Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Actor-Author John P. Wade saw the Walt Disney cartoon, Mickey's Polo Team, he sued Disney for a share of the film's profits. Alleged plagiarism: that the gag of the horses riding the riders had been lifted from Author Wade's skit, The Trainer's Nightmare. In court, attorneys for Cartoonist Walt Disney identified the device as a variation on "the reversal gag," easily traced it to Aesop. Said Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Gould, dismissing the suit and plagiarizing Ecclesiastes: ". . . It appears there is nothing new under...
...pictures were taken and posed strictly as a gag, although the captions are very misleading...
...Putzel seems to have converted other people's misconceptions about Toulouse-Lautrec into a running gag...
...highly efficient, if occasionally cockeyed, procedure. First step in the making of any Disney picture is the story conference, at which the Disney story staff gathers to sort out ideas that may have grown out of their half-dozen minds, or may have been plucked out of the studio gag library, a sort of omnibus of humor and situations from Aesop to Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Before any script is written, it is discussed and pantomimed by the eager gagsters, who solemnly simulate Donald Duck squawking his rage when trapped under a theatre curtain, or frozen Pluto, slinking...
...Awful Truth," current attraction at Loew's State and Orpheum, is good comedy, it is thanks to a couple of gag-writers and not to the creative genius of Hollywood producers. The acting abilities of Irene Dunn have been sorely limited by one of the worst scenarios she has ever been given, and as staunch admirers of Miss Dunn's we are thoroughly incensed...