Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...51st Dragon, taken from the text by the late Heywood Broun, is the second cartoon in U.P.A.'s (United Productions of America) series of comic legends for moderns. Like the first, an animation of James Thurber's Unicorn in the Garden (TIME, Oct. 26), it is a nasal little ballad that ends with a sly intellectual hiccup. The admirers of Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker and Porky Pig are not likely to be broken up with hilarity. Still, it is refreshing to laugh at an idea instead of an oink, and the kidding of medieval styles...
...Angeles, the American Broadcasting Co. and Walt Disney studios signed a long-term contract. First result will be a series of 26 hour-long TV shows this fall, combining live action and cartoon technique3 in a program "based on adventure, variety, romance and comedy...
WALT DISNEY has made a multimillion-dollar deal with the American Broadcasting Co. to put his entire menagerie on TV. Starting in October, Disney will turn out a weekly, hour-long cartoon show with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck & Co., has agreed to do a minimum of 26 each year under a long-term contract...
...Cinemaker Walt Disney, already the winner of 18 Oscars, won four more for his documentaries Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo, The Living Desert, and the cartoon Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom...
Martin and Gaston is an animated cartoon in color, drawn and written by children, aged 8 to 10. in a French grammar school. It tells the story of two little boys who take an ocean voyage, are shipwrecked on an island, live there like Robinson Crusoe, are attacked by cannibals, rescued by the French navy and taken back to France, where they get "a parade, and many medals and money...