Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russians tried hard to laugh about the shortcomings of their new Five-Year Plan and the purges that came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments...
Bernard Baruch's friends handed him a 76th birthday present which everybody earnestly hoped would look just as jolly to the world a decade hence. It was a playful Derso-&-Kelen cartoon of Baruch and fellow delegates to the Atomic Energy Commission, all dressed up like Dumas' jolly musketeers...
From the swank Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif, came a new wave of raucous sound effects. It was no sign of new life in Walt's celebrated cartoon creatures. It sounded more like Donald Duck in a tizzy of indecision...
Actually the situation had been boiling up for years. Since 1940, cartoon costs have jumped 165% (due almost wholly to increased labor costs) while revenues have increased only 12%. Distributors have cold-shouldered efforts to increase rentals, which are still at the 1940 rate. Full-length cartoons, for all the fanfare about them, have only dug the hole deeper. As a result, most cartoonmakers (e.g., Lantz, Pal, Quimby, Selzer) are wondering how long they...
...million sunk in current productions. His average shorts, which cost $60,000 to $65,000 to produce and over $25,000 for prints, advertising and distribution, gross only $75,000 to $90,000 over a five-year period. Unless some drastic adjustments are made, Donald, along with his cartoon cousins, might soon be a stuffed Duck...