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Close Up #1; Opening--The screen suddenly lights up with an opening cartoon at the Brattle. It is a Daffy Duck cartoon. In 1955 the Brattle was a real theater, staging a lot of "classics" for the college crowd. Live actors. Live audiences. It has diminished somewhat...
ITHACA, N.Y.--Remember that guy who used to lead cartoon characters and their viewers in rousing choruses of "Oh, Susannah" or "I've Been Working On the Railroad" with the immortal words, "Follow the bouncing ball"? Well, those old cartoons are long tucked away in the annals of after-school TV, but the song leader has found himself a new job--as the football color commentator at Radio Cornell, where the ball never stops bouncing...
...Brow, B-B Eyes and 88 Keyes (the larcenous pianist). But the villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean of comic-strip detectives. Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould: "I left Tracy...
Many teachers and parents are skeptical of computer-controlled, cartoon-like learning devices. They wonder, as Author Fran Lebowitz has put it, what happens when the child "discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens." But the juvenile appetite for dancing letters appears to be insatiable. Indeed, this fall some of the computer software, designed by Children's Television Workshop of New York City, creators of Sesame Street and Sesame Place, will be available in computer retail shops and by direct mail from Apple...
...only cosmetics, toiletries and other grooming aids, considers it inappropriate to promote their wares directly to children. "We would prefer that the parents make the decisions on what to buy," says Greenfield. The commercials featuring Danielle will appear only on adult soap operas and game shows and not on cartoon programs...