{"id":18222,"date":"2025-12-16T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18222"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:58:54","slug":"some-cartoons-watched-in-late-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18222","title":{"rendered":"Some Cartoons watched in late November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plane Crazy<\/em> (1928, Ub Iwerks)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The whole barnyard pitches in to build Mickey a rubber-dog-powered airplane, but it explodes immediately, so he sticks a propeller and a turkey tail on a jalopy to get some real power. After terrorizing everyone during takeoff, including some sweet first-person views that might account for this movie being on Jerry Beck’s list, he gets Minnie in the air in order to sexually harass her, but she ditches him mid-flight.<\/p>\n

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\nBalloon Land<\/em> (1935, Ub Iwerks)<\/strong><\/p>\n

No spoken words in the Mickey, this one’s got singing. In a world where everyone\/thing is made out of balloons except for the dreaded Pincushion Man, who threatens to pop our dim heroes who wander into the woods. He follows them into town and goes on a mass murder frenzy until the armed forces fight back with tree sap and knock him off the edge of the world. The young couple gets away with bringing grave peril into town since the only witness who could’ve fingered them was killed.<\/p>\n

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\nMusic Land<\/em> (1935, Wilfred Jackson)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Princess Violin of Symphony island and Prince Alto Sax of Jazz island have a tryst which starts a war, until the opposing sides chill out and hold a wedding instead. Great character design in this one, with the voice of each character “spoken” by the instrument it represents.<\/p>\n

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\nMother Goose Goes Hollywood<\/em> (1938, Wilfred Jackson)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a string of parodies of movie actors ending in a full-cast dance-off. Gross Katharine Hepburn blackface gag, good Marx Bros and Cab Calloway.<\/p>\n

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\nA Wild Hare<\/em> (1940, Tex Avery)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The original Elmer vs. Bugs mind-game cartoon. Lost an oscar to The Milky Way<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nBugs Bunny Gets the Boid<\/em> (1942, Robert Clampett)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now a well-established character, Bugs faces off against a dim vulture (condor?), the bird version of Elmer. The buzzard’s voice was a parody of a well-known ventriloquist dummy, created by Edgar “father of Candice” Bergen, whose other well-known ventriloquist dummy was parodied in Mother Goose Goes Hollywood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nScrewball Squirrel<\/em> (1944, Tex Avery)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having co-created Bugs, Daffy and Porky, Tex fell out with the Looney producers and moved to MGM, where he appears to have created new versions of Bugs\/Daffy (squirrel) and Elmer\/Buzzard (dog) to torment with even wilder gags. Full of fun meta jokes, far beyond Screwy talking to the audience – the action hitches when a turntable playing the music score skips, he pulls back the screen to see what happens in the next scene, he interrupts the iris-out to extend the action. Has the same ending as The Palm Beach Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nBaseball Bugs<\/em> (1946, Friz Freleng)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bugs in invincible trickster mode plays every position at once, singlehandedly takes on an entire baseball team – some good gags and frantic energy.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Big Snooze<\/em> (1946, Arthur Davis)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fed up with being tormented, Elmer rips up his contract with the cartoons and goes off to take a peaceful nap under a tree. Bugsy Krueger takes sleeping pills and invades Elmer’s dreams, feminizing him and setting wolves after him, terrifying him into rejoining the chase. One of the shorts Bob Clampett left unfinished when he quit the studio and moved to Screen Gems, where he created Beany and Cecil.<\/p>\n

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\nTweetie Pie<\/em> (1947, Friz Freleng)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another Clampett castoff, redesigned by Freleng. Sylvester (here named Thomas) is chasing an bird outside in the snow, which is then adopted by the cat’s owner. Dig the rube goldberg contraption. Ends with the bird just pummeling the cat with a shovel. The first Warner short to win an oscar (vs. a George Pal puppetoon).<\/p>\n

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