Unpredictable as Weather (Part 27)
Lots of fun where the sun don’t shine.
Tag Archives: Little Audrey
Famous Studios: Noveltoons 1948-51
The Noveltoons of the late 1940’s and early 1950’s continued to please audiences, steady as she goes.
Famous Studios: Noveltoons 1946-47
The Paramount Noveltoons during the immediate postwar years were met with considerable musical success.
Back to School (Part 9)
This week, we continue in our survey of the 1950’s, beginning with an Academy Award winner and more ventures into stylistic limited animation.
Hit the Beach (Part 9)
Today we follow animation’s sun-worshipers into the later 1950’s. Pass the bottle of Coppertone QT, if you please.
Mountains of Scanning and “The Seapreme Court” (1954)
The coolest thing about seeing a 35mm Technicolor print of these Famous Studios films is all the detail and brightness of the soundtrack.
Fitness v. Fatness (Part 4): The Fattening Forties
World War II was coming to an end, and Americans considered themselves as living high off the hog – and no doubt many started to look like one in the process.
Courtroom Drama: Deliberate Deliberation (Part 5)
We stare in wonderment (call it “stare decisis”) at the judicial process in action in the cartoons discussed herein.
“Santa’s Surprise” (1947)
I’ve had that certain ‘sound’ of the Paramount Cartoon orchestration humming in my head, so when I was thinking about what to show this week I thought about Santa’s Surprise.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1955
If you weren’t Famous Studios or (surprise!) UPA you were not nominated this year. Everyone else: Nominated!
