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They journey in the magic bed to the enchanted Isle of Naboombu, which is populated, in predictable Disney tradition, by anthropomorphic cartoon creatures. Professor Browne wrests the amulet from the lion king and the jolly group is off again, back to the cliffside cottage where they settle down to battle Germans with their sorcery...
...Walt Disney was still in grade school in 1915 when Terry began to create a barnyard full of animated characters for the silent screen. Operating from a converted Knights of Columbus hall in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., he cranked out hundreds of "Terrytoons"-seven-minute mini-adventures starring such cartoon immortals as Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle...
...British Foreign Office declined to comment, but a Conservative M.P. introduced a motion in the House of Commons questioning the Senator's qualifications "for expressing moral judgments on anything"-an obvious reference to the 1969 Chappaquiddick tragedy. In a cutting cartoon, the London Evening Standard showed a crusty clubman growling over his port: "Looks like Kennedy's driven in at the deep end again...
...Here is Cartoonist Joe Barbera displaying a large illustration of a beagle and a cat, central characters in a pilot cartoon about middle-class family life as seen through the eyes of their pets. "Can't sell it," complains the illustrator. [The networks] say it's too gentle. They want hard action...
...remainder of the new ABC children's shows are, unfortunately, more like the old ones. Funky Phantom is an adventure cartoon centering around three teenagers, their pet dog and a ghost from the Revolutionary War era. Also new is Lidsville. It is a loud and noisy half-hour telling about a kid who took a header into a giant top hat and ended up in a land called Lidsville, inhabited by, of all things, hats. Head bad guy is an inept wizard named Whoo-Doo, who calls his minions "stupid" and classifies them as "little creeps." Jackson 5, still...