Unpredictable as Weather (Part 19)
Lots of star power this week, with many of the major players in Hollywood cartoons taking their stand in the rain and snow.
Tag Archives: Little Lulu
Famous Studios: Oh, Lulu!
Paramount cartoons return to New York and introduce a new cartoon series during the wartime forties – loaded with music.
Famous Studios’ “Lulu at the Zoo” (1944)
While it isn’t the funniest of the series, it’s beautifully designed and animated with a great score – and Dutch subtitles!
“Bargain Counter Attack” (1946) from a 35mm IB nitrate print
It’s a charming cartoon, well-designed and executed. And Little Lulu’s mischief making gags are pretty fun.
Flights of Fancy (Part 17) – Disturbing the Peace
We’ll cover more titles than usual this week, due to several containing only rather short sequences of direct relevance to these articles.
Nitrate Technicolor Cartoons are Beautiful: Little Lulu in “Loose in the Caboose”
The timing, gags with a jazzy score keep this cartoon moving right along in this 35mm print.
Hit the Beach (Part 10)
As usual, Hanna Barbera takes the lead in producing beach-related episodes, while a handful of surviving theatrical studios provide occasional output on a similar theme.
Courtroom Drama: Bench Warmers (Part 4)
Life for a judge in the human world can be challenging enough – but life for a judge in Toontown has to be absolutely “trying”.
Reign of the Supertoons (Part 2)
We continue our survey of the super-heroic character in the classic Hollywood cartoon.
Happy Henfruit Pt. 5: Eggs-cruciating!
More Eggs! I’ve really mixed myself into an omelette on this project, which promises to be my longest trail to date, with more and more discoveries hatching.
