Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction among farmers was exemplified in a cartoon by E.A. Harris, which showed a startled rooster rather lamely explaining to a quizzical hen"Nobody told me about Daylight Saving!" Attendance at some churches in New York City was off. Explained the Rev. Frank Walinski of St. Peter's Lutheran Church: "If you want a personal opinion, it's hard as hell to get up in the morning." In Baltimore, most of the prominently placed public clocks were not turned ahead immediately; because their lights had been turned off to conserve energy, the clocks were unreadable in the morning...
...work successfully for years as an ultraconservative editorial-page cartoonist with the New York Sun and Journal. Goldberg died in 1970 at the age of 87. Neither Biographer Marzio's scholarly research nor the cartoonist's own occasional triumphs- he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon in 1947 - can disguise the fact that the man had lost his inspired, raffish touch; most of his late work was simply dull. All of which poses a question: How can a person leave this or any similar book half unread without feeling the slightest qualm? With a bow to Professor...
...Cambridge exception is the Welles, which continues its cartoon festival this weekend and shows King Kong at the beginning of next week. Look carefully at Kong and you'll see how he sort of quivers even when he's standing still. What you'll be noticing is the result of the animation methods the filmmakers used: it's one of the few ways you can tell for sure that King Kong isn't real...
Directing a cartoon, like directing a full-length movie, requires total immersion in every aspect of the creation. Jones worked on the story with the writer, made all the important drawings himself, supervised the background painting, even collaborated on the sound effects and music. He habitually speaks of his characters as if they were people ("The Coyote fulfills Santayana's definition of a fanatic-someone who redoubles his efforts when he's forgotten his aim"). Moreover, he thinks of them as people who make ideal actors: they can achieve any facial expression or gesture the director desires, thus...
This is part of the reason why Warner Bros, remains deaf to Jones' urgings that it resume cartoon production. Indeed, Warner's has burned its original cartoon art to make storage space and has sold off the TV rights to the characters at a cheap rate. Jones, at 61 a gentle, whimsical figure with a Carl Sandburg forelock, is far from hard up. Father of a daughter, grandfather of three, he shuttles between his Hollywood offices and a home in the Burbank hills and weekends at a house overlooking the Pacific, which he shares with Dorothy, his wife...