Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south of the border is still mostly a colorful legend. It is-to many Americans-unsanitary and exotic, the place where Aunt Clara got dysentery and watched dark-skinned boys dive 165 ft. into a surging wave at Acapulco. It is violent: the plump señora in the cartoon scolds her sombreroed husband as he cleans his pistol, saying "Oh, Pablo, you're not going back into politics!" In the cities it has modern hotels, traffic jams, skyscrapers and ocherous murals; in the country drowsy peons in scrapes prop the walls of moldering churches in quaint colonial villages...
...with a neighbor widow, they try to reform him; they fail, of course. He makes sausages out of plastic hose at the plant, devastates their garden party, and transports their son on his fuming motorbike. The characters, in their smug posturings and ridiculous appearance, are like cartoon characters, as the film itself is a plotless continuity of cartoon-like situations. It is one of the funniest bunches of cartoons ever assembled...
Speaking of cartoons, there are some animated ones on the same bill, all UPA, that also are some of the best in their line. With them as a short subject, semi-cartoon, semi-surrealism, is a remarkable film in which designs and drawings have been painted directly on the frames of the film strip itself. It races by in wild color and sound like a fast dream, and is just as fascinating. Feature and shorts combined, the Kenmore this week is probably the best light film bill you will see in Boston all winter...
...cartoon in the Chicago Sun showed Artur Rodzinski sailing high over the Chicago skyline astride a musical note. His grey mane streamed in the wind; one hand clutched a baton. Above his smiling face loomed a defiant caption: "I shall return...
During Curley's successful campaign for Governor in 1934, the Lampoon published a cartoon satire entitled "Curley Addressing His Puritan Ancestors." Curley demanded a public apology. "The downy-cheeked editors waited in an ante-chamber at City Hall for two hours," he recalled, "while I wrote out an abject apology for them to sign. They signed...