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The late-night NBC talkshow wars as a superhero battle? Why not?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 02, 2010 -
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Category: Cartoons, TV News, Asia
Sleeping Betty
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 29, 2010 -
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Category: Myths and Fairytales, Cartoons
The Musical Doctor
This is one demented video. Please note how Mae Questal, the voice of Betty Boop, is like a living incarnation of that cartoon icon.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 23, 2009 -
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Category: Humor, Medicine, Music, Cartoons, 1930s
Orange Blossoms for Violet
I don't think the Italian subtitles will stop you from enjoying this bit of monkey madness.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 13, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Cartoons, 1950s
Good Wrinkles
A twenty-minute cartoon about prunes? Now, that's weird!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 01, 2009 -
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Category: Food, Cartoons, Documentaries, 1950s
Snow Bo
I found this gem cited on Motionographer.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 30, 2009 -
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Category: Death, Eccentrics, Children, Cartoons
Max Fleischer’s News Sketches
Was this one of Chuck's inspirations for NEWS OF THE WEIRD...?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 08, 2009 -
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Category: Art, History, Cartoons, 1940s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Badger Song
The Badger Song - More amazing videos are a click away
In honor of Chuck's "Badger Whisperer" post.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 27, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Music, Cartoons, Natural Wonders
Dolloping Doubloons - Creator of Captain Pugwash Dies.
Ryan's most famous creation, the eponymous, bumbling, pirate and his equally inept crew (with the exception of the ever resourceful cabin-boy) were a staple of British children's television in the 50s and 60s, and even returned to UK screens for a brief revival in the late 90s. But it is for a quite different reason that most people will remember the series. Sometime in the 1970s, when the TV program had been off-air for nearly a decade, the urban rumour started that the characters had all been given double-entendre names. Pugwash's crew, it was claimed, had included characters called "Master Bates", "Seaman Staines" and "Roger the cabin-boy". In reality, the crew of The Black Pig, Pugwash's ship, were Master Mate, Barnabas and Willy, along with the cabin-boy, Tom. The legend became so well accepted that it was carelessly repeated as fact by both the Sunday Correspondent and Guardian newspapers, leading Ryan to sue, successfully, both papers for libel in 1991 (Obituary - Guardian).
The animation style used in Pugwash, as well as his other programs, Mary, Mungo and Midge, and Sir Prancelot, was unusual in that it was not done using stop-frame photography but by making articulated paper figures that could be moved like puppets in real-time.
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Sat Jul 25, 2009 -
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Category: Death, Obituaries, Television, Lawsuits, Cartoons
The Circle of Life, Japanese Style
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 17, 2009 -
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Category: Death, Surrealism, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, Asia
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