Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Film Foundation). Making a film puppet-show is even more complicated than making an animated cartoon. This one, though lighted so as to give the effect of a silhouet, is three dimensional. The figures had to be drawn, then cut out of cardboard and sheet-lead, then articulated so that they could move. A German designer, Mrs. Lotte Reiniger, working with Walter Ruttmann (who made for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari expressionistic sets never surpassed in the cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats...
Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America last week announced that, because of complaints of many censor boards, the famed udder of the cow in the Mickey Mouse cartoons was now banned. Cows in Mickey Mouse or other cartoon pictures in the future will have small or invisible udders quite unlike the gargantuan organ whose antics of late have shocked some and convulsed other of Mickey Mouse's patrons. In a recent picture the udder, besides flying violently to left and right or stretching far out behind when the cow was in motion, heaved with its panting when...
Already censors have dealt sternly with Mickey Mouse. He and his associates do not drink, smoke or caper suggestively. Once a Mickey Mouse cartoon was barred in Ohio because the cow read Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. German censors ruled out another picture because "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose an army of mice is offensive to national dignity" (TIME, July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only...
...Wykagyl Country Club at New Rochelle, N. Y., famed as the setting of many a golf cartoon by the late Clare A, Briggs ("When a Feller Needs a Friend") and adjoining his favorite course, caught fire and burned to the ground. Six resident guests and a few clerks escaped. The new, modern clubhouse separated from the old by a swimming pool was undamaged...
Last week's cartoon (see cut) was another reaction to the Lamont Fund. The caption read: "With No Apologies to Mr. Lamont: the Alumni Do Right by the College Martyrs...