Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Done with the usual Disney care for detail and sense of comic pace, and with more than the usual share of good visual surprises, the cartoon reaches a most un-Disney-like climax in a fine burst of political irreverence...
...Lampoon's Harvard-Yale Game issue kicks the Old Grad and the pigskin squarely and sometimes humorously. Eighteen photographs supplement the parody on sport sidelights and interviews with Grand Old Men of Football. Perhaps Lampy's switch to photography is a last gasp effort to beat the cartoon nemesis--it may not succeed...
...Evolution of Football as Yale" is an uninspiring transition cartoon showing player, official, and spectator in three phases since 1893. While Updike's cartoons bolster some pieces, the sketch of "Peanuts" in his wheelchair adds little to that story...
Also on the bill is Walt Disney's first try at CinemaScope, a Technicolor cartoon called Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom. Though the cartoon shows a strong UPA influence, it clings to the saccharine sentimentality that has often plagued Disney. Cluttered with tweeting birds and comic cave men, the wide screen loses its panoramic effect in a flood of blaring music and garish color...
Last week L'Humanite, the Communist daily in Paris, published a cartoon showing Secretary of State Dulles, in a snappy convertible, pulling up at a filling station operated by French Premier Joseph Laniel and ordering $385 million worth of French blood. (The U.S. recently decided to increase dollar aid to France that amount to carry on the Indo-China war.) In the National Assembly, during a crucial debate on Indo-China policy, ex-Premier Edouard Daladier echoed L'Humanite's blood & dollars theme. After tolling off the well-known drainages (76,000 casualties and $5 billion...