Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she finally cuddles, beneath the covers, the camera moves in for a gulping closeup. Nancy murmurs "good night" but makes it sound like an invitation marked R.S.V.P. Her eyes close, her lips part gently and she drifts off to slumberland to fadeout music and a cartoon of fence-jumping sheep...
...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m.. ABC). Cartoon versions of tales by Aesop, La Fontaine, Andersen and the Brothers Grimm...
...period flavor, and fell from favor. But with his like-minded peers Jack Levine and Ben Shahn, Evergood has come back strong in recent years, steadily, if spottily, extending the range of his art. An Evergood show today is apt to run the gamut from gloomy realism through cartoon-style satire to exuberant fantasy, and to include some of the freshest and most skillful canvases of the season...
Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...
Lady and the Tramp (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) draws a bead on the susceptible hearts of some 20 million U.S. dog lovers with a 75-minute Cinema-Scope cartoon of the romance between a high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...