Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to In The Balcony. We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Plus, you'll be eligible for the monthly $1 million prize. (Not really.)

Join our community!

If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Michael Barrier
Topic Started: Feb 19 2007, 07:40 AM (7,734 Views)
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
panzer the great & terrible
Dec 18 2008, 11:15 AM
Soulless is just the word for the Hanna-Barbera MGMs...
“Soulless?” Piffle. I just can’t imagine a ten year old complaining to his friend that the last cartoon, albeit funny, somehow lacked soul!!

Besides, you’re attacking one of my all-time favorite animated characters, Thomas the Cat. Whether he’s serenading his lady fair on a string bass, dressed in a zoot suit (with a reet pleat) while jitterbugging with his zaftig partner, leading a jam session on Saturday night, or giving a smoky “howdy” to a fetching, feline tenderfoot, he’s my man!! Besides, he’s got more personality facets than any other three animated characters combined.

Jerry? Ehhhhh, he’s sort of a mause ex machina, providing motivation for Tom’s many peccadilloes, but not very interesting in himself. One of my favorite cartoons has Tom apprenticing as a witch’s cat. Tom’s wonderful. He starts out highly fearful, but ends up (typically) overconfident of his own capabilities. Jerry’s barely in it and isn’t missed at all.

Tom rules!!!
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sgt King
Charter Member
[ *  *  * ]
I remember the 35 cent Saturday "Cartoon Carnivals." We cheered mostly for the Mickey's, Donald's, Terrytoons and Warners. They sometimes would throw in an Abbott & Costello short. Did not care for the Shemp Stooges or Leon Errol. Usually would buy a "Chuckles" candy but would throw the licorice away.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
For fans of Walt Kelly, Michael has a great example of his early work... drawing the story of The Three Little Pigs!

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Laughing Gravy
Member Avatar
Look for In The Balcony on Facebook!
[ *  *  * ]
Sgt King
Dec 21 2008, 09:19 PM
I remember the 35 cent Saturday "Cartoon Carnivals." We cheered mostly for the Mickey's, Donald's, Terrytoons and Warners. They sometimes would throw in an Abbott & Costello short. Did not care for the Shemp Stooges or Leon Errol. Usually would buy a "Chuckles" candy but would throw the licorice away.
Abbott & Costello didn't make short subjects, although I have seen A&C "shorts" for the home-viewing only market; they were comedy bits edited from their features. Were these shown theatrically, or did you mean that in with the cartoons you saw Laurel & Hardy shorts?

I have seen special cartoons made to trumpet Bugs Bunny, Popeye, and Mickey Mouse festivals of the '30s and '40s. Good stuff.
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sgt King
Charter Member
[ *  *  * ]
I'm pretty sure I saw some of the A & B TV 20 minute shorts, with Mike the Cop and Joe Besser as Stinky, at the Cartoon Carnivals.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
Michael currently has a picture of Hyperion Ave. & Griffith Park Blvd. taken in 1927. Off-screen, to the right is the Disney studio at the time.

However, the fun part for me is that this is the area I currently live in (& so does Panzer's son, I believe). The gasoline station across the street is now a parking lot... and behind it is Video Journeys, where I rented minny, minny serials back in the VCR days. To its right is now Gelson's Market where I have purchased countless containers of Yoplait (& a few bottles of Cabernet as well).

You can also click onto more pictures of the area... including a beauty of Silverlake!!!

"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
Posting this here because I discovered its existence on Michael's site.

This is from Thad's own blog. It's about ten minutes long & shows Bob Clampett's re-use of animation:

http://thadkomorowski.com/2009/03/25/clampett-cheats/

Thad is obviously a talented lad!!!
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
panzer the great & terrible
Member Avatar
Mouth Breather
[ *  *  * ]
Yeah, Will does live there.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
Michael has returned from his vacation... & has an article about a book that I think a lot of us might be interested in:

"The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics" by Art Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly.

Read more about it here:

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
thadk
Member Avatar
Resident Curmudgeon
[ *  *  * ]
mort bakaprevski
Mar 31 2009, 09:57 AM
Posting this here because I discovered its existence on Michael's site.

This is from Thad's own blog. It's about ten minutes long & shows Bob Clampett's re-use of animation:

http://thadkomorowski.com/2009/03/25/clampett-cheats/

Thad is obviously a talented lad!!!
Just saw this... that's not even ALL of his reuse!!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
Michael has a very interesting review of the recently published two-volume collected edition of Harvey Kurtzman's magazine Humbug at his site.

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Commentary/Humbug/Humbug.html

Definitely worth reading!
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
Good article just posted on Mike's site re the singing crow sequence in DUMBO. If you've never seen that bit, Youtube has it... of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOcVkofa1AU
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
WOW!!

Michael has a James Fitzpatrick Traveltalk posted. It's a Technicolor visit to Los Angeles in the mid-thirties (34?).

Fascinating how many things displayed in this short are actually still standing. And Olvera St. (NOT "Alivara" as Fitzpatrick keeps referring to it) is still pretty much the same as it was then.

Seeing the trolley cars, which have been absent since the fifties, is a gas. And, it's a kick to see NONE of the skyscrapers of today in existence (back in those days 12 stories was the absolute limit.... due to earthquakes, of course).

The reason Barrier posted this is because it offers a brief glimpse of the Disney Hyperion Studion (in Silverlake). Panzer & I know it now as the site of Gelson's Market!!
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
mort bakaprevski
Member Avatar
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
Sonavagun, Mr. Barrier actually quotes me. I admitted that I read Carl Barks'stuff in high school.... & even took a peak at Little Lulu now & then. Ahhhhh, the shame of it all...... IF I'd ever been discovered back then!

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/WhatsNewArchivesApril10.htm#juvenilevsadolescentcomments
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Member Avatar
Sapient Balconeer
[ *  *  * ]
mort bakaprevski
Apr 25 2010, 02:05 PM
Sonavagun, Mr. Barrier actually quotes me.
What the hell? We ain't gettin' a link? Nothing? Did you not post the link in your excitement? Dammit man.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · Name that 'toon! · Next Topic »
Add Reply