Test 2
Disney changes
1. shorts > feature films 2. animation = ^ than children's cartoons -The Goddess of Spring (Silly Symphony) --experimented w/ human realistic animation --figure drawing classes
Magical Maestro
Avery; a classic Tex Avery one-off; throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the cartoon was often locally censored, depending on policy at the particular television station and the area where the film was being broadcast
A Wild Hare
Avery; the first Bugs Bunny cartoon w/ both the rabbit character and the standard Bugs-Elmer conflict fully developed
A Corny Concerto
Clampett; a parody of Disney's 1940 feature Fantasia
Porky in Wackyland
Clampett; surealistic Wackyland sequence was adapted and reused for many later films
A Cold Romance
Davis; Mighty Mouse was an animated superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox; Mighty Mouse cartoons spoofed the cliffhanger serials of silent films as well as the classic operettas that were popular at the time; 1st theatrical cartoon series sold to television
Mechanical Monsters
Fleischer; is the 2nd of the 17 groundbreaking Superman shorts, art deco look,strong woman character, science fiction, cinematic shots
You Ought to be in Pictures
Freleng; combined live-action and animation with studio personnel and classic cartoon characters; 1st time adding more story to Daffy Duck
High Diving Hare
Freleng; considered perhaps the best of all Bugs and Yosemite Sam confrontations
The Hardship of Miles Standish
Freleng; infamous excerpt of stereotypical Native American characters
I Haven't Got a Hat
Freleng; used technicolor's 2-strip process instead of 3-strip process; intro of Porky Pig
Kitty Foiled
Hanna/Barbera, MGM; an entry in the incredibly popular Tom and Jerry series, learned timing from Tex Avery
Porky's Hare Hunt
Hardaway; precursor to the Bugs Bunny character, pitted against Porky Pig as the hunter
Peace on Earth
Harman, MGM; arguably the first major studio cartoon about a serious subject, "nom" for Nobel Peace Prize
The Milky Way
Ising, MGM; the 1st non-Disney cartoon to win an Academy Award, MGM short
What's Opera, Doc?
Jones; a parody of 19th-cent composer Richard Wagner's operas woven around the standard Bugs-Elmer conflict; wasn't condescending, all audiences understood; 1st short on National Registry of Films
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
Jones; a parody of popular comic book character Buck Rogers
The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall
Jones; a parody of the Rover Boys, a popular early 20th cent juvenile fiction book series; 1 of the earliest Warner Bros cartoons to utilize limited animation and smears
Duck Amuck
Jones; a pastiche on the animation process and a film that relied on the fact that animation can create characters w/ a recognizable personality, independent of their appearance, environment, or voice
One Froggy Evening
Jones; the cartoon has no spoken dialogue, in fact no vocals except singing by the Frog, relying instead on pantomime, facial reactions and other visuals, sound effects and, especially, music; only frog in Warner Bros cartoon
Rabbit Seasoning
Jones; the second entry in the hunting trilogy directed by Jones and written by Michael Maltese, "pronoun trouble!"; Bunny in drag to fool hunter, Daffy Duck & Bugs Bunny, same plot as Tex Avery cartoon w/ bunny & hunter
A Haunting We Will Go
Kneite, Fleischer Studios (now Famous Studios) l; the 3rd Casper the Ghost cartoon and the last short before the character was green lit in a series of 52 regular theatrical shorts
A Gruesome Twosome
Last of the 3 original Tweety Pie films; smears for stretching characters, drybrush for speed
Selections from Schlesinger Studio Holiday Reels
Life at the Termite Terrace
Looney Tunes vs Merrie Melodies
Looney Tunes - cartoon character and songs, 1st w/ Bosko Merrie Melodies - 1-shot cartoons w/ choruses > color
Musical Moments from Chopin
Lundy; Oscar-nominated Andy Panda cartoon, co-starring Woody Woodpecker, w/ music by Frederic Chopin; Dick Lundy directed all of Walter Lantz' classical music cartoons
Smoked Hams
Lundy; the 21st animated cartoon in the Woody Woodpecker series; a pretty standard example except that Woody gets his comeuppance at the finale
It's Hummer Time
McKimson, "Not Happy Birthday!," a sadomasochistic animated relationship, helmed by the forgotten Warner Bros director Robert McKimson
Tubby the Tuba
Pal; Part of George Pal's Puppetoon series, and a good example of the stop motion technique Pal had developed
The Fox and the Grapes
Tashlin, Columbia; based on the famous Aesop's Fable; the film's basic premise and episodic structure were an influence on Chuck Jones' Road Runner cartoons; 1st fox & crow cartoon
Top 5 from 50 Greatest Cartoons
Warner Bros: (1) What's Opera, Doc?, (2) Duck Amuck, (4) Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century, (5) One Froggy Evening Disney: (3) The Band Concert (Jackson)
Cartoon Powerhouse
animated montage edited to Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" score
Quirino Cristiani
created the 1st feature length animated film El Apostol; in 1931, another breakthrough, Peludopolis, the 1st animated feature w/ sound
Alexander Ptushko
directed one of the world's 1st full-length animated features, The New Gulliver, a stop motion/live action feature, also pre-dating Disney's Snow White by 2 years; synchronized sound
Walter Lantz
started his career at Bray, eventually starting his own studio; after Charles Mintz took Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from Disney; he gave the character to Lantz who, from 1935-1972, produced cartoons strictly for Universal; Woody Woodpecker was Lantz's most enduring character
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
the 1st modern animated feature; Disney's folly was a big gamble to move animation forward from one reel novelties to a legitimate art form
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger
the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation; best known for directing and animating The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, preceding Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by over 10 years
Pinnochio
today is considered one of the pantheon of animated films, but was a box-office failure during its first-run
