Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from CBS. Programs include a re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg as directed by Delbert (Marty) Mann and a look at the history of U.S. musical comedy through the eyes, ears and expressive hands of Leonard Bernstein. Disneyland will document "The Great Cat Family" with an all-animated cartoon, make a study of the atom and recount man's efforts to fly. Disney will also launch a TV spectacular called Johnny Tremain, about "events leading up to the American Revolution." Afternoon Film Festival and Famous Film Festival will serve up 46 J. Arthur Rank films never seen...
...vastly increased barrage of U.S. advertising ($9 billion in 1955, v. $3.4 billion in 1946). Says a Los Angeles agency executive: "We are suffering from fatigue of believability." To revive the customer, admen are turning increasingly to sotto voce selling: the eye-catching picture, the self-deprecating cartoon, the chuckle. Says one character: "I was a 99-lb. weakling. Then I bought a Carrier Room Air Conditioner. I'm still a 99-lb. weakling but, boy, is my bedroom nice and cool!" In Atlanta a cartoon colonel declares: "I'd even go North for Southern Bread...
...after such talk Britain had either to pressure Nasser into backing down or compromising or it had to work to bring him down, by whatever method it could. The alternative for Britain was a disastrous loss of international prestige. On second thoughts, some British editorialists (though not all: see cartoon) were grateful to Dulles for having postponed a hasty solution by force. In the London Times, veteran Diplomat Anthony Eden got a lesson in diplomacy from one of his former diplomats, Sir Ralph Stevenson (until last year British Ambassador to Egypt). "Action which would result in a legacy...
...attempt to make their lectures "visually interesting," the desperate professor-performers "began to spend hours and hours getting up gimmicks. A production number on Joyce proved nightmarish-there were drawings of Joyce, a cartoon of Joyce, pictures of Joyce's friends, there was Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake...
...gets back where it started from-is mostly not much better than the brothel sequence in any other Technicolor musical. The third offering is a parody of Scheherazade, in which Kelly, as a Sinbad in a sailor suit, does an ever-so-cute little dance with some animated cartoon figures...