tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860570369910571160.post5838724688085600002..comments2024-03-18T05:38:24.843-07:00Comments on Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short - 1944ajnruleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990303219460863679noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860570369910571160.post-85218447794344744632015-10-02T08:36:33.439-07:002015-10-02T08:36:33.439-07:00Nostalgia Critic watches How To Play Football duri...Nostalgia Critic watches How To Play Football during the halftime show every Super BowlSean Ramsdellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12076725846183612765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860570369910571160.post-4909405478100396152015-09-30T08:37:21.109-07:002015-09-30T08:37:21.109-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Sean Ramsdellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12076725846183612765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860570369910571160.post-61389671954337757172013-08-02T08:50:26.248-07:002013-08-02T08:50:26.248-07:00MY BOY JOHNNY
"The film also addresses the id...<b>MY BOY JOHNNY</b><br /><i>"The film also addresses the idea of giving benefits such as jobs to the GIs which was eventually put into law with the GI Bill, but it doesn't spend that much time on it."</i><br /><br />Seems like the only films that did that were mostly shown to those in the military anyway, here's one such cartoon.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb2o2mUn-Zo<br /><br /><i>"At least the music, which takes the "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" song with new lyrics, is well done."</i><br /><br />Terrytoons wasn't the only studio to use the tune, another New Yorker outfit around town, Famous Studios, also did a "Noveltoon" around it a year later with "When G.I. Johnny Comes Home". Just follow the bouncing ball!<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSVW9S0F6c<br /><br /><br /><b>SWOONER CROONER</b><br /><i>"The two that take up most of the film's focus are roosters parodying Frank Sinatra (I never understood his rooster's portrayal as being a beanpole as wide as the microphone stand, but I don't know enough about Sinatra to know about his body composition in 1944) and Bing Crosby."</i><br /><br />You'd be surprised how many caricatures of Frank Sinatra back then did that. I suppose some people viewed him as appearing rather thin and weak and that's what did it, nothing like the Frank past the 1960's that pretty much was the opposite of that. Bob Clampett went pretty far when he depicted Sinatra as being rolled out in a wheelchair by a in "Book Revue".<br /><br />Someone in a forum post had this to say on the matter...<br /><i>"Sinatra, in his teen idol days, was very, very slender. That kind of slender used to be called "sickly" then. He looked kind of like he was going to fall over any minute from hunger."</i><br /><br />So I suppose that explains it. By that definition, most celebrities these days are 'sickly'. :-PChris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860570369910571160.post-23146368578253919102013-08-02T08:50:05.029-07:002013-08-02T08:50:05.029-07:00AND TO THINK I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET
Of course...<b>AND TO THINK I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET</b><br />Of course the cruddy U.M.& M. TV reissue titles apparently couldn't fit all that on one screen the way the screenhot shows it!<br /><br /><i>"Good luck trying to find it. I couldn't ever find it online and had to get it from Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research Garage Sale. Of course, he doesn't seem to be offering any Puppetoons anymore."</i><br /><br />I'm sure Arnold Leibovit got to him first on that one! He was the producer of "The Puppetoon Movie" back in the 1980's and appears to have rights to the namesake and the films at present.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Leibovit<br /><br /><br /><b>DOG, CAT AND CANARY</b><br />Screen Gems always had that problem of not being too unique or doing something that wasn't copying other studios or creating definite, lasting characters outside the Fox and The Crow cartoons they're best known for.<br /><br /><i>"All Screen Gems had were Scrappy, who folded in 1941."</i><br /><br />It should be noted Screen Gems basically started after the death of Charles Mintz (though Columbia Pictures owned the cartoons anyway), or at least that's how I see it, as he ran the studio inthe 30's when Scrappy (and to a lesser extent Krazy Kat) were their star characters. 1940 would see a new crop of people coming into the studio like Frank Tashlin who directed the first Fox & Crow cartoon "The Fox and the Grapes").<br /><br /><i>"*Also known as Sweet Tweets, as it is listed in the opening credits, but the Academy lists the film as as Dog, Cat, and Canary, so that will be how I'll list it.</i><br /><br />Wouldn't be surprised if that was a re-release title such as the screengrab shows above. Many Screen Gems cartoon would see later theatrical re-releases often under the title "A Columbia Favorite" which featured a generic title card with assorted characters dotting it and the title of the cartoon simply placed in the middle. No production credits or MPAA registration codes or anything. It was pretty low (like the "Blue Ribbon" Merrie Melodies Warner Bros. would reissue).<br /><br /><br /><b>FISH FRY</b><br /><i>Still, Fish Fry won't go down as one of the best Walter Lantz film.</i><br /><br />It still has it's fans who appreciate what Shamus Culhane brought to the table at Lantz's. He briefly worked for the studio during the mid 40's and directed many zany cartoons for the studio like the Woody Woodpecker short "The Barber of Seville". More noted shorts to check out include "The Greatest Man in Siam" and "Abou Ben Boogie".<br /><br /><i>"*It is true that Walter Lantz produced the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts during his height of popularity in the 1930s, but Oswald was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks."</i><br /><br />It certainly is, though this was after Charles Mintz lost the rights to Oswald to Universal that Lantz began working on these with partner Bill Nolan. origianlly Oswald was Disney's baby until Mintz found a loophole to screw him out of the deal of ownership so Walt walked out with a few of his guys left and created Mickey Mouse in 1928. I'm sure there's plenty of stuff written online on the matter.<br /><br /><br /><b>MOUSE TROUBLE</b><br /><i>"They're mostly slapstick with occasional visual humor, but they're pretty funny. Highlights include Tom saying "Don't you believe it" after getting his butt kicked by Jerry, and his hiccuping after eating a talking mouse doll."</i><br /><br />My favorite is the bit of Jerry stabbing Tom with all sorts of sharp objects inside a box or something, then peaks inside it to see what he did and then pulls out a sign saying "Is there a doctor in the house?" It's pretty evident they were seeing what Tex Avery was doing in his cartoons and merely followed suit.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.com