Word: magoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge police called in special investigators from the F.B.I last night in an attempt to recover a stolen three-pound Magoo original...
...Magoo original, eight inches by then inches, formerly hung in the lobby of the Brattle Theater, Brattle Square, Cambridge...
...rest easy about the first attempt to animate on the screen the characters in Thurber's cartoons. The Unicorn in the Garden-directed by Bill Hurtz of Stephen Bosustow's gifted crew at U.P.A., which has in the last two years produced Gerald McBoing-Boing, Mr. Magoo and The Tell Tale Heart-is the subtlest of the lot. The Thurber Male looks just as he always does-browbeaten by the Thurber Female, and the unicorn is so attractive that he will make Thurber fans wish Bosustow & Co. would try The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble, The Bear...
...Actor James Mason, the film is one of the first attempts to use the animated cartoon to tell a psychological horror tale. Other cartoon shorts, such as Disney's Donald Duck, Metro's Tom & Jerry, and particularly U.P.A.'s own Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo, have accustomed moviegoers to a skillful distortion of reality and a triumph of line over mass that is characteristic of much contemporary art. The Tell Tale Heart goes far beyond such experimentation. Moviegoers may be more dazed than frightened by its explosion of color and form, by the haunting transformation...
U.P.A.'s plans call for full-length treatment of a collection of James Thurber stories (half live, half animation), Ben Jonson's Volpone, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Meanwhile, half the company's shorts will feature a nearsighted bumbler named Mr. Magoo. Little Gerald's talents are too specialized for many other stories, but in its own way, his "Boing!" may prove as resounding as the first peep out of Mickey Mouse...