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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
Jolly Green Giant + Stumbo = ?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 17, 2009 -
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Category: PSA’s, Technology, Advertising, Cartoons
Make Mine Duff’s!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 27, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Cartoons, Alcohol
Michael Jackson on THE SIMPSONS
Goodbye, Gloved One!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 26, 2009 -
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Category: Celebrities, Death, Music, Cartoons
Norman McLaren Animations
These short films of Norman McLaren strike me as pretty weird, especially since they were created by drawing directly upon the film stock.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 17, 2009 -
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Category: Music, Cartoons, 1940s
Dick Tracy Cartoon
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 12, 2009 -
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Category: Comics, Cartoons, Dogs, 1930s
Love Day
Here's their home page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 10, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Holidays, Humor, Overpriced Merchandise, Cartoons
Fright From Wrong
Was Casper the Friendly Ghost ever mean? Funny you should ask.....
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 02, 2009 -
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Category: Drugs, Superstition, Cartoons, 1950s
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