Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicagoans, Father Dearborn is as familiar as Uncle Sam. In newspaper cartoons he is a corn-fed bumpkin in a plug hat and jack boots, wearing a spade beard. Who originated the symbol of Chicago is a mystery. John T. McCutcheon, dean of Chicago cartoonists, remembers him as far back as 1895, denies parentage. Many a Chicagoan was surprised and pleased last week to learn that Father Dearborn was not only a cartoon but a real though long-buried hero, who wore a cocked hat and a peruke and the uniform of the Continental Army. He was never in Chicago...
...proceedings of the courts for several months, that it could never be enforced. As a matter of fact, he didn't even provide for its enforcement in his law. Maybe he even realized that most people would laugh at the Cambridge City Council and that Dahl would draw a cartoon about it. But Mickey wanted to get into the papers...
Gulliver's Travels (Paramount). First and best full-length color cartoon was Walt Disney's Snow White. For a while it looked as if it would be the last unless No. 1 Movie Cartoonist Disney made another. But No. 2 Movie Cartoonist Max Fleischer had his own ideas about that. Eighteen months ago, he decided to challenge Snow White by making a full-length cartoon of his own, Gulliver's Travels. According to the publicity from Miami, he had 678 artists at his Florida studio, who turned out 665,280 drawings, used up 16 tons of paper...