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579,913 | 583,640 | 79,126 | 10 | An excellent , touching Oscar-winning animated short | In 1979 , the United Nations and its program UNICEF started a fund-raising campaign that designated the year as , " The Year of the Child " . That campaign is referenced by this short at the very beginning . The short went on to win the Academy Award and is an incredibly moving look at one child's journey . The title r... |
578,812 | 583,640 | 22,883 | 10 | An absolute gem and delightful to watch | This is quite possibly the crown jewel in the long and illustrious career of an extremely troubled and very funny man . Fields has a field day sending up a style of melodrama popular at the time . At one and the same time , this is atypical of Fields ' work generally , but still has his fingerprints all over it as well... |
579,386 | 583,640 | 42,871 | 10 | Truly a classic short . | This is one of Chuck Jones's masterpieces , an incredible blend of music ( mainly opera ) and animation . The new lyrics written to the very old and familiar music are priceless , as is the scene where Elmer at first thinks he's starting to grow hair . One of the best cartoons Warner Brothers ever produced . Well worth... |
578,884 | 583,640 | 36,238 | 10 | A Tex Avery Christmas ! ! ! | This cartoon , which I think is one of Tex Avery's best , features as its protagonist a little pig who seems to be a take-off on Red SKelton's Mean Widdle KId character-the voice , mannerisms and even on or two of SKelton's catch-phrases are present in this cartoon . The Wolf doesn't stand a chance ! Junior isn't very ... |
579,260 | 583,640 | 449,619 | 10 | Deservedly won an Oscar last year , much as Ryan won the year before | This short is a combination of animation , still photos and what look like home movies in trying to create an imaginary conversation between a father and his son . Like Ryan , which was an animated look at the life and troubles of animator Ryan Larkin's life , this short looks at very real people and situations and , l... |
578,779 | 583,640 | 152,989 | 10 | The last theatrically produced Magoo and it's a fitting conclusion for UPA ! | This short is the last one produced for movie theater release , both in the Magoo series as well as the last made by the studio . Magoo goes out in perfect form and style . The plot revolves around a television program and a most unusual burglary . The standard Magoo sight gags and a most entertaining finale to the run... |
578,880 | 583,640 | 22,899 | 10 | Even after almost 70 years , it's an incredible piece of art ! | This won the very first Academy Award given for animated short and even after close to 69 years , it is still a marvel to behold . It quite justifiably won its praise at the time and is one of Disney's high points . Everything about this is excellent : story , music , characterization , plot , layout , visuals-everythi... |
578,919 | 583,640 | 280,580 | 10 | Oscar-nominated documentary filmed in an Actor's Fund retirement home that is fascinating to watch . | This documentary , an Oscar nominee this year , takes a look at the lives of some of the residents of an Actor's Fund home and is a glimpse into the lives of people who worked in the theater and film business-in front of and / or behind the stage or camera . No household names ( although I had heard of Dalton Dearborn ... |
579,956 | 583,640 | 36,244 | 10 | Haunting story of a " mob mentaity " and what happens when people lose control | This is one the best westerns and better films I have ever seen and features a very fine , almost understated , performance by Henry Fonda and excellent work by a host of familiar faces , most notably early work by Dana Andrews and Anthony Quinn . Fans of movies from the 1930s and 1940s will recognize lots of character... |
579,133 | 583,640 | 34,097 | 10 | Bravo ! Bravo ! ! Encore ! Encore ! ! | This cartoon short SHOULD have won the Oscar instead of Lend A Paw ! An absolutely perfect blending of music and action throughout , well-executed at every turn . Incredibly funny with no dialogue-sight gags only and the running gags are great ! Wonderful marriage of beautiful music and antic lunacy with a drop dead en... |
579,947 | 583,640 | 45,000 | 10 | Wile E . ' s luck is no better with Bugs Bunny than it is with Roadrunners | Wile E . Coyote just can't catch a break . One of several encounters with Bugs Bunny goes as badly for him as his attempts at catching the Roadrunner do . I feel for his life and accident insurers ! It's a pity they only made 5 or 6 of these , because it's a good combination . Wile E . is a good foil for Bugs and most ... |
579,605 | 583,640 | 81,361 | 10 | The best of the more recent additions to the older works | Although they've mostly worked , the cartoons done in the 1970's and after usually aren't quite as good as the older stuff ( probably because budgets and cost won't allow the same freedom ) . This one and a few others are the exception . I put this one above the two most notable others ( The Duxorsist and Duck Dodgers ... |
579,032 | 583,640 | 36,268 | 10 | Excellent look at Nazi plans for conquest and control of the world | This documentary was nominated for an Academy Award and looks at the intentions of the Nazis in future globl domination had they successfully prosecuted WWII . Fascinating ( and more than a bit chilling ) look at just how detailed the plans were for the systematic looting of funds and resources on a global scale for th... |
579,801 | 583,640 | 36,279 | 10 | The unmistakable rhythms of Dr . Seuss are part of the charms of this exceptional short ! | For several of the shorts in this series , Theodore Geisel ( aka Dr . Seuss ) scripted and the speech patterns here reflect his quite familiar cadence . It's great ! Private Snafu really screws up royally here , which was the point , as the series was meant to show soldiers what not to do and what the consequences coul... |
578,999 | 583,640 | 38,114 | 10 | An Oscar winning one-reel short from an extended series of shorts done by MGM | Back when going to the movies was practically an all-day affair , studios made short subjects and most studios had regular series of shorts that followed a basic framework and usually had the same narrator , writers , etc . One of the best and most successful was The Passing Parade , which took its stories from real li... |
578,942 | 583,640 | 38,143 | 10 | Tex Avery at the top of his form ! | This cartoon is just great ! Lots of sight gags , a fair number of topical gags framed on the war and life on the home front and the most entetaining fairy godmother to come down the pike in quite a while . Another " fairytale " cartoon by Avery that is ribald and lecherous and pokes fun at everything , including itsel... |
579,794 | 583,640 | 25,213 | 10 | Anything can happen in a cartoon ! | This is a marvelous cartoon blending some live action footage with animation with incredible results . These days , animation is all too often no more than an excuse for marketing tie-ins or is one long commercial altogether . With some exceptions ( Animaniacs is one of the good ones ) , the truly off-the-wall zaniness... |
579,520 | 583,640 | 58,211 | 10 | By following these safe ( well , maybe not safe ) and easy guidelines , you , too can avoid friendship ! | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , is one of four in a series of " self-help " cartoons done by Rembrandt Films . Arthur Treacher narrates all four and is perfect for the job ! I suspect it's safe to say that if the advice here is followed , friendship is not something that will trouble you for terribly long... |
578,777 | 583,640 | 38,087 | 10 | One good short deserves an even better remake . | Dangerous Dan McFoo , a short that Tex Avery directed at Warner Brothers , is re-made here some six years later , when Tex was at MGM . This cartoon is a bit crisper , with better timing , although both are quite good and both unmistakably Tex Avery cartoons . The Robert W . Service poem that serves as the starting poi... |
579,014 | 583,640 | 44,821 | 10 | A classic Disney short ! | This short is one of the more successful Disney produced in the 1950s . Nominated for an Oscar in 1951 , it has one of the more memorable one-shot characters Disney created in Lambert . Some of the visual gags , particularly toward the end of the cartoon are hilarious ! Toward the end of the 1940s , Disney slipped behi... |
579,129 | 583,640 | 190,287 | 10 | So help me , I don't know why , but I enjoy this carton ! ! ! | Normally , I am not overly fond of terminally cute cartoons or country music . This cartoon is guilty on both counts . With all that going on , I should really run screaming from this one , but I don't . Maybe it's just sufficiently bizarre below the surface to be good , or maybe I'm getting sentimental in my dotage . ... |
579,741 | 583,640 | 23,027 | 10 | One of the Marx Brothers ' best ! | What the Marx Brothers do to higher education in this film is roaringly funny , from the opening song " Whatever It Is , I'm Against It " to the end , possibly the most bizarre American Football " game " not played in the XFL ! Groucho was at or near his best and it's probably the best ( and most significant ) role Zep... |
579,744 | 583,640 | 49,473 | 10 | An excellent combination of live-action footage and animation that holds up very well | This documentary was nominated for an Oscar and it's easy to see why . Even 45 years later , it is quite an impressive piece of work . Why it isn't in-print is a mystery that only Disney can explain . Good use of live footage and animation in tandem . This used to run as part of " Vault Disney " every few months or so ... |
579,768 | 583,640 | 351,167 | 10 | Visually a treat , extraordinary CGI ! | While having just the barest of a discernable storyline and no plot to speak of ( at least not one that I could find ) , this matters not a whit in my eyes . This is a treat for the eyes , first and foremost , an absolutely breathtaking piece of work . This blows the " crowd " scenes in Gladiator away , though that is ... |
579,343 | 583,640 | 44,868 | 10 | One of Tex Avery's Best | Let me first state that I think that Tex Avery is to the animated short what Walt Disney was to the feature-length animated film . So many of the conventions of animated shorts were either started by Avery or so effectively used by him that he gave us the cartoon format that we know and , hopefully , love . And Magical... |
579,783 | 583,640 | 150,663 | 10 | I love this cartoon , but then , I would-I worked for an accountant ! | This short does nothing terribly dramatic . No ground-breaking animation , or special voice work . It will not cure the common cold or achieve great breakthroughs in technology or world peace . But it is a rather charming look at a somewhat eccentric couple and their attempts to budget . I consider it one of my favorit... |
579,689 | 583,640 | 84,701 | 10 | An absolutely beautiful and wonderful short | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , is just incredible ! The animtion , music , story-everything - is as close to perfect as possible . Funny , warm , tender , joyous and bittersweet at various points , it's in-print , deserves to be and is without a doubt one of the finest animated shorts I have seen in my l... |
579,261 | 583,640 | 469,078 | 10 | A very sweet and poetic cartoon which is also unmistakably a Bill Plympton cartoon | How this one missed being nominated for an Oscar , I'll never figure out . Possibly the committee didn't think it was a Bill Plympton because it is , at its heart , a love story . Who knows ? In any case , I found it delightful and charming . Because I want to discuss some of the details , this is a spoiler warning : M... |
579,887 | 583,640 | 141,869 | 10 | One of the better early Fleischer Studios sound shorts-which is quite a compliment ! | In the 1930s , it was Fleischer Studios which was the most competitive studio to Disney . In fact , the argument can be made that in the very early 1930s ( 1930-31 ) that they were better . This short is an excellent example of what the studio was doing at the time . Because I want to discuss this in some detail , this... |
579,949 | 583,640 | 49,510 | 10 | An Oscar winner and an excellent example of how good use can be made of limited animation | This short , produced by UPA in 1956 , won an Oscar , beating out two other UPA productions to do so . UPA used very limited animation and compensated for the limitations in movement with good scripts , careful selection of voices and by making the best use of animation by making it count . The premise of this short is... |
579,302 | 583,640 | 49,033 | 10 | Absolutely hilarious ! | This is one of the funniest Bugs shorts they ever did . Oddly enough , for an intensely visual cartoon , the funniest bits are mostly verbal in nature . This has some incredibly funny dialogue , particularly Bugs echoing a portion of Elmer's opening harangue calling on Bugs to show himself . Bugs's take on the line and... |
579,015 | 583,640 | 20,640 | 10 | The one Marx Brothers film that MIGHT be better than Duck Soup | This is the one film the Marx Brothers made that someone might be able to covince me is better than Duck Soup-maybe . Excellent script , about as believable a plot as they ever had and just an overall Gem of a movie . It also provided the song with which Groucho was most identified in later years - " Hooray For Captain... |
579,335 | 583,640 | 247,500 | 10 | Haunting and intriguing . | This is a very effective and compelling short that looks a perception , in this case perception through the eyes of children . Using very basic and deceptively simple hand-drawn animation ( incorporating some very entertaining visual tricks along the way ) this tells , in effect , two stories : the story the children s... |
578,810 | 583,640 | 106,446 | 10 | Quite possibly the most unfortunately-timed mid-life crisis ever ! | This short justly won the Academy Award and is probably one of the two short produced by the National Film Board of Canada ( the other is The Cat Came Back ) that most people would have seen than any other work done under their umbrella . Excellent and hilariously funny , particularly Bob's semi-meltdown under circumst... |
578,769 | 583,640 | 38,253 | 10 | Masterful use of the character of Droopy and the running gag . | As the creator of the character , it's understandable that Tex Avery would be best able to utilize him to best effect . Most of the Droopy shorts made after Tex left MGM don't really use the character as effectively , giving him too much dialogue or making him to soft-hearted and without an edge to him . Droopy has tee... |
579,620 | 583,640 | 42,555 | 10 | There is one line I simply have to quote from this little delight ! You are warned ! | This is a delightful cartoon , with hilarious dialogue moreso than visual gags . The squaredance scene alone is worth the price of admission , but my absolute favorite line , one that just busts me up every time . Bugs says to one of the Martins , " And who might you be ? " to which his response is , " I might be Teddy... |
579,325 | 583,640 | 29,422 | 10 | Early Porky cartoon directed by Tex Avery | This cartoon features Porky , who is mistaken for a heavyweight wrestler . There are great sight gags in here ( naturally-this is a Tex Avery ) and some of the best come when everybody in the ring plays " choo-choo " ! This short is a great deal of fun and is well worth hunting up . Originally black and white , it has ... |
579,698 | 583,640 | 107,574 | 10 | In many ways , this is a companion piece to The Man Who Planted Trees . | With all due respect to The Wrong Trousers , The Mighty River should have either shared the Academy Award or won it outright . I'm very fond of and impressed by the Wallace and Grommit short , but The Mighty River , like its subject ( the St . Lawrence River ) is magnificent . It bears a great many similarities to The ... |
579,005 | 583,640 | 236,447 | 10 | Excellent documentary that is engaging and thought-provoking-Warning Potential SPOILER comments | This is an exceptionally well-done and thoughtful documentary on the aftermath of apartheid in South Africa and the rather different " war crimes " tribunel approach they took in South Africa . While I was disappointed that they didn't touch on black-on-black attacks ( anyone who's ever seen the end result of " the nec... |
579,690 | 583,640 | 84,764 | 10 | This must be watched-words do not do it justice ! | The year 1982 saw three shorts nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short . All were excellent and could easily have won . It was the misfortune of The Great Cognito and The Snowman that they were in direct competition with this short . This is so intricately done and so fascinating in its conception and execut... |
579,914 | 583,640 | 81,040 | 10 | A fly's-eye view of the world | This short , an Oscar winner , is an exceptionally detailed effort that can be a bit unsettling at first ( particularly for anyone who has problems with depth-perception ) , but is a fascinatingly drawn and meticulously constructed animation and is a must-see if you like animation . Fortunately , it is currently in-pri... |
579,739 | 583,640 | 44,685 | 10 | I could not disagree more with the Maltin review ! ! ! | Whoever reviewed this film for Maltin's Guide ( I wish they'd indicate who the reviewer is by initials or something . It'd make the book more useful ) does not share my tastes . I personally don't care that it bears no relation to Andersen's life . They admit it up front . Judge a film by itself , not on it's supposed ... |
579,939 | 583,640 | 49,328 | 10 | I love the Humphrey the Bear shorts ! | I just love this series of shorts ! I have no idea why , but I think they're marvelous . Humphrey usually winds up the loser in whatever is going on and the expressions on his face are hilarious . The animation is quite good for 1950s animation and Humphrey and Ranger Woodlore are well developed as characters . Too bad... |
579,960 | 583,640 | 29,339 | 10 | The attention to detail is breathtaking ! | The folks at Disney won an Oscar for this astonishing piece of work and deservedly so ! It's got to be one of the most meticulously done animations I have seen in my life ! The detail work is inspired and it's apparent that a great deal of time , effort and creativity was given to this gem . While it isn't available co... |
579,705 | 583,640 | 106,428 | 10 | Fascinating look at blindness and possibly at perceptions . | This short , nominated for both the BAFTA and the Academy Awards ( deservedly so ) is an excellently executed take on the world of a blind man . The animation , use of color and black and white and sound to create mood is great . Often what one imagines is far more unusual and / or frightening than reality . When you c... |
579,906 | 583,640 | 22,610 | 10 | The most unusual penny arcade ever ! | This is an unusual arcade to say the least ! Interestingly enough , the Fleischers also did a Popeye centering around penny arcades some years later that is considerably different in style and mood from this one . The Betty Boop series as a whole had a much different feel from the Popeye series , which is understandabl... |
579,717 | 583,640 | 94,364 | 10 | A remarkable piece of animation by Bill Plympton | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , is visually exceptional and conceptually wonderful . From what I've seen of his work , it's also one of the most conventionally " normal " pieces he's done ! It's a kick to watch . Plympton is an acquired taste and I seem to have done so . If you like good animation that me... |
579,033 | 583,640 | 49,380 | 10 | Clever , almost cute , cartoon that is almost a textbook example of UPA's work | This short , one of the three UPA shorts nominated for an Academy Award ( a clean sweep for UPA that year ) , is almost the prototypical short for UPA : Limited animation combined with a clever , interesting idea that is fleshed out with a good script that uses the strengths of the animation style to best advantage for... |
579,367 | 583,640 | 220,676 | 10 | For Richard Condie , this is a " normal " short . | If most directors did a cartoon like this , it would probably be the oddest thing they ever did . But for Richard Condie , this is a comparatively normal short ( " comparatively " being the operative word-Condie does nothing " normal " ) whereas everything else I've ever seen is stranger than this within sixty seconds ... |
579,336 | 583,640 | 46,973 | 10 | Not one of Claude's better days , I'd imagine . | This is my favorite of the shorts starring Marc Anthony , though one of the others , Cat Feud , is a better cartoon . Claude Cat is thoroughly unlikeable in this one . He's deceitful , disgraceful and devious and those are his good qualities ! Marc Anthony ( clearly a dog's equivalent to Prince Valiant ) wins out for t... |
579,365 | 583,640 | 36,015 | 10 | Excellent short by a little-known director | This is an excellent cartoon and is one of a handful directed by Norman McCabe , who is not nearly as well known as other Warner Brothers directors , chiefly because he didn't direct for terribly long . Claude Hopper is a very engaging character similar to Disney's Goofy because he was voiced by Pinto Colvig and all of... |
579,644 | 583,640 | 96,273 | 10 | Deservingly won the Academy Award ! | This is an incredible short in many ways ! The computer graphics are great and the storyline is very well-developed and executed brilliantly . This is a most innocently destructive toddler-in other words , a typical baby . As anyone who has spent time in the company of a toddler knows , they are a force of nature not u... |
579,815 | 583,640 | 31,455 | 10 | The best of the myriad different film versions of a most excellent novel | The best of the many versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame , for my money , is this one , although Lon Chaney's is a close second . Despite a Hollywood tendancy to change the novel's ending so as not to depress the cash customers ( although , pray tell , if you're going to change the ending , why does no one ever see... |
579,003 | 583,640 | 47,001 | 10 | Makes Walter Mitty look like an under-achiever ! | Nominated for an Oscar , this cartoon is a takeoff on Walter Mity , with a small boy named Ralph Phillips surpassing Mitty in inventiveness . Thoroughly engaging and extremely hilarious , the situations Ralph imagines are wonderful and so off-beat ( particularly his bout with mathematics ! ) that the cartoon can be wat... |
579,370 | 583,640 | 203,310 | 10 | This is an incredibly strange and unusual cartoon , even for a Richard Condie ! | Richard Condie , under the umbrella of the National Film Board of Canada , does some fairly odd and wonderful work . This one is pretty strange even for Condie ! I am seldom at a loss for words , but trying to describe this one and do it justice is difficult . This airs somewhat frequently on O Canada on the Cartoon Ne... |
579,793 | 583,640 | 22,704 | 10 | Betty saves her " Boop oop a doop " in this one . | They don't come with much more innuendo or double entendre than this one from 1932 . Funny , definitely risque , with Koko as the support here , as well as a most despicable ringmaster , who does just about everything but chase Betty around a desk in this one . Well developed characterizations , especially among the ci... |
579,351 | 583,640 | 88,725 | 10 | A reminder of how good animation can be | This short justifiably won the Academy Award for Animated Short . At turns sad and funny , sweet and cruel and with a marvelous ending , it offers proof that the animated short is still being done well and is still a viable art form . Available on The World's Greatest Animation , anyone who takes animation to their hea... |
579,378 | 583,640 | 35,954 | 10 | Funny , but it helps if you know who Jerry Collona was . | This cartoon ( deservedly nominated for an Oscar ) features a parody of the great Jerry Collona , a radio and motion picture comedian . The title is a play on one of his signature bits ( " Greetings , gate ! Let's osculate ! ) that were his trademarks . Collona was parodied several times by the guys at Termite Terrace ... |
579,973 | 583,640 | 179,011 | 10 | Beautiful piece of work with amazing detail . | This won the Academy Award for Animated Short and it's easy to see why , even in a fairly strong field of nominees . The technical aspects alone would justify the award . It's a visually arresting cartoon . I've seen much less attention to detail in " set decoration " in feature-length live-action films ! But the visua... |
579,630 | 583,640 | 96,450 | 10 | An unexpected jewel found by chance | I bought The Spike and Mike Festival of Animation , Vol . 1 for other shorts that were on the cassette . I got better than I thought , as there were several shorts on there that would have been worth getting the tape in and of themselves , including this one . I can't say a great deal about it directly , save that Pete... |
579,640 | 583,640 | 73,312 | 10 | One of Woody Allen's most entertaining and amusing comedies | Woody Allen films fall into different categories-his early films verge on slapstick while still being bitingly satirical ( Sleeper , Bananas , Play It Again , Sam , among others ) while his later works generally fall into one of two categories : contemporary social satire or nostalgic period pieces , generally set in t... |
579,555 | 583,640 | 107,688 | 10 | Textbook example proving the old adage , " The grass is always greener in someone else's yard . " | This film , while far from Burton's masterpiece , is a delightful musical that in the end shows that , sometimes , we have things far better than we think we do and the other side of the fence sometimes looks better just because it's different , but that doesn't make necessarily wise to pursue someone else's dream beca... |
579,907 | 583,640 | 22,667 | 10 | I'd vote for her any day ! | This is a wonderful mix of satire and the strangeness that could be found in the best of the early Fleischer shorts , particularly Betty Boop cartoons . A knowledge of 1930s politics helps with some of the jokes , but it's funny even if you don't know who Herbert Hoover or FDR were . These shorts are exceptionally fine... |
579,026 | 583,640 | 179,025 | 10 | This PBS series got me hooked on animation ! | This series ran for three seasons on PBS and , like the overwhelming majority of the shows produced for that network , was of excellent quality and had to have been assembled by people who had a love for the subject matter . The shorts that ran on the series ran the gamut from deathly serious ones like Sisyphus ( a Hun... |
579,821 | 583,640 | 84,868 | 10 | I would love to have been a spider on the ceiling when they screened this for upper management at Disney ! | Every time I watch this short , it reminds me of a cross between the old Ralph Phillips cartoons that Warner Brothers did and the comic strip The Far Side . I suspect that management at Disney were a bit unsettled by this one when they first saw the finished work . Here there be spoilers : Vincent Malloy is a boy with ... |
579,097 | 583,640 | 64,504 | 10 | Why isn't this available on VHS or DVD ? | This is one of Disney's better efforts ( which is quite a compliment ! ) This shows up occasionally on The Ink and Paint Club , but I think that Disney ( and the public ) would be well-served if this and some of their other shorts were released in a compilation . This is an excellent example of combining animation with... |
579,262 | 583,640 | 48,985 | 10 | An absolutely hilarious short from beginning to end , with a funny premise | This is one of my favorite Bugs Bunny shorts , which deftly illustrates one of Chuck Jones's rules for his Bugs cartoons , which was that Bugs should never go after anyone for no good reason-he has to be the aggrieved party first in some way and merely evening the score with a bad guy . Because I want to discuss some o... |
579,347 | 583,640 | 96,438 | 10 | One of the best , if not the best , animated features of all time | I absolutely love animation ( not to be confused with anime ) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? is my favorite . With Disney and Warner Brothers characters appearing in the same film for the first time , and Betty Boop weighing in as well , that would be enough . But there is also a new cast of animateds in addition-Roger ... |
579,791 | 583,640 | 22,758 | 10 | The most unusual chess match since Through the Looking Glass | This short is one of the most eccentric cartoons the Fleischer Brothers ever did ! It opens with two men at a chess board , apparently playing a match and then turns its focus onto the pieces for the most bizarre game of chess played since Lewis Carroll penned Through the Looking Glass ! Very odd , even for a Betty Boo... |
579,290 | 583,640 | 47,097 | 10 | Heavier than usual on funny dialogue , but still lots of sight gags . ( Possible spoilers ) | I had to do a comment on this cartoon , ma'am-it's the law of the West ! Besides , today I celebrate the seventh anniversary of my moving into my current little cubbyhole I call home and it's appropriate for the day . Tex Avery had several different wolf characters-the urbane yet lecherous wolf ( or just plain lecherou... |
579,352 | 583,640 | 88,805 | 10 | Yet another masterpiece from the inimitable Richard Condie | This short was nominated for an Academy Award , losing to Anna and Bella . Not since Doctor Strangelove has nuclear war been so hilarious ! Condie takes a situation and turns it on its ear and then gives it a spin for good measure . Visual gags abound in Condie's work and I always see something I missed before every ti... |
578,887 | 583,640 | 40,218 | 10 | A Tex Avery masterpiece ! | This is truly one of the greatest animated shorts Avery ever did and one of the best of all time . Virtually every corny sight gag Avery could think of was shoehorned in here . The moon was far more loony here than Armstrong , Aldrin or any of the other astronauts found on their visits and the cat here finds the truth ... |
579,258 | 583,640 | 281,010 | 10 | Marvelous documentary about Ladysmith Black Mambazo , its music and the strength of the human heart and spirit . | This documentary , nominated for an Oscar , tells the story of Ladysmith Black Mambazo , the South African singing group that gained much acclaim worldwide after Paul Simon incorporated their sound and music on his " Graceland " album . At the time , what Simon did was controversial , as it was viewed by opponents of a... |
579,096 | 583,640 | 71,337 | 10 | A very worthy example of Claymation | This cartoon , an Academy Award winner for Animated Short , is one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking cartoons I've seen in my life . I wish that it was available on VHS ( or even DVD ) . Will Vinton ( who gave us the California Raisins ) co-directed and this is one of at least three shorts of his that was n... |
579,122 | 583,640 | 26,706 | 10 | Exceptional sight gags in a technically well-executed short that's also funny ! | Just about every studio has seen the visual possibilities inherent in doing cartoons involving firemen and fires . This is one of the early ones and it works exceedingly well . While I don't know that they started here , a number of the standard gags are here and they work to perfection . Disney was basically firing on... |
579,602 | 583,640 | 42,270 | 10 | In my opinion , the best Daffy-Porky teaming | This cartoon is one of the funnier ones WB made and it worked better than most of the others that Daffy and Porky made together , with the Duck Dodgers cartoons and one or two others right up with it as far as humor . Porky holds his own quite well with Daffy , who tends to be a bit overbearing . I really would like to... |
579,127 | 583,640 | 29,161 | 10 | Disney's terrific trio ! | This is a visual treat from start to finish , with some great jokes as well ! Look quite closely at the " ghost catching " equipment and you may wonder just how it is that they expect to catch ghosts with most of it-create some , perhaps , but catch ? Highly unlikely , it seems to me . Mickey , Donald and Goofy are thr... |
579,929 | 583,640 | 53,909 | 10 | Excellent use of classical music and a very amusing concept | This short , nominated for an Oscar , is one of Chuck Jones's best . You'll never hear The Blue Danube in the same way again . Extremely creative joining of animation and music . One slight correction of another comment on this short : I know I saw this short on television prior to 1977 , because I saw it for the first... |
579,615 | 583,640 | 48,292 | 10 | A masterpiece and in my opinion the best short Tex Avery ever made ! | Tex Avery was the best director of cartoon shorts , certainly in the Golden Age and probably ever . In my opinion , The Legend of Rockabye Point is his best short in a long , distinguished career . t's nominally a Chilly Willy cartoon , but the primary focus is not Chilly , but a polar bear named Charlie and a bulldog ... |
579,971 | 583,640 | 29,151 | 10 | Beautifully crafted short all the more remarkable for the studio that did such exceptional work here . | Charles Mintz saw gold in them there cartoons and thus jettisoned Walt Disney and the contractual relationship they had to start in-house production and make ( he thought ) even more for himself . But Mintz had a gourmand's palate without the imagination or financial willingness to feed such tastes . Columbia was rarel... |
579,476 | 583,640 | 26,748 | 10 | Excellent and quite novel use of music in this short . | Watching this short , I as struck by several points : first , that the " voices " of the various characters were the notes played by the instrument in question . Second , they actually " converse " in musical phrases with each other ( surely by design , rather than by accident ) throughout the cartoon . Third , Jazz an... |
579,688 | 583,640 | 84,023 | 10 | This short fires visuals at the viewer rapidly from the beginning | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , is a marvelous example of just how far one can take stop-motion Claymation . The visuals come at you quite fast and furious over what is a very brief cartoon and it's one of Will Vinton's best efforts . Fortunately , it's available ( along with quite a few other shorts ) on... |
579,235 | 583,640 | 123,860 | 10 | Marvelous , quite mad and twisted ! More , please ! | Although I shudder to think what this says about me , I love this short ! In my own defense , let me also state that I loved The Man Who Planted Trees ( what that apparent dichotomy says , who knows ? Who cares ? ) and I'm a prince of a fellow currently in frog mode . But I digress . A poor rabbit finds himself trapped... |
579,641 | 583,640 | 99,696 | 10 | A wry and telling commentary on mankind and it's history . | This short , nominated for the Academy Award , is a sardonic look at history and effectively makes a few points about the ultimate realities and who the victors really are . Very well done and well worth the effort to get . Fortunately in print currently . Most highly recommended . |
579,918 | 583,640 | 75,273 | 10 | An exceptional short prduced by the National Film Board of Canada | This short , nominated for an Academy Award , ( I'm surprised it lost , though I've never seen the winner , as far as I know ) is a funny , sad , sweet look at life through the eyes of a child growing up in Canada . An excellent adaptation ( by the author ) of a story by Mordecai Richter and yet another feather in the ... |
579,323 | 583,640 | 42,330 | 10 | Sight gags all through this one and very funny ones too | This short , as is usually the case with a Droopy directed by Tex Avery , is heavy with sight gags ( the ones with another director , particularly by Dick Lundy , were more driven by dialogue than Avery's were ) , although dialogue is more in evidence here than is normal in a Tex Avery short . Generally speaking , in a... |
579,355 | 583,640 | 15,864 | 10 | One of the all-time classics ! | If anyone doubts that Charlie Chaplin was one of the funniest comedians ever or that silent films did not require acting ability , t you a commend this film , as well as City Lights . Modern Times isn't , strictly speaking , a silent film , although Chaplin had no dialogue there . The Gold Rush , while not Chaplin's be... |
579,297 | 583,640 | 42,358 | 10 | Typical Avery , with the germ of an idea used more fully in a later short . | This short is typical Avery , with lots of sight gags and a hilarious premise . But Avery plays around with a series of gags that take expressions of speech and depict them literally in visual gags , an idea he would use to base an entire short on later with Symphony in Slang . Cute cartoon , not terribly innovative , ... |
579,704 | 583,640 | 110,547 | 10 | Odd , energetic and engaging short with a perfect ending ! | This has got to be one of the oddest cartoons I've seen in my life ! With little to no dialogue , the animation and background artwork have to carry this one and do so superbly . The action is engaging , if not almost hypnotic at times and there is a plot , though it takes a bit to catch on . The ending is simply perfe... |
579,375 | 583,640 | 163,175 | 10 | Excellent combining of live-action and animation | This cartoon effectively combines live-action footage with animation in a very funny but also thoughtful short . It explores desires and dissatisfaction on two very different sides of an atypical fence as an ambitious " toon " has a job interview with a bored and vaguely unhappy " human " and concludes with an entertai... |
579,732 | 583,640 | 46,250 | 10 | sigh Audrey Hepburn sigh ! ! ! | I could just write my one line summary over and over again , but that would make for a rather dull comment , so I won't ( stop cheering in the balcony ! ) . In addition to the wonderful Ms . Hepburn , Gregory Peck does his typically superb job and Eddie Albert turns in a delightful ( but no doubt painful , for him ) pe... |
579,083 | 583,640 | 52,139 | 10 | One of the best pairings of Daffy and Porky and absolutely hilarious ! | This short is an extremely funny teaming of Daffy with Porky as his " straight man " ( with Porky's antics the cause of a lot of the funniest bits ) . I have to talk about something specific in the short , so let this be my spoiler warning : Any cartoon where Porky Pig sings the first verse of " Barbara Allen " is one ... |
579,600 | 583,640 | 73,068 | 10 | Very aptly titled | Great is , quite simply , great ! A funny , warm , poignant look a real-life builder named Isambard Kingdom Brunel . I wish it was in-print . It's a masterwork . It deserves better than to languish in an obscurity it most definitely does not deserve . |
579,393 | 583,640 | 31,227 | 10 | First of many " travelogue " cartoons | Back when Tex Avery first did this cartoon , studios regularly produced short subjects in abundance . One of the most frequent and popular types was the " travelogue " which Avery so effectively nails here . The same droning voice-over and cutesy style used here without that big a stretch for parody's sake . Tex Avery ... |
579,287 | 583,640 | 40,515 | 10 | The enemy of my enemy is my friend . | Tom can't seem to catch a break-he not only has Jerry to chase ( difficult in and of itself , as witness his monumental failure rate ) , but a little yellow bird sticks his beak in matters at the most inopportune ( for Tom ) moments . An important object lesson is taught to the two allies at a point of seeming success ... |
579,726 | 583,640 | 153,448 | 10 | Why wasn't this nominated for an Academy Award ? | The failure of AMPAS to nominate this cartoon for an Oscar is unbelievable ! Granted , it was a good year for animated shorts and a good year particularly for UPA-Columbia , but this cartoon is simply delightful ! Written by James Thurber and animated in Thurber's artistic style , it is his world come to life ! If you ... |
417,070 | 663,392 | 431,114 | 1 | Seagal Gets Double Crossed ! | Stephen Seagal plays the role of a dude who gets talked into driving an armored car for a bank hold up and drives into everything that comes across his path . However , the police seem to appear on the scene very quickly and Seagal smells a rat who gave the police advanced notice . The story gets into many twists and t... |
417,556 | 663,392 | 295,254 | 1 | Thought It Was Going to Be Better than This | Thought this just might be a great picture concerning a mystery murder involved with the Internet and was sadly disappointed as the film progressed to go down hill . Stephen Dorff , ( Detective Mike Reilly ) , " Alone in the Park " , was finally convinced that what he thought was the death of many young girls was a ill... |
416,390 | 663,392 | 83,661 | 1 | Poor Virgins | Always enjoy Horror films over the years , going back to Boris Karloff , Vincent Price and Bela Lugosi ; however , this film is a far cry from anything with horror through out this picture . James Earl Jones , ( Frye ) played the role of a tricky dude with a very hot sexy girl friend and plenty of secrets he performed ... |
417,066 | 663,392 | 372,832 | 1 | Complete Waste of Good Time | Like to view most of Michael Rooker's films , in this particular film he plays a real tough and ready for action Captain in the U . S . Army , and has a few gals and guys with him trying to find out just who is murdering all these people in a certain wooded area of the country . All of these civilians and some soldiers... |
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