Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good to read again (Sept. 26) about Bill Mauldin. When I was an infantryman in Europe during World War II, his Willie and Joe cartoons were deeply appreciated. I haven't seen my old wartime friends for many years, and was overseas at the time of General Marshall's death [when Mauldin drew his last Willie and Joe cartoon]. How about reproducing the 1959 cartoon for those of us who never had a chance to say a proper auf Wiedersehen to those old dogfaces...
...good, well-timed, funny films, but-to meet the demands of TV-they have vastly accelerated the complicated animation process itself. One half-hour with The Flintstones requires 43,000 individually exposed frames of film, but Hanna and Barbera are turning out more footage in two weeks than the cartoon departments of the major studios used to complete in a year. They do it by concentrating on simple closeups, avoiding elaborate backgrounds, and following such short cuts as reducing all speech to nine basic mouth movements...
...mathematical intricacies of matching dialogue to action and budgeting the exact number of frames necessary to build each joke and each dissolve. Barbera, who can draw almost as fast as he can talk, does the planning-stage sketch work, can create a fully plotted storyboard (a sort of cartoon outline with dialogue) in five hours...
...Flintstones (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Premiere of a cartoon situation-comedy series, created by the team that put Huckleberry Hound on the junior map, about a Stone Age family that presumably gets its milk in quartz...
...police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz had been a Disney animator. On a diet of zwieback, Lasik sits in a druggist's window advertising the shocking effects of not drinking cod liver oil; later he understudies for a circus monkey. Small wonder that when he wants to invoke...