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454,239 | 11,228,318 | 217,234 | 5 | Admiral Cigarette is another fascinating document of early motion picture history | Once again , the Internet Archive site has some of the most historically fascinating pieces of film that dates back to the beginning of motion pictures themselves ! The title is also the name of the product that's blatantly advertised on both a billboard that's the background of four men sitting on a bench having a con... |
453,991 | 11,228,318 | 699,567 | 5 | This edition of " Shindig ! " with guest co-host Boris Karloff was a fascinating find from YouTube | Coutesy of the Classic Television Showbiz site , I discovered this rare " Shindig ! " entry from the YouTube one . It's the Halloween edition from 1965 with Boris Karloff as the guest co-host to regular host Jimmy O'Neill with special guest star Ted Cassidy who appears as both himself and as his " Addams Family " chara... |
455,256 | 11,228,318 | 20,447 | 5 | Bessie Smith is the whole show in St . Louis Blues | In continuing to review the film accomplishments of African-Americans on film in chronological order for Black History Month , we're now at the start of the talkies . St . Louis Blues is the only film appearance of the legendary singer Bessie Smith . As an excuse to warble the classic W . C . Handy-composed song that's... |
454,418 | 11,228,318 | 416,449 | 5 | 300 was a mildly interesting epic to me | In the interest of full disclosure , I must admit I fell asleep during some of the battle scenes ( or maybe during the preparation of said scenes ) . I did stay alert when the son of one of the soldiers was killed . The scenes I really loved , however , were the ones with the mother queen , Lena Headey , especially whe... |
455,113 | 11,228,318 | 25,947 | 5 | Viva Buddy provides some amusements of the usually bland leading character | This is another Leon Schlesinger / Looney Tunes cartoon from the ' 30s that starred perhaps the blandest character that Warner Bros . ever had in their roster : Buddy . Here , he's in , I guess , Mexico playing a Latin American-flavored tune while we encounter many , I'm thinking , stereotypes of the era including a Wa... |
453,752 | 11,228,318 | 22,059 | 5 | Laughing Sinners is interesting as first teaming of Crawford and Gable | Laughing Sinners marks the first time Clark Gable appeared in a movie starring Joan Crawford . Crawford is the only name above the title and Gable is listed third in the cast list after Neil Hamilton ( who would be better known as Commissioner Gordon in the " Batman " TV series ) . Crawford is a singer / dancer who fal... |
454,031 | 11,228,318 | 76,929 | 5 | Wizards has an interesting premise but partially boring execution | Maybe it was because I saw this while staying up really late but I found Wizards boring after a while and a little confused as a result . Having said that , I did like some of the humor presented here , my favorite being the " They killed Fritz ! " segment that I recognized as Ralph Bakshi's reaction to Robert Crumb's ... |
453,793 | 11,228,318 | 150,653 | 5 | From Dime to Dime was another Paramount Modern Madcap that I just watched on YouTube | Just watched on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew what was another Paramount Modern Madcap called From Dime to Dime . In this one , a poor man finds a dime on a sidewalk and decides to get a cup of coffee at a diner . It's here that his conscience tells him to use it to gamble on a slot machine . From there , the guy... |
454,021 | 11,228,318 | 204,902 | 5 | Black Diamond Express is a fascinating piece of early cinema from Thomas Edison | Just watched this very brief depiction of a train coming as railroad workers striking on tracks start to leave as the locomotive comes nearer . At only 26 seconds , at least that was the length on Internet Archive , this was another fascinating document from the nineteenth century as captured on film from The Edison Co... |
454,080 | 11,228,318 | 67,169 | 5 | Guru , the Mad Monk was a pretty entertaining bad B-movie | I just went on Google Video to watch this , one of a double feature presented on Torgo's Drive-In ( the other feature being I Drink Your Blood which I have yet to see ) . At 56 minutes , I found this Andy Milligan-directed horror movie fascinating with the constant pounding score and Dragnet-like stilted dialogue aboun... |
455,171 | 11,228,318 | 952,640 | 5 | Alvin and the Chipmunks was an okay live-action update on ' 50s cartoon characters | After a month of purposely deciding NOT to watch this movie , I finally decided to humor my friend and see this update on Ross Bagdasarian , Snr . ' s , creations from fifty years ago . There were pretty funny scenes when they surprised Dave in the beginning and a hilarious one when their manager , Ian ( David Cross ) ... |
454,066 | 11,228,318 | 71,548 | 5 | TV movie Get Christie Love ! is interesting for historical purposes | Based on the book , " The Ledger " , Get Christie Love was the first time a black female portrayed a detective on network TV . Teresa Graves is adequately compelling as the cop with some attitude whose superior , Captain Reardon ( Harry Guardino ) , has a major open flirtation with her that she seems to occasionally en... |
454,589 | 11,228,318 | 16,593 | 5 | Walt Disney's Alice's Mysterious Mystery is amusing | Since someone has already written a summary I'll just mention a few gags . At the beginning when we see the mouse and his boss riding in their car , they ride over smoke that came from the exhaust pipe ! The boss himself juggles smoke from his cigar . When they go to the school to get some dogs , they trick them inside... |
454,274 | 11,228,318 | 16,367 | 5 | Soda Jerks was an interesting Mutt and Jeff cartoon I saw on YouTube | In this silent Mutt and Jeff cartoon , Jeff puts some pep liquid instead of the usual syrup in the sodas that Mutt serves to the customers in the malt shop . As a result , they all jump up and down and act a little more enthusiastic than usual going outside . Eventually when Mutt forces the drink on Jeff , Jeff manages... |
454,967 | 11,228,318 | 1,131,283 | 5 | Homecoming is a little amusing first episode of " Miss Guided " | Having seen Judy Greer in movies like 13 Going on 30 , 27 Dresses , and TV shows like " Arrested Development " , " Love Monkey " , and " Two and a Half Men " , I was anxious to see her in her first starring role in the TV series " Miss Guided " . Here , she plays Becky Freeley , a former student at the high school she ... |
454,527 | 11,228,318 | 762,114 | 5 | Lincense to Wed has some hilarity thanks to a supporting player from TV's " The Office " | Having read many negative movie critic's reviews of this movie , Lincense to Wed , I really wasn't expecting much . Still , since Robin Williams was the star , I expected some laughs . To me , his performance as the priest who wants to make sure the couple - about - to - marry - in - three - weeks , Mandy Moore and Joh... |
454,378 | 11,228,318 | 31,668 | 5 | Moon Over Harlem marks Edgar G . Ulmer's rare foray into " race movies " | From director Edgar G . Ulmer came this , his rare foray in " race movies " , Moon Over Harlem . The story , about a rich widow who unknowingly marries a gangster to the consternation of her daughter , is the kind that already seemed old hat in 1939 , though Ulmer does the best he could under the circumstances with the... |
454,883 | 11,228,318 | 20,620 | 5 | Abraham Lincoln is interesting early Griffith talkie | Abraham Lincoln is D . W . Griffith's first sound film . Since this movie is only 92 minutes , it seems to divide Lincoln's life-from birth to his assassination-into fragments that are too short and hardly flow from one sequence to another . The saving grace is Walter Huston as the title character especially in a speec... |
455,151 | 11,228,318 | 22,528 | 5 | Ups ' n Downs is another interesting early Bosko short | Watched this Bosko short on YouTube and I agree with the previous poster that this was amusing and nothing more . Best sequence was indeed the hot dogs dancing without a care despite their intended purpose ! The " Mammy and Sonny Boy " gag may be pretty obscure for anyone who doesn't know Al Jolson , otherwise it may b... |
454,401 | 11,228,318 | 42,512 | 5 | Golden Yeggs is a somewhat disappointing Porky and Daffy short | This is the rare Porky and Daffy cartoon in which the two characters don't communicate much , in fact , Porky just appears in the beginning as a farmer who asks which of his hens laid the golden egg . The actual hen , knowing how the last one that did this ended badly , points to Daffy . Daffy accepts the undeserved cr... |
455,108 | 11,228,318 | 150,846 | 5 | Harry Happy was a fascinating late-era Paramount cartoon | Just watched this Paramount Modern Madcap cartoon on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . In this one , the title character has a bad day at work but is nice to all the people on the way home despite the treatment he gets ( he lets a lady on a bus and then watches other passersby stomp on him as they go ahead of him ,... |
454,283 | 11,228,318 | 49,128 | 5 | Roger Corman's Day the World Ended is interesting ' 50s sci-fi fare | Day the World Ended was producer / director Roger Corman's first sci-fi effort for James H . Nicholson and Samuel Z . Arkoff's American International Pictures . It centers on a house in a forest of a father and grown daughter that also borders a geologist , a gangster and his strip-tease girlfriend , an old gold prospe... |
454,624 | 11,228,318 | 150,814 | 5 | Halloween is a Toby the Pup cartoon that had an imperfect transfer on YouTube | Originally written / 07-Halloween is a weird Toby the Pup cartoon from the Charles Mintz studio . Unfortunately , what I saw on YouTube was a technical mess . First off , the soundtrack somehow went ahead of some of the frames . Then for the last 3 or so minutes , there is no sound . So it's hard for me to be real obje... |
453,965 | 11,228,318 | 22,716 | 5 | Bosko's Woodland Daze is slightly less entertaining than other Boskos | This Bosko short meanders a little more than usual compared to many of the other shorts in the series as it begins with him and his dog Bruno playing Hide and Seek . Bosko then dreams he's with elves along with a giant and a giant piano that he easily plays with his hands and feet ! There's also some princesses in flow... |
454,061 | 11,228,318 | 161,338 | 5 | The Busy Bee is a Terrytoons short from the ' 30s | As many insects happily go to work , a working bee sings and declares his love for a butterfly . A spider from a tree above who's jealous of the bee takes the butterfly and kidnaps her to a wooden place that he surrounds with his web . The bee gets help in rescuing his girlfriend from some horseradish flies ( which are... |
454,698 | 11,228,318 | 95,652 | 6 | George A . Romero's Monkey Shines is interesting horror film mixing handicaps with animals | George A . Romero's Monkey Shines is a pretty interesting horror movie about a monkey's sharing a mind with a paraplegic law student named Allan ( Jason Beghe ) . Nice score by David Shire with wonderful use of Peggy Lee songs throughout . It almost loses steam at the end but there's a wonderful shock involving the mon... |
454,837 | 11,228,318 | 13,149 | 6 | The Four Musicians of Bremen is another of Disney's earliest cartoons | According to the IMDb list of Walt Disney's directorial achievements , this was the second earliest animated short he ever made ( the first being Little Red Riding Hood ) . In this Laugh-O-Gram , we see four animals running from bricks being thrown after them by humans . The last of them , a cat , keeps appearing and d... |
454,011 | 11,228,318 | 72,623 | 6 | Oh , Alfie ! ( or Alfie Darling ) provides some nice distraction for an hour and a half | In this in-name-only sequel to Michael Caine's Alfie ( 1966 ) , musician Alan Price ( of The Animals ) takes over the title role in Oh , Alfie ! ( alternate title to Alfie Darling ) He's not bad and neither is Jill Townsend as Abby Summers , a magazine editor who has trouble taking time off for dating Alfie but somehow... |
454,946 | 11,228,318 | 23,889 | 6 | Pals ( or Christmas Night ) was an amusing Van Beuren cartoon starring The Little King | Just rewatched this cartoon from the Van Beuren Studios on YouTube . The version I saw had the title Christmas Night which was the same title I witnessed when I first got this on VHS during the ' 80s . It stars The Little King , a popular comic strip character who is mute though other characters occasionally speak to h... |
453,887 | 11,228,318 | 17,544 | 6 | When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam ' is interesting early sound Song Cartune | The version of this Max Fleischer Song Cartune I saw on Google Video ended when the song did so there was no final gag animation that I'm used to seeing on others made during the ' 30s . The only animation I saw here was when the conductor said , " All aboard ! " with a long line of passengers quickly filing in . Then ... |
454,997 | 11,228,318 | 887,570 | 6 | The Plastic Blaster is a good episode of Ralph Bakshi's The Mighty Heroes | In the late ' 60s when Terrytoons was a part of CBS , Ralph Bakshi got a big break when he pitched a cartoon series that spoofed superhero groups . The Mighty Heroes was the result . The lineup consisted of Strong Man , Rope Man , Tornado Man , Cukoo Man , and Diaper Man . In this episode , the villain is called The Ra... |
454,854 | 11,228,318 | 493,430 | 6 | Jackass Number Two is almost as disgusting ( and amusing ) as One | My friend who recently celebrated his birthday ( see my Invincible review ) asked if I'd like to see Jackass Number Two . Since it would be with his sisters , their boyfriends , and the son of one of them and we'd eat at a nearby Mexican restaurant beforehand , I said sure . Now I'd seen the first Jackass which I found... |
454,483 | 11,228,318 | 23,832 | 6 | Bosko the Sheep-Herder should be interesting enough for anyone interested in early Warner cartoon era | Since a previous reviewer mentioned some of the gags , let me see if I can describe some he missed like when a bunch of sheep started eating the grass in unison as if they were a lawnmower . Or when a squirrel has trouble eating a whole nut and Bosko has said squirrel's head get touched by him to force the nut into sev... |
454,729 | 11,228,318 | 33,121 | 6 | Swing Social is entertaining if a little politically incorrect | In this politically incorrect cartoon from 1940 , a black preacher on Sunday has caught a black fisherman not going to church . He then tells of why black fish don't bite on the sabbath as we are treated to a musical sequence of Negro fish singing about the devil and what he represents and how to defeat him . I suppose... |
454,315 | 11,228,318 | 26,154 | 6 | Buddy's Pony Express was another pretty amusing Buddy cartoon | This is another cartoon from Warner Bros . that stars forgotten character Buddy with his girlfriend Cookie . This time they're in the old west with Buddy playing the piano while Cookie sings . After that interlude , there's an announcement of a horse race called the Pony Express . But the villain who looks like Disney'... |
453,986 | 11,228,318 | 151,825 | 6 | Olive Oyl for President was another vintage cartoon I decided to watch this Election Day | On this Election Day , I thought I'd look at some vintage cartoons that had popular characters running or dreaming of such . Having just watched Betty Boop for President , I checked this out from ThadBlog right after . With the same voice talent ( Mae Questel ) and some of the same music from the previous black-and-whi... |
453,786 | 11,228,318 | 149,680 | 6 | Another Day , Another Doormat is an interesting Terrytoons cartoon from the Deitch era | Just watched this Gene Deitch-era Terrytoon cartoon designed by Jules Feiffer on YouTube . In this one , a man named John Doormat is henpecked by his nagging wife Jane especially when he smokes pipes at the table . However , when he goes to work , he becomes an aggressive boss who roars at his employees . When he finds... |
454,565 | 11,228,318 | 147,511 | 6 | Small Town Sheriff is interesting for some weird images that appear in this Paul Terry cartoon | This was one of Paul Terry's Aesop Fables cartoons he made during the silent era . In this one , Farmer Al Falfa's car breaks down while a cat in a speakeasy is selling alcoholic beverages to a mouse ( who quickly passes out ) and an elephant ( whose mouth goes on fire which the cat douses with his seltzer bottle while... |
454,352 | 11,228,318 | 28,323 | 6 | Sunday Go to Meetin ' Time is one of the Censored 11 that has some entertainment value | This was the second , in chronological order , of the Censored 11 Warner Bros . cartoons I've watched on Thad's Animation Blog . Sunday Go to Meetin ' Time has the stereotypical drawn caricature of African-Americans with big white lips as well as the Stepin ' Fetchit prototype in leading character Nicodemus . A really ... |
453,749 | 11,228,318 | 812,748 | 6 | I Married Joan : The Allergy is silly but amusing | Judge Stevens is running for Surperior Court against Judge Casper Bennington . Since Bennington makes it public how happy he is married to his wife , Steven's publicist wants Joan and Brad to look even more happy in public . At this time , however , Joan seems to be developing an allergy to her husband so Brad initiall... |
454,948 | 11,228,318 | 660,859 | 6 | The Last Laurel was pretty good filler as the last segment of " Night Gallery " | Airing in the same hour as " They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar " , " The Last Laurel " is the shorter segment of " Night Gallery " . It stars Jack Cassidy as Marius Davis , a man who's paralyzed from the legs with a bad back who suspects his wife of having an affair with his doctor . When a collapsed bridge forces t... |
454,632 | 11,228,318 | 142,894 | 6 | The Tail of the Monkey was an interesting look at some early silent Lantz | Here's another Walter Lantz cartoon short I found on the CartoonsOnFilm blog . In this one , which he co-directed with David Hand , Lantz plays an organ grinder whose monkey steals a girl's lollipop in the live-action sequences . To keep the girl from crying , the organ grinder tells of why the monkey keeps moving his ... |
454,099 | 11,228,318 | 400,717 | 6 | Open Season is amusing enough for anyone who loves animation | Martin Lawrence voices a domesticated bear and Ashton Kutcher voices a hyperactive deer . They cause havoc at a closed convenience store in Timberline and are sent back to the woods . When open season begins , they defend themselves against hunters , especially a bloodthirsty one voiced by Gary Sinise , with the help o... |
453,813 | 11,228,318 | 141,008 | 6 | Feline Follies is interesting as Felix's first appearance | In what was the earliest appearance of Felix the Cat , Feline Follies , he is called Master Tom and is more cat-like here than in most of his subsequent appearances . In this one , he's a house cat guarding some mice in the kitchen . When he gets away for awhile to rendezvous with his girlfriend , the mice make a mess ... |
454,361 | 11,228,318 | 142,925 | 6 | Towne Hall Follies is a Walter Lantz Oswald cartoon with some hilarious touches from animator Tex Avery | I found this rare Walter Lantz Oswald cartoon with some animation by Tex Avery on David Germain's animation blog on his tribute to Avery's 100th birthday . It's basically a stage slide show / vaudeville revue that features a female singer who gets chased by the villain before the Lucky Rabbit saves her and gets her lov... |
454,209 | 11,228,318 | 1,054,846 | 6 | Kindred is a slow-moving but still intriguing episode of " Heroes " | Claire apologizes for her argument with her dad in the previous episode . He accepts . At school , she tells West , the boy who watched her cut her toe , that she was just fixing her nails . He doesn't believe and asks her why she can't be who she really is . Claire leaves to go to class . In 17th century Japan , Takez... |
453,753 | 11,228,318 | 26,198 | 6 | Charlie Chan in Paris is slow but enjoyable mystery | Charlie Chan in Paris is the second Warner Oland entry I've seen , the first was Charlie Chan at the Opera some twenty years before . The movie seemed a bit slow going at first but as the picture went on that pace seemed to work in its favor . Charlie goes to the French city , ostensibly on vacation , to visit a son of... |
453,871 | 11,228,318 | 147,123 | 6 | Opening Night is amusing pre-Code cartoon | We see Santa and his reindeer up in the night sky with Santa opening his bag . Stars come out which form the word Roxy lighting the theater's opening night . Cubby Bear is not allowed in the crowded entrance so he takes a top hat and has it push him up to where the Roxy control room is . He comes to another room , find... |
454,695 | 11,228,318 | 897,448 | 6 | Dial M for Laptop is another amusing episode of Andy Barker P . I . | Andy has been working on his father-in-law's ( David Huddleston ) tax return on the night before it's due . Just as he's about to finish , some men take his computer out in exchange for some " dirty " photos of a former client of Lew's . Turns out Lew forgot to inform Andy about all this . Now Andy vows to get his lapt... |
454,544 | 11,228,318 | 654,740 | 6 | My Little Margie : Missing Link should be amusing for early ' 50s sitcom fans | Margie goes to her father's loan company to borrow some money so she can invest wisely . She then accidentally buys a wrestler ! Vern , her father , is not too thrilled with Margie's investment . The wrestler threatens anyone who gets angry with ( her father ) or kisses ( boyfriend Freddie ) Margie . He later reveals t... |
454,208 | 11,228,318 | 21,701 | 6 | A different-voiced Betty Boop is the highlight of The Bum Bandit | Just saw this on YouTube . Bimbo tries to rob a train but is stopped by his wife , Nan McGroo , played with dog ears by Betty Boop in only her fourth appearance . She has a much tougher voice here than the more sweet one associated with Mae Questel . Typical early Max and Dave Fleischer talkie with plenty of amusing ga... |
454,455 | 11,228,318 | 41,513 | 6 | Intruder in the Dust was somewhat interesting to me | Having read the William Faulkner novel and now seen the movie version twice , I have to admit Intruder in the Dust leaves me a little underwhelmed . Perhaps it's the lack of real tension as well as that of a music score ( though it's interesting that a movie made in the late ' 40s would-except for the beginning and end... |
453,743 | 11,228,318 | 19,714 | 6 | Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid is interesting pilot for Warner Bros . cartoon series | Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid is Hugh Harmon and Rudy Ising's pilot film for an animated series they were shopping to various studios after working on the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts for Disney and Mintz . Independent producer Leon Schlesinger accepted the pilot and commissioned a series of Bosko Looney Tunes shorts for di... |
453,966 | 11,228,318 | 21,687 | 6 | Bosko the Doughboy is partly grim / partly funny | Bosko the Doughboy is a bit more grim than usual and since the previous reviewer discussed the short in much detail , I'll mention some gags that haven't been discussed yet . Like the one where the bullets take some of the body of another soldier to make him much smaller instead of killing him . Or the one where after ... |
454,867 | 11,228,318 | 151,770 | 6 | No Place Like Rome is another one of those sing-a-long cartoons Famous Studios is known for | This was a Famous Studios Song Kartune ( though this version has the Harveytoons logo ) that I just watched on YouTube . It all takes place in Italy with various amusing gags concerning the country's shape ( the obvious boot and foot one ) , the Leaning Tower of Pisa ( where people going in come out in a different posi... |
454,193 | 11,228,318 | 21,689 | 6 | Bosko's Holiday is an okay cartoon with some inventive gags | Since the previous reviewer and the summary mentioned some of the gags and the story , I'll mentioned some that haven't been discussed yet . Like the one where Bosko summons someone from a big doghouse . Out comes not a dog but a car with a personality of its own with some little car children following him before Bosko... |
453,955 | 11,228,318 | 126,048 | 6 | So You Want to Be a Detective was my first look at the shorts series character Joe McDoakes | On the Matinée at the Bijou site , there was an article about a series of short films that featured a character named Joe McDoakes . George O'Hanlon-later known as the voice of George Jetson on Hanna-Barbera's " The Jetsons " - played this character . In this version , he becomes private eye Philip Snarlow as he and na... |
454,182 | 11,228,318 | 4,189 | 6 | Kid Auto Races in Venice is interesting first look at Chaplin's Tramp character | Kid Auto Races in Venice is historical in that it marks Charlie Chaplin's first appearance as The Tramp . In this short film , The Tramp is a spectator in a soap box derby race that is being filmed . Throughout the short , Charlie keeps getting in front of the camera and getting pushed off by either the cameraman or ot... |
453,765 | 11,228,318 | 151,799 | 6 | Of Mice and Menace is an amusingly violent cartoon from Famous Studios | This is a Herman and Katnip cartoon made for Famous Studios during this time . Herman the mouse brings his cousins ( or nephews ) to the penny arcade by sitting on the trunk of a moving car . Katnip the cat is discovered sleeping on one of the machines . Herman gets some balloons and has the cat floating away through a... |
453,931 | 11,228,318 | 1,029,440 | 6 | Madame Tutli-Putli is imagination run amok for an acquired taste | Madame Tutli-Putli is one of five Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short of 2007 . I saw this Canadian effort on a link from Cartoon Brew . It basically tells , in silent form with luminous musical scoring throughout , a story of a young woman with plenty of baggage , both literally and figuratively , on a train as it ... |
453,904 | 11,228,318 | 1,000,400 | 6 | The Hard Part is interesting filler before final two episodes of Heroes | Hiro and Ando arrive at Issac's apartment to find him dead . They overhear Sylar ( he had just talked to Mohinder on the phone about his worry of killing thousands of New Yorkers he just painted of ) coming and hide behind a painting . Sylar hears their heartbeats and quickly closes in on them but they disappear just i... |
453,744 | 11,228,318 | 292,458 | 6 | Boy Meets Dog is pretty entertaining Walter Lantz " cartune " | I saw Boy Meets Dog on Refederator . com and I saw no sign for Bristol-Myers both times I saw it . Based on the " Reg'lar Fellers " comic strip by Gene Byrnes , this short concerns a boy whose dad abuses him . And the boy's new dog is making it worse . As the dad falls asleep , he dreams of being in court for not treat... |
454,398 | 11,228,318 | 32,439 | 6 | Elmer's Candid Camera provides amusing preview of Elmer and Bugs relationship | This early cartoon directed by Charles M . Jones ( better known as Chuck Jones ) features the first appearance of the short's title character with the voice and facial features though he's a little heavier here and still has traces of his predecessor , Egghead . His nemesis is a rabbit who looks a little like Bugs Bunn... |
454,198 | 11,228,318 | 396,555 | 6 | Meet the Robinsons is amusing in 3-D from Disney | Containing some elements you'll recognize from Back to the Future and The Wizard of Oz , Meet the Robinsons is a charming and amusing 3-D computer animated movie . A 12-year orphan has failed to get adopted more than 100 times because he keeps inventing things that always result in disaster . Then one day , someone a y... |
453,877 | 11,228,318 | 876,072 | 6 | Vanished : Aftermath certainly moves along smoothly despite transition | Seems I was a little premature both on Agent Kelton's death and the previous episode being Gale Harold's last . After Kelton got shot , he was taken to a hospital . When Judy Nash went live a few minutes later , it was she who pronounced Kelton dead . Later , his ex-wife identifies his body in the morgue and grieves as... |
455,012 | 11,228,318 | 849,809 | 6 | 30 Rock : Pilot is an uneven but still amusing showcase of Tina Fey's talents | Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) is the head writer of The Girlie Show , a late-night comedy show . It stars her good friend Jenna Maroney ( Jane Krakowski ) . Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) is the new network exec in charge of production who suggests putting in movie star Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) in TGS to appeal to 18-34-y... |
454,145 | 11,228,318 | 136,325 | 6 | Ko-Ko's Haunted House was another fascinating live action / cartoon hybrid from Max Fleischer | This was another entry I found on Saturday Morning Blog that was focused on Halloween . In this Max Fleischer-Inkwell Imps episode , we see Max and another cartoonist next to him ( probably his brother Dave ) at the drawing board with the other artist stealing Max's inkwell . That inkwell becomes a big house ( well , b... |
455,233 | 11,228,318 | 1,032,855 | 6 | Beim Fotografen was another " nudie " made by Austria's Johann Schwarzer | Once again on the Europa Film Treasures blog , I discovered another " nudie " from the silent era made by Austrian Johann Schwarzer . In this one , a photographer has a studio in which he has women come in and pose in the nude with occasional clothing . Then we see male customers come in and watch the results ( with in... |
454,285 | 11,228,318 | 1,076,980 | 6 | This Hollywood on Parade short was a fascinating obscure item for me | I recently discovered the Matinée at the Bijou blog which is about the vintage movie theatre programs from the ' 30s and ' 40s as presented on a two-hour program uninterrupted by modern commercials as revived on PBS . Among the rare shorts presented there was this Hollywood newsreel from Paramount introduced by singer ... |
454,227 | 11,228,318 | 327,597 | 6 | Coraline was an interesting , if not truly thrilling , suspenseful stop-motion animated film | With Henry Selick as the director , you know , the man behind Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas , I expected a special treat when I watched Coraline especially in 3-D . Don't get me wrong , I did like the images that were presented throughout the movie in the rare stop-motion animation style in an era where e... |
454,769 | 11,228,318 | 4,288 | 6 | Making a Living is a very interesting debut for Charlie Chaplin | In Making a Living , Charlie Chaplin's film debut , he is not yet dressed as The Little Tramp . Instead , he sports a monocle , top hat , dapper suit , and a more drooping mustache . And he's basically more of a swindler than a gentleman with his penchant for stealing another person's credit ( in this one , he sees som... |
454,798 | 11,228,318 | 32,504 | 6 | Gallopin ' Gals is an interesting early Hanna-Barbera cartoon short sans Tom and Jerry | This is one of those rare MGM / Hanna-Barbera cartoon shorts that doesn't involve Tom and Jerry . In Gallopin ' Gals , all the racehorses are female who dress in the fashions of the day gossiping about some of the other female racehorses behind their back . One female horse who's all alone is named Maggie who's shy and... |
454,592 | 11,228,318 | 147,029 | 6 | Makin ' ' em Move is interesting early Van Beuren | Makin ' ' em Move takes us inside an animation studio where we see one animator draw a head , the next one draw a foot , and next one a hand , etc . Someone records music on the soundtrack by putting a record needle on the edge of the film while the band plays . Another animator draws various model poses then flips the... |
454,329 | 11,228,318 | 58,953 | 6 | Beach Blanket Bingo was a slightly better Frankie-Annette movie than Bikini Beach | Having previously seen Bikini Beach and found it very silly , I partly dreaded wondering if Beach Blanket Bingo was going to be the exact same way . While there are plenty of similarities , there were some differences that I appreciated like seeing Annette actually deciding to go skydiving with Frankie instead of tryin... |
454,583 | 11,228,318 | 34,913 | 6 | Japoteurs is another World War II era Superman cartoon | Despite some racism , Japoteurs is another pretty good Superman cartoon . Clark and Lois are invited to inspect a new bomber . A Japanese spy has stowed away in one of the bombs . Lois , having stayed on after everyone left , informs the control tower . The enemy spy manages to sabotage opponent by bombing it . Clark t... |
453,944 | 11,228,318 | 475,127 | 6 | This early De Forest Phonofilm is a worthy look of the first presidential speech on film | Just discovered on Internet Archive this Lee De Forest Phonofilm of the first time a U . S . president had spoken in a moving picture . The crux of Calvin Coolidge's four minute speech seems to be how the people would benefit more working for themselves than for the government ( i . e . paying less taxes ) . As you can... |
454,185 | 11,228,318 | 554 | 6 | Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a historically interesting early animation effort | I don't think there's anything more about this pioneering animation effort that hasn't already been said before by many of the other reviewers except maybe only the very young who haven't been exposed to cartoons previously would find this the most charming thing they have ever seen yet ! Certainly we all recognize how... |
454,272 | 11,228,318 | 62,653 | 6 | The Alphabet is another weird early Lynch short that showcases his uniqueness | Just saw this , another weird short directed by David Lynch early in his career , on YouTube . In it , you hear kids saying loudly in unison , " A-B-C ! A-B-C ! " Then there are some animation that turns bizarre like when a tube gives birth to a couple of A's as you hear a baby crying . Then there's this woman ( played... |
454,022 | 11,228,318 | 309,402 | 6 | This brief Buffalo Dance from the kinetoscope of Edison was a fascinating find on Internet Archive | Well , here's another early film from The Edison Company that depicts something that was popular during that time . In this case , it's the " Buffalo Dance " as we see three American Indians dancing in the Black Maria studio seemingly conscious of being on camera the whole time while two other of their tribe are playin... |
454,817 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,413 | 6 | Third episode of " Back to You " is funny if bland | Marsh mentions in his sports segment that a Steelers player had spent some time with a model . He then mentions that he'd like to switch places with one of them for 3 hours . He then says he meant with the football player . Chuck goes to a restaurant that happens to already have seated Kelly and daughter Gracie . Graci... |
454,335 | 11,228,318 | 150,100 | 6 | Chew Chew Baby is one Famous Studios cartoon that should probably have a " parental guidance " caution | Just saw on the Something Old , Something New blog this Famous Studios Noveltoon , Chew Chew Baby ( not to be confused with the same-named Woody Woodpecker cartoon ) . In this one , a hunter from Cincinatti encounters a little pygmy in a jungle , takes his picture , and tells him to look him up if he ever goes to his h... |
454,597 | 11,228,318 | 45,100 | 6 | The Romance of Transportation in Canada was an interesting Oscar-nominated animated short from up north | Produced by Tom Daly for the National Film Board of Canada , directed by Colin Low , narrated by Guy Glover with music by Eldon Rathburn , this animated short was nominated for an Oscar for Beat Short Subject , Cartoon , 1952 . It humorously tells the history of how transportation advanced from canoing to trains to aut... |
453,947 | 11,228,318 | 35,777 | 6 | The Dancing Masters is pretty entertaining , if uneven , Laurel and Hardy comedy | In a remarkable coincidence , I found out in the morning paper that today is the day Oliver Hardy died 50 years ago . That made me want to watch The Dancing Masters right away since I checked that out of the library last Sunday . Since this was one of Hardy's and partner Laurel's latter-day features they made for , in ... |
454,171 | 11,228,318 | 148,197 | 6 | The Fuz was another interesting Ralph Bakshi cartoon from Paramount Cartoon Studios | Just found this Ralph Bakshi-directed cartoon from Paramount Cartoon Studios on the Saturday Morning Blog as linked from Daily Motion . A lady is scared of a little furry person all covered in hair who seems harmless ( must be a comment on normal people fearing hippies since this short was made in the late ' 60s ) . Su... |
454,252 | 11,228,318 | 53,241 | 6 | This original version of the Mexican Santa Claus movie is not bad despite some obvious flaws | Last year about this time , I reviewed the U . S . - dubbed version of this Mexican-made holiday movie as shown and commented on by Mike and the ' bots on " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " . I remember thinking it was hilarious and give it 10 stars because of all the commenting by them . I've now seen the original versi... |
454,057 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,589 | 6 | The last part of Rosemary's Baby with Baldwin was the best one of " 30 Rock " | Liz reluctantly accepts a literally large check for " Follower of the Year " though she doesn't consider herself as such . She and Pete later go to a bookstore where she meets her writer idol who's named Rosemary ( Carrie Fisher ) . Rosemary gets hired as the guest writer who alienates everyone with her really far-out ... |
453,768 | 11,228,318 | 148,005 | 6 | Comic Book Land is a pretty good Terrytoons short starring Gandy Goose and Sourpuss | This was a pretty entertaining Gandy Goose / Sourpuss cartoon that has the Goose and Cat dreaming of being inside of a comic book with some musical entertainment that reuses a female dancing mouse from another Terrytoon short . They also encounter a giant that steals all the comics . One of the characters that stars in... |
455,040 | 11,228,318 | 24,547 | 6 | The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives is enjoyable Merrie Melodies cartoon | This Hugh Harmon-Rudy Ising Merrie Melodies cartoon short produced by Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros . tells the story of a poor boy who gets invited by Santa to go with him to his shanty to watch all the toys come to life . That's basically the plot of the story with some unfortunate blackface stereotypes in some sc... |
454,056 | 11,228,318 | 492,956 | 6 | The Game Plan is a pretty good Disney family comedy for fans of The Rock | When I first saw the preview of The Rock in this formula Disney movie meant to attract families , I sorta cringed . My friend , on the other hand , who loves wrestlers and Disney stuff was very excited to see this one . So it was that we both decided to see this one after playing for several weeks . While watching duri... |
454,981 | 11,228,318 | 512,028 | 6 | Society Party is another amusing episode of " Amos ' n ' Andy " | Sapphire wants a new dress for the party she and husband George " Kingfish " Stevens are invited to . The Kingfish gets it with the money he got selling his wife's fur coat to Andy for his girlfriend . Sapphire knew nothing about this and asks for the coat to go with the new dress . " Holy Mackerel ! " exclaims the Kin... |
454,390 | 11,228,318 | 477,347 | 6 | Night at the Museum is an amusing enough family film | On Martin Luther King Day ( which this year actually fell on his birthday , January 15 ) , my friend and I , both on our off day , took in a matinée show of this Ben Stiller movie that had been No . 1 at the box office for the last three weeks . My friend had also wanted to take his nephew but the nephew had already se... |
454,189 | 11,228,318 | 245,364 | 6 | Policy and Pie is an interesting Katzenjammer Kids cartoon from silent era | Let me mention some gags that haven't been discussed yet : After the Captain finds the black cat under his hat on the floor after the hat moved , he hits the cat with a brush at the exact time Mama's flour in her pie hits her and makes her white ! Like the others here , I loved it when the cat rose from the dough and-s... |
454,979 | 11,228,318 | 512,034 | 6 | The Chinchilla Business is an amusing final episode of " Amos ' n ' Andy " | Sapphire's mother won't move out of her daughter and husband George " Kingfish " Stevens ' house unless she gets the $50 owed by her son-in-law . When he hears Andy mentioning trying to buy his girlfriend a fur coat for that amount since that's all he has , the Kingfish offers to take that money in exchange for Andy's ... |
454,019 | 11,228,318 | 249,956 | 6 | Educational short Shy Guy is interesting as the debuts of Dick York and narrator Mike Wallace | Just found this obscure educational short on Internet Archive . It marked the film debuts of actor Dick York-the original Darren Stevens on " Bewitched " - when he was just 19 and narrator Mike Wallace-later to be best known as a moderator on " 60 Minutes " but was just a radio / TV announcer during this film's shootin... |
455,211 | 11,228,318 | 126,913 | 6 | Flip's Circus is a jumbled mess of fragments from Winsor McCay | From what I saw on Google Video , this seemed to be another Winsor McCay project that he never got to completing since on the title it says in parentheses " 1918-21 " . Anyway , here are the contents : Flip is balancing his hat on his face while leaning forwards and backwards . He eventually falls face forward . Flip o... |
454,450 | 11,228,318 | 148,088 | 6 | The Dream Kids is another Fox and Crow cartoon worth a look | In The Dream Kids , the Crow is suffering a long winter's night along in the blizzard . Then he notices a house and invites himself in . The Fox who was reading peacefully until then quickly sends the Crow to what he says is the bedroom but is actually back outside as the door gets slammed on Crow . Crow quickly finds ... |
455,103 | 11,228,318 | 402,809 | 6 | At One View is interesting if a bit pretentious | At One View is one of two shorts in Volume 5 of The International Tournee of Animation directed by Paul De Nooijer . The other one is I Should See . Two men are sitting in a chair reading newspapers . Then , through stop-motion photography , we see the chairs moving with the men still sitting down . The men stop to fac... |
453,899 | 11,228,318 | 33,326 | 6 | All's Well is a pretty amusing Gabby entry for Fleischer Studios | Just saw this-the third Fleischer cartoon featuring Gabby from the Gulliver's Travels animated feature-on Mark Evanier's site . This pretty amusing short has the leading character singing the title song that originally appeared in his feature debut I just mentioned when he encounters a carriage with a baby in it ( wher... |
454,016 | 11,228,318 | 910,956 | 6 | This Charming Couple provides an interesting look at a divorced couple's early courtship | This was an educational short from the McGraw-Hill Company about a couple about to divorce as we flashback to their courtship as a young couple just enjoying themselves in the forest without a care in the world . He-Ken-is an aspiring novelist who teaches literature in college . She-Winnie-is an assistant to a dean who... |
454,815 | 11,228,318 | 146,565 | 6 | Title of Closer Than a Brother makes no sense in this Paul Terry cartoon | I'm not sure what the title has to do with the plot which is this : An alarm clock ( with arms and legs ) rings loudly to wake up a cat in pajamas . Cat gets up and dances to some music on his stereo . His head comes off , then goes back on during this sequence . He then shaves and makes pancakes at the same time ( he ... |
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