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579,691 | 583,640 | 30,314 | 8 | Reminiscent of the old Warner Brothers " college " musicals of the 1930s | This is a cute , rather charming musical short patterned after things like Along Flirtation Walk and Varsity Show . The lead character , Johnny , might as well have " Dick Powell " stenciled on his forehead and the professor reminds me of Kay Kyser . The music is infectious and entertaining , even if the plot is as thi... |
579,833 | 583,640 | 39,263 | 8 | The best of the Chip ' n Dale series , But I still prefer The Goofy Gophers | This short , nominated for an Oscar in 1947 , is probably the best Chip ' n Dale cartoon done . It helps that Donald Duck is the antagonist , giving the cartoon personality the title characters largely lack . The Warner Brothers creation of The Goofy Gophers is far more lively and entertaining for me . Worth watching |
579,518 | 583,640 | 37,319 | 8 | If seeing Elmer playing Cupid and shooting Daffy with suction cup-tipped arrows is your idea of fun , this is the cartoon for you-and you need to get out more ! | This is a very funny cartoon , pitting two of the Looney Tunes stars against each other in a somewhat unusual battle of wills . Because I want to discuss some of the details of this short , this is a spoiler warning : The opening shows a very cherubic-looking Elmer Fudd , flitting around and shooting animals with arrow... |
579,709 | 583,640 | 34,925 | 8 | Cute , well animated cartoon . | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , is a very cute ( almost too cute in spots ) , very well animated cartoon . Given its title , an excellent use of music is to be expected and that's precisely what you have-the animation and score going hand in glove smoothly , like a single unit , a strength of the Lantz st... |
579,852 | 583,640 | 41,618 | 8 | Second short done by UPA for Columbia and the second Academy Award nomination for UPA ! | In the late 1940s , Columbia decided to farm out the production of their animated shorts and UPA offered to do them . Columbia had visions of just continuing along the same lines as before and do cartoons heavily weighted towards the standard talking anthropomorphic animals and made it clear they wanted the Fox and Cro... |
578,912 | 583,640 | 12,985 | 8 | Technically fascinating short starring Koko the Clown | Fliescher Studios ( or more accurately , Max Fliescher ) created a number of memorable characters , with Popeye and / or Betty Boop the most well-known these days . Come to that , Popeye isn't theirs , but that of a comic strip artist named Segar . But I digress . For my money , in many ways , the best and most memorab... |
579,027 | 583,640 | 18,150 | 8 | Early Disney , with Oswald the Rabbit | No doubt , some people believe Walt Disney started with a certain mouse and , in one sense , they'd be right-Disney started working more or less as an independent in 1928 and Plane Crazy , the first Mickey , was his first effort . But Disney actually did shorts for a number of years under contract , until Charles Mintz... |
579,086 | 583,640 | 234,588 | 8 | Bizarre , episodic and somewhat uneven short , but hilarious in spots and worth watching | Rejected is a short composed of short bits that are basically animated " blackout " gags that sometimes leave you rolling on the floor and occasionally will have you blinking and scratching your head . The ending plays with the concept that an animated film is only as stable as its animator's mind and is probably the b... |
579,254 | 583,640 | 47,353 | 8 | Cute cartoon , but the original source story is better | While this cartoon , nominated for an Oscar , is a good adaptation of a classic short story with the same title and is very cute and worth seeing , the source material ( Butler's story ) is simply marvelous and should also be read . Disney did a good job in adaptation , given their track record for adaptations . Worth ... |
579,760 | 583,640 | 32,033 | 8 | A very good Avery short which is now available on DV | I don't think Tex Avery directed a bad cartoon . While this one isn't one of my absolute favorites , it's still a very good cartoon ( which basically makes it a cartoon that a lot of directors would be pleased to have considered as one of their best ) . I want to discuss some of the specific details here , so here ther... |
579,459 | 583,640 | 152,483 | 8 | Could you possibly make any more noise ? | This is an excellent short featuring the hapless Wally Walrus butting heads with the manic Woody Woodpecker . Since I want to discuss details here , this is your spoiler warning : Wally is going to bed at just about the same time that Woody is waking up-Wally is a day sleeper and Woody is a night sleeper . Thus , Wally... |
578,906 | 583,640 | 20,053 | 8 | Mickey was a somewhat different character in his early days | This is one of the early Mickey shorts and Mickey has a bit more of an edge to his personality in these early shorts than does the mouse most people would readily recognize as Mickey . The backgrounds and other things in the scenes are different too , such as the hot dogs Mickey sells . Very good and entertaining short... |
579,160 | 583,640 | 152,458 | 8 | Wally Walrus makes a good foil for Woody . | Of the various characters Woody has run-ins with , Wally Walrus is probably the best foil for him , as the funniest situations arise when Woody makes a pest of himself for whatever reason and Wally is the perfect character for such antics . The personality lends itself well to a good slow burn . One of the better short... |
579,273 | 583,640 | 56,932 | 8 | Excellent Speedy short . | With this Speedy cartoon , almost everything just clicks . This is one of the better ones made in the 1960s . Sylvester is an excellent choice as a foil for Speedy and Speedy , who is really kind of bland when you think about it a bit , actually is kind of interesting in this one . Though the best Speedys have an ancil... |
578,828 | 583,640 | 111,201 | 8 | The more obvious attractions aside , watch this for the Australian flora and fauna as well as Tara Fitzgerald's performance . | While much has been made of the three models appearances in this film ( particularly Elle MacPherson ) , it's actually reasonably good , although Kate Fischer's socialist - with - a - chip - on - her - shoulder gets tiresome quickly . The scenery ( Australian flora and fauna , of course . Whatever did you think I meant... |
579,637 | 583,640 | 53,080 | 8 | Good use of limited-animation , but the dialogue becomes tedious after a while . | This cartoon deservedly won an Oscar for Animated Short in 1959 . It came about in an intriguing way-John and Faith Hubley taped their two sons at play and structured the animation around the conversation between the two . Fascinating though this is ( and the animation is excellent ) , toward the lattr part of the shor... |
579,573 | 583,640 | 22,423 | 8 | Visually excellent and reminiscent of Skeleton Dance . | This is a very good cartoon in many respects , but it's virtually impossible to avoid comparing it to Skeleton Dance , which is a shame , because this cartoon is lessened in the comparison ( almost anything would be-Skeleton Dance was the first Silly Symphonies and is one of the great animated works of all time ) . Par... |
578,957 | 583,640 | 35,812 | 8 | Typical early Woody Woodpecker short | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , is pretty much standard for an early Woody-put Woody in a normal locale ( as here , a circus / carnival ) , introduce a nemesis and watch the manic antics of your star drive them to distraction . Good , but the personality of Woody is still a bit too one-note at this point ... |
579,430 | 583,640 | 45,100 | 8 | This cartoon has the distinction of being the first from the NFBC nominated for an Oscar | This short is the first to be nominated for Cartoon Short for the Oscar that was produced by the National Film Board of Canada . Fairly funny and well-done ( I doubt I'll ever see one produced by the NFBC that's actively bad ) , it has a certain charm , but is really not terribly significant otherwise . Worth Watching ... |
579,398 | 583,640 | 30,196 | 8 | Donald as scoutmaster ; his usualcharming , genial self ! | In this short , nominated for an Oscar , Donald is the Scout leader of a troop consisting of his nephews , Huey , Dewey and Louey . As is typically the case , Donld is affable , good-natured , even-tempered and thoroughly prepared . Cartoondom's most prominent case of coronary thrombosis in waiting , its ' poster child... |
579,911 | 583,640 | 30,201 | 8 | Good , but not great , short about Father Damian | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , is a look at the true story of a Belgian priest who went to tend to lepers in Hawaii and contracted the disease himself . At least one film has been made about Father Damien and it's a fascinating story . Thi short is good , if a bit melodramatic at times and the narration ... |
579,281 | 583,640 | 25,807 | 8 | Some great visuals and a few really funny sight gags make this worth watching . | This is a really funny early Popeye , with some really excellent visual effects . Swee ' Pea is making life most unhappy for all concerned-himself , Popeye and all the poor souls Popeye silences in order for the little noisemaker to stay asleep ( a consummation devoutly to be wished ) and thus to be silent . Costello i... |
579,225 | 583,640 | 22,430 | 8 | Interesting film that points up the need to sometimes face temporary personal risk in return for the greater good | This film , an early William Wellman , has an important message , particularly today . It posits the notion that sometimes there are things more important than your own personal safty or well-being . The film , which has Walter Huston as the lead , is stolen by the performance of " Chic " Sales as Grampa . He's the mos... |
579,238 | 583,640 | 152,556 | 8 | Popeye fights a Nazi submarine ; guess who wins . | This short , one of a handful done by Paramount Famous Studios in black and white , is fairly effective propaganda and uses the black and white to best advantage with shadows and shadings . While the overall value of even a rowboat full of spinach versus , say , munitions , to Britain at that time and place is an open ... |
579,873 | 583,640 | 152,557 | 8 | An early example of a good Paramount Popeye " cheater " | This is one of the early color Popeye shorts done by Paramount and is a " cheater " - a cartoon made that uses footage taken from an earlier short in order to save time and / or money . Give the shortages in mateial and manpower ( WWII was still going on ) , it was probably done to save both . Although the clips are ta... |
578,848 | 583,640 | 39,623 | 8 | Mickey and Minnie go steppin ' out | This short is by no means a classic , but it is entertaining and has a cute and ( for me ) an offbeat ending . Sight gags for the most part , this is amusing , if light , occasionally popping up on The Ink and Paint Club . Well worth watching . Recommended . |
579,660 | 583,640 | 47,275 | 8 | One of my personal favorite Tom and Jerry cartoons | Granted , this is not an exceptional Tom and Jerry . I just happen to like it a great deal . It's a cute , exceptionally violent ( and therefore standard ) Tom and Jerry . The little mouse who shows Tom and Jerry around Naples is an interesting ( and formidable ) character and it is a bit different from the average Tom... |
579,047 | 583,640 | 51,108 | 8 | Excellent musical cartoons | This is actually two cartoons inside a framing device and the two cartoons are basically animated songs . In fact , in my opinion , the song for Jamaica Daddy is more memorable than most of the Best Song nominees for the 1957 Oscars ! The cartoon is on one of the Columbia Classics Series although not listed on the box ... |
579,154 | 583,640 | 74,256 | 8 | A cute and enjoyable movie-almost to cute | This is a very cute and enjoyable movie , quite possibly the only one in a very small sub-genre in the genre of gangster films-a musical gangster movie cast entirely with children . The cast is notable principally by the presence of Jodie Foster ( as a side note , this was released the same year as was Taxi Driver ! ) ... |
578,867 | 583,640 | 24,354 | 8 | Good cartoon built around classical music | This short features Rubinoff , who was on the Eddie Cantor radio program , basically the equivalent of a cross between what Ed McMahon and Doc Severinson were for Johnny Carson . The animation is good , even if the storyline was a bit long in the tooth even in 1933 . Enjoyable for the sight gags . Well worth watching .... |
579,632 | 583,640 | 25,840 | 8 | Very good display of trick shots in bowling by a master | This short was nominated for an Oscar as a novelty short . It's basically showing a very good bowler doing the trick shots he was well-known for at the time . Andy Varipapa was a professional bowler who made a decent living doing shows from town to town performing trick shots in front of audiences and this features som... |
579,486 | 583,640 | 25,842 | 8 | Very good cartoon , even with William Costello as Popeye | The early Fleischer cartoons were visually superb for the most part . They were still more or less breaking in the Popeye series at this point and still just getting by with William Costello as the voice of Popeye . This one is a very good cartoon that would have been made better if the voice actor had given Popeye a b... |
578,888 | 583,640 | 41,262 | 8 | One of Tex Avery's most sight-gag oriented cartoons | This cartoon is almost entirely sight-gags and is about a cat willing to go to great lengths to have a bird join him-as dinner ! Only there's one minor inconvenience-a rather large , if somewhat dim , dog watching out for the bird's welfare . Delightfully funny and the ending is just perfect . Personally , I think the ... |
578,833 | 583,640 | 43,450 | 8 | Excellent example of a Tex Avery Droopy | This short is an excellent example of Tex Avery's handling of Droopy : Droopy is very quiet , passive and sedate ( almost sedated , actually ) as Spike tries to win a job competition through ways nefarious that never work out as intended . Droopy is just there to provide something to set up the sight gags . You still c... |
579,976 | 583,640 | 148,209 | 8 | The further adventures of Gerald McBoing Boing | Gerald McBoing Boing is probably the second most recognizable continuing character created by UPA , after Quincy Magoo . There were only four theatrical shorts made , but there was also a television series done , which is the likely reason there were only four theatrical shorts . While all are good , they're uneven , w... |
579,790 | 583,640 | 150,123 | 8 | Enjoyable follow-up to Christopher Crumpet | Christopher Crumpet has the most remarkable imagination ! This is a very amusing and quite gentle little cartoon and is well-animated in the limited-animation style of the UPA studio . Not their best short , assuredly , but quite good in any case . Worth watching . Recommended . |
579,407 | 583,640 | 19,975 | 8 | Visually a very nice cartoon which has little in the way of a plot | Given that this is a short which was directed by Ub Iwerks and it's an early sound cartoon , it's hardly surprising that this is , first and foremost , a very visually oriented short . It has some excellent animation and some beautifully rendered creatures . Because I want to discuss the short a bit , this is a spoiler... |
579,242 | 583,640 | 43,341 | 8 | Enjoyable cartoon , with Bruno the Bear the comic attraction | Bugs Bunny always works best when he has a suitably obnoxious opponent and he has one here in Bruno the Magnificent , a vain and egotistical bear who most definitely wants the spotlight all to himself . Enter our hero , stage left , and a series of standard sight gags and some good lines . I loved this cartoon growing ... |
578,878 | 583,640 | 33,724 | 8 | Excellent example of a staple of the early animated shorts | This short is jammed with caricatures of notables-mostly actors and actresses , but J . Edgar Hoover is here too , as are Leopold Stowkowski and Sally Rand . Not only stars ( Gable , Garbo and Grant ) but character actors ( the almost mandatory Ned Sparks appearance is here ) as well . It was an excellent concept , tai... |
579,712 | 583,640 | 104,511 | 8 | Very bloody , equally funny , take on vampires and crime . | This is not something I would typically enjoy , but it was recommended to me by someone I trust , so I watched it and was happily surprised . Citizen Kane it isn't , but we already have one of those and not everything has to be Great Cinema anyway . This is a very bloody ( not my cup of tea , so to speak ) , very funny... |
578,967 | 583,640 | 147,989 | 8 | Not for the easily offended or the permanently indignant . | There is a great deal about this short to potentially offend almost anyone . Racial stereotypes , drug humor , it isn't a kid's cartoon . It also features some fairly nightmarish images that border on the surreal . Good enough to transcend its star's lack of charisma . Iwerks cartoons are generally visually appealing a... |
579,212 | 583,640 | 93,886 | 8 | She wants a guy who looks like me and talks like you . | The line I quoted as the subject line fair rips my heart out every time I hear it in this film , because it is , sadly , all too true in real life . Leaving aside the somewhat improbable romantic outcome ( rarely outside of film does life work things out as it concludes here ) , there is much to recommend this film-the... |
579,671 | 583,640 | 25,641 | 8 | Good , though a trifle familiar , short from Disney | This short is an entertaining , very cute bit of animation . It uses a lot of bits used in other shorts , so it's all quite familiar even though I don't recall ever seeing this before . The animation is up to Disney's standards for the time and this is well worth the time to get and watch . Good to see it's in print . ... |
579,567 | 583,640 | 24,547 | 8 | Entertaining early Warner Brothers short | This is an early Warner Brothers black and white , more charming than funny . It more or less did what the studio wanted-it showcased a song from their music library . Not much was expected from the early shorts . Because I want to talk a little about the short , this is a spoiler warning : A little orphan trudges " ho... |
579,172 | 583,640 | 152,343 | 8 | See Woody . See a motorcycle cop . See Woody slowly drive the motorcycle cop nuts . | This is an exceptionally manic and entertaining early Woody Woodpecker short , where the voices were done by Mel Blanc . Because I want to discuss some details , this is a spoiler warning : This short has a fairly basic plot-Woody is driving along and comes up on a motorcycle cop hiding and watching for " SPEEEEEDERS !... |
579,328 | 583,640 | 39,475 | 8 | One of Tex Avery's George and Junior shorts and possibly the best of them . | Tex Avery only created a few continuing characters . This short features a team he developed , George and Junior , patterned after the lead characters in Of Mice and Men , which was a fairly frequent source for inspiration for not only Avery , but other cartoon directors as well . George and Junior aren't too funny in ... |
579,944 | 583,640 | 60,862 | 8 | Excellent action-western with a great ensemble cast | This film has a terrific script , a great cast that works well together ( particularly the four lead , Lancaster , Marvin , Ryan and the wonderful and much-underrated Woody Strode ) , excellent production values and fine direction . I don't personally care for too many action movies and can take or leave westerns , but... |
579,284 | 583,640 | 47,182 | 8 | Those who can , do ; those who can't , teach in cartoons . | If Jerry is moonlighting here , he'd best not count on keeping his teaching position unless he already has tenure ! Things don't run to form for Jerry as everything he tries to " teach " to " Tuffy " turns out badly for him ( some of it rather painfully so ) and in the end , the student is far more successful . I love ... |
578,904 | 583,640 | 45,269 | 8 | One of the few enjoyable Chip n ' Dale shorts | Chip n ' Dale are rather static and boring , to me and the Warner Brothers Goofy Gophers are much more entertaining , but they did do a few good shorts , of which this is one . I suspect this is because the rivalry here is realistic and the situation much more interesting . This one's well worth looking for . Recommend... |
579,082 | 583,640 | 41,444 | 8 | I have more fun than people ! | I couldn't resist including one of my favorite lines from an animated short as the subject line of this comment . Since I want to discuss one or two of the scenes in this in a little detail , be warned : Here may be spoilers . Bugs is minding his own business when Elmer arrives with less than gentle or friendly attenti... |
579,562 | 583,640 | 461,847 | 8 | Intensely moving short with an ending which I'll never forget | This short is a deliberately paced character study , following an older , clearly independent and very stubborn man as he shuts down his farm . His daughter has prevailed upon her parents to move into a retirement home , likely more because she thinks they should rather than because it's the best move for them . No dou... |
579,987 | 583,640 | 43,376 | 8 | A very funny and understandable cartoon | This is a very amusing and entertaining short , though I'm at a loss to understand some of the comments here regarding the behavior of the mouse toward Sylvester . They seem to be missing the point to the cartoon . There may be spoilers ahead , so consider this a spoiler warning : The cartoon begins with Sylvester real... |
579,757 | 583,640 | 33,672 | 8 | This " Grocery store comes to life " short uses relatively few caricatures or references to people or characters | While caricatures and / or references to entertainment industry people or things or even brands of products is usually a staple in shorts like this one , they aren't used in quantity here . Most of the individual gags are rather generic . As I'm going to give examples , there will be spoilers below : There are only thr... |
578,824 | 583,640 | 98,260 | 8 | Try to see the longer , unedited version , though both are good . | This is an excellent film based on a scandal that brought down a British Prime Minister . John Hurt is great and most of the other performances are good as well . I've seen the full version as well as the slightly shorter release . Both are worth seeing , but the longer one is the better of the two , so if you have a c... |
579,188 | 583,640 | 80,663 | 8 | Though not as good as the first one , still enjoyable and with one of Daffy's best lines ever ! Semi-spoiler | In honor of the 34th anniversary of , " One small step for man , one giant leap for mankind " , I bring forth a comment on Duck Dodgers . Daffy matches wits ( ? ) with both Marvin the Martian and Gossamer and is found largely wanting . Porky virtually steals the show , but the best line is actually Daffy's . While flee... |
579,661 | 583,640 | 25,667 | 8 | The performance of the title song-by frogs , yet-is great ! | This is another of the shorts the animators at Warner Brothers made taking a song to use as a title and to build the animation around . The rendition of the title song as sung by frogs is priceless . Given the fact that they had access to the Warner Brothers song catalog and the studio saw the use of the material as a ... |
579,529 | 583,640 | 33,773 | 8 | The background details are the best part of a very good " one shot " short | This is a black and white short from Warner Brothers . It's a " one shot " cartoon , meaning it wasn't part of a series . I don't know if there was ever any intention to use the firefly again , though I doubt there was-it seems like this was just done to give Chuck Jones and his crew an opportunity to experiment with p... |
579,146 | 583,640 | 60,885 | 8 | A very good cartoon in an uneven series | The Clouseau series of cartoons was somewhat uneven , but most were at least decent and some were very good . Generally , if the villain or situation was well done and there was a balance between good dialogue and the sight gags , the cartoon worked better . Without an interesting opponent , it's just Clouseau the bumb... |
578,854 | 583,640 | 27,891 | 8 | Porky in the Foreign Legion-scrubbing camels . | This short has Porky as a military man , with the job of scrubbing camels and not much else . Because I want to discuss this in a little detail , this is a spoiler warning : Porky Pig is a soldier in the Foreign Legion , though he isn't a terribly good one . He's given the assignment of scrubbing the Commandant's camel... |
578,872 | 583,640 | 30,035 | 8 | Daffy does Hollywood | This short by Tex Avery lampoons Hollywood and the filmmaking process and does so quite well . Daffy wants to be an actor in the worst way , but can't manage that , so , by cutting and splicing clips from film archives , he " directs " his own movie . As a personal aside here , one of the saddest things here is that hi... |
578,922 | 583,640 | 53,120 | 8 | One of the most unusual , atypical Disney cartoons I've ever seen | This cartoon was nominated for an Oscar in 1959 . The animation style is stop-motion , almost a Puppetoon type of animation . This is the only cartoon from Disney that I recall ever seeing . It certainly is not your typical Disney cartoon . The music is all over the board-there's even some pretty good blues in here . W... |
579,517 | 583,640 | 30,020 | 8 | The funniest part of this short plays off of an old radio " feud " between two caricatures | This is a very funny short which gets virtually all its laughs by playing off the personality of W . C . Fields ( here represented in caricature as a pig names W . C . Squeals ) . The few gags which don't center around this central joke are relatively minor and mostly pale in comparison , though the new lyrics set to "... |
579,769 | 583,640 | 67,992 | 8 | On adaptations , the creative process and individual tastes . | While there will be a discussion of the film , this will mostly cover other points that bear on the creative process in general and Roald Dahl in particular and related observations . Abandon all hope ye who enter this comment . WWAtCF is a reasonably good film , with weak spots , to be sure , but Gene Wilder does a gr... |
579,180 | 583,640 | 265,194 | 8 | Variations on a theme by Mouris and Mouris . | This short , arguably a sequel to Frank Film , certainly a companion effort to that remarkable film , is a much more playful and humorous turn than the first one was . Almost as visually arresting as Frank Film , this uses the same collage effects to have Caroline Mouris make a film about herself , but it quickly evolv... |
578,981 | 583,640 | 62,903 | 8 | Surreal , quite unusual and not at all typical of what Warner Brothers was doing at the time . | This is an animated short produced by an independent studio , not by Warner Brothers itself . Somehow , Warner Brothers acquired distribution rights to this odd little bit of film , which someone , told that it was , " a cartoon " ( and likely without even watching it first ) , just had it inserted in the studio's regu... |
579,626 | 583,640 | 95,901 | 8 | Unusual but effective piece of animation | This short is almost impossible to describe . It's a rather unusual and definitely an atypical form of animation . It throws you off at first , but it is oddly effective and is rather fascinating to watch when you get used to it after a bit . Well worth watching . Recommended . |
579,478 | 583,640 | 31,795 | 8 | One of the more successful Captain and the Kids shorts | One of the few Captain cartoons done in color , this was a parody of the travelogue shorts popular at the time . The narration is a large part of the success of this short . Funny , pointed and often sarcastic and / or irreverent , the narration is the funniest aspect of this particular cartoon , part of a series MGM d... |
579,754 | 583,640 | 50,942 | 8 | This is a good short in an excellent series | The Roadrunner shorts are an example of a " formula " series-a very well done " formula " . My comments about this short in particular will be a relatively small portion of this comment , because I want to talk a bit about the series itself . This short is actually fairly representative of the series and why it works s... |
579,668 | 583,640 | 22,231 | 8 | Foxy , we hardly knew ye . | Foxy's hour upon the stage was a brief one , perhaps three cartoons , for reasons both obvious and not so clear . The Foxy cartoons are entertaining enough , but not overly so . I suspect Foxy was a wee bit too much like a certain rodent for the studio's taste and comfort for him to continue on for very long . Rumors p... |
578,842 | 583,640 | 39,838 | 8 | Enjoyable short , with the exasperation meter on Donald hitting the red zone for Daisy ! | This is an entertaining little short , nothing special but enjoyable . Donald , under the best of circumstances , is rarely charming and often a handful . Here , he's quite seriously irritating and irksome . It is truly a tribute to the patience of others that he is not under glass and coated with and orange glaze , su... |
579,781 | 583,640 | 150,308 | 8 | Quincy Magoo is at it again in this one | The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon ( which itself has an animated sequence made by Walter Lantz and starring Woody Woodpecker ) and once again Magoo and his myopia take an adventure , hand in hand , off to the " Moon " . The life that man leads ! Excellent animation and ... |
579,405 | 583,640 | 439,676 | 8 | Sad and quite disturbing look at what happened to a photo-journalist after he won a Pulitzer for a controversial photo | This short , nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Documentary Short , is a look back at the life and death of South African photo-journalist Kevin Carter , done some ten years after his suicide shortly after he won a Pulitzer Prize for a photo he took of a skeletal girl who was struggling to reach a feedin... |
578,894 | 583,640 | 109,270 | 8 | Very good ( and very short ) little animated short well worth seeing . | This short won the BAFTA for Animated Short and was nominated for the Academy Award as well ( losing out to Bob's Birthday , if I'm not mistaken ) and was well deserving of both nominations , though I think two of the other BAFTA nominees were probably better than this and Monk and the Fish should have won . This is ve... |
579,228 | 583,640 | 117,887 | 8 | Hackneyed , cliched , trite-but somehow , it works and you can dance to itt | This movie is really , on the face of it , collection of well-worn characters , plot devices and cliched , old scenarios and it should really just sink to the bottom with only a gurgling sound or two . But , amazingly enough , it works just well enough to be worth watching . Most of the performances are at least good a... |
578,879 | 583,640 | 22,147 | 8 | Good ( not great ) early Disney | This is the first Mickey Mouse short to actually be nominated for an Oscar , losing to Flowers and Trees . The real " mouse that roared " does nothing very special or elaborate in this cartoon . It's cute and enjoyable and I suppose it's representative of the black and white efforts which Disney was doing at the time .... |
579,674 | 583,640 | 210,551 | 8 | Moody and unusual , somewhat morbid short | This is a somewhat atypical short ( if there is such a thing ) produce by the National Film Board of Canada . The title is a reference to the string game called Cat's Cradle and the short is a moody and evocative work . One of Driessen's better works , it should be better known than it is at this point . Well worth hun... |
579,869 | 583,640 | 102,753 | 8 | A character study featuring fine performances by the leads | This film is essentially character-driven and features excellent performances throughout , particularly the four principals-Laura Dern , Diane Ladd , Robert Duvall and Lukas Haas . Ladd and Dern mother and daughter in real life ) give especially fine performances and deservedly received nominatins for the Academy Award... |
579,161 | 583,640 | 142,826 | 8 | If for no other reason , watch this for the music | I can readily understand why this one is not being broadcast . However , it should still be available regardless of the objectionable content . I still contend ( and likely will to my last breath ) that anyone over the age of 14 who allows their sensibilities to be damaged to any great degree by a cartoon has much more... |
579,080 | 583,640 | 37,753 | 8 | Formative Tweety cartoon which has a great many funny bits , with a dog nearly stealing the show with one very funny bit . | This is a very early Tweety ( before he and Sylvester were paired together ) and Tweety's personality and physical appearance were still in the development stage . One of the cats chasing Tweety ( they are the " Gruesome Twosome " referenced in the title ) is a caricature of comedian Jimmy Durante . I want to discuss c... |
579,102 | 583,640 | 148,472 | 8 | Flip has a unique style of milk delivery ! | Very funny sight gags and beautiful presentation overcome the limitations of Flip's almost non-existent personality . There is a pesky little kid who at moments seems like the evil twin of Dennis the Menace and in the end a happy ending ( well , I guess it depends on point of view as to happy or not ) . It's a wonder F... |
579,113 | 583,640 | 57,126 | 8 | The last of the Bugs / Wile E . shorts | In this short , Bugs Bunny takes the place of the Road Runner because of an injury ( no doubt work-related , for which the Road Runner was probably on Worker's Compensation ) and Wile E . still has no more luck at chasing rabbits than he does Road Runners . More dialogue than the typical Road Runner short , but has lot... |
579,174 | 583,640 | 142,794 | 8 | Can you say , " The Ants and the Grasshopper " ? I knew you could ! | This short is a rather manic re-telling of the fable , " The Ant and the Grasshopper " , with Woody Woodpecker as the grasshopper . It's actually very well done , if slightly predictable . I want to discuss details , so this is a spoiler warning : Woody Woodpecker more or less has two modes of operation in this one-sle... |
579,101 | 583,640 | 22,199 | 8 | This Flip the Frog short mostly hits on all cylinders . | This is a most entertaining , almost surreal , cartoon . The visual detail and movement are exceptional and the sight gags are great . The one thing that generally puzzles me about Flip cartoons is why animators had little difficulty giving just about everything else more personality than they were able to give to Flip... |
579,495 | 583,640 | 33,373 | 8 | One of Barbara Stanwyck's best performances in a very funny film and role | This film ( remade in 1948 as a musical with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo with the title , " A Song Is Born " ) is a hilarious vehicle for Barbara Stanwyck , who was nominated for Best Actress for her performance here . Anyone who has only seen Ms . Stanwyck in film noir such as " Double Indemnity " or in television's ... |
579,693 | 583,640 | 239,206 | 8 | There's nothing quite like a Paul Driessen animated short ! | Some animators have a very distinctive look or style to their work that makes them unmistakable with anyone else's work . Tex Avery is one-while early Tex Avery can sometimes be generic , mostly his work is quite recognizable . Paul Driessen is another animator whose style is immediately and clearly marked as his . Cha... |
578,916 | 583,640 | 29,913 | 8 | Quite politically incorrect , with the irony being that the funniest bits have little to do with the stereotypes ! | This is an exceptionally funny cartoon , in spots , but it will never see print , for many reasons , not the least of which is the fact that it uses what are commonly referred to as " racial stereotypes " . Never mind the fact that the title character is for all practical purposes , Bluto with a headdress and no beard ... |
579,389 | 583,640 | 60,522 | 8 | I just love Audrey Hepburn ! ! ! | I cannot possibly be objective about Audrey Hepburn ! The movie also stars Peter O'Toole at his most charming and also has a delightful performance by Hugh Griffith as Audrey's father and a good performance by Eli Wallach . The script is quite witty and Hepburn and O'Toole work quite well together in this charming movi... |
579,576 | 583,640 | 146,460 | 8 | Visually impressive , with excellent voice work by Billy Bletcher . | This is a visually impressive cartoon , which should be expected from an Iwerks cartoon . As plots go , this was actually a pretty intricate one for the Iwerks studio , with a great villain voiced by a Disney regular , Billy Bletcher , who did Pegleg Pete , among others . The funniest bit for me was the town's " alarm ... |
578,954 | 583,640 | 87,156 | 8 | Delightful short aimed at children that works very well for adults | This short was nominated for an Academy Award and deservedly so . The good doctor is a dentist . He also happens to be a mouse . The short revolves around how he manages to treat a fox's tooth without becoming the main course ! Good script and voice characterizations make this an enjoyable effort for not only children ... |
579,942 | 583,640 | 50,802 | 8 | Good ( but not great ) Droopy cartoon that treads very familiar ground | This cartoon , while it has its moments and is very good , is really not that exceptional and really isn't much more than a redo of two earlier Droopy cartoons directed by Tex Avery ( Senor Droopy and Homesteader Droopy ) and while Michael Lah does a good job , why it was nominated for an Oscar is a trifle puzzling . T... |
579,120 | 583,640 | 58,385 | 8 | The character of Henry Higgins is greatly misunderstood by many and so is the film . | I have read in a great many places ( including the IMDb ) that Henry Higgins is a misogynist . It has also been said that the film is a misogynist's fairy tale . Anyone saying this has clearly not watched this film too closely . First , Higgins is not a misogynist . A misogynist hates women . What Higgins is , in reali... |
579,018 | 583,640 | 43,073 | 8 | Not the best Mr . Magoo , but entetaining anyway | This cartoon , nominated for an Oscar , is reasonably good , but not one of the better of the series . Well worth watching , the series is more noted these days for the furor generated by people who consider it an insult to the blind and those whose sight is impaired . I'm disabled and it is my considered opinion that ... |
579,110 | 583,640 | 29,708 | 8 | Early Tex Avery short that is infrequently seen these days | This short is a fairly typical Tex Avery short that is one of two spoofs he did of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin ( the other was Uncle Tom's Cabana for MGM ) and while this short really is rather innocuous and there isn't anything that bad here , it would probably offend some sensibilities and is consequently rarely seen ... |
579,710 | 583,640 | 33,424 | 8 | The music is great , but this one will not be in general release or broadcast for quite a while . | This short , an Academy Award nominee , has great music , mostly the title tune , the animation is very good and it's a fairly decent effort . But most people will never see this , for understandable reasons . The cartoon is one large string of racial jokes and stereotypes from start to finish . If someone ever does a ... |
579,521 | 583,640 | 58,416 | 8 | Nudnik is a character created by Gene Deitch and is something of a curiosity | This short was nominated for an Academy Award . It can be found on Rembrandt Films Greatest Hits . Since it is amost impossible to talk about individual shorts , I'll remark on the Nudniks in general . They are quite short ( the ones I've seen are less than 30 seconds in length ) and the humor is visual in nature , sho... |
578,805 | 583,640 | 28,100 | 8 | Entertaining short from the 1930s with some very nice animation | This is a short starring some lesser-known characters , namely Beans and the duo of Ham and Ex . It's a mostly effective , though somewhat uneven , black and white cartoon directed by Jack King . As I want to discuss the short , there will be spoilers : The short starts off with Ham and Ex reading that their " Uncle " ... |
578,866 | 583,640 | 22,031 | 8 | Very early Betty Boop and a very earthy performance from Rudy Vallee | This short is actually part of the Screen Songs series that were done by Fleischer Studios as part of the once extremely popular sing-alongs that were part and parcel of a night out at the movies , long before television . Think of them as early forms of today's music videos . Listen to the song Rudy Vallee sings , in ... |
579,975 | 583,640 | 148,317 | 8 | Ah , the wonders of technology ! | This is the next to last theatrical Gerald McBoing Boing short done by UPA , with this being the third of the four that the studio produced . It's a cute , clever cartoon , but the novelty factor is beginning to wear off and there's not enough other solid material to sustain extending the series . It's brought to a res... |
579,649 | 583,640 | 252,379 | 8 | Commercially-contracted short I first saw in a high school geology class | This short was sponsored by either an oil company or mining operation to produce an educational short about geology . The Hubleys did a marvelous job . The veteran character actor Jack Warden is the voice of " Rocko " , our underground tour guide , explaining terms such as igneous and sedimentary to the audience . I fi... |
579,327 | 583,640 | 28,109 | 8 | Good cartoon with some funny bit , but not a gem | Even Tex Avery's lesser work is enjoyable and this short is a case in point . Avery was still feeling his way here and his style was still in its formative stages . Porky was still being developed as a character as well . Some good sight gags here . Not the best short I've seen , by any means , but I've seen worse . Wo... |
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