Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carried dignitaries to past ceremonies, the flower petals carpeting the streets and the thousands of peasant farmers bused into the capital at public expense. Instead the guests pulled up in ordinary black sedans, the streets were strewn with confetti rather than flowers, and masses of campesinos stayed home. A cartoon in the daily Excelsior said it all. Spoofing traditional views of the head of state astride his noble steed, the newspaper showed De la Madrid jumping on a horse's skeleton...
Someone from ABC apparently heard "Jingle Bells" in the jingle of coins at a video arcade recently. And the result means big bucks for the people who gave video-gobbler Pac-Man his own Saturday morning cartoon. Based on this show's success as the highest-rated children's show on television, the agents behind Pac-Man's TV career now bring us "Christmas Comes to Pac Land Presumably, Ms. Pac-Man will guest star in the Dec. 16 special, with Marty Engels as the voice of the electronic big-mouth...
...Twas the Night Before Christmas," Dec. 18. First shown in 1974, this cartoon has it all: sour old Scrooges, children in despair, a judicious town mayor, even gift lists returned from the North Pole marked "Not Accepted by Addressee." Narrated by Joel Grey, this adaptation of Clement Moore's famous poem is not recommended for people who fear mice...
...Frosty the Snowman," Dec. 21 Another cartoon classic, featuring the voice of the late Jimmy Durante. Even before Mr. Bill arrived on the scene, this show pioneered the "Ani-Magic" method of filming Gumby-like characters using stop-motion photography...
...just as well that The Last Unicorn falls short of becoming as animation classic, because seeing such mundane, stereotypic images of unicorns only makes the beasts truly extinct. Such a Saturday-morning-cartoon style of animation cannot sustain a two-hour fantasy. Unicorns, after all, belong in the realm of the imagination...