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What could have been - with some pictures and video to boot
"I Weep Not For What Has Happened, I Weep For What Could Have Been..." Dept.:
Two Animators
Part One - Bob Clampett
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As brought to my attention by the excellent Occasional Heroine blog
Sometimes it's good to be reminded of the fundamentals. Special thanks to the Classic Cartoon blog.
"A Commitment To Our Roots" Dept.:
From the first Popeye cartoon, "Popeye The Sailor Man", Bluto manages to get Olive to the circus where she spurns him... you can guess what happens.
Bluto - date rapist.
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New Department Time
"Saturday Morning Cartoons" Dept.:
Popeye Meets "Sindbad" The Sailor
Part 1
Part 2 (I love the business with Wimpy and that duck)
The First Count Chocula / Frankenberry Commercial
The Mighty Thor - Enter Hercules
Part 1 - Stan Lee Intro (Careful - volume is high. Cartoon starts after about two-and-a-half minutes of Stan-erisms)
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Saww-www-in-ng Fo-r-r Te-e-e-ens!
Why Canadians prefer to see themselves as "Peace Keepers" ...
"My Sordid Upbringing" & "As Good As It Gets - Video" Dept.s Present:A mainstay of a Canadian Public School Education - Norman McLaren's ground-breaking 1952 "pixilated" (stop motion with people & objects) short subject NEIGHBOURS ( Read more... ) -
It's hard to get more Canadian than this
"A Man Of Simple Pleasures" and "As Good As It Gets - Video" Dept.s Jointly Present:
The Log Driver's Waltz - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Canuck or not, this one burrows into your head for a while.
And this - THIS - is quite possibly the best animated short made in my homeland
The Cat Came Back - by Cordell Barker
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Follow the Wizard in the Coat of Green...
This is a VERY good one for a Monday morning, a ground-breaking piece of stop-motion animation and it's specifically for my Godchildren Logan and Liam who'll eat this up with a spoon. Old school BATMAN 1966 or INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS fans might recognise the cave the Wizard comes bursting out of.
"As Good As It Gets - Animation" Dept.:
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You can all thank Matty Mozgiel for this one -
- because I wouldn't have known anything about this until he told me.
"The Stuff You Find (FOR NOW) On You Tube" Dept.:
If anyone had told me that the last thing Frank Gorshin had done before he went to the great riddle book in the sky was to do the voices for a classic Rankin-Bass styled stop animation short that had "Young Man With A Horn" and " ( Read more... )
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