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455,019 | 11,228,318 | 223,400 | 10 | The Great Toy Robbery is a fine Canadian animated holiday short | Just discovered this quite funny animated short from Warren Leonhardt on his blog as linked from The National Film Board of Canada site . It takes place in the Old West with a cowboy , some robbers , and Santa Claus . Oh , and some toys . It takes a while but the way the gags are timed , you just can't help double up w... |
454,761 | 11,228,318 | 398,808 | 10 | Bridge to Terabithia is a wonderfully essential family film | Based on the Newberry Award-winning book , Bridge to Terabithia is the story of two tween outcasts , Jesse and Leslie , who bond over their creative endeavors , drawing and writing , respectively . After school , they swing a rope across the brook and go to their tree clubhouse where they imagine being in the land of T... |
453,863 | 11,228,318 | 45,708 | 10 | Chuck Jones ' Duck Amuck is his most abstract and funniest cartoon short | Duck Amuck is Daffy's frustrations of being trapped in an animated short that keeps changing scenery , has him playing a guitar with shooting sounds , fighting with himself in another frame , gets drawn in different sizes and colors , and basically is at the mercy of an unseen animator . This is Chuck Jones ' and Micha... |
453,848 | 11,228,318 | 808,435 | 10 | A Raisin in the Sun marks my farewell comment for Black History Month | This entry of the 2008 TV movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's play " A Raisin in the Sun " that just aired on ABC four days ago , is my final entry on African-Americans in film and television in chronological order for Black History Month . Nearly the entire cast of the recent Broadway revival of this still-resonant ... |
455,047 | 11,228,318 | 28,390 | 10 | Toby Tortoise Returns is a very hilarious sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare | After watching The Tortoise and the Hare on YouTube , I quickly watched the sequel right after on there and I found this one more hilarious than the predecessor . Actually , I thought Toby Tortoise Returns was very funny while TTATH was only amusing . Especially since the competition is now in the boxing ring and there... |
453,960 | 11,228,318 | 120,324 | 10 | A Simple Plan is a great suspense film from Sam Raimi | The leading performances of Bill Paxton , Billy Bob Thornton , and Bridget Fonda are excellent as is that of Gary Cole in a role that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who knows his work . Two supporting players that really impressed me , however , were those of Brent Briscoe and Becky Ann Baker ( who I recognized from... |
455,063 | 11,228,318 | 26,226 | 10 | A Colour Box is highly worthy experimental animation short | Just saw this on YouTube and was blown away by the various paints of colors directly on film and the post office prints at the very end . Reminded me a lot of Chuck Jones ' The Dot and the Line where we see lots of shapes and sizes of various colors of lines , circles , and what have you . Great period music to set the... |
454,634 | 11,228,318 | 47,678 | 10 | Wild Wife is a great Robert McKimson cartoon | Just watched this Warner Bros . cartoon on YouTube . In it , husband John ( Mel Blanc , of course ) asks his wife Marsha ( Bea Benaderet ) if she's done various chores . When she replies " no " on the lawnmower question , he tells her she doesn't do enough work during her free time . Marsha rebuts with a tale of what h... |
455,222 | 11,228,318 | 10,757 | 10 | Watch The Tantalizing Fly for one of the earliest appearances of Koko the Clown | The Tantalizing Fly is one of the earliest appearances of Koko the Clown in Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series . In this one , a fly is bothering Max at the drawing board and Koko on it . In fact , Koko follows the fly as the clown twists and turns every which way on his body ! The fly also goes around his face ... |
454,212 | 11,228,318 | 1,017,495 | 10 | Pie-lette marks a great start for unique series " Pushing Daises " | Pushing Daises is the most critically acclaimed new show of the season and I can't help but agree how great the pilot or " Pie-lette " is ! Lee Pace is charming in a role that requires him to not show too much personality as Ned . Chi McBride shows a flair for comedy as Detective Emerson Cod , Ned's partner on cases ... |
455,189 | 11,228,318 | 141,075 | 10 | This parody of Romeo and Juliet is Felix at most creative | Felix the Cat as Romeow is funny from beginning to end ! The best one I've seen so far . It begins as Felix is riding his bike to a fair maiden's castle . When he arrives , the smoke from his bike carries him to the fair maiden's balcony . While Felix woos with his banjo , his rival is on his way on his horse . As he a... |
455,176 | 11,228,318 | 533,501 | 10 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer : The Harvest is excellent conclusion to series pilot | This is the second part of the pilot episode that aired on the WB's last broadcast of September 17 , 2006 . In this one , The Master and his minions are trying to " harvest " lives in order to free The Master from the underground Hellmouth . We find out Jesse is now a vampire , Willow is good with computers , Cordelia'... |
454,726 | 11,228,318 | 41,593 | 10 | Little Rural Riding Hood is another hilarious Tex Avery cartoon from MGM | I first saw this one as a ' 70s kid watching The Tom and Jerry Show on weekday afternoons . That show had lots of outrageous cartoons that are so funny you can't help yourself . This one is more outrageous than usual since it parodies two well known stories : The Little Red Riding Hood and Country Mouse / City Mouse . ... |
454,496 | 11,228,318 | 367,555 | 10 | Martin Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary is excellent | I watched Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home having only known Bob Dylan mainly from hearing " Like a Rolling Stone " and " Everybody Must Get Stoned " on the radio or seeing recent live TV performances in which his voice usually sounded garbled , so this was truly a revelation of how much of an impact Dylan made in A... |
454,158 | 11,228,318 | 41,598 | 10 | Long-Haired Hare is another hilarious Bugs Bunny cartoon by Chuck Jones | Another classic Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Chuck Jones . In Long-Haired Hare , our rabbit likes to sing and play the banjo , harp , and tuba . But Giovanni Jones , an opera singer who lives nearby , is constantly distracted to the point of joining along . So he hits Bugs with those instruments . After getting his e... |
454,009 | 11,228,318 | 54,743 | 10 | The Children's Hour has subject matter relevant even today | In this time weeks after California became the second state to recognize gay and lesbian marriages , I thought I'd finally get a look at a time when anyone even accused of loving someone of the same gender got him / her ostracized by watching The Children's Hour , a movie made in 1961 based on a play written by native ... |
454,580 | 11,228,318 | 66,327 | 10 | Santa Claus Is Comin ' to Town is perfect Rankin / Bass Christmas special | I've just seen Santa Claus Is Comin ' to Town for the first time since I was an under-12 kid in the late ' 70s . It brought back such memories of seeing the origin of the big red-suited man when it used to show on the Sunday at 6 central time period on ABC opposite NBC's The Wonderful World of Disney . Fred Astaire is ... |
454,426 | 11,228,318 | 1,122,417 | 10 | Smell of Success is another hilarious episode of " Pushing Daises " | This is the funniest episode of " Pushing Daises " yet ! I'll just mention what this show has : murder by scratch-n-sniff , rival authors , rival colleagues , Paul Reubens , " Follow the yellow hose " , Olive in a mermaid outfit , Olive's cleavage , and Chuck's aunt Vivian singing , " Morning Has Broken " . There's ple... |
455,056 | 11,228,318 | 59,026 | 10 | A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of the best holiday specials ever ! | On December 9 , 1965 , the first broadcast of what would become a holiday classic would debut : A Charlie Brown Christmas . From the beginning song , " Christmastime is Here " , we hear Charlie Brown talking about always getting depressed during the holidays with friend Linus who responds , " Lucy's right , of all the ... |
455,197 | 11,228,318 | 11,223 | 10 | Get Out and Get Under is an excellent Harold Lloyd short from Hal Roach | Get Out and Get Under is Harold Lloyd's first film after an exploding accident that caused him to lose a two fingers and a thumb in one of his hands requiring him to wear a prosthetic glove in movies for the rest of his career . This is a very funny short in which Harold is hurrying to get to the theatre for his perfor... |
454,330 | 11,228,318 | 1,198,187 | 10 | The Babysitter is one hilarious adult themed short ! | Just watched this on Atomfilms . com . This was a pretty hilarious comedy short about an-18-year-old blond babysitter reluctantly being left in charge of a much older-than-her offspring whose girlfriend just left him . To entice her to stay the guardians ( one of whom I recognized as Molly Hagan from " Herman's Head " ... |
454,865 | 11,228,318 | 178,016 | 10 | Der Schneemann is a wonderful vintage animated short from Germany | Just watched on YouTube as linked from Saturday Morning Blog this German cartoon known in the U . S . as The Snowman or Snowman in July . Whitey Snowman comes to life one winter day and enjoys running in the snow and ice skating . When he falls in the ice river , he comes back much thinner but gains all his weight by r... |
454,516 | 11,228,318 | 1,134,097 | 10 | Good Ol ' Charles Schulz is a fine episode of " American Masters " | Just finished watching " Good Ol ' Charles Schulz " , an episode of the PBS series " American Masters " . This celebrated cartoonist had long been a hero of mine because of the way he made universal the insecurities of everyday life by putting them in the leading character of his long-running comic strip " Peanuts " , ... |
455,128 | 11,228,318 | 424,517 | 10 | A Tuna Christmas is a nice change-of-pace from the usual holiday fare | Having long seen this video on display in my local library and wanting to see anything that fits the Christmas season , I decided to check out A Tuna Christmas out of curiosity . Joe Sears and Jaston Williams are the only actors playing a multitude of characters that live in the small Texas town of Tuna as they all pre... |
455,143 | 11,228,318 | 56,592 | 10 | To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the greatest movie experiences ever | In commenting on African-Americans in film in chronological order for Black History Month , we're now at 1962 with the release of the movie version of Harper Lee's novel , " To Kill a Mockingbird " . The crux of the story is lawyer Atticus Finch's ( Oscar-winning performance of Gregory Peck ) defending black farmer Tom... |
455,076 | 11,228,318 | 1,025,163 | 10 | The House That Ahmet Built is one of the most essential docs of music history | This American Masters episode showcases the wonderful influence of Ahmet Ertegun , the founder of Atlantic Records . Since the label's founding in 1947 , some of the most popular Rhythm and Blues and Rock ' n ' Roll artists have worked for Atlantic . Among them : first artist Ruth Brown , Big Joe Turner , Ray Charles ,... |
453,826 | 11,228,318 | 235,502 | 10 | Jubilo , Jr . is an excellent " Our Gang " short with honest sentimentality | This Hal Roach comedy short , Jubilo , Jr . , is the twenty-ninth entry in the " Our Gang / Little Rascals " series . In this one , the title character walks through a field and sees three tramps singing " That Old Gang of Mine " . As he sits with them , he reminisces about his boyhood days when his parents were poor .... |
455,133 | 11,228,318 | 495,112 | 10 | Frosty the Snowman and Peter Cottontail are wonderful recently discovered UPA rarities | I recently discovered on Mark Evanier's site as linked from Cartoon Brew a couple of UPA animated holiday shorts that are on YouTube . One was Peter Cottontail which for some reason is not listed on IMDb . That one played the whole song and depicted visually the entire premise down to the hunter that shot the rabbit's ... |
454,135 | 11,228,318 | 966,897 | 10 | Parasite ends Heroes ' second cycle | As Peter and Issac still grieve over the dead Simone , Issac gets angry at Peter for her death and still blames him as Peter gets away . Hiro still gets himself thrown out of the Las Vegas hotel even when he says he's with Linderman . Mr . Bennet explains to his boss that he can't remember anything from the previous da... |
455,178 | 11,228,318 | 512,834 | 10 | Angel : City of . . . helps in saying goodbye to the W | Sunday , September 17 , 2006 marked the official end of the WB network . It was marked by the showing of the following pilots : Felicity , Angel , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and Dawson's Creek . Angel follows the character from BtVS to L . A . where he's been saving various women from vampires by killing them . As the ... |
453,977 | 11,228,318 | 34,870 | 10 | Dr . Seuss ' Horton Hatches the Egg is an excellent Bob Clampett cartoon | This afternoon while I was waiting for Enchanted to begin , there was a preview for the new computer-animated feature , Horton Hears a Who ? with the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carrell . After going home and checking out the Cartoons , Model Sheets , and Stuff blog , I discovered the presence of another Horton tale... |
454,133 | 11,228,318 | 68,359 | 10 | A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is another great Peanuts holiday special | Charlie Brown and his little sister Sally are planning to go to Grandmother's place for Thanksgiving dinner but Peppermint Patty invites herself , Marcie , and Franklin to the Browns expecting one themselves . Linus suggests making one before going to Grandma's so Snoopy and Woodstock start getting the table and chairs... |
455,021 | 11,228,318 | 565,840 | 10 | The Big Little Jesus is a touching Christmas episode of " Dragnet " | Having just seen the more tragic " Dragnet " holiday episode - " The Big . 22 Rifle for Christmas " - I'd thought I'd check the more positive-influenced one called " The Big Little Jesus " . In this one taking place on Christmes Eve-which is the same day of when this was broadcast in 1953-Friday and his partner Frank S... |
454,162 | 11,228,318 | 178,057 | 10 | The Tender Game is a wonderful showcase for jazz great Peterson and animator Hubley | The Tender Game is one of two animated shorts scored by the recently departed Oscar Peterson that Amid at Cartoon Brew showcased as linked from YouTube . John Hubley directed with wife Faith Elliott as editor and Robert Cannon and Emery Hawkins as animators . It's basically a boy-meet-girl story as abstractedly depicte... |
455,116 | 11,228,318 | 417 | 10 | A Trip to the Moon may be Georges Melies ' most memorable film | Long considered Melies ' masterpiece , A Trip to the Moon is certainly his most memorable . Take that iconic rocket-in-the-moon's-eye image . That picture survives to this day because of its appearance in books about movies and sci-fi literature . There's also the fact that this was the first time that anyone had filme... |
454,446 | 11,228,318 | 43,581 | 10 | Gerald McBoing-Boing deserved its 1950 Oscar win | If there's one cartoon that helped to put UPA on the map more than any other , It's Gerald McBoing-Boing . This tale of a little boy who only speaks in sound effects has kept its charm for the last 57 years . Besides the effects , loved the music , the abstract animation and backgrounds , the narration by Marvin Miller... |
454,235 | 11,228,318 | 206,312 | 10 | Animated short Special Delivery contains one hilarious twist after another ! | Just discovered on Thad's Animation Blog this weirdly funny Oscar-winning short directed by Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon . It seems Alice is going out and tells husband Ralph to shovel the walk before he goes to work . He doesn't and when he returns home , he finds the mailman lying dead on the icy pathway . What Ra... |
455,131 | 11,228,318 | 495,201 | 10 | Suzy Snowflake is another classic holiday stop-motion animated short | Like a previous song " Hardrock , Coco , and Joe " , " Suzy Snowflake " was made into a stop-motion animated short by Centaur Productions . As with the previous one , the choir sings with no musical accompaniment . They are the Norman Luboff Choir with Norma Zimmer singing lead . She would eventually be a " Champagne L... |
454,757 | 11,228,318 | 46,000 | 10 | See Leslie Caron's Oscar-nominated role in Lili | Lili is a romantic fable expertly visualized by director Chuck Walters and the MGM studio art department . Leslie Caron deserved her Oscar-nomination for her title character role . Kudos also to Mel Ferrer as the puppeteer who could only express his love to Lili through his characters . I also liked Jean-Pierre Aumont ... |
453,867 | 11,228,318 | 403,387 | 10 | Oral Hygiene is one weird short ! | Oral Hygiene is a modeling clay depiction of a skeletal skull lip-syncing to the short's title recording by Bongos , Bass , and Bob , one of whose members was Penn Jillette ( presumably before he teamed with Teller ) . Animator David Fain has fun having various skulls with small arms and legs dancing and brushing and f... |
455,120 | 11,228,318 | 499 | 10 | The Impossible Voyage is a fascinating Melies version of Jules Verne | After the success of A Trip to the Moon that had the iconic moment of the rocket lodged in the moon's eye , Georges Melies made The Impossible Voyage and had a train go into the sun's mouth . Then we see the passengers get all hot so someone gets all the ice but then all of them , except one who stayed outside the trai... |
454,055 | 11,228,318 | 41,618 | 10 | Magic Fluke is another funny Fox and Crow cartoon from the newly formed UP | Just discovered this , the second Fox and Crow cartoon made by UPA for distribution by Columbia . With the Crow narrating , we're treated to him and the Fox as swing musicians at a nightclub just as the Fox gets an offer to lead a live symphony orchestra . He drops the Crow right then . Much later , the destitute Crow ... |
454,849 | 11,228,318 | 759,572 | 10 | Heroes : Genesis is definitely great pilot for new series | From the Star Wars-like crawl in the beginning to the sight of a young man at the top of a tall building in New York imagining he can fly to a teacher in India being told after class that his dad died to a woman stripping on the internet in Las Vegas and having a mirror image that acts opposite of what she does to Japa... |
454,868 | 11,228,318 | 33,597 | 10 | The Field Mouse was another excellent M-G-M cartoon by Hugh Harmon | Just watched this M-G-M cartoon produced and directed by Hugh Harmon on YouTube . It's about these children mice on a farm doing work for their mama and grandpop . The mom catches one of her offspring , Herman , sleeping late and wakes him up by spanking him . After he cries to Grandpa , the ground starts shaking . The... |
454,763 | 11,228,318 | 87,521 | 10 | Jumping is one of the great animated shorts from Osamu Tezuka | Directed by Osama Tezuka , Jumping is one of the best entirely hand drawn animated shorts from the late ' 80s . After the title sequence with the credits quickly going up and down , we see point-of-view jumping shots going from the suburban neighborhood to some forests to some seascapes to over some tall city buildings... |
454,552 | 11,228,318 | 51,196 | 10 | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter ? is Frank Tashlin's masterpiece | First , let me mention a spoiler : Groucho Marx appears with Jayne Mansfield at the end as someone she used to know and was very much in love with . When she asks him why he never tried to kiss her , Groucho says , " I could never get that close ! " before his trademark raising-eyebrows-up-and-down . Because I knew of ... |
453,862 | 11,228,318 | 41,310 | 10 | Dough for the Do-Do is basically Porky in Wackyland filmed in color this time | Dough for the Do-Do is basically a color version of Bob Clampett's original black-and-white Porky in Wackyland with some changes done by Friz Freling . I actually haven't seen the first film version in its entirety yet so I wrote the previous sentence based on other comments I've read here . It certainly has many of th... |
453,861 | 11,228,318 | 43,479 | 10 | Chuck Jones ' Drip-Along Daffy is a very funny spoof of westerns | This cartoon from director Chuck Jones and starring Daffy Duck ( " western-type hero " ) and Porky Pig ( " comic relief " ) is a hilarious spoof of westerns that dominated kiddie matinées for years . Daffy is the new sheriff in town assigned to get rid of Nasty Canasta . A favorite sequence is Canasta ordering a certai... |
454,295 | 11,228,318 | 24,404 | 10 | The Old Man of the Mountain is a great Calloway / Fleischer cartoon | This was another awesome collaboration between the Fleischers and Cab Calloway . During the live-action credits sequence , dig the drummer who throws his drumstick up in the air twice and catches it both times ! Then hear Cab sing the title song with the orchestra playing throughout as Betty goes up to meet this bizarr... |
455,023 | 11,228,318 | 565,697 | 10 | The Big . 22 Rifle for Christmas marks an initial " Dragnet " holiday offering | Christmas cheer has been emphasized all these years on radio , television , and most especially , the movies despite attempts to have more dysfunctional families in these holiday staples recently . For " Dragnet " s initial attempt at doing a holiday episode , however , they focused on a tragedy . First done on radio t... |
454,606 | 11,228,318 | 818,673 | 10 | False Alarm is an irony-laden sex comedy short I found on atom . com | This is another short I found on atom . com under the heading " Sexy Comedy " . A man on the internet is arrested in his own apartment for being a child sexual predator . But he explains to the female detective , her partner , a fellow officer , a newspaper reporter , and his mother that he was just looking for someone... |
454,419 | 11,228,318 | 208,558 | 10 | Vinni Pukh i den zabot is another charming Russian Pooh short | Another Russian Pooh story . This time the donkey , known from the Pooh stories as Eyeore , is sad because he has no tail . Pooh goes in search of one and finds it attached to a bell that hangs from the treehouse of one Owl . She ( yes , in this version it's a she ) is offered a bowl of honey from Pooh but she refuses ... |
454,596 | 11,228,318 | 236,769 | 10 | Ryan Larkin's Street Musique is a wonderful collage of animated images | Just watched this on the National Film Board of Canada site where they have about 300 of their material presented for your enjoyment . Having previously viewed and commented on a couple of shorts associated with animator Ryan Larkin , I was excited when Street Musique was presented on the NFB site twice in both French ... |
454,375 | 11,228,318 | 35,743 | 10 | Despite stereotypes , Bob Clampett's Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs is his masterpiece | This cartoon , Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs , has a unique place among the Warner " Censored 11 " cartoons : This one is highly inventive and very entertaining ! Oh , yeah , there's some unflattering stereotypes here like Prince Chawmin ' having a couple of dice for front teeth and the Queen being an ugly Mammy char... |
454,731 | 11,228,318 | 32,109 | 10 | Wanted : No Master is a purely hilarious Milt Gross cartoon | This cartoon is so full of fast-paced " anything goes " humor that some things that would normally be now offensive , like putting something looking like blackface on a white character and having him talk in stereotypical " black talk " of the time , actually adds to some of the hilarity of a dog ( J . R . the Wonder D... |
454,173 | 11,228,318 | 45,095 | 10 | Rock-a-Bye Bear is another great Tex Avery cartoon I just rewatched | When Federator . com linked this cartoon from YouTube and mentioned the short's premise in the blog , I had to watch this again since I remember laughing at it so much in the late ' 70s when I was a kid watching the weekday afternoon " Tom and Jerry " show where Tex Avery's Rock-a-Bye Bear was showcased . In a nutshell... |
454,154 | 11,228,318 | 952,263 | 10 | Conjuction Junction is another cherished memory from " Schoolhouse Rock ! " | With lyrics by Bob Dorough , Jack Sheldon ( who I just discovered was born in Jacksonville , Fla . , which is where I once lived for 10 years ) providing lead vocal and Terry Morrell backing vocal , " Conjunction Junction " is another great " Schoolhouse Rock ! " short animated musical that entertains while educating a... |
454,807 | 11,228,318 | 245,503 | 10 | This Guy is Falling is a wonderfully quirky short from the studio responsible for the opening credits of Juno | Shadowplay Studios , the company responsible for the opening titles of the current hit Juno , is also responsible for this quirky computer animated short This Guy Is Falling , directed by Gareth Smith and Michael Horowitz . As a teenage couple in the front of a used car is arguing about the driver's ( a girl ) wisdom i... |
454,818 | 11,228,318 | 56,841 | 10 | Automania 2000 is a British look at future materialism gone amok | Automania 2000 is a British animated short from Halas and Batchelor that depicts a future that is overrun by cars as the result of public demand for bigger and better ones . The effect is that cars stack up so much space in the world that people start living in them without going outside much . And then cars start repr... |
454,058 | 11,228,318 | 449,059 | 10 | Little Miss Sunshine was much better than last year's Best Picture winner | If I was a member of the Academy and I had to pick Best Picture of the previous year with the choices between Martin Scorsese's The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine , I'd definitely pick the latter . This dysfunctional family road comedy-drama ( or dramady ) has some of the most realistic-funny dialogue I've watched f... |
454,159 | 11,228,318 | 45,062 | 10 | Rabbit Seasoning is another hilarious Bugs / Daffy / Elmer cartoon | Rabbit Seasoning is one of three cartoons that feature Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck / Elmer Fudd in a war of words and wits about whether it's rabbit season or duck season . Love Bugs and Daffy stirring up " pronoun trouble " with Daffy always the victim of Elmer's shotgun resulting with his beak always getting dismembered ... |
455,049 | 11,228,318 | 32,071 | 10 | Ugly Duckling is a sentimentally fine farewell in the Disney Silly Symphony series | This was the last Disney Silly Symphony and a very touching one to end the series on . In this one , a white duck that stands out in the crowd honks instead of quacks so his family instantly rejects him . After similar reactions from birds and a wooden mallard , he finally gets accepted by swans who all also honk . The... |
453,840 | 11,228,318 | 1,105,696 | 10 | Peter Sellers ' offspring dominate this episode of " Somebody's Daughter , Somebody's Son " | Just watched on YouTube this episode of the British documentary series " Somebody's Daughter , Somebody's Son " . This one looked at Peter Sellers ' children : Michael , Sarah , and Victoria . Michael and Sarah were the kids of Sellers ' first wife , Anne Howe , and Victoria was the child of him and second wife , actre... |
455,039 | 11,228,318 | 24,380 | 10 | Walt Disney's The Night Before Christmas is excellent Silly Symphony cartoon | When I was a kid growing up in the ' 70s , the only way you could see any Disney cartoons were on NBC's Sunday evening program The Wonderful World of Disney and they were usually limited to those starring Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck , Goofy , Pluto , and Chip ' n ' Dale . So I was wonderfully surprised to find on YouTub... |
454,645 | 11,228,318 | 1,041,277 | 10 | Four Monts Later is an awesome start for new season of " Heroes " | As Mohinder is lecturing , a bald figure wearing glasses watches . Afterwards , he gets an autograph from Mohinder who threatens him when asked about his sister . Seems he wants to form a new organization with him . In Honduras , grown brother and sister are running . They later take a ride on a caravan that doesn't tu... |
455,020 | 11,228,318 | 565,669 | 10 | The Christmas Story is perhaps the most touching episode of " Dragnet 1967 " | Having just seen " The Big Little Jesus " episode of the original " Dragnet " , I just went on Hulu to watch the remake for " Dragnet 1967 " called here " The Christmas Story " . It's basically word for word and scene for scene with some additions like Bill Gannon ( Harry Morgan ) bringing a little pine tree in the off... |
454,656 | 11,228,318 | 613,748 | 10 | Peter Lorre is hilarious in Jack Benny Program role | Paired on Universal VHS with the last episode ever with The Smothers Brothers . Peter Lorre is hilarious whether trying to convince Jack he's not who he's like in the movies or in the sketch in which he tries to hide his identity as a wanted man in a doctor's waiting room with Jack as one of the waiting patients and Me... |
454,186 | 11,228,318 | 682 | 10 | Fantasmagorie is a fascinating early animation short of chalk drawings | Emile Cohl's Fantasmagorie is perhaps one of the earliest film depictions of animation , in this case it's chalk drawings on a black board morphing from one scene to another without any real connection except for the way lines keep moving to any shape or form Cohl can think of . And it all happens in the space of two m... |
454,806 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,574 | 10 | Episode 210 or Caffeine marks an excellent season finale ( supposedly ) of " 30 Rock " | In a nutshell : Jack and C . C . are trying to make their relationship work , Liz attempts to buy an apartment , Jack is also attempting to make a deal with a German company to merge , and after Tracy buys a coffee machine-Kenneth gets addicted . . . Lots of random funny stuff happened in this episode that I can't reca... |
455,071 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,575 | 10 | MILF Island is a most hilarious comeback for " 30 Rock " | Yay ! After a three-months-long writers ' strike , 30 Rock is back with a new episode ! Okay , in a nutshell : While the staff is watching " MILF Island " , Kenneth alerts Liz to a Page Six column that reveals a " TGS " staffer called Jack a " first class moron " who " eats poo " . Liz gets called to Jack's office and ... |
455,083 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,571 | 10 | Hiatus marks a great season one end for 30 Rock | We hear a voice-over of Kenneth saying " Previously on 30 Rock " as we watch scenes from the last episode . Jack's mother ( Elaine Stritch ) comes by Jack's office and mistakes Liz , who she likes , for Phoebe , who she doesn't . Tracy escapes to a Pennslyvania town where he goes under an assumed name and stays with Ke... |
453,948 | 11,228,318 | 921,228 | 10 | James Taylor got a wonderful tribute on Great Performances | This was an all-star musical tribute to MusiCares 2006 Person of the Year : James Taylor . The Dixie Chicks started the evening with their rendition of " Shower the People " . From there came Bonnie Raitt , Jimmy Buffett on tape amusingly comparing himself and Taylor over the years , Sting , Sheryl Crow with David Cros... |
454,942 | 11,228,318 | 392,925 | 10 | Yes , Virginia , There Is a Santa Claus is another charming animated holiday special from Bill Melendez | He will continue to make glad , the heart of childhood . So answered New York Sun editor Francis Church at the end of his editorial to one Virginia O'Hanlon one day in 1897 to her question of is there a Santa Claus . Taking a break from the " Peanuts " specials , director Bill Melendez put the same charm he visualize... |
454,901 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,590 | 10 | Greenzo is the most hilarious episode of " 30 Rock " this season yet ! | Because the machine I recorded this episode on had to be returned , I had to go on nbc . com to watch Greenzo . This is the funniest episode of " 30 Rock " this season so far ! In a nutshell : Jack hires an out-of-work actor named Jared ( David Schwimmer ) to play an environmentally conscious character named Greenzo to... |
454,206 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,584 | 10 | Jack Gets in the Game is another hilarious episode of " 30 Rock " | Jack invites Liz to his office to eat his $52 steak in front of him since his surgery has made him health conscious . While she's eating , he mentions Guiess ' retirement consideration and Jack wants his job . He then sees Liz finish the steak in two minutes . She says the dog ate some of it . Then quickly left . Jenna... |
454,157 | 11,228,318 | 41,462 | 10 | High Diving Hare is a hilarious Bugs Bunny cartoon from Friz Freling | In this cartoon directed by Friz Freling , Bugs is the carnival barker announcing high diving daredevil Fearless Freep as the big attraction . Yosemite Same gets so excited he buys hundreds of tickets . Bugs gets a telegram saying Freep won't show because he's delayed by a storm . Sam ignores explanation and attempts t... |
454,657 | 11,228,318 | 613,721 | 10 | Smothers Brothers guest on final Jack Benny Program | This final regular episode of The Jack Benny Program starts with The Smothers Brothers singing what has long been Jack's Theme : Love in Bloom . Tom , of course , interrupts halfway through with Dick expressing annoyance throughout before completing their number . Jack then talks to the boys before they go to their ski... |
454,190 | 11,228,318 | 958,087 | 10 | Great Old Amusement Parks is a great doc about park rides that were popular before Disneyland | A fascinating look at many of the longest-running amusement parks in the United States of America , some in operation since the late nineteenth century . As expected , many Coney Island parks in Brooklyn are covered as well as some in the Midwest like the Holiday World in Santa Claus , Ind . ( This is the town that mil... |
454,138 | 11,228,318 | 944,244 | 10 | Hard Ball is a very hilarious episode of 30 Rock | Josh's contract is up and Jack wants to play hardball but Liz just wants to be fair to her friend . Jenna is posing for the " Sexiest Funny Women " section of Maxim but gets in trouble when she gets misquoted about " hating " the troops ( she thought she was being asked about theater troupes ) . Tracy asks Kenneth to b... |
455,223 | 11,228,318 | 24,461 | 10 | Fleischer's Popeye the Sailor is great animated start for Elzie Segar's comic strip character | The Popeye character we know and love is already intact in this , his first animated appearance on film . So is Olive Oyl and Bluto . Betty Boop is also in this , in fact , she was put on in order to attract filmgoers already familiar with her but not with Elzie Segar's popular newspaper strip . It's already known that... |
455,016 | 11,228,318 | 32,244 | 10 | Bedtime for Sniffles was a cute Christmas cartoon from Warner Bros . | In about 1 hour , 33 minutes , and 47 seconds , Santa Claus will be here ! So says Sniffles , a cute mouse from Leon Schlesinger Productions ( later Warner Bros . Cartoons ) during the ' 40s . He's trying to stay up late waiting for the bearded man in the fat red suit by drinking coffee , listening to the radio , etc... |
454,819 | 11,228,318 | 360,861 | 10 | Pan-tele-tron is an wonderful animated educational short | Just saw this British animation short on Cartoon Brew . Pan-tele-tron is a pretty entertaining look at the way communication was achieved through the eras from wires to telephones to radio to television . Produced and sponsored by Phillips , this film has that wonderful ' 50s abstract look so common for this era . Whil... |
453,746 | 11,228,318 | 56,965 | 10 | Hear hilarious Mel Brooks in The Critic | After years of hearing of the short narrated by Mel Brooks as a very old man , I finally got to see The Critic on YouTube . All that abstraction and Brooks as an 81-year-old Jewish man from Russia about to die soon has got me in stitches ! And that harpsichord music ! If you've only known Brooks as the co-creator of " ... |
453,911 | 11,228,318 | 1,083,969 | 10 | Go Your Own Way is the best episode of " Swingtown " yet ! | Wow , " Swingtown " just got a lot more interesting ! How , well , in a nutshell : Trina invites Susan to a fund-raiser she and Sylvia , who's a lawyer , are having for an actor in trouble with the government . Turns out he's Harry Reems from the porn movie Deep Throat . Susan , not having seen the film in question , d... |
454,070 | 11,228,318 | 414,469 | 10 | Ryan is an excellent tribute of Canadian animator by Chris Landreth | When Ryan Larkin , the Canadian animator from the late ' 60s / early ' 70s died recently , Cartoon Brew paid tribute by showing Syrinx ( 1965 ) and this Oscar-winning short by Chris Landreth . It follows Landreth interviewing Larkin is a visual style that I can only describe as psychedelic with the florescent way each ... |
455,018 | 11,228,318 | 512,035 | 10 | The Christmas Story is a wonderful holiday version of " The Amos ' n ' Andy Show " | Today , I decided to listen to the radio version and watch on Google Video the TV version of " The Christmas Story " episode of " The Amos ' n ' Andy Show " . Both are pretty much the same story word for word and scene for scene . Well , actually , the TV version has an additional scene of the birth of Amos ' child Arb... |
455,081 | 11,228,318 | 988,309 | 10 | Five Years Gone is a very poignant episode of Heroes | At the end of the last episode , Hiro and Ando had teleported to a devastated New York five years later and had encountered Future Hiro . Suddenly , Matt Parker , who's with Home Security , and his men have the present day Hiro arrested while Ando and Future Hiro escape . During interrogation , Matt receives a call . I... |
453,900 | 11,228,318 | 988,307 | 10 | How to Stop an Exploding Man an excellent season finale for Heroes | As scenes from the last 22 episodes are flashed on screen , Mohinder narrates about purposes . Hiro searches for Ando who took the sword and is seeking Sylar . Hiro's father reluctantly agrees and gives his son his own sword . In Issac's apartment , Ando finds Sylar and attempts to kill him . Sylar banishes him to a wi... |
455,082 | 11,228,318 | 969,430 | 10 | . 07 % is another excellent episode of Heroes | In the first new episode in over a month , HRG , in one cell , mind-communicates with Matt in another to get Ted from another cell as they plan their next move after escaping . Linderman shows Nathan his collection of paintings that were bought from Issac and talks of saving the world while looking at one with New York... |
455,051 | 11,228,318 | 25,997 | 10 | The Wise Little Hen is notable as the debut of Donald Duck | Just watched on YouTube this Disney Silly Symphony that's important for one reason and one reason only : It's the debut of Donald Duck and that of his creator , Clarance Nash . In this one , it's the musical version of the moral fable " The Wise Little Hen " with Florence Gil voicing the one who asks Donald and his fri... |
453,891 | 11,228,318 | 148,352 | 10 | Jasper's in a Jam is a most excellent musical George Pal Puppetoon | Jasper's in a Jam is one of the most entertaining shorts from George Pal Puppetoons to feature a little black boy . Instead of the usual shanty that the Jasper shorts usually take place in , this one's setting is at a big-city apartment that has a pawn shop with various musical instruments . When Jasper finds himself t... |
454,722 | 11,228,318 | 35,476 | 10 | Tulips Shall Grow is another excellent George Pal " Puppetoon " short | Like a few other shorts I just reviewed , Tulips Shall Grow was another one I just discovered on the Europa Film Treasures site . George Pal directed this " Puppetoon " after he moved to the United States and started to work for Paramount . In this one , a Dutch young man and young woman are enjoying themselves among t... |
453,761 | 11,228,318 | 452,632 | 10 | How to Eat Your Watermelon . . . provides unique insight on Melvin Van Peebles | Having previously seen Sweet Sweetback . . . , Watermelon Man , his son Mario's Badaaaasssss ! , I took one look at this documentary on DVD at my local library and had to check this out quickly ! What a fascinating look at Melvin Van Peebles ' life and various careers ( as a side note , I was pleasantly surprised findi... |
454,576 | 11,228,318 | 58,536 | 10 | Rudolph , the Red-Nosed Reindeer is the most classic of Rankin / Bass holiday specials | What can I say about Rankin / Bass ' initial doll-animated Christmas special Rudolph , the Red-Nosed Reindeer that hasn't already been said by many of the posters here ? Only that despite some now sexist notions of many of the adult male characters , this special seems very forward thinking in promoting individuality ,... |
454,092 | 11,228,318 | 39,843 | 10 | So You Want to Be in Pictures was a most hilarious Joe McDoakes short | This is my fourth Joe McDoakes short that I've seen and so far the funniest one . In this one , Joe takes voice lessons from a record impersonating Charles Boyer and Ronald Colman . When he goes to Warner Bros . Studio ( the company behind this series , incidentally ) , he asks Jack Carson for directions which gets bot... |
453,866 | 11,228,318 | 295,517 | 10 | Photocopy Cha Cha is surreal and a little bit . . . erotic | Chel White takes images , all from black-and-white photocopied pictures , and mixes them in a dissolving dream-like state to a somewhat familiar whistling electronic instrumental that blows your mind . Various men and women in stages of undress keep you in a sexy state of mind that you won't forget . I most certainly d... |
454,288 | 11,228,318 | 58,557 | 10 | Seance on a Wet Afternoon is a great British suspense film | This was a British picture that I had long wanted to see so when I went to my local library and found this there , I quickly checked it out . Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough are perfectly chilling as the séance wife Myra and reluctant kidnapper Billy . Judith Donner , in her only role , brings a subtle naturalness... |
455,129 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,266 | 10 | Corpsicle is one of the best episodes of " Pushing Daises " yet | Because Chuck has left after finding out Ned inadvertently killed her father , Ned can't concentrate on the case at hand which is this : an insurance salesman is found dead this snowy day in front of a snowplow . When Ned touches him , this salesman says he was hit with " kindness " which was written on a bat with that... |
455,239 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,271 | 10 | The Gallery Show is the best episode of " Samantha Who ? " I've seen so far | In a nutshell : Samantha receives an invitation to ex Todd's photo gallery show . She goes to the apartment intending to tell him she's not going but Todd spills that Chloe didn't want Sam to come . So Sam tells him she's now dating someone named Rance . Moments later , after failing with Andrea and Dena's help to find... |
455,066 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,270 | 10 | The Butterflies is another hilarious episode of " Samantha Who ? " | As Sam talks with Dena about her encounter with Todd in the last episode on her way to work , her boss , Mr . Chapman , walks by . He overhears Dena tell Sam to " let your heart be your dog " in comparing love and pets . When Sam gets on the elevator with Chapman , they both stay quiet until Chapman , about to exit , t... |
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