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With bestiary thrills for children and satire for grownups, evening cartoon shows have in fact become the news of the new season, following the success of last year's The Flintstones (TIME. Oct. 10). Four are going on the networks this fall. The Bullwinkle Show (NBC) is possibly the most imaginative...
...house near Sunset Strip, and their wild enthusiasm often suggests the final hours before a college humor magazine is put to bed. Ward, 41, is a former real estate man who entered TV in 1947, conceiving, writing and co-producing Crusader Rabbit, the first original animated television cartoon. Scott, whose sketch pad now yields all the Bullwinkle characters, wrote scripts for U.P.A.'s The Nearsighted Mister Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing...
...German, the offense is worse: the British are currently in the mood of resenting the fact that in a Berlin crisis it would be Germans they were fighting to save. All this was behind a Fleet Street tizzy last week. The press had found a West German election cartoon showing Queen Elizabeth II simpering happily at a granite-faced but visionary Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (.see cut) under the legend: "Partners of the Free World...
Huffed London's Daily Sketch: "It is believed that never before has the Queen been used-especially in a cartoon-to capture votes in an election." The London Times majestically remarked that the Queen's traditional detachment from politics "may not have been fully appreciated in Germany." The British Foreign Office "drew attention" to the matter in an icy phone call to the West German embassy...
...months after the death of Com poser Maurice Ravel in 1937, his brother Edouard saw Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and decided that "this is the way L'Enfant et les Sortileges should be presented. Ravel's second and last opera had for its locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists...