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...recent children's book, Catholic Truth Thru the Keyhole, makes the point in a cartoon strip that shows the Lord remonstrating with St. Peter about all the undeserving characters in heaven. "I didn't let them in, Lord," replies St. Peter. "Your Mother pulls in all her friends through the window." The last panel shows Mary pulling up several sinners on a huge rosary...
...also has a more modern and less celebrated side: what Parisian slang calls loufoque-zany. The practitioners of this form of Gallic humor consist of a small army of chansonniers, moviemakers, Left Bank beachcombers and cartoonists. The cartoonists have now formed an avant-garde to invade the U.S. cartoon market. Some are funny enough to get through, but most will succeed only if they catch Americans with their advance guards down, their sleeves rolled up and their funny bones exposed...
Done with the usual Disney care for detail and sense of comic pace, and with more than the usual share of good visual surprises, the cartoon reaches a most un-Disney-like climax in a fine burst of political irreverence...
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, the first cartoon to be made in CinemaScope, purports to tell the history of the four main families of musical instruments (brass, woodwind, string and percussion). In style a clean steal from the Bosustow cartoons (which, in turn, borrowed tricks from such modern artists as Paul Klee), Toot takes Disney in one jump from the nursery to the intellectual cocktail party. There are moments-in the musical score especially-when the film does not seem quite sure how to behave...
...Evolution of Football as Yale" is an uninspiring transition cartoon showing player, official, and spectator in three phases since 1893. While Updike's cartoons bolster some pieces, the sketch of "Peanuts" in his wheelchair adds little to that story...