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579,568 | 583,640 | 53,956 | 8 | This short , done by Disney , this was an Oscar nominee | This short , which technically was not listed as part of the True-Life Adventures series , but has the look and feel of those shorts and features , was nominated for an Academy Award and was extremely well shot . because I want to cover this in some detail , this is a spoiler warning : This short covers some of the wil... |
579,268 | 583,640 | 34,611 | 8 | The manic Daffy makes life miserable for an occasional minor character named Conrad | For all that it's entitled as " Conrad the Sailor " , this is a Daffy Duck short-Conrad is just a rather unfortunate foil for Daffy in this one . As I want to discuss some of the cartoon , this is a spoiler warning : The cartoon opens up with a rather jolly Conrad swabbing the deck and singing ( as only Pinto Colvig ca... |
579,850 | 583,640 | 35,202 | 9 | Best viewed in the original black and white version | I've seen both the original black and white version and the later , colorized , version and the shadings in the original version look much nicer than they do in the colorized one . I will discuss some details , so consider this a spoiler warning : The cartoon starts off with Porky singing , " Start the Day Right " whil... |
579,057 | 583,640 | 30,592 | 9 | Jack Mercer made Popeye funnier | The character of Popeye was entertaining enough early on in the Fleischer Studios days , when William Costello was doing vocal duties . But the real spark that made Popeye special was when Jack Mercer took over . Mercer started as part of the animation team and then became the voice of Popeye . The choice of Mercer was... |
579,997 | 583,640 | 30,602 | 9 | Excellent short rarely seen these days | This is an excellent cartoon with a great score that is not aired on television these days because 1 ) it has the temerity to be in black and white and 2 ) Porky imitates Cab Calloway at one point and that's considered offensive , or so some think , anyway . That's a shame , because there's a beautiful caricature of Pa... |
579,233 | 583,640 | 110,688 | 9 | Bizarre even by Plympton's standards | Bill Plympton's work is , even at its tamest , exceptionally strange and odd . It would be fair to call him animation's David Lynch , save that even Lynch isn't this weird ! This short is even more the oddity than normal , even for Plympton . The most accurate description is to say it defies description . This grows on... |
579,219 | 583,640 | 110,684 | 9 | One of Paul Newman's best and one of Jessica Tandy's last performances . | As far as the film is concerned , it's a nice , charming nugget of gold that might possibly be overlooked . That would be a mistake . Paul Newman does a fine performance ( although I'd go watch Paul Newman read the Uniform Code of Military Justice ) but it is an ensemble film and the performances of just about the enti... |
579,608 | 583,640 | 19,574 | 9 | A morality play that is still quite powerful today | This movie , which is part silent and part talkie , is a tale of one man's disintegration , his actions which help to destroy an entire culture and his growing horror at what he has helped to bring about . The movie is still quite effective even now , more than 70 years later , largely because its concerns have probabl... |
579,012 | 583,640 | 43,980 | 9 | One of the better of the UPA releases , it obviously influenced at least one later Disney short | Rooty Toot Toot is one of the best of a very good run of cartoons from the UPA studios . A stylized take on Frankie and Johnny , it has a great jazz score and uses its limited animation to great effect . Excellent blend of music and visuals , it clearly had influence on at least one Disney short , Toot , Plunk , Whistl... |
578,886 | 583,640 | 99,073 | 9 | Excellent ensemble cast and worthy script make this a must-see | This film has much to recommend it-set design , cinematography and so on - but what makes it truly shine is a marvelous script and an ensemble cast that almost uniformly turn in excellent work . The characters live and breathe and fair jump off the screen at the audience . You come to care about them , even the ones yo... |
579,677 | 583,640 | 218,003 | 9 | All too close to reality , unfortunately | This short is another example of the excellent work done by the National Film Board of Canada . The sad fact is , this is only fictional on the surface points . All too many species are disappearing unnecessarily and have been for some time . This makes that point deftly . Well worth hunting down and locating . Recomme... |
579,912 | 583,640 | 78,168 | 9 | Very good ( although a somewhat loose ) adaptation of the story with incredible detail in the Claymation | This short ( actually close to 30 minutes in length ) was nominated for an Academy Award and deserved to be . The attention to detail is high , which is typical of a Will Vinton project . Narrated by Will Geer ( a perfect choce , by the way ) , the story is adapted rather loosely in spots , but it's a marvelous piece o... |
579,473 | 583,640 | 140,864 | 9 | Proof that Private Snafu's long suit is not intelligence ! | Another episode in the saga of Private Snafu-the dimmest bulb in the Army . This Rhodes scholar is more dangerous to his own unit than he is to the enemy ! Entertaining series of training films done during World War II . Here Snafu comes agonizingly close repeatedly to well-deserved destruction , only to be saved by th... |
579,886 | 583,640 | 41,779 | 9 | Some of the funniest dialog in a Warner's short can be found here | This is a very funny short and very dialog-centered , with visual gags relatively scarce . The verbal gags are beautiful , for the most part . Because I want to discuss some details , this is a spoiler warning : We see all kinds of signs in the beginning that strongly prohibit poaching anything ( including eggs ) on th... |
579,384 | 583,640 | 43,952 | 9 | This is one of the best pairings of Yosemite Sam and Bugs | This is an extremely funny short , from Bugs crooning to a carrot to his closing line , which is marvelous . Sam has some limitations as a foil for Bugs generally , but here the situation is perfect and the character is used to best advantage . Wonderful cartoon . Good to see it's available . Well worth watching . High... |
579,685 | 583,640 | 43,964 | 9 | An Orson Welles finger-exercise and quite a good one , as well | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , was adapted from a ghost story Welles once heard and was filmed during a financially-enforced sabbatical during the filming of Othello . It is remarkably moody and quite creepily atmospheric . It is essentially a finger-exercise for Welles , but it is a comment on Welles ( ... |
579,601 | 583,640 | 95,737 | 9 | This is a SPOILER WARNING ! ! ! I can't review this one without details . Sorry . | I've debated reviewing this one because I generally don't like to discuss significant details , instead preferring to go into atmosphere and general discussion . But this cartoon has one pint that I have to discuss directly , and since there is no plot outline , it can be considered a spoiler . You are forewarned . The... |
579,371 | 583,640 | 36,933 | 9 | Probably the best of the sports cartoons Disney has made . | This short , nominated for an Oscar , is likely the best of the sports cartoons Disney did ( most of them centered around the lithe , atheletic and graceful Goofy ) and is a classic , although Tex Avery was there ahead of them , with Screwball Football in 1939 . Tex more than holds his own , but How To Pay Football is ... |
579,446 | 583,640 | 33,138 | 9 | Oscar winning two-reel short that's quite good | his two-reel short won an Oscar in 1940 and is a fairly good look at Teddy Roosevelt and reasonably historically accurate , for Hollywood . Sidney Blackmer actually looks like TR ( thanks to a good makeup job ) and it suffers only sligtly from melodramatic excess . The performances are for the most part good and it's a... |
579,820 | 583,640 | 54,429 | 9 | Holds up well despite the passage of time | This short , done under the auspices of the National Film Board of Canada , holds up quite well in an area that can date in an instant . The animation effects are exceptional and my only real problem was with the narrator who came perilously close to becoming a cure for insomnia . Very well done , it was nominated for ... |
579,679 | 583,640 | 45,626 | 9 | Christopher Crumpet is a very unusual little boy-to say the least ! ( Spoiler warning ) | SPOILER WARNING ! This short , nominated for an Academy Award , concerns a little boy who , when he doesn't get his way , is a bit more creative than most children . No breath holder or pouty face is he , oh no . He turns into a chicken . His poor suffering parents are at a loss as to how to handle this and the consequ... |
579,366 | 583,640 | 33,171 | 9 | A most frenetic , energetic and unusual cartoon ! | This is an extremely odd cartoon to describe . The premise is that a harmonica playing quartet essentially destroys a general store by virtue of rather energetic playing of their instruments . The sight of the poor shopkeeper as he watches his livelihood disintegrate ( despite his best efforts at damage control ) befor... |
578,948 | 583,640 | 38,969 | 9 | A very effective blend of live-action and animation that is sadly unavailable in the US . | I saw this on one of it's re-releases when I was very young and it has stayed with me . It is one of Disney's best efforts and I'd love to see it again . Unfortunately , Disney is loathe to offend anyone and it therefore seems that this film will be consigned to the vaults because Disney is unwilling to risk any heat .... |
579,185 | 583,640 | 149,688 | 9 | Be careful what you ask for-you just might get it ! | This short is a remake of a Fleischer Studios effort , the title of which escapes me at the moment , and is impressive enough that it can hold its own against the earlier cartoon , not often the case with Famous Studio work . Lots of sight gags , but the voice work is excellent . Beck was the best of the voices for Blu... |
579,824 | 583,640 | 200,282 | 9 | Starts charmingly enough and suddenly turns much more serious | Mild spoilers This cartoon begins , engagingly enough , at breakfast . Using animals instead of people as characters reminds viewers of those cute , lovable cartoons of yesteryear . Right . Life is what happens while you're making plans and sometimes life throws a curve or two-and sometimes , life throws the baseball b... |
578,995 | 583,640 | 45,778 | 9 | Football was possibly the most popular sport for cartoonists to parody . | For the majority of the major studios , sports were a frequent source of fun . Disney did a whole series of sports related shorts featuring Goofy . Baseball and football were the most frequent subjects and offhand I think football was slightly more often the target . There were two or three Disney ( of course , there w... |
579,433 | 583,640 | 54,387 | 9 | The special effects are still remarkable after more than 40 years ! | This is a very well-done adaptation of the H . G . Wells novella , with an Oscar for the special effects that are still impressive more than 40 years later . Good performances by an ensemble cast and a good script also help . One interesting side note : character actor Whit Bissell was in both the 1960 version here and... |
579,508 | 583,640 | 62,996 | 9 | The Pink Panther enlists-with obvious consequences ! | This is an exceptionally funny short where the Pink Panther does for the Army and his Sargeant ( " The Little White Guy " ) what Gomer Pyle did for the Marines and Sargeant Carter . I'm going to go into some detail in this comment , so this is your spoiler warning : The scene is set when the Pink Panther sees a recruit... |
579,958 | 583,640 | 26,162 | 9 | Beautiful artwork and backgrounds , if occasionally too cute for words . | This cartoon's use of color and background detail is excellent . Sometimes , the story and the action is just too cute for my tastes , but it more than makes up for this visually . The dragon is great ! Nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short , this runs on Cartoon Network occasionally and , when TCM does its... |
579,468 | 583,640 | 151,819 | 9 | This short is one of the better " Sing-a-Longs " done by Famous Studios | Fleischer Studios did a regular series of shorts with a mix of live-action and animation with featured " sing-alongs " , where the audience would sing along with a musical performance . The lyrics would appear on the screen and a guide would pace the audience in time to the music . When Paramount switched their animate... |
578,908 | 583,640 | 24,006 | 9 | Disney's first take on Noah | This short was Disney's first visit to Noah-it was followed up 26 years later by Noah's Ark . Of the two , this one is much closer to the typical Disney animated short and this one is very good . The other is more unusual in style and format , but both are fairly successful in what they try to do . Good to see this in-... |
579,068 | 583,640 | 151,871 | 9 | Lantz , like Disney and other studios , made music the starting point for a series of cartoons | This short was one of a series of shorts Walter Lantz made which were built around either a musical piece or a musical style , with classical and jazz predominating . Here , a very familiar piece of classical music was used to show the " workings " of an orchestra . I plan on discussing some details , so there will be ... |
579,069 | 583,640 | 50,534 | 9 | Splendid use of stop-motion animation and live action | This short is an extremely effective use of the stop-motion technique of animation blended with live action footage about a very determined chair and a young man who wants nothing more than to sit and read . I personally negotiated a deal with my chairs : if they perform some basic function , they can remain . If not ,... |
579,136 | 583,640 | 52,722 | 9 | Leprechauns , a Sidhe ( Banshee ) and Sean Connery with an Irish brogue ! What more could you want ? | This is a charming film with warmth , tenderness , tragedy , love , drama , betrayal and nobility all rolled into one and seasoned with humor . Albert Sharpe , who plays the lead , is a character actor whose face wll probably be familiar to movie fans . Sean Connery with an Irish brogue is worth the price of admission ... |
578,959 | 583,640 | 26,135 | 9 | One of the more satisfying shorts Iwerks made . | This one works-at least for me , it worked . One of the most unusual singing quartets you'll ever see . Some exceptional backgrounds and very good animation here and also fairly well-developed characters ( not usually a hallmark of Iwerks studio ) make this an entertaining short . The farmer looks a bit like Al Falfa f... |
579,079 | 583,640 | 50,449 | 9 | In a war between Speedy and the other male mice for the affections of all the senorita mice , the loser is Sylvester ! | I can't really discuss this cartoon without including at least some details , so consider yourself warned as to spoilers : The male mice in a small village have something of a problem-his name is Speedy Gonzales . Every little senorita mouse is far more interested in the dashing Speedy than they are in anyone else . In... |
579,666 | 583,640 | 45,697 | 9 | One of the most interesting and humorous concepts developed by Chuck Jones | Chuck Jones , in addition to both working with solidly established stars such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and doing one-shot cartoons like Martian Through Georgia , did some thematic groupings of short using continuing characters in a small number of cartoons . Ralph and Sam , a sheepdog and wolf , were one of these .... |
579,881 | 583,640 | 43,839 | 9 | As with all the True Life Adventures , the camera work here is simply fantastic , particularly the time lapse sequences | This short , which won an Academy Award for Live-Action Short , is one of the most fascinating things that Disney has ever released . It follows one particular natural area for an entire year , from one spring through to the next . Because I want to discuss some details , this is a spoiler warning : The short begins by... |
579,810 | 583,640 | 147,568 | 9 | Excellent short , just beautiful and it has a ( gasp ! ) PLOT ! ! ! | Alright , so it isn't a terribly complex plot-but it is more of a plot than Iwerks usually had for its cartoons . This one features the same Old Man Winter as did the short Jack Frost , another cartoon from the same studio . Backgrounds and animation are incredible , but then those always tended to be hallmarks of the ... |
579,074 | 583,640 | 41,891 | 9 | Extremely well-conceived and executed animated short on public health programs | Although somewhat dated in a few details , much of what this details regarding public health and safety , such as inoculation versus disease and the need for good sanitation is still of importance today . I saw this in Cartoon Network on a special ToonHeads featuring rarely seen or little-known animation . This won an ... |
579,894 | 583,640 | 112,691 | 9 | Yet another episode in the saga of Wallace and Gromit | This short , which won an Academy Award , is the one I enjoy slightly less of the first three , which makes it only great ! A sheep named Shaun steals the show here . Wallace is marginally more lively in this one . All in all , well worth seeking out and fairly easy to get . Highly recommended . |
579,269 | 583,640 | 50,442 | 9 | Every time I see this one , I wonder if Art Carney ever saw this one . | This cartoon has Spike and Tyke of Tom and Jerry fame , without said cat or mouse . Sort of giving the supporting players a shot at the brass ring , as it were . Their problem child here is a dog clearly modeled after the pre-eminent second banana , the Ed Norton character from the show The Honeymooners . I half expect... |
579,277 | 583,640 | 33,266 | 9 | Popeye creates his own nightmare here , but solves the mess in the end . | In this one , Popeye " teaches " Olive how to drive . I'm curious as to who taught Popeye , as he neglects to impart Important Rule # 1 : Pay attention to the road when navigating any vehicle anywhere . It isn't that Olive is totally inattentive . She's just not attentive to minor trivialities-like steering or the traf... |
579,955 | 583,640 | 23,948 | 9 | One of many movies done after Grand Hotel with all-star ensemble casts , but unlike most of the others , this one works ! | In the wake of the success of Grand Hotel , there were a number of attempts to duplicate its formula . Where this one succeeds admirably , others failed . Much of the credit goes to the cast and the script . Jean Harlow is wonderful , as are Wallace Beery and the Barrymores ( who , unless I'm mistaken , never have a sc... |
579,326 | 583,640 | 41,858 | 9 | Very good Droopy cartoon | This short is a very good Tex Avery Droopy . Droopy is the cartoon " Everyman " who somehow manages to come out on top whatever the odds are or the forces arrayed against him . Tex Avery's principal continuing character while at MGM , I wouldn't be at all surprised if Droopy was the character appearing in the most Tex ... |
579,291 | 583,640 | 30,566 | 9 | One of my favorite Tex Avery shorts . | This is one of my favorite Tex Avery cartoons . It's Tex in full stride and typical of his Warner Brothers work . It even has Tex doing voice work ( appropriately , because he was a big man ) as a walrus . There are celebrity caricatures sprinkled here and there , but the music is what sets this apart . Just a bit of t... |
578,831 | 583,640 | 112,661 | 9 | How Courage the Cowardly Dog started | This short was made for the Cartoon Network as a part of their Cartoon Cartoon series , aired in theaters and was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short . The rules have been changed to preclude nominees from being part of a series or conceived originally for television from being eligible . I personally th... |
578,893 | 583,640 | 213,898 | 9 | Will Vinton Studios stretches its muscles a bit . | While Will Vinton and the studio carrying his name are best known for Claymation ( a term coined and either copyrighted or service marked by Vinton , but also a good general description of the animation style ) , the studio and / or Vinton does occasionally produce works directed by others in other styles . The Creatio... |
579,533 | 583,640 | 147,901 | 9 | The most musically-oriented Heckle and Jeckle I've seen | This short has Heckle and Jeckle running a diner . Since I want to discuss some details , there will be spoilers : While there have been other Heckle and Jeckle shorts which have featured songs ( such as Hair Cut-ups and House Busters ) , they really weren't what you would call musical cartoons . This one is a little d... |
579,702 | 583,640 | 113,138 | 9 | Quite funny , as well as a bit wistful and bittersweet . | Given the nature of its premise and the country of origin being Russia , it's a fairly logical guess that the title is a reference to Yuri Gagarin , the Russian cosmonaut who became the first man to climb into a glorified tin can and be shot into orbit around the Earth . This is a very cute , often funny and sometimes ... |
579,936 | 583,640 | 37,181 | 9 | One of the funniest Donald Duck shorts Disney made . | This short is clever and very funny , as it follows Donald through the process of building and flying a plane he makes entirely from plastic ! I ask you , how secure would you feel riding in a plane made of plastic constructed and piloted by a very impatient and short-tempered duck . Parachutes , anyone ? Sadly , this ... |
579,165 | 583,640 | 149,807 | 9 | Very good later Woody Woodpecker | This short is one of the better ones that the Lantz studios produced in the 1960s . There are echoes reminiscent of Tex Avery's short Sh-h-h here , but this one has an energy and charm all its own . I feel extremely sorry for the poor guy here . The ending is perfect ! This one is worth tracking down . Most recommended... |
579,550 | 583,640 | 26,529 | 9 | After 65 years , this film is still all too timely | This film deals with the Irish rebellion in the 1920s and more specifically one man's life after he informs on a friend for the bounty on his head and the subsequent consequences . Watching the film , I got the feeling that you could take the script and with just some minor updates , do it again and it , sadly , would ... |
579,131 | 583,640 | 41,587 | 9 | Excellent cast , but an even better script | You have here a situation that is rarer than you might imagine-a top-notch cast with an even better script . This is a delightful film with fine performances all around and some of the best dialogue ! Strangely , none of the cast were nominated for their work here , although three were nominated for other performances ... |
579,789 | 583,640 | 149,779 | 9 | Cute , well executed short about a ballet school | This cartoon is a humorous and rather charming look at a ballet school , rather overeager management and its harried but able instructress . Well animated and with an engaging story , the ending is quite appropriate and hilarious . Well worth watching . Recommended . |
579,232 | 583,640 | 262,421 | 9 | Tim Burton , eat your heart out ! | On the whole , I actually think that Tim Burton would find this one amusing if it ever crossed his field of vision . I think James Whale would probably have loved it too . Not your typical Christmas cartoon , by any means . Sentimentalist that I am , I like to think that when Frannie grew up , she got an appropriate jo... |
579,379 | 583,640 | 21,664 | 9 | Very strange short with a small part for an early take on Betty Boop . | This is a BImbo cartoon and quite an odd one it is too . Betty Boop makes a relatively brief appearance towards the latter half of the short and at the end and her look is slighly different in this early short . Exceedingly strange things happen throughout to say the least ! Great fun but definitely an acquired taste .... |
579,488 | 583,640 | 45,863 | 9 | Some days , it just doesn't pay to get up in the morning . | Poor Barney ( in more than one sense , at that ) , he goes to a great deal of trouble to find a treasure , only to run into a gopher that makes his life miserable ( the Marquise de Gopher , perhaps ) and thus we are treated to a raft of sight gags almost painful to watch executed with obvious glee ( I wonder if the scr... |
579,119 | 583,640 | 26,569 | 9 | The Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe-Fleischer style ! | Like Disney , the Fleischers took fairy tales and adapted them for cartoons . But the Fleischers added their own twists to these cartoons . They weren't Disney , never could be and their weakest work is when they tried to out-mouse the Mouse . The highlight here is a great rendition of the song , " Mama Don't ' Low " a... |
579,293 | 583,640 | 47,981 | 9 | Time-honored and well-tested conceit . | Tex Avery used a plot device here that he used in several cartoons : A character or characters want to avoid being heard by another character . Another character does their level best to cause them to disturb the character , setting the stage for his much-beloved sight gags fired rapidly at the audience . Cartoons are ... |
579,610 | 583,640 | 120,684 | 9 | An excellent , if somewhat flawed , look at the life and work of James Whale | I've always been fascinated by James Whale , if for no other reason than the fact that , in one career , he directed Frankenstein and The Invisible Man on one hand and also directed the 1936 version of Showboat and The Great Garrick ! That kind of dichotomy is not something you see every day . All four films are at lea... |
579,162 | 583,640 | 146,967 | 9 | Woody's first appearance , but it's an Andy Panda short . | Happens all the time-a seasoned pro gives a young unknown a break and it makes the unknown a star ! Woody went on to eclipse Andy Panda in popularity and was the top draw for Lantz studios in the years that followed . But the two always had a cordial , if somewhat bizarre , friendship , appearing in a number of shorts ... |
579,694 | 583,640 | 112,958 | 9 | Visually striking short with a rather old premise | This short , deservedly nominated for an Academy Award , shows off what CGI can do to far better effect than using them to save money on large crowd scenes in epics ever will ( or can ) . Here there be mild spoilers : Having characters arguing with the person who created them is an old idea . But most ideas are old and... |
578,992 | 583,640 | 136,337 | 9 | Excellent silent mix of live-action and animation . | This is along the same lines as the Alice shorts Disney did in the 1920s , only the star isn't the live-action little girl but Ko-Ko the Clown , the first animated star Fleischer Studios had . Here , Ko-Ko has a series of adventures with a little girl who shrinks in size and goes with Ko-ko . Very well-executed and the... |
578,797 | 583,640 | 41,661 | 9 | Hubie and Bert doing what they do best-causing no end of trouble | This cartoon short , an Oscar nominee , features Hubie and Bert ( " Yeah , yeah , sure , sure " ) tormenting poor Claude for the first time . Poor Clude didn't fare terribly well in any of his cartoons , either with Hubie and Bert or in other cartoons , but this is by far the most devastatingly funny appearance by any ... |
579,628 | 583,640 | 97,532 | 9 | Bizarre , quirky , outlandish animation-in other words , a Bill Plympton cartoon | Bill Plympton is an acquired taste , one I have acquired . This short is outrageous , strange and at times unnerving , to say the least . Which is pretty much the norm for his work . This is an excellent , if somewhat bizarre , short , although those who harbor the mistaken notion that animation is strictly for childre... |
579,009 | 583,640 | 46,005 | 9 | The best of Tex Avery's cartoons giving human characteristics to inanimate objects | This cartoon was nominated for an Oscar , which is welcome although a bit puzzling , as this is a prototypical Tex Avery cartoon-take something ordinary , twist it in some odd or extraordinary way and fire sight gags at the audience for the bulk of the cartoon . Avery often gave inanimate objects human traits , as he d... |
579,175 | 583,640 | 149,963 | 9 | One of the best Tex Avery cartoons that Avery didn't make . | This short was made at the Walter Lantz studio during Tex Avery's brief stint as a director there and though he wasn't involved , his influence is seen throughout . As I want to discuss some of the details , this is a spoiler warning : This is a story told in flashback ( for the most part ) and is about two dogs , John... |
578,820 | 583,640 | 37,339 | 9 | Porky's sole Oscar nod and it took a battle of crooning fowl to get it for him ! | This cartoon , nominated for Oscar , was Porky's only shot at the gold . It's a marvelous cartoon and parodies Sinatra and Crosby , among others . Watch particularly the audition , when Porky is trying out singers to get his hens laying eggs again . The guys at Termite Terrace loved parodies , not only actors , but sin... |
578,987 | 583,640 | 32,507 | 9 | More talky than normal for Tex Avery , but it's largely successful . | This is a cartoon that was made in a format Tex Avery wasn't always successful with-a series of loosely connected blackouts , which are little comic set-pieces . Avery didn't always do these well because each distinct piece had its own setup , joke and punchline , usually requiring more dialogue and a slower pace than ... |
578,932 | 583,640 | 151,664 | 9 | A fun and lively cartoon that I find very entertaining . | Through most of the mid to late 1940s , Paramount's Famous Studios did some fairly good work . Sometime in the 1950s , they kind of seemed to surrender to a rising tide of mediocrity and just turned out shorts virtually indistinguishable from each other and started strip mining the old Fliescher Studios shorts for idea... |
579,831 | 583,640 | 52,389 | 9 | Beautifully shot , watch this for the visually glorious surroundings and try to ignore the occasionally silly narraion | This documentary is one of the best ever produced by Disney and has both the strengths and weaknesses of most Disney documentaries-excellent visually and technically but with narration that is all too frequently vapid , silly and boring , with the added difficulty that the narrator's droning monotone almost puts me to ... |
579,295 | 583,640 | 30,129 | 9 | The changing of Egghead | This short is , so far as I'm aware , the first ( and only ) time Egghead is called Elmer . The similarities between the two are peripheral but notable : style of dress , a lack of hair , etc . At some point , Egghead stopped appearing and Elmer started getting paired off with Bugs and Daffy instead . Was it a delibera... |
579,523 | 583,640 | 69,947 | 9 | Books often don't translae to film too well , but an excellent job was done here | This is an excellent adaptation of a very good novel by Frederic Forsythe . All too often , novels are poorly adapted to film , for various reasons . This is one of the better examples of how things can work but don't . The plot is discernably that of Forsythe's book ( the author has not always been fortunate in that r... |
579,590 | 583,640 | 43,480 | 9 | Droopy gives Spike a bad case of double vision | This short is an energetic little cartoon that introduces a twin brother of Droopy's for the first ( and only ) time to hilarious , if predictable effect . Good effort that makes Droopy a more interesting character . Well worth watching , even if it isn't one of Avery's best . Recommended . |
579,806 | 583,640 | 146,848 | 9 | Ub Iwerks closed his studio with a bang ! | At least one source lists this short as the last release from Iwerks studio . If that's so , then their swan song was a most impressive finale . The sad thing is , this cartoon is better than the overwhelming majority of the shorts that preceded it , but likely got booked in far fewer theaters , because by that time th... |
579,368 | 583,640 | 41,326 | 9 | Talk about self-fulfilling prophecies ! | This cartoon ( the title is a play on the film title " Each Dawn I Die " ) is one of the better Elmer Fudd solos the did . It concerns a rather foolish rooster , the hazards of jumping to conclusions and the danger of inattention . The narration is excellent , visual gags are here in abundance and the payoff is a screa... |
578,994 | 583,640 | 20,041 | 9 | Ah , the pre-Code cartoons , he waxed nostalgically . | Prior to the creation of the Hays Office ( named for Will Hays , the first official censor , who left Washington just ahead of the posse , having been part of the Harding administration , the most corrupt administration pre-1968 ) and the installation of the Code in the early 1930s by these paragons of virtue , films w... |
579,450 | 583,640 | 43,517 | 9 | One of the better shorts with Bugs and Yosemite Sam | This is a very engaging and humorous short with Bugs engaged in a battle of wits with Yosemite Sam . Sam makes an ideal foe for Bugs , as his temper lends itself to all manner of situations . Elmer makes a good foil , as it makes sense why a hunter would want to shoot a rabbit , but Sam opens up many more possibilities... |
578,937 | 583,640 | 150,096 | 9 | This was made early in the Paramount Famous Studio's existence , when they were still funny ! | This short was a marked contrast to much of the later output of the Famous Studios for Paramount , which was hackneyed and trite in comparison . Famous Studio was a pale successor to the Fliescher Studio and couldn't even come close to the " Big Three " - Disney , Warner Brothers and MGM-but this cartoon is actually cl... |
579,633 | 583,640 | 64,612 | 9 | An exceptionally fine film with a great script and fine cast | This film , nominated for an Oscar , was eligible the same year as the film Z , otherwise it might have won for Foreign Language Film . The script is fantastic , the cast does superbly and the direction is as good or better than either . The principal female roles are very well-executed . The male lead is a dithering ,... |
579,296 | 583,640 | 43,419 | 9 | The archetype Tex Avery cartoon . | Tex Avery loved sight gags piled on top of one another , coming fast and furiously at the viewer . This short is simply one long string of sight gags in a battle of wits between a dog ( usually named Spike , but not to be confused with the Spike found in Tom and Jerry cartoons with some frequency . Same name , differen... |
579,865 | 583,640 | 45,062 | 9 | Daffy really should quit while he's behind | This is the middle cartoon of the three ( between Rabbit Fire and Duck ! Rabbit , Duck ! ) and is the weakest of the three , while still being quite funny . It simply depends on one gag for too much of the action . Still a good cartoon . I feel a definite sympathy for Daffy in this one , which is rare for me . Daffy is... |
579,713 | 583,640 | 35,790 | 9 | Excellent footage with an unnecessary , tacked-on , prologue | This Oscar-winning documentary features some spectacular battle footage and is generally well-done , except for the Hollywood hokum grafted onto the beginning , for who knows what reason . It's ridiculous and boring . just ignore it and watch the documentary . The documentary , sans lead-in , is recommended highly . |
579,940 | 583,640 | 24,380 | 9 | A bit dated , but holds up well after seventy years . | While the cartoon does have a dated feel to it in spots , the animation is excellent ( a Disney strength during the 1930s ) and it still largely works for the most part , although probably not as well for the age group raised on jump-cut , fast-pace edits and Matrix style special effects . Well worth watching . Recomme... |
579,214 | 583,640 | 93,779 | 9 | A satiric comedy with humor and sadness , dark with the light . | This film is an intelligent , sardonic send up of several genres that pokes fun ( affectionately ) at fairy tales , swashbucklers , love stories and basic conventions of film . One of my favorite scenes is where Inigo Montoya first confronts his quarry after years of searching . His adversary does the unexpected-and wh... |
579,943 | 583,640 | 51,044 | 9 | An Oscar nominee and entertaining because of Speedy's two amigos , Pablo and Fernando | Speedy Gonzales was essentially a one-note character ( kind of like the Roadrunner ) so the quality of a Speedy cartoon is largely dependent on the surrounding characters and situations they get themselves into rather than Speedy himself . The two mice Speedy is rescuing frequently , Pablo and Fernando are excellent ch... |
579,817 | 583,640 | 29,995 | 9 | Excellent cast , script in a tale of ethics vs . ease | This film features an excellent cast , ably led by Robert Donat in a performance that is superior to his marvelous performance one year later in Goodbye , Mr . Chips . As a young doctor , he begins with the highest intentions , gradually becoming cynical and disillusioned . He decides it's better to have money than scr... |
579,237 | 583,640 | 152,357 | 9 | Cartoons as propaganda during wartime . | This sort of cartoon was made during World War II by most , if not all , the studios as a form of propaganda . The major studios were turning out training films for the military , doing live-action propaganda and the animation departments did their share of work in that vein as well . Some had merely passing references... |
579,870 | 583,640 | 43,354 | 9 | Very funny entry in a very good series of cartoons from Warner Brothers | This cartoon was part of the " Goofy Gophers " series of cartoons and is one of the better ones . It features two of the most laughably , almost painfully polite , characters ever seen . Although Disney's " Chip ' n ' Dale " preceded them and are probably better-known , I personally like The Goofy Gophers much better b... |
579,648 | 583,640 | 301,693 | 9 | The penultimate short from an artist who is already missed | Faith Hubley produced animated shorts with her husband John right up until his death in 1977 and continued producing and directing a short a year up until she died in December 2001 . This was her next-to-last one and has aired on the Sundance Channel . Even the more commercial work they did to help pay the bills has a ... |
579,145 | 583,640 | 60,843 | 9 | An enjoyable cartoon with a great closing scene | This cartoon is one of the better Clouseau cartoons . Clouseau and his sidekick are in pursuit of a mystery man , chasing him over a great many different terrains , in different weather conditions and usually with rather painful and visually comic end results for their efforts . The final scene , in which Clouseau lear... |
578,926 | 583,640 | 62,467 | 9 | Alan Arkin and Audrey Hepburn make this worth seeing , although the film is really quite good in other respects also | Audrey Hepburn was nominated for an Oscar and how Alan Arkin missed out on one for Supporting Actor I'll never understand . The performances carry the film , although there is a very good supporting cast , afairly decent script and production values are good . The performances by epburn and Arkin raise the film from av... |
579,646 | 583,640 | 93,832 | 9 | Deep down , do all things , great and small , dream ? | The folks at Pixar do a wonderful job here . While this isn't their best short , it is definitely a fine one and the hero here is a surprising one : a little red bike , an inanimate Walter Mitty ! I got caught up in this short . Pixar really should re-release their collection of their short films . The short work they ... |
578,988 | 583,640 | 33,693 | 9 | Seeing this in the original black and white is best . | While I have not seen a colorized version of this , I understand one does exist . But I hope never to see a colorized version of this , as I would never want to see The Skeleton Dance colorized and for the same reason : the cartoons make excellent use of shadows , light and dark contrasts and visuals which would be sev... |
579,656 | 583,640 | 60,834 | 9 | Very good but typical Pink Panther cartoon | This cartoon was nominated for a Academy Award . It's a fairly good cartoon , although it is quite similar to The Pink Phink in conception , tone and execution . Not really a terribly novel cartoon by any means , but great fun and very entertaining . Recommended . |
579,058 | 583,640 | 29,969 | 9 | The best of the whole series , with a hilarious ending ! | This is just about the only genuinely funny Captain and the Kids cartoon they made . A few were reasonably good , if not terribly memorable . But this one deserves to be seen and remembered . I suspect that the fact that , despite the title , The Captain makes but a cameo appearance has something to do with its success... |
578,795 | 583,640 | 41,446 | 9 | A mouse named Jerry as the " Mama " to a baby woodpecker ! How charming ! | This Tom and Jerry , nominated for an Oscar , concerns an egg , Jerry mouse and the joys and headaches of unexpected " motherhood " for a very surprised mouse when the egg hatches into a baby woodpecker . Tom gets involved and typical sight gags ( most rather painful to Tom from the looks of things ) abound with great ... |
579,994 | 583,640 | 51,008 | 9 | Too bad none of the shorts in this series seem to be in print | This series of shorts was brief ( seven in total ) , but it's one of Chuck Jones ' best concepts and , sadly , not a single one appears to be in print at present , which is a pity , because they are hilarious . Sam and Ralph are an interesting combination and the idea that forms the core to these is great ! The ending ... |
579,436 | 583,640 | 43,381 | 9 | One of a series of cartoons describing the future of a particular aspect of everyday life | Tex Avery did a series of cartoons describing the future-here he describes what the " Car of Tomorrow " might look like-in typical Tex Avery fashion , it is the starting point for some sight gags galore fired rapidly , one after another . There is some verbal humor in the narration , including one joke reminiscent of D... |
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