Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cartoonist Harold T. Webster doesn't own a television set, has never seen a Milton Berle show, and would rather play bridge than watch Faye Emerson, plunging neckline and all. Yet his once-a-week cartoon, The Unseen Audience, has made him one of the nation's best and best-known critics of radio & television...
After 49 years of political cartooning, Britain's famed David Low wanted a "try at new things and a change of air." The "new thing" turned out to be a weekly cartoon strip, which made its first appearance this week in Auckland's New Zealand Herald and other papers around the world, begins next week in Low's home paper, the London Daily Herald. The strip's title: World Citizen...
...first, students are not bothered with spelling; most of their homework is with phonograph records, and the textbooks they do use are spelled phonetically. Gradually, after weeks of listening to long lists of recorded words and phrases, students begin to read, starting with simple cartoon captions and working up to newspapers and regular books. Meanwhile in class and mess hall, they converse constantly, act out skits (e.g., parachuting into enemy territory), see movies with foreign languages dubbed in (among them: The True Glory, with General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking a rippling, dubbed-in Portuguese). Finally, near...
...priceless gift for which James Thurber was honored in Williamstown on Commencement Day, 1951, may soon be made available to half the world. United Productions of America, which last year made the Oscar-winning cartoon comedy short, Gerald McBoing-Boing, has announced a forthcoming eight-reel, 80-minute color film-partly animated, partly live-that will be derived solely from Thurber's writings and drawings. U.P.A. crosses its heart & hopes to die that the picture, tentatively titled Men, Women and Dogs, will be not only all Thurber but true Thurber. Shooting will start this year; release is scheduled...
...woman tried to have her husband sent to the booby hatch and was instead committed herself); 2) dramatizations, using flesh & blood actors, of four of the "Mr. & Mrs. Monroe" stories, dealing with marriage perplexities; 3) another animated lecture, urging the superiority of dogs to humans and including that celebrated cartoon sequence, The Bloodhound and the Bug; 4) a live dramatization of The Whippoorwill, one of Thurber's narrative ventures into neurasthenic horror; and 5) a three-reel version of his fantasy, The White Deer...