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Tralfaz: The Journey of Gene Deitch
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Saturday, 8 August 2015. The Journey of Gene Deitch. Theatrical cartoons are dying, said all kinds of people in the movie business starting in the late ‘40s, but they changed a bit before that happened. And you can partly thank television. One can only imagine the atmosphere at Terrytoons with someone from the outside being brought in. In television, that means change. And Weekly Variety. Of August 15, 1956 outlined Deitch’s ambitious plan. CBS Full of Animation, Projecting Terrytoons Into TV Programming.
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Tralfaz: Arthur Q
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015. All the years he was hunting wabbits, Elmer Fudd’s voice actor was never identified on screen. Countless kids grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s thinking it was Mel Blanc, because Blanc’s name was the only one that appeared in the title cards. And it’s probable someone at the Leon Schlesinger cartoon studio heard him on it, catapulting him to freelance animation work. Bryan was a busy actor, lending his voice not only to comedy parts, but dramatic roles on Lux Radio Theatre. In 1924&...
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Tralfaz: Not Quite Farewell
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Sunday, 2 August 2015. Ah, if there had only been a third and a twentieth Jack Benny farewell TV special, as a columnist for Newsday. This column was published in the Yonkers Herald Statesman. January 21, 1974. Jack Benny quits — again. Last year he bowed out on TV with a special, and since it went over so big with just about everyone from sponsors and network officials to the Nielsen Hating folks, it's about to happen again. The second farewell stanza will feature one of those rare occasions when Benny ...
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Tralfaz: Pedigreedy
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Friday, 14 August 2015. Felix the Cat tells an audience of the hoi-polloi some tall stories about his ancestors in an attempt to join their private social club in Pedigreedy. This gag’s pretty straight-forward. I love how the Pharaoh in 1000 B.C. has a pistol. And why he splits apart into pieces while he dances is something that escapes me. Labels: Felix the Cat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. 8220;Forgotten” Anime #33: “Black Magic M-66″ (1987). Fernando Llera Blog Cartoons.
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Tralfaz: June 2015
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015. The first few years of the Silly Symphonies really did feature silliness. That was the whole point of them. None of that “illusion of life” stuff. Here’s a good example from “Night” (released April 1930). Fireflies are dancing to the immortal song “Glow Worm.” They’re twanging their necks like jew’s harps. Their heads get cut off and leap into the air. The heads land upside down on the other’s body. No matter. They bounce back onto their proper bodies. TV’s Jack of 80 Faces. I just...
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Tralfaz: May 2015
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Sunday, 31 May 2015. The last few months haven’t been good ones for fans of the old game show “I’ve Got A Secret.” Within the last six months, three of the ladies who graced the panel have passed away. First, it was Bess Myerson late last year, then Jayne Meadows a little over a month ago, and now Betsy Palmer has died. Growing up in the ‘60s, it seemed to me that Betsy was one of those people who TV Guide. Betsy Palmer Galled ‘Too Happy’. By STEVEN H. SCHEUER. 8220;I’m also going to be seen in tha...
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Tralfaz: July 2015
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Friday, 31 July 2015. A Bite of Beary. Oh, that wacky, loveable Beary Family! Bursting at the seams with comedy in every cartoon. Al Coe (assisted by Joe Voght) and Virgil Ross (assisted by Tom Byrne) are the animators. I’m not sure if Virgil left Filmation, worked for Lantz, then went back to Filmation, but his career really wasn’t the same after leaving Warner Bros. PS: Sorry for the TV bug in these frames. Thursday, 30 July 2015. Another Disney camera pull-back opens the Silly Symphony Frolicking Fish.
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Tralfaz: A Tail Of One Gag
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Thursday, 13 August 2015. A Tail Of One Gag. 8220;If you take a big bite out of any one thing,” Paul Terry opined in 1970, “that’s plagiarism and you’re a thief. So, we used to have a saying, John Foster and I, ‘Never steal more than you can carry.’”. Foster was the story chief at Terrytoons through the ‘30s and ‘40s. In one of his cartoons, he borrowed the old paint-a-scene-on-something-the-good-guy-runs-through found a few years earlier in Tex Avery’s Jerky Turkey. It’s from The Screwy Truant. 169;2016...
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Tralfaz: Gritty, Grimey, Greasy Goo
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Monday, 3 August 2015. Gritty, Grimey, Greasy Goo. Who else but the writers of Rocky and Bullwinkle would make fun of the Cold War, over-budget movies and TV commercials at the same time? Boris Badenov comes up with a plan to beam three hours of Pottsylvanian TV commercials to unsuspecting Americans—who will eventually pay millions to get them off the air (once they eventually notice they’re not the Late Movie, Boris adds). He turns on the set. Itchy dandruff, falling hair,. Gritty, grimey, greasy goo,.
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