Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Written by U.S. Songwriters Alan Livingston and Billy May, who got their idea from Warner Brothers' nondescript cartoon canary, Tweetie Pie, the song was originally recorded for children. Last fall, Capitol's British distributors asked for permission to release the American record in their own standard popular series. BBC Disc Jockey Sam Costa heard it, liked it so well he played it for five programs in a row. When he dropped it from his sixth program, it had become such a hit with his audience that he "was snowed under with hundreds of letters" of complaint...
Though the show looked like entertainment to NBC, its sponsors and its audience, Walt Disney stoutly insisted that it was only "exploitation" for his forthcoming Alice in Wonderland movie. Perhaps to soothe his TV-frightened movie distributors, Disney professed to see no television future for his great backlog of cartoon films. Said he: "I think the movies are still my natural habitat. The detail we put in our pictures, you just can't get out on TV. I propose to use the medium only to enhance theatrical revenues...
...welcome Clement Attlee back from his White House conferences, the London Daily Mail ran a cartoon of the Prime Minister dressed in cowboy boots, holding a ten-gallon hat and speaking a Fleet Street version of U.S. dialect: "Waal folks, I been away quite a piece, I guess, and it sure is mighty fine to be back here wid youse guys on dis li'l ol' island...
Creator of Pogo is tall, moonfaced Walter Kelly, 37, who has a quick ear for fantastic word twists and a gentle eye for the gentler foibles of mankind. Kelly, who spent five years as a cartoon animator for Walt Disney, began drawing Pogo in a daily strip in 1948, while he was art director of the New York Star. After the Star folded, the Post-Hall Syndicate rescued Pogo and started him on his rapid climb...
...training he ever got was in scrawling naughty words on automobiles in the London working-class suburb of Islington, where he grew up. (His "racing family" refers to his father's occupation as a jockey.) At 14, he got a job sharpening pencils and carrying tea to movie-cartoon animators in Alexander Korda's film company, got his bosses to let him trace some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that in 1937 Reynolds News gave him a job as a cartoonist...