Thứ Sáu, 24 tháng 2, 2006

Who's That Guy? - "Hollywood Steps Out"

Cartoons from the 30s and 40s often contain caricatures of celebrities of those times. While some of the caricatured stars are easily recognizable still today, other may look rather obscure.
The series of posts that I start today will help you identify all the caricatured people from various cartoons.
The first cartoon will be Tex Avery's "Hollywood Steps Out", so let's begin!

Cary Grant


Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan


Henry Binder and Leon Schlesinger



Johnny Weissmuller



James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft



Greta Garbo and Harpo Marx



Bing Crosby



Leopold Stokowski



James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour



Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie



The Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard)



Oliver Hardy



The man is Cesar Romero. I don't know who the girl is.



Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland



Lewis Stone and Mickey Rooney



Sally Rand



Kay Kyser



Standing: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
Sitting: Wallace Beery and C. Aubrey Smith



Peter Lorre



Henry Fonda



John Edgar Hoover



Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher and Buster Keaton



Mischa Auer and Ned Sparks



Jerry Colonna



Groucho Marx and Clark Gable

Yours truly,

mmm...donuts (the other guy...)

Thứ Bảy, 18 tháng 2, 2006

Good/Sad News!

My dear friends,

Even if I'm young, I've found a work yesterday. This, and my studies, will not allow me to post as I was used to.
I cannot say for sure if I will find the time to make even one single post in a month.
Anyway, I hope my friend mmm..donuts will help to keep this blog alive with his interesting posts.

Thanks for your interest,

Andrea

Thứ Sáu, 17 tháng 2, 2006

Jon K Blog Online!!!

My hero John K opened a blog and, men, it's full of great drawings and informations!

Don't miss it!

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

You don't like it? You don't love John K's work? It's ok with me, who cares, but try to explain it to Mr. Ren Hoek.....




Yours Truly,

Duck Dodgers

Blog Founder and Administrator

Thứ Năm, 16 tháng 2, 2006

" Club Life in the Stone Age" : UPDATE

The great artist Milton Knight sent me an email with some informations about this cartoons. I already post about it:

http://classiccartoons.blogspot.com/2006/01/rare-and-unknown-club-life-in-stone_24.html

Here's what he said about this animated short. I hope it will send me other interesting emails like this one!

Dear Duck,
The bulk of this cartoon is a reworking of A STONE AGE ROMANCE (a sound
Aesop's Fable made by Terry for Van Beuren release in 1929-30), all
wrapped up with a "happy ending" bow borrowed from APE GIRL.
The concept of the athletic, primitive woman goes back to Terry's silent
days; Farmer Al Falfa courted one in BONEHEAD AGE from the late 20s.
Of the 30s Terry product, I personally find the shorts from between 1930
and '33 to be the most interesting. They tend to be unpredictable,
lively, well-staged, and the very early ones make a great use of
black-and-white contrasts. Later 30s entries tend to take the Disney-ish
approach of sitting back and watching the character animation, but all
too often it isn't worth watching!

Mr. Knight is a gold mine! You gotta read the many informations he posted in this thread on a well-known animation forum. In his posts he reveals many details about the animation in " Farmer Al Falfa's Ape Girl" :

http://www.animationshow.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2324


Yours Truly,

Duck Dodgers

Blog founder and Administrator