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Time to put all that behind us. The Black Cauldron, based on the Chronicles of Prydain series of books by Lloyd Alexander, is the 25th full-length "cartoon" from Disney. That means that by this time the only tradition to which it must be true is its own--not the folklorists', not the child psychologists', not the literary world's. And within those terms it is fine, and perhaps more ambitiously so than any other recent work from the studio. This is the first Disney cartoon feature to receive an admonitory PG rating; more important, it is the first...
...sense of humor is intact. He loved the cartoon that showed a nurse looking out of a hospital window, saying, "Somebody get down there and stop that clown from chopping wood before he disturbs the President!" The man beside her looks down and says, "Good heavens ... that is the President!" Reagan showed the cartoon around Bethesda Naval Hospital, only to have some of the nurses lift their eyebrows over the ample proportions of the nurse in the drawing. "So when I left the hospital," Reagan said, "I told all of [the nurses] I was going to do my utmost...
These remarkable images, as sharp as photographs, yet as free from the bounds of reality as an animated cartoon, were crafted not by humans but by computers. They were among the 35 video and film clips showcased last week at the twelfth annual gathering of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH), the equivalent of the Academy Awards for 25,000 artists, programmers and electronics engineers involved in the complex business of making computer...
...would like to express my disapproval of the cartoon regarding the death of Pope John Paul II that was in the April 4 issue of The Crimson. As a Catholic myself, I found it disrespectful and tactless. All Catholics are currently in a period of mourning and trying to lighten the mood with a comic was not appropriate as the subject of a satirical comic. I highly encourage the staff to reconsider publishing comics along those lines in the future...
...nearly perfect song—brilliant beat, slick chorus, and repeated references to the classic cartoon “Underdog,” which Amerie’s “One Thing” sadly lacks. Guess that’s the end of that “theme” for this week’s Uncharted Waters...