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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking of cartoons, there are some animated ones on the same bill, all UPA, that also are some of the best in their line. With them as a short subject, semi-cartoon, semi-surrealism, is a remarkable film in which designs and drawings have been painted directly on the frames of the film strip itself. It races by in wild color and sound like a fast dream, and is just as fascinating. Feature and shorts combined, the Kenmore this week is probably the best light film bill you will see in Boston all winter...
Since it is also a short film, the Exeter has padded the program with The History of the Cinema, a rather primitive cartoon imitating the UPA method and wit with lame success. There is also a ten-minute visit to England's Trooping of the Colours, one of the world's few surviving large scale pageants. The film is appropriately impressive and colorful...
...note that once again the dauntless Mr. Magoo was the bright spot of the evening. Indeed, were it not for our nearsighted saviour, Brattle patrons might think that the motion picture distributors were giving the Brattle little but second rate material. Those of us whose interests extend beyond UPA cartoons, travelogues, and re-releases of originally poor films are becoming discouraged...
...Thing Lacking. CBS thought well enough of the prospects to buy 25% of UPA's stock for about $1,000,000 and to order a 26-show series for the current season. The network also has an option to keep the series going for seven years beyond that. In future weeks Gerald will preside over the same lively blend of the whimsical and the wacky. There will be cartoons on such artists and inventors as Henri Rousseau, Robert Fulton and Samuel F.B. Morse: the adventures of Dusty, a circus boy; comic versions of famous historic moments (Nero Fiddles...
...show is a treat far costlier than its makers originally estimated; the rising cost of the laborious animating process pushed the price of the average half-hour to $60,000, more than that of some top-flight variety show's with expensive live performers. Mainly for this reason, UPA was placed in a strange position for a cartoon company that holds the best possible credentials from TV advertisers. It still lacks the one thing to make its new show complete: a sponsor...