Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today's Hour includes a Grantland Rice Sport-light, a Disney cartoon, a Pete Smith specialty, a short starring Charlie McCarthy, and two news-reels--Paramount and M.G.M.--edited to avoid overlapping. These will run for the rest of the week and similar programs will be shown every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and will be extended to the whole week if they prove successful...
...Walt Disney's first feature-length animated cartoon is (1 Brother Roy, 2 Charlie McCarthy, 3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 4 Jack the Giant Killer, 5 Mary and Her Snow-White Lamb...
When Actor-Author John P. Wade saw the Walt Disney cartoon, Mickey's Polo Team, he sued Disney for a share of the film's profits. Alleged plagiarism: that the gag of the horses riding the riders had been lifted from Author Wade's skit, The Trainer's Nightmare. In court, attorneys for Cartoonist Walt Disney identified the device as a variation on "the reversal gag," easily traced it to Aesop. Said Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Gould, dismissing the suit and plagiarizing Ecclesiastes: ". . . It appears there is nothing new under...
...first animated cartoon showed a prehistoric animal he called "Gertie" and while...
...late Cartoonist McCay won a dinner from skeptical George McManus and the late Cartoonist Clare Briggs when, after early experiments with a short Little Nemo film, in 1909 at the old Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn he projected Gertie, The Dinosaur, a 1,000-ft. animated cartoon. To make it he spent $50,000, took over a year to draw and film 10,000 pictures...