Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning today the unique Trans-Lux theatre presents another of its unusual programs featuring an excellent digest of the current news. In addition, the bill includes a diverting selection of short subjects: a color cartoon called "Little Moths, Big Flames"; "Screen Snapshots"; "Stranger Than Fiction"; "Athletic Oddities," narrated by the tongue-conscious Lew Lehr; "House-wife Herman," a Technicolor Terrytoon; and "Washington Parade...
Ferdinand (Walt Disney). Munro Leaf's and Robert Lawson's famed floraphile bull,* exhibiting his languid individualism in eight minutes of ingratiating Technicolor cartoon...
Rube adjusted himself quickly to his new profession. His first cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt holding a stopwatch over Industry struggling to escape from a straitjacket. Caption: EVEN HOUDINI COULDN'T DO THIS ONE. Nos. 2 and 3 were equally unfunny, but Rube promised his fans that the Sun would soon publish his design for an apparatus to collect War debts...
Cissie Patterson's chain gang departed, but she continued her fight with the President over the number of trees involved. At his press conference he said she was flimflamming the public to get circulation. Her last word was a cartoon showing a disreputable figure labeled "Flimflam Politics" saying, "All right, so we LIED to you-so what? And we're cutting down your damn CHERRY TREES...
...equal interest is Walt Disney's cartoon "Ferdinand the Bull." The freshness of the book is not spoiled even though Ferdinand wiggles his nose too violently as he sits "just quietly" and smells the flowers. The bull fight is very splendid. In addition there is another "feature" about football and college and things...