Word: magoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were developed to simulate the motions of real life. Animators like John Hubley rebelled against Disney's sleek realism. They produced films that frankly displayed their characters as drawings, not people. Backgrounds were not landscapes, but sketches. The results were such creations as Gerald McBoing Doing and Mr. Magoo. Candidly stylized, outrageously unrealistic, they made a kind of claim to be art. Edelmann and Submarine obviously belong to this tradition rather than Disney's. He chooses to seize attitudes rather than to simulate motion. His characters strut, jerk and visually stutter across landscapes that never were. The result...
...each shot conencted by continuity of movement. The style differed from ordinary live-action narrative only in its being a drawn image and in its evocatve distortions of color. Disney's realism remains a basic standard for the representational cartoon. Without detracting from the simplified stylization of UPA (Mr. Magoo), the Hubleys (Moonbirds), or Derek Lamb (whose unforgettable Great Toy Robbery is a classic of the genre), Disney's merging of animation and classical photographic montage is still, by default, the most completely satisfying esthetic in the field of animated narrative...
Thursday, October 17 THE FABULOUS SHORTS (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A combined live action-animation salute to Academy Award-winning cartoons, including discussion of the art of animation by Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny. Actor Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo) is host...
...other flight engineer, but mostly because of "a certain feeling; you get to be like a cat or some kind of an animal sometimes." The flight to which McGuire transferred was supposed to be a dangerous one. Its pilot, since given other duties, carried the sobriquet of "Mr. Magoo." It landed safely at the Biafran airstrip, and McGuire waited in vain to meet friends on his former flight, but "they got clobbered...
Thursday, September 26 BLONDIE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Chic Young's 38-year-old comic strip returns to television after ten years. Patricia Harty is Blondie, Will Hutchins is Dagwood. and Jim Backus (Mister Magoo) is J. C. Dithers. Premiere...