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579,627 | 583,640 | 95,824 | 8 | Very nice computer-generated animation | The story ( or stories , I should say ) are pretty much secondary here . This is very visually effective and quite impressive . A very nice piece of work . The piece isn't something I would recommend that you hunt up on its own , but is well worth watching , particularly if you can find Spike and Mike's Festival of Ani... |
579,373 | 583,640 | 37,879 | 8 | Sylvester really needs to take birds out of his diet ! | This cartoon ( without Tweety , presumably because of that well-documented fight over billing ) was nominated for an Oscar . Sylvester just can't catch a break ! It's a wonder he's not skin and bones by now ! A cat can only go on french fries and ice cream for so long before he needs a bird or a mouse or he goes Looney... |
578,943 | 583,640 | 76,929 | 8 | Excellent use of rotoscoping that has its moments , but an acquired taste not for everyone | This movie is probably most notable for Mark Hamill providing vocals for a character , although another film was his best-known project that same year . Ralph Bakshi's use of rotoscoping is probably the best part of the production . The movie is hysterically funny in spots , but is deadly boring in others and is wildly... |
578,876 | 583,640 | 31,552 | 8 | A double parody-sending up both newsreels and travelogues in one short | Tex Avery did quite a few shorts lampooning the travelogue shorts that were prevalent in the 1930s and one or two satires on the newsreels pre-television visual accounts of news of the week / month . Here he does a short presented in the form of a newsreel that pokes fun at travelogues . Very nice figureskating sequenc... |
579,716 | 583,640 | 37,994 | 8 | The first of a series called Musical Miniatures produced by Walter Lantz | This short was nominated for an Academy Award and marked the launching of a new series that replaced the previous Swing Symphonies series , which was called Musical Miniatures . It's an Andy Panda short and essentially , this is The Band Concert redone and it does not compare to the Disney short , though it is reasonab... |
579,920 | 583,640 | 117,558 | 8 | Unusual even for John Weldon | John Weldon has a tendancy towards the odd and unusual when it comes to his work , but even for him , this is off-the-wall , to say the least ! I've seen this several times and still don't quite understand it , but it's entertaning and enjoyable nonetheless . Indescribable . Words do not do it justice , it must be seen... |
579,139 | 583,640 | 51,457 | 8 | A very humorous cartoon visual in nature | This Cartoon consists of a great many sight-gags and is one of at least three cartoons that feature both Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot . While the concept of a bulldog becoming the protector of a kitten is too cute by half , this one has found a soft spot in my heart ( or is it my head ? ) because it principally covers wh... |
579,855 | 583,640 | 53,425 | 8 | Oscar nominee from the year of my birth . | This short , most accurately titled , was released the year I was born . About a man who plays the violin with great enthusiasm , if with limited ability . Charming and engaging , with a good story and dialogue to go along with a limited animation style . Ernest Pintoff had a light touch with comedy and made some very ... |
579,825 | 583,640 | 395,479 | 8 | Cute , not without charm and typical of Pixar's attention to detail . | While this is not Pixar's best short , it is still more than worthwhile viewing . As I understand it , Pixar does shorts to test run things before trying them in a feature ( it's much cheaper to see what works-or does not-in a short ) and because they want to . Boundin ' is visually a treat . A run time under five minu... |
578,791 | 583,640 | 203,659 | 8 | The best things about this short are the music and the script | This short , produced by the NFBC , uses a style of stop-motion that , at least to my eye , is distracting and not entirely effective . But the music is spendid and the basic concept and script are engaging enough to overcome some very definite visual drawbacks . Makes some pithy and cogent remarks on humanity's charac... |
579,391 | 583,640 | 37,980 | 8 | A nice " little " film about real characters and their growth as people | This film isn't a classic movie for the ages . It's probably not gong to be considered in any discussions of the " best " of all time . What it is , is a nice , charming delightful film about two people who have their nice routine lives changed by a little event-WWII ! Over time , they change , they grow as people ofte... |
579,924 | 583,640 | 55,298 | 8 | An Oscar nominee , it has a few moments | This cartoon actually has more energy before its ' main premise begins . The idea of playing " The Mexican Hat Dance " on a flute to mezmerize mice is marginally funny , but the chemistry really isn't there with Sylvester and Speedy like it is with Sylvester and Tweety and the chase scenes aren't really that novel . It... |
579,759 | 583,640 | 29,595 | 8 | Excellent use of caricatures in a " magazines come to life " short | A gimmick that Warner Brothers animators used quite often was the idea that characters / images come to life after business hours off of magazine covers , books or even grocery store labels and boxes . Quite often , they used caricatures of celebrities who would have been well-known to audiences in those days and they ... |
579,100 | 583,640 | 148,655 | 8 | Early Flip the Frog-excellent cartoon ! | This is one of the first half-dozen or so shorts from Iwerks and is exceptional . Flip is actually interesting and has a personality-what happened later on ? There's a discernable plot-not Shakespeare , but decent enough . The music ( not all Ragtime , but why quibble ? It's good ) is a primary component , the characte... |
579,847 | 583,640 | 34,051 | 8 | Porky the trainer and the jockey in this one | This short is similar to Porky and Teabiscuit in some respects and wildly different in others . As I will be discussing details here , consider this a spoiler warning : In this short , as in Porky and Teabiscuit , the action takes place at a racetrack and both feature very unlikely horses in a race . Porky is the jocke... |
579,404 | 583,640 | 25,267 | 8 | Cute short with more than a few gags with a " nudge , nudge , wink wink " subtext to them | This is a cute , though somewhat limited , cartoon which is one of the earliest ( if I recall correctly , the very first ) Warner Brothers cartoons done in color . Because I want to discuss some of the details , this is a spoiler warning : The short begins with three billboard painters painting the lyrics ( with one st... |
579,696 | 583,640 | 34,098 | 8 | Visually nice , this looks like a kinder , gentler variation of Tulips Shall Grow | This George Pal Puppetoon is somewhat similar to Tulips Shall Grow , albeit a good deal more whimsical in tone than the later short was . Some of the figures used in Rhythm look like figures Pal used a couple of years later in Tulips without much modification . The next paragraph contains mild spoilers . This short is ... |
578,834 | 583,640 | 42,836 | 8 | Nothing really new about this one , but it's a Tex Avery ! | The basic themes and elements are nothing new-it's basically The Shoemaker and the Elves revisited . But Tex Avery had a tendancy to take the conventional and stretch and twist it into something quite odd indeed ! This is not your grandfather's fairy tale ! Chuck Jones once quoted Rafael Sabbatini to describe Tex Avery... |
579,190 | 583,640 | 62,122 | 8 | This is just one short bit after another-just a series of quick blackouts | This is a very difficult short to describe , because there isn't a plot here and there isn't a story-line as such . It's just a bunch of short comedic sequences ( the term generally used to describe them is " blackouts " , which is where they got the title for the short ) which in most cases share only one unifying fac... |
579,111 | 583,640 | 29,620 | 8 | Atypically sweet and cutesy Tex Avery | This short is a somewhat cute and cuddly early Tex Avery short . Not typical of his later work , although there are flashes of his standard sight gags here and there . Good cartoon , if not a " normal " ( in other words , antic and screwy ) Avery effort . Well worth watching . Recommended . |
579,650 | 583,640 | 253,467 | 8 | History through the eyes of the Hubleys | This short was done in 1976 , the year of the Bicentennial and is a trip through history , with something of a focus on America and its history . Done in the animation style the Hubleys used for much of their later work , it's quite good and all too overlooked . It deserves much more attention than it seems to get . Wo... |
579,066 | 583,640 | 148,638 | 8 | Charming ( and more than a touch odd ) little short produced by Columbia | This rather unusual little cartoon featured two rather strange men and , from what I gather , there were hopes that the short would be successful enough to turn into a regular series , but I don't think that happened . Because I will be discussing some details , this is your spoiler warning : The two lead characters ar... |
579,422 | 583,640 | 37,912 | 8 | Surprisingly good sort for a rather bland series | At the risk of sounding heretical , I've always found the character of Mighty Mouse rather bland and , wel , boring . This short is actually rather creative and one of the better entries in the series . It was nominated for an Academy Award and has fairly good music and the production values may just be a hair better t... |
579,708 | 583,640 | 150,530 | 8 | Very cute cartoon by Ernest Pintoff | This short was done by Ernest Pintoff for Terrytoons studios and is an example of how good the medium can be even on the cheap , which is the only way Paul Terry did anything-as cheaply as possible . Pintoff did excellent work with animation early in his career and Flebus is one of his best . The main character is a te... |
579,537 | 583,640 | 148,633 | 8 | Proof that anything can happen in a cartoon | This is an entertaining short which openly acknowledges that it's a cartoon . There will be spoilers : In the very beginning , Jeckle points out to Heckle that , as they are cartoon characters , they can basically do anything they care to , with just a bit of thought . He then proves it , by changing into a dog and the... |
578,841 | 583,640 | 20,784 | 8 | The music is excellent and the animation isn't bad either | This short is an early Warner Brothers that features a character named Bosko , who is in ill favor in certain politically correct quarters . My take on it all is that the few shorts I've seen in the series vary greatly in quality , some being very good and others not terribly interesting . This is one of the better one... |
579,406 | 583,640 | 25,184 | 8 | Disney does a Cliff's Notes version of a story from Greek mythology . | It should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed Disney to any degree that this short took some ( in this case , understandable and legitimate ) liberties with the original source material . Based on the story of how Persephone came to become the wife of Hades , god of the Underworld , this is a truncated versi... |
579,999 | 583,640 | 27,381 | 8 | Early Porky Pig , mainly battle-related sight gags | An early Porky war cartoon , with Porky as a doughboy in World War I . This one also has Beans , an early character who was in a few shorts , but didn't pan out as well as they probably wanted him to at Termite Terrace . Decent cartoon , moves fairly fast with very good animation . Worth looking for . Recommended . |
579,105 | 583,640 | 22,949 | 8 | This is one of the more successful Flip the Frog shorts . | Usually , the Flip cartoons have the aerodynamics of a rock-they don't fly well because Flip is a cipher . Here , it isn't necessary for our young stalwart to have much charm or personality , because he's a football player ( American style football , that is ) and the plot is basic-he's playing a football game . Techni... |
578,996 | 583,640 | 44,844 | 8 | This proves that sometimes it's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission | This is a very good short directed by the forgotten director , Dick Lundy . Most people remember Hanna and Barbera and Tex Avery . But very few remember Lundy , who chiefly directed Barney Bear cartoons in the early 1950s . Lundy wasn't the greatest director MGM had , but he did some very good work . In this cartoon , ... |
579,451 | 583,640 | 58,223 | 8 | Good , but derivative , later cartoon | This short shows Daffy in all of his obnoxious glory . While entertaining enough , the gags are old-hat and much of what happens is predictable and almost telegraphed . By no means a bad cartoon , but not terribly exciting either . Worth watching , it shows fairly often on Cartoon Network . Recommended . |
578,940 | 583,640 | 34,247 | 8 | Fleischer Studios did a decent job on a series of Superman shorts | This is the first of a series of Superman shorts done by the Fleischer Studios and the only one of the series nominated for an Oscar . The animation style is different and recognizable as Fleischer work and the cartoons hold up reasonably well , but there's nothing terrifically remarkable or special about this particul... |
579,616 | 583,640 | 48,649 | 8 | Speedy's Oscar-and how it won I'll never know ! | This cartoon won the Oscar in the same year that " Legend of Rockabye Point " and " Good Will To Men " were eligible , which atonises me no end ! While it's a good cartoon , either of those two run rings around this enjoyable , but unexceptional piece of work . I have no idea why it happened , but it is one of the more... |
579,722 | 583,640 | 109,873 | 8 | Mostly animated strips from Larson's " The Far Side " . | The cartoon is a series of strips that have been animated or in one or two cases , individual strips have been expanded from the original single panel and extended somewhat to draw out the gag . Anyone who read " The Far Side " pretty much knows what to expect . All of Larson's basic standards-cows . bears , et cetera-... |
579,583 | 583,640 | 89,015 | 8 | A tender , thought-provoking romance in an okay movie | This movie could have been a lot better , but it could also have been worse . With a fine performance by Helen Shaver , a good one by Patricia Charbonneau and gorgeous locations but with a weak script and a way over the top performance by Audra Lindley that detract from the movie overall . It's a tender and affectionat... |
579,594 | 583,640 | 46,778 | 8 | Tex Avery's wolf character complete with echo effect | This is a very good Tex Avery short that features his down-home wolf with Southern accent with an echo all his own as he tries mightily to handle an EXTREMELY ravenous sheep named Billy . As funny as the sight gags are , the dialogue ( rather , monologue , by the wolf ) is hilarious . Well worth tracking down . An unhe... |
579,330 | 583,640 | 48,733 | 8 | Fun for everyone except Nibbles . | This is one of a series of shorts where Tom and Nibbles are " the king's Mouseketeers " with Tom as their main foil ( sorry ) . While this is not the best of them , I personally love this one , because I have a soft spot in my heart for Nibbles ( the little mouse who gets all the hazardous duty here and none of the ben... |
579,103 | 583,640 | 148,543 | 8 | Flip watches over a baby-oh , the humanity ! | This is actually a fairly good short . Warning : I more or less have to discuss some parts of this in order to comment in a comprehendable manner , so consider this your spoiler warning . Flip is having a really bad day . Said bad day leads our hero to take on the job of watching a baby for a whole quarter ! Flip's mis... |
579,279 | 583,640 | 36,119 | 8 | Sometimes , getting what you want isn't such a good thing ! | This has a lot of noteworthy points . First , it's a cartoon featuring Mammy Two-Shoes . Second , as a short made during World War II , there is a visual political joke in the early going . Third , and most significantly , the two stars speak , something generally avoided , for good reason , the characters are funnier ... |
579,880 | 583,640 | 29,444 | 8 | Two fights for the price of one ! | If you like to watch Popeye for the fights , you'll love this one ! You get to watch not only Bluto and Popeye mix it up , but two dogs get into the act as well . Bluto's dog has his charming personality and social graces as well . Actually , the dog angle is what makes this cartoon work ( that and Jack Mercer , who ma... |
579,655 | 583,640 | 60,346 | 8 | This is basically a public-service effort done by the NFBC or the Department of Health and Welfare | This short was nominated for an Academy Award , which is quite a feat , considering that it was produced for the Department of Health and Welfare in Canada by the National Film Board of Canada . The NFBC has done a fair number of similar projects , which can be expected , as it is a government-funded entity . It's actu... |
579,675 | 583,640 | 79,354 | 8 | Entertaining short about an unusual household | This short , a nominee for the Academy Award , was adapted from a story by Harry Allard , a children's author . Meant primarily for children , like all good animation , it can be viewed with enjoyment by adults as well . The title tells the basic story and this cute and charming short is well worth seeking out . Recomm... |
579,867 | 583,640 | 48,716 | 8 | Daffy at his insufferable best ! | This cartoon parodies the old Ralph Edwards show , " This Is Your Life . " and does quite well at that . Daffy outdoes himself this time . Granny engages in wish-fulfilment for a great many people in her methods of dealing with someone sitting next to you who does not understand the basic fact that you did not pay good... |
578,925 | 583,640 | 51,677 | 8 | Excellent visuals and magnificent camera work , but the narration almost put me to sleep | Disney deservedly won an Oscar for this mostly well-executed documentary . Visually breathtaking , the narration has a kind of monotone , almost flat-lined quality that would practically served as a cure for insomnia in most instances . This is an Achilles heel for a great number of Disney documentaries-narration . All... |
579,008 | 583,640 | 44,865 | 8 | Good cartoon based on the series of children's boks that have become popular again recently | This short from the UPA studio was nominated for an Oscar . Based on the Madeline series of childrens books that recently received a boost and have led to a feature-length live action movie as well as an animated series , UPA did this short back in the 1950s and it captures the books ' flavor very well . This short can... |
578,958 | 583,640 | 29,497 | 8 | Atypically serious Pete Smith short subject | This Pete Smith Specialty , nominated for an Academy Award , was not the standard Pete Smith effort . Serious in tone and subject matter , this tells the story of the discovery of the diagnostic and curative powers of radium . The more subdued , less humorous , narration is a departure for Smith and is not entirely suc... |
579,673 | 583,640 | 201,671 | 8 | Cute , if whimsical , look at dinosaurs and evolution | This short is geared towards children , but is enjoyable for adults . From the National Film Board of Canada , this is not a great short , it is enjoyable and well worth a look . If you get an opportunity to see it , do so . Recommended . |
579,187 | 583,640 | 46,838 | 8 | My second-favorite Pepe , after Touche and Go . | This one , like all the best Pepe Le Pew cartoons , depends principally on verbal humor rather than sight gags for most of the laughs ( though the last gag is a sight gag that ends this one perfectly ) and some of the jokes are obvious , while a few are subtle word play , such as the " ze bonds of slavery " line , when... |
579,888 | 583,640 | 22,588 | 8 | A Screen Song with wonderful animation and an absolutely dead live-action sing-along . | The Fleischer Studios did a series of cartoons called " Screen Songs " , which featured a combination of animation and a section where the lyrics of a song ( usually a song featured as the title of the short ) rolled up on the screen and paced by a " bouncing ball " . Though the song lyric sections were initially anima... |
579,116 | 583,640 | 49,295 | 8 | Some of the funniest lines of dialogue in any Pepe Le Pew | This short is of interest mainly for the dialogue . There aren't many sight gags and the biggest laughs come from Pepe's lines . I have to quote one or two : Did you know that when you are in love , it is almost impossible to get insurance ? But then , security isn't everything . Very funny short . Not the best of the ... |
579,324 | 583,640 | 29,400 | 8 | Full of sight gags as well as renditions of " La Cucaracha " | This early Porky as done by Tex Avery is early Avery form-sight gags that play with the conventions of the animated short . Porky as bullfighter . Listen for the singing of " La Cucaracha " , as Mel Blanc does the vocals on it at one point . It's a wonderful song anyway , particularly if you understand Spanish . Well w... |
579,743 | 583,640 | 49,314 | 8 | A musical remake of The Philadelphia Story with Bing Crosby , Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong ! | This is a musical remake of the film , The Philadelphia Story . It's worth watching for the music alone ! The basic plot and even significant amounts of dialogue from the earlier film are incorporated here , but the music is the highlight here ! Particularly the duet between Sinatra and Crosby on " What a Swell Party T... |
579,270 | 583,640 | 42,497 | 8 | Very visual and quite funny Avery short . | This is an intensely visual and quite hilarious cartoon directed by Tex Avery starring a silent Spike waging war on a marauding gopher laying waste to a vegetable garden . Spike , of course , doesn't stand a chance in this fight . Typical Tex Avery sight gag rapid-fire delivery that works marvelously well . Well worth ... |
579,597 | 583,640 | 40,415 | 8 | Funny , but an odd cartoon , even for a Tex Avery | This short is quite funny , but it's an odd one , even for Avery . Part of a series of shorts featuring two characters called George and Junior , most of this centers around the activity of a very small pygmy , somewhat reminiscent of Inki from the Warner Brothers shorts . Unlikely to be in general release due to caric... |
579,531 | 583,640 | 148,929 | 8 | My sympathies are largely with the bear here | I intend to discuss details from this particular short , so let this be your spoiler warning : This is a relatively early Heckle and Jeckle short with a fairly straightforward premise-Heckle and Jeckle wind up blowing out a tire on the car they are in and go up to a bear's cave to try and find a place to stay for the n... |
579,300 | 583,640 | 33,909 | 8 | Popeye the Sailor enlists ! | This is the first Popeye to show him in navy whites as Popeye enlists in the navy and discovers that there are four ways to do things : the right way , the wrong way , my way and the Navy way , with the Navy way being the way the Navy wants things done , naturally . Popeye has trouble with this at first , but gradually... |
579,218 | 583,640 | 33,908 | 8 | Early form of the Tom and Jerry characters . | The characters went through several different design changes from the early 1940s through to the 1960s , most often as a result of different directors . The most dramatic changes were made between the original design in the first cartoons and the characters ' form that most would instantly think of as Tom and Jerry . T... |
579,832 | 583,640 | 109,759 | 8 | Very intricate , somewhat confusing plot that's well worth the time and effort | A very good movie that brings a number of people together around an atypical focal point-a strip club . The story takes some rather odd and occasionally bizarre twists and frankly , at times I was completely confused . But everything comes together and makes sense and the film is well worth watching . |
579,294 | 583,640 | 31,343 | 8 | Early Tex Avery finger exercise | I admit I'm biased in Tex Avery's favor and never saw an Avery cartoon I didn't like . In this one , Avery was still finding his style . There are a few more coughs and sputters here than is typical of Avery , but even with that said , his average work is as good as or better than some directors ' best work . Even Remb... |
578,869 | 583,640 | 46,930 | 8 | Droopy as sheepherder | This is a hilarious take on the range wars between cattle ranchers and sheepherders , although I suspect Droopy's sheep have been cross-bred with piranha ! The scene where the wolf finds out about the sheep is priceless . " Fetch me my Winchester , Sam-I'm a-ridin ' fer Red Rock ! " Tex Avery near the top of his game .... |
578,852 | 583,640 | 44,797 | 8 | One of these days , I'm gonna have to get me a mouse-trap ! | This is a cartoon about an incredibly lazy cat who puts far more effort into avoiding work than he'd likely put into doing the work in the first place ! I'm going to discuss specifics , so consider this a spoiler warning : The short opens with a shot of a large , disinterested cat gorging itself on sardines while mice ... |
579,670 | 583,640 | 20,705 | 8 | Good use of music in what is a largely routine short | This is a typical Bosko short : put him in a situation , some means of playing music , introduce a predicament or three for him to largely ignore blithely , usually singing as he does so and fill with sight gags . Here , Bosko has a partner in song , a pig rather than Honey . The use of music is the best thing here in ... |
579,979 | 583,640 | 302,584 | 8 | Cute enough , with some charming points , but it's been done better elsewhere | This short is about the trials and tribulations of a star-crossed couple , one of whom is ( you guessed it ) a frozen logger . This is a good little cartoon , but it isn't a terribly novel idea and variations on theme have been done earlier and / or better by other studios before and since . Entertaining enough and mos... |
579,143 | 583,640 | 58,036 | 8 | Bugs Meets Taz , Take Four | This is the fourth and last Bugs versus Taz done in the 1960s and is almost as good as the first one was . Although most of the gags are visual ( including the closing one , a very good one indeed ) , there are verbal jokes as well and the dialogue is good . They made relatively few of these , I suspect because Taz's m... |
578,911 | 583,640 | 27,453 | 8 | Actually , for the Fleischers , this is a comparatively " normal " cartoon . | The Cobweb Hotel is a cute , somewhat dated , cartoon with some very good moments . Strange thing is , I keep reading and hearing comments from other people that range from " scary " to " weird and strange " , which tells me people haven't seen a whole lot of the output of Fleischer Studios ! Though the Fleischers did ... |
578,939 | 583,640 | 33,824 | 8 | Good-not great-Disney Oscar-winning short | This Oscar winner is a rather sweet , gentle , charming cartoon that , from another studio , probably would not have won the Oscar . While it's a good cartoon , it certainly isn't my choice ( of those I've seen , I prefer Rhapsody in Rivets myself ) . This is the best one that prominently features Pluto and it cetainly... |
579,253 | 583,640 | 46,968 | 8 | Another of Avery's looney looks at the " future " , this time farming | This cartoon is a fairly funny look at the " future " of farming-a future that most farmers are probably grateful hasn't come in a great many respects ! Typical of Avery , sight gags galore are fired at the viewer non-stop , with more puns than normal and more lunacy than usual . Good Avery , though not great Avery , e... |
579,246 | 583,640 | 55,721 | 8 | Another day , another dollar . | This short is mostly sight gags . Poor Ralph ! The things a wolf has to go through to earn a living and possibly to get a square meal on occasion . This one most obviously and conspicuously indicates the basic premise-that both wolf and sheepdog are just a job , you do your shift and go home . It's a living , I guess .... |
578,853 | 583,640 | 40,299 | 8 | The Saga of Louie and Heathcliff , a poor man's George and Lenny | There are quite a few shorts which have been made that were modeled on the characters of George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men and this cartoon is along those lines-with a modification in the standard riff played in such cartoons . As I want to talk specifically about parts of this short , this is a spoiler warning : H... |
579,292 | 583,640 | 46,983 | 8 | Tex Avery-flea wrangler ! | This is a typical Tex Avery-start with a premise and turn it on its ear , firing sight gag after sight gag until the premise surrenders unconditionally . Here , the owner of a flea circus loses his livlihood when a dog comes backstage ( in violation of a sign that says , " NO DOGS ! " ) and the fleas ( and dog ) have a... |
579,138 | 583,640 | 51,339 | 8 | One in a series of shorts designed to show what other peoples and cultures are like . | This short ( winner of Documentary Short at the Academy awards for 1958 ) focused on a Japanese village and a fishing method used as a livlihood in Japan . Disney had a series of shorts focusing in on other places and cultures and this is one of the better ones . Most of them were less than thirty minutes long and were... |
579,288 | 583,640 | 57,925 | 8 | Tom is clearly a cat of parts ! | As is clear to those who follow the exploits of Tom and Jerry , they are both quite artistically gifted . Tom himself has played piano and bass and here sings opera . While I personally prefer his rendition of " Is You Is , Or Is You Ain't , My Baby ? " ( in Solid Serenade whilst playing the afore-mentioned bass ) , I ... |
579,798 | 583,640 | 22,672 | 8 | Betty Boop sells patent medicine from a wagon-this is a odd one ! | There is a marked difference in the cartoons starring Betty Boop before and after the censorship code and the arrival of the Hays Office . The obvious changes aside , like her hemline , the manic , zany quality seems to fade away in later shorts . That quality is what makes cartoons like this one special . In print and... |
579,678 | 583,640 | 107,703 | 8 | Exceptionally strange little short from Aardmann | This is a very odd little duck ( even for Aardmann Studios ) and is very well executed . It reminds me a bit of Beetlejuice and of Tim Burton's short Vincent . It features a very single-minded and quite determined lady who will stop for no reason-even death-in her desire to remain proper in all things . Well worth seei... |
579,909 | 583,640 | 22,669 | 8 | Just plain bizarre ! | This is the strangest Betty Boop I have ever seen in my life ! Bit and pieces make a strange kind of sense here and there , but it has to be easily the oddest Betty Boop made . Hard to describe , as it must be seen if it's to make even marginal sense at all . The ending is obvious to me-at least I think it is . I can't... |
579,904 | 583,640 | 22,670 | 8 | Good , but can't help but be compared to a much better earlier effort by Disney | This short is nothing terribly unusual for a Betty Boop from the early 1930s-not the best they did , but enjoyable . The main problem with this short is that it pales in the almost guaranteed comparisons to The Skeleton Dance , a Disney short that is one of the best animated shorts of all time . Interestingly enough , ... |
579,797 | 583,640 | 22,671 | 8 | Entertaining and good for a few laughs | This one is quite strange , but then again , the same can be said of most of the Betty Boops in the early 1930s . This one plays around with the idea that the Earth is for sale and does a gag about gravity or the lack thereof . While not the best one produced , this short has more than enough going for it to be of inte... |
579,236 | 583,640 | 109,629 | 8 | This is sick , twisted and depraved-in other words , very funny ! | This short , brought to you by the man who developed Courage the Cowardly Dog , no less , is like what I would expect a collaboration between Tex Avery and R . Crumb to look like , if they were both doing copious amounts of caffinated beverages , that is ! It's even lewder than Avery and moves about as fast ( nobody do... |
579,449 | 583,640 | 35,861 | 8 | A bit dated now , but entertaining nonetheless | This short has a lot of topical humor , which is the case with most of the work produced anyway , but this is topical to World War II and to many people alive today , that seems like eons ago . References to Wendell Wilkie and " A " cards and the like will sail by many in the audience , but sight gags and the overall w... |
579,142 | 583,640 | 55,795 | 8 | The third time is most decidedly not the charm for Taz against Bugs | It's Close Encounters For the Third Time and , if anything , Taz comes off even worse this time . I guess his taste for rabbit is exceptionally pronounced . Anyhow , the jokes are more sight gag oriented than verbal here , although the close is very amusing . Taz is really all too limited a character in these cartoons ... |
579,534 | 583,640 | 42,747 | 8 | Interesting and entertaining one-shot " Special " from Disney | This short was one of the cartoons made by Disney which wasn't part of a defined series-though there is a loose connection of sorts . There will be spoilers below : Morris is a small moose with regular-size antlers . He's largely ignored and those who do not ignore him laugh at him . He lacks the size necessary to make... |
578,951 | 583,640 | 49,258 | 8 | Amusing sequel to the incredible Gerald McBoing-Boing | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , is a decent effort , quite amusing at times , but in comparison to the first short in the series , it suffers somewhat . Entertaining and quite creative in and of itself and well worth watching , but not a terribly special animated short by comparison to the other ground-br... |
579,848 | 583,640 | 33,962 | 8 | Good short which was re-vamped some years later as Back Alley Oproar | This short , done in black and white in the early 1940s , was later re-visited and another short ( Back Alley Oproar , done in color ) , which took the same basic idea and even some of the same gags , but embellished on the concept substantially , was the result . While Back Alley Oproar is the better of the two , Note... |
579,417 | 583,640 | 150,916 | 8 | A serious case of role reversal here . | This is one of perhaps a dozen or so of the post-Fleischer Brothers Popeyes that I like . Most of them are nothing special . I think the older cartoons were better animated and better written for the most part . But I like this one , because it's clever and funny . This time , Popeye has to fight off the most unwelcome... |
578,947 | 583,640 | 33,952 | 8 | The cutest Tom and Jerry short | This short is reasonably good , has good background art and detail work and is a staple on The Cartoon Network around the holidays . It has to be the cutest Tom and Jerry that I've seen . It almost becomes a little too cute in spots , but just hits the right grace notes at the end . Tom and Jerry were still new as char... |
579,561 | 583,640 | 452,139 | 8 | Interesting , if somewhat pat and predictable | This short is fairly good , if a tad obvious in spots and about a subtle as a baseball bat in revealing plot points . Even with the predictable nature of the short , the performances make it quite gripping . Because I want to discuss the short a bit , there are mild spoilers : This short starts with a man who is having... |
579,272 | 583,640 | 49,020 | 8 | A very atypical Tom and Jerry . | Not your everyday Tom and Jerry short for many reasons . One , there's a voiceover narration by Jerry , which is odd , because Tom and Jerry rarely speak . Two , the two are friends , which was also rare and seldom works as well as the more adversarial shorts do . Third , and most importantly , the cartoon is rarely hu... |
579,618 | 583,640 | 57,812 | 8 | Excellent film that turns on a wonderful performance and great makeup | Unusually for a Geore Pal film , this movie does not have at its core the special effects , but rather a wonderful performance by Tony Randall ( or more accurately , performances ) and the makeup , which received the first Oscar ( a special one ) ever given for makeup . A good cast and script are also plusses . Read th... |
579,204 | 583,640 | 52,012 | 8 | Good , enjoyable , but not among the best Warner Brothers produced | This is a good , if average , short that is worth watching , but it's not going to have you rolling on the floor . Bugs has a few good lines , but the sight gags are predictable and the jokes are mostly retreads . You've seen it before and likely done better . Fun cartoon , but nothing special . False Hare is funnier .... |
579,843 | 583,640 | 63,613 | 8 | It looks as though the Pink Panther took kite flying lessons from Charlie Brown ! | This short is a very good Pink Panther cartoon . The series pretty much has a limited number of plots it used , with most of them having to do with the Pink Panther doing something ( or at least trying to ) and having it backfire , usually on his main foil , a character who was apparently loosely patterned after Friz F... |
579,298 | 583,640 | 31,093 | 8 | Takeoff on the " Ripley's Believe It or Not " | Tex Avery loved to do spoofs of things and this one was a spoof of Robert Ripley's column / program , " Believe It or Not " , where he detailed odd or unusual events , items and the like for his readers ' edification . This is Avery doing the same , but Avery's way . The running gag ( Avery almost always used one in hi... |
579,183 | 583,640 | 116,999 | 8 | This family put the " dys " into " dysfunctional " . | This is really the little movie that could . It is a very good film that likely got made only because Robert DeNiro co-produced it and thus had the clout to raise financing . With a script at different turns funny and wrenching and an exceptional cast that by and large does a great job playing a family that occasionall... |
579,322 | 583,640 | 29,154 | 8 | One of many takes on the old fairy tale , Little Red Riding Hood , done by Tex Avery and others | Tex Avery and other animators must have liked this fairy tale , because it was used frequently as the basis for a number of cartoons . Avery himself did more than one , this one and a couple he did at MGM , as well as using it as a brief gag elsewhere in other shorts . Fairy tales were commonly used by animators as the... |
579,753 | 583,640 | 21,380 | 8 | The first official Looney Tunes release and a rather good ( if a bit odd ) short | This is the first official Looney Tunes short ( there was a demonstration short , called Bosko the Talk-ink Kid , that served as a pilot and got the ball rolling and is actually a more interesting short than this one is , in some respects ) and it has the first recurring character , Bosko . As characters go , Bosko is ... |
579,728 | 583,640 | 84,005 | 8 | By and large , a vehicle for Kitten Natividad | This adult feature is a girl-girl movie that apparently was either done to capitalize on the fame of Kitten Natividad or to augment it , which one I cannot tell . She basically does her strip routine and talks about herself in addition to introducing the segments featuring the other girls . Okay , but really only impre... |
579,566 | 583,640 | 455,912 | 8 | This is a good short , but the Oscar nomination puzzles me | This short is a very nicely animated , occasionally funny and very cute cartoon-with just a bit of teeth at the end . When I first saw it on-line , it put a smile on my face , though I wasn't sure just why it was nominated for an Oscar for Animated Short . I didn't really have that big a problem with its nomination-and... |
579,607 | 583,640 | 63,573 | 8 | An enjoyable , light comedy | I admit this is not the best thing Paul Newman has done . But it's an entertaining little comedy that is charming and quirky in its own special way . There are plenty of familiar faces , particularly if you watched lots of television in the ' 60's and ' 70's . A move that's a bit rough around the edges but still well w... |
579,526 | 583,640 | 55,849 | 8 | A very unusual short , even for Norman McLaren | This short was nominated for an Academy Award and is absolutely one of the strangest works to be produced under the auspices of the NFBC . It's actually three very brief pieces with a framing sequence-at least I think it is ! Norman McLaren's fingerprints are all over this one ! Known for very odd work , it's an acquir... |
579,061 | 583,640 | 151,147 | 8 | How do I describe The Little King ? | This is one of a relatively small series of shorts done by the Van Beuren Studios which starred a comic strip character named The Little King . It's a reasonably good short , but it's difficult to describe . Because I will be discussing some details , this is a spoiler warning : The Little King is a difficult character... |
578,956 | 583,640 | 36,829 | 8 | Good , but not great , Andy Panda , cartoon | I'm at a loss to understand just why this short was nominated for an Academy Award . It's cute , Andy Panda is somewhat less bland than usual and certainly worth watching . But there isn't anything terribly special about this one . Oh well . Check this one out anyway . The cat is hilarious , particularly when he tries ... |
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