappy, 14
Scars.
44
158-59
Mayer, Louis
14
May,
147
20
Bill,
Unicom
Schwartz, Hack,
187
136-37
Man Who
Tula,
Schmidt, Louis, 83
4""
20
Pic,
Twcctv,
14
Lupo
Schlch. lack, 20
Love. Ed, 59
Lund}', Dick,
and
"Top Cat
OvL 89
Olive
72-73
186
130-31
164
Rvan. Will, 9
Salkin. Leo,
187
65,
164, r86
Twtait
112-115
14
Toon Adventures
Toot, Whistle,
20,
Tin-Tin, 21
Tom
20
Police. 11,
Little Pigs, 1 5,
the Mirror,
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