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...beer commercials (Goebel Brewing Co.) which are so attractive that one station has actually received requests to "play it again." Most of Joop's commercials run about 20 seconds, feature remarkably lifelike, plastic puppets moving stringlessly, smoothly and expressively through slapdash roles. Only near the end of the "puppetoon" does the audience get the well-cushioned plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Play It Again | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...usual, DeMille twists history until Clio cries uncle. The Third Crusade was a chiefly political adventure which set one-half of the world against the other; under DeMille's pseudo-Homeric touch the story shapes up as a sort of Puppetoon Iliad, chiefly concerned with regal wrangles over a medieval beauty (Miss Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Jasper and the Watermelons (George Pal's Puppetoon of a Negro boy and the forbidden fruit; TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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