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...Brattle has brought back two of the best shorts of recent years, and they deserve mention--A fantasy-cartoon called Moonbird about a nocturnal adventure of two little brothers and Peter Sellers' ingenious and zany Running, Jumping, and Standing Still...
...that "Canada has no intention whatsoever of imposing any embargo on Canadian goods in Cuban trade." The Cuban reaction could hardly have been happier. Cheered Havana's El Mundo: "In Canada there does not prevail the aggressive hysteria which blinds the United States." The Castro paper ran a cartoon showing Canada's sturdy arm breaking the "Yankee economic blockade" around Cuba. Added the Cuban embassy in Ottawa: Relations with Canada are "perfect...
...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...